Patent ID: 7760661

Claim:
Apparatus for generating a transmit frame from an information signal, the information signal comprising a plurality of information frames, the apparatus being further configured for generating a further transmit frame from a further information signal, the further information signal comprising a plurality of further information frames, the apparatus comprising: a provider configured for providing a plurality of reconstruction distortion values, each reconstruction distortion value indicating a reconstruction distortion resulting when replacing an information frame by a replacement frame, wherein the provider is configured for providing a further plurality of reconstruction distortion values, each further reconstruction distortion value indicating a reconstruction distortion when replacing a further information frame of the further information signal by a replacement frame; and an introducer configured for minimizing a cost function reflecting a combination of rate reduction and an increase of a total reconstruction distortion resulting when non-introducing a combination of frames into the transmit frame, wherein the introducer is configured for jointly determining which information frame of the information signal is not to be introduced into the transmit frame, and which information frame of the further information signal is not to be introduced into the further transmit frame for a joint rate and additional reconstruction distortion reduction, the introducer being further configured for determining a dropping pattern minimizing the cost function from the minimization of the cost function, the dropping pattern indicating a combination of information frames not to be introduced into the transmit frame, the introducer being further configured for dropping the combination of information frames indicated by the dropping pattern and for introducing the information frames which are not to be dropped into the transmit frame and for introducing the further information frames which are not to be dropped into the further transmit frame.