Bounds on integrals of the Wigner function

The integral of the Wigner function over a subregion of the phase space of a quantum system may be less than zero or greater than one. It is shown tha t for systems with 1 degree of freedom, the problem of determining the best possible upper and lower bounds on such an integral, over an possible stat es, reduces to the problem of finding the greatest and least eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator corresponding to the subregion. The problem is solved exactly in the case of an arbitrary elliptical region. These bounds provid e checks on experimentally measured quasiprobability distributions.