The present invention discloses a temporal compressor and decompressor for sequences of images. The compressor includes an interface for receiving the sequence of images. A spatial compressor generates spatially compressed image fields from the sequence of images, a data compression decoder generates data decompressed image fields from the spatially compressed image fields, a temporal processor generates temporal processed image fields from the data decompressed image fields, a data compressor encoder generates data compressed image fields from the temporal processed image fields, and a data formatter generates formatted compressed image fields.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This is a continuation of and claims priority to U.S. application Ser. No. 09/637,641, filed on Aug. 14, 2000, now abandoned which claims priority to and incorporates by reference provisional application Ser. No. 60/148,594, filed on Aug. 13, 1999, entitled "Temporal Compression in a Video Compression Unit for a Camera Surveillance System." The aforementioned provisional application is hereby incorporated by reference.
