Patent ID: 7221709

Claim:
A digital signal conversion method comprising: a data extraction step of extracting a part of orthogonal transform coefficients from respective blocks of a digital signal of a first format consisting of orthogonal transform coefficient blocks of a predetermined unit, thus constituting partial blocks; an inverse orthogonal transform step of carrying out inverse orthogonal transform of the orthogonal transform coefficients constituting each partial block, on the partial block basis; a partial block connection step of connecting the partial blocks processed by inverse orthogonal transform, thus constituting a new block of the predetermined unit; and an orthogonal transform step of orthogonally transforming the new block on the block basis, thus generating a second digital signal consisting of the new orthogonal transform block of the predetermined unit; wherein said partial block connection step multiplies a first matrix, a second matrix and a third matrix, so as to form said new block, said first matrix being an 8×8 matrix, said second matrix being two 4×4 matrices and said third matrix being a 1×8 matrix; wherein said digital signal conversion occurs in a frequency domain in one of either two modes, a static mode or a dynamic mode; wherein in said static mode an 8×8 Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) is carried out on 8×8 pixels from one of the respective blocks of the digital signal, the one block having one DC component and 63 AC components; and wherein in said dynamic mode an 8×8 block is divided into a 4×8 block of a first field and a 4×8 block of a second field, and a 4×8 DCT is carried out on 4×8 pixels from one of the respective blocks of the digital signal, the one block having one DC component and 31 AC components.