H04N 19/176
The region being a block
Official title: the region being a block, e.g. a macroblock
H04N19/176 (The region being a block) appears on 21,434 US grants and 27,162 published applications in this corpus.
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- Motion video compression system with adaptive bit allocation and quantization401US 5,231,484 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1993
- Adaptive coding and decoding of frames and fields of video387US 5,227,878 AAT&T Bell Laboratories · 1993