“…F OR the digital transmission of videoconference and video tele phony signals, mainly low bit rates in the range of 384 kb/s to 64 kb/s are under consideration internationally. In order to reduce the data rate of the video camera signals, source coding schemes with motion-compensating prediction are applied [4], [9], [11]- [13], [15], [16]. This prediction method reduces prediction errors in static as well as in moving object regions; but it fails where the scene background is uncovered by a moving object since new picture information appears, for which no corresponding information can be found in the previous picture (see Fig.…”