H04N 19/93 - Definition

Definition statement

This subclass covers:

Subject matter wherein the run-length coding is especially adapted to video compression.

In run-length coding a run, i.e. a sequence of identical data values, is coded by a representation of the data value together with the length of the sequence.

Informative references

Attention is drawn to the following places, which may be of interest for search:

Conversion to or from run-length codes in general	H03M 7/46
Variable length coding in an adaptive video coding process	H04N 19/13

Synonyms and Keywords

In patent documents the following abbreviations are often used:

RLE	Run-Length Encoding