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7612909 Image processing apparatus and method, and image-capturing apparatus based on the difference between a signal detected by a sensor and the real world  
An apparatus for detecting a mixed area in frames. An object extracting unit extracts a foreground object from an input image and generates an area-specified object formed of the foreground object...
7606391 Video content scene change determination  
An apparatus and method of detecting scene changes within a video frame sequence. A video data frame pixel array is partitioned into pixel groups within a frame difference engine. Video data...
7602849 Adaptive reference picture selection based on inter-picture motion measurement  
An apparatus comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate a control signal in response to a measurement of inter-picture motion between a current...
7589788 Method and apparatus for video motion compensation, reduction and color formatting  
A method and apparatus for video motion compensation, power of two reduction and color format conversion is disclosed. The motion compensation engine performs the MPEG-2 functions of half pel...
7587073 Method and apparatus for a medical image processing system  
Disclosed is a medical image processing system comprising a medical image storage server for storing digital image data provided by means such as computerized tomography or magnetic resonance image...
7570309 Methods for adaptive noise reduction based on global motion estimation  
An improved temporal noise reduction method and system detects the global motion and adjusts the overall gain of the temporal filtering. Temporal noise reduction is applied to two video frames,...
7567294 Gradient adaptive video de-interlacing  
A method includes determining a lowest-score interpolation direction among a plurality of interpolation directions. The method further includes calculating a candidate pixel value by interpolating...
7558320 Quality control in frame interpolation with motion analysis  
Techniques and tools for quality control in frame interpolation and motion analysis are described. The techniques and tools may be implemented separately or in combination in software and/or...
7551232 Noise adaptive 3D composite noise reduction  
A method for filtering digital video is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) checking a plurality of original blocks in an original field for a plurality of artifacts, wherein...
7535517 Method of motion compensated temporal noise reduction  
A method of reducing noise in a sequence of digital video frames is performed by motion estimation between a current noisy frame and a previous noise-reduced frame, to generate motion vectors...
7532256 Methods and apparatus for detecting scenes in a video medium  
Methods and apparatuses of detecting the beginnings and endings of scenes in video media, especially videotapes of “Reality TV” scenes, are disclosed. The video medium defines an array of...
7526142 Enhancement of decompressed video  
A method and apparatus for enhancing the video quality of compressed video signals adaptively removes distortions and ringing effects embedded in the decompressed images. The apparatus operates in...
7526028 Motion estimation method and apparatus for video data compression  
This invention provides efficient method and apparatus of the motion estimation for the video compression. A storage device saving MVs of a partial or an entire frame and the prediction modes are...
7519274 File format for multiple track digital data  
A file for storing digital data with high compression rate stores digital data for video and audio signals in multiple streams interleaved with each other. Each track has a stream descriptor list...
7505080 Motion compensation deinterlacer protection  
A motion compensation deinterlacer for producing a progressive scan signal from an interlaced signal includes a motion compensation unit that derives missing lines in an interlaced field from at...
7489802 Miniature autonomous agents for scene interpretation  
A miniature autonomous apparatus for performing scene interpretation, comprising: image acquisition means, image processing means, memory means and communication means, the processing means...
7477690 Macroblock level adaptive frame/field coding for digital video content  
A method and system of encoding and decoding digital video content. The digital video content comprises a stream of pictures which can each be intra, predicted, or bi-predicted pictures. Each of...
7463687 Method and apparatus for performing high quality fast predictive motion search  
A method and apparatus for performing a predictive motion search in a video encoder system using motion vectors representing the difference in coordinates of a macroblock of data in a current frame...
7447337 Video content understanding through real time video motion analysis  
Methods and integrated systems for camera motion analysis and moving object analysis and methods of extracting semantics mainly from camera motion parameters in videos and video segments without...
7446782 Image processing device  
This is an image processing device for predicting the lower-order bits of target pixel data, based on one or more pieces of pixel data constituting image data. The image processing device comprises...
7444026 Image processing apparatus and method of motion vector detection in a moving picture, and recording medium used therewith  
An image processing apparatus and method comprising a reduced image generating unit, a superblock matching unit, a motion vector converting unit, a possible vector selecting unit, a base vector...
7437244 Obstacle detection apparatus and a method therefor  
An obstacle detection apparatus includes an image input unit inputting a image sequence captured by an image sensor, a velocity detector deriving velocity vectors representing motions of a...
7425990 Motion correction device and method  
To realize a motion compensation device capable of more appropriately compensating the movement of a video signal subjected to double-speed conversion. A motion vector between an image of a current...
7417690 Video processing system and video processing method  
A system which allows significant camera breaks to be automatically detected among a large number of camera breaks and which is suitable in retrieving or playing a digital video is realized. Using...
7408989 Method of video encoding using windows and system thereof  
A first search window within a reference frame of video data is identified along with a first correlation threshold value for the first window. The first correlation threshold value is a value to...
7408987 Method of motion estimation for transmission cost reduction of motion vectors  
The method includes segmentation of the video image into image blocks, movement estimation per image block in order to obtain a field of movement vectors. It is characterized in that it includes a...
7408986 Increasing motion smoothness using frame interpolation with motion analysis  
Techniques and tools for video frame interpolation and motion analysis are described. The techniques and tools may be implemented separately or in combination in software and/or hardware devices...
7405766 Method and apparatus for per-pixel motion adaptive de-interlacing of interlaced video fields  
A method for determining a value for a missing target pixel in an interlaced video field during a de-interlacing process includes providing at least one lookup table that correlates motion data to...
7400747 Method and apparatus for representing moving objects in a sequence of images  
A method of representing motion of an object appearing in a sequence of images comprises deriving for each image a set of representative points representing the location of the object, deriving an...
7386170 Image object ranking  
Automatic vision system object indexing and image database query system using both path-dependent and path-independent features of moving objects within a sequence of images. Feature vectors of...
7386049 Predictive interpolation of a video signal  
A method of enhancing picture quality of a video signal is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of generating an interpolated base frame image; receiving a first previously decoded difference...
7376249 Determination of a motion of a background in a series of images  
The movement of an imaging of a background in a sequence of images of a scene determined. A combination image is composed with pixels which have been built up through combination of several...
7375763 Method and system for de-interlacing digital images, and computer program product therefor  
To carry out de-interlacing of digital images there is provided a spatial-type de-interlacing process to be applied to a digital image for obtaining a spatial reconstruction. Furthermore, to the...
7375762 Frame interpolation method and apparatus, and image display system  
An image interpolation method comprises searching a motion vector from different pairs of blocks on a first and a second reference image symmetrically, extracting a first and a second image block...
7365795 Apparatus and method for adaptively de-interlacing image frame  
An apparatus for adaptive de-interlace of a frame comprises a line-segment difference-value calculating module, a motion-vector calculating module, an intra-block calculating module, a...
7362806 Object activity modeling method  
An object activity modeling method which can efficiently model complex objects such as a human body is provided. The object activity modeling method includes the steps of (a) obtaining an optical...
7362379 Image processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program  
Inter-field-interpolation spatial transition is calculated based on the sum of absolute values of differences between pixel values of an inter-field-interpolated pixel and adjacent pixels on the...
7362374 Video interlacing using object motion estimation  
One embodiment disclosed relates to the use of object motion estimation to interlace a progressive video sequence. One of a plurality of consecutive frames is segmented and motion vectors for each...
7359440 Method and system for extracting key frames from video using a triangle model of motion based on perceived motion energy  
A key frame extraction system and method for extracting key frames from a video based on motion analysis of frames within the video. Key frames are highlight frames that are effective in...
7356082 Video/audio signal processing method and video-audio signal processing apparatus  
A metadata extraction unit has a feature point selection and motion estimation unit 62 for extracting at least one feature point representing characteristics of the video/audio signals in a...
7349583 Global motion estimation image coding and processing  
The invention provides methods for global motion estimation, determining a coarse estimation, and refining a coarse estimation. Embodiments of the invention provide a fast and robust global motion...
7349473 Method and system for selecting interpolation filter type in video coding  
A method and system for coding a video sequence based on motion compensated prediction, wherein an interpolation filter is used to generate predicted pixel values for picture blocks in the video...
7346191 Moving obstacle detecting device  
An aspect of the present invention provides a moving obstacle detecting device installed in or on a moving body for detecting moving obstacles in the vicinity of the moving body, the moving...
7336710 Method of motion estimation in mobile device  
A method of estimating motion in a mobile device reduces access of external memory and power consumption while increasing the usability of internal memory. The method includes recognizing an...
RE40080 Video coding method and decoding method and devices thereof  
A new predictive coding is used to increase the temporal frame rate and coding efficiency without introducing excessive delay. Currently the motion vector for the blocks in the bi-directionally...
7330595 System and method for video data compression  
A system and method perform video data compression in a manner that limits the need for external memory access. Accordingly, the operational frequency of the local data bus is reduced and power...
7327397 Image processing with pixel interpolation  
The present invention provides an image signal processing apparatus and a method thereof which shifts positions of each detected pixel in image signals generated by performing double-speed...
7327332 Plasma display panel video processing circuit and method and video display device and method using plasma display panel  
A video processing circuit for preventing generation of contour noise irrespective of varied directions of light emission schemes. A first video signal and a second video signal delayed by a...
7327329 Dynamically selecting either frame rate conversion (FRC) or pixel overdrive in an LCD panel based display  
In a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel based display, a method of dynamically selecting either frame rate conversion (FRC) or pixel voltage overdrive is disclosed. The method is carried out by...
7292635 Interframe wavelet video coding method  
An interframe wavelet video coding (IWVC) method by which an average temporal distance (ATD) is minimized is provided. The IWVC method comprises receiving a group-of-frames and decomposing the...