Patent ID: 7929795

Claim:
An apparatus for decoding an encoded data stream, which is an encoded form of a data stream representing a temporally varying graphics model, the data stream comprising a series of data portions with coordinate data defining the graphics model at different time instants, and the encoded data stream including prediction error vector differences, the apparatus comprising: a processor for processing the encoded data stream in order to obtain decoded prediction error vector differences; a first predictor for predicting prediction error vectors for a first data portion currently to be decoded, based on already-decoded prediction error vector differences, in order to obtain predicted prediction error vectors for the first data portion; a first combiner for combining the predicted prediction error vectors with prediction error vector differences of the first data portion currently to be decoded, in order to obtain prediction error vectors for the first data portion; a second predictor for predicting coordinate data of the first data portion based on already-obtained coordinate data of a second data portion preceding the first data portion, in order to obtain predicted coordinate data for the first data portion; and a second combiner for combining the predicted coordinate data for the first data portion with the prediction error vectors for the first data portion, in order to obtain the coordinate data of the first data portion.