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(11) EP 1 724 942 B8

(12) CORRECTED EUROPEAN PATENT SPECIFICATION
Note: Bibliography reflects the latest situation

(15) Correction information:
Corrected version no 1 (W1 B1)

(48) Corrigendum issued on:
16.01.2013 Bulletin 2013/03

(45) Mention of the grant of the patent:
14.12.2011 Bulletin 2011/50

(21) Application number: 06076344.8

(22) Date of filing: 14.10.1997
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC): 
H04J 13/00(2011.01)
 H04N 7/00(2011.01)

(54)

Spread spectrum image signal transmission apparatus and method

Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Spreizbandübertragung von Bildsignalen

Procédé et dispositif de transmission de signaux d'images par étalement de spectre.

(84) Designated Contracting States:
DE FR GB NL

(30) Priority: 16.10.1996 JP 27352596
22.05.1997 JP 13224397

(43) Date of publication of application:
22.11.2006 Bulletin 2006/47

(62) Application number of the earlier application in accordance with Art. 76 EPC:
97308124.3 / 0837566

(73) Proprietor: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Tokyo (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Arai, Hideyuki
    Tokyo (JP)
  • Suda, Hirofumi
    Tokyo (JP)

(74) Representative: Hitching, Peter Matthew et al
Canon Europe Ltd 3 The Square Stockley Park Uxbridge Middlesex
UB11 1ET
UB11 1ET (GB)


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  • IU S-L ED - INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS: "Comparison of motion compensation using different degrees of sub-pixel accuracy for interfield/interframe hybrid coding of HDTV image sequences" SPEECH PROCESSING 1. SAN FRANCISCO, MAR. 23 - 26, 1992; [PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP)], NEW YORK, IEEE, US, vol. 3, 23 March 1992 (1992-03-23), pages 465-468, XP010058910 ISBN: 978-0-7803-0532-8
   
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