{TAIL ~ This invention} relates to compression of image representative signals and, more particularly, to {HEAD ~ an apparatus} and method for encoding and decoding image representative signals 
{ TAIL ~ This invention } relates to compression of image representative signals and , more particularly , to { HEAD ~ an apparatus } and method for encoding and decoding image representative signals
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