(under subclass 400) Subject matter including translation of an analog signal derived from scanning each elemental area of a picture into a digital coded signal.
(1) Note. The subject matter in this subclass does not encode the signal for time or bandwidth reduction purposes.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
445, for signal sampling and conversion.
426+, for encoding the picture signal for time or bandwidth compression purposes.
467, for image classification and coding.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
341, Coded Data Generation or Conversion, 20+, and 173+ for code transmitters, and subclasses 126+ for analog to or from digital conversion in general.