Method and device for compressing digital data

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PATENT NO 5768534
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08775189

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A data compression device having a decorrelation circuit (10), a circuit (12) for quantizing the decorrelated data and a control circuit (13) acting on the quantization step. The device includes is a circuit for calculating a histogram of the decorrelated data and for calculating the quantization step on the basis of this histogram (11) in order to force, in accordance with the coherence of the histogram, this quantization step. The latter is calculated on the basis of the distances between the local maximum values of the histogram.

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THOMSON BROADCAST SYSTEMS17 RUE DU PETIT ALBI BP8244 F-95801 CERGY PONTOISE CEDEX

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Guillotel, Philippe Vern sur Seiche, FR 75 735
Mainard, Didier Acigne, FR 2 13

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