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7397856 Method and apparatus for storing and processing picture information of temporally successive pictures  
A method and apparatus are provided for storing and processing picture information of temporally successive pictures wherein in each case at least one picture area is selected from each temporally...
7397850 Reciprocal index lookup for BTSC compatible coefficients  
An algorithm calculates spectral compression/expansion filter coefficients using a value proportional to a reciprocal of a feedback/feedforward signal and stores the coefficients to a lookup table....
7397858 Maintaining a plurality of codebooks related to a video signal  
A method of enhancing picture quality of a video signal is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving an encoded video signal having a plurality of headers; maintaining a plurality of...
7397852 Image processing apparatus and method, and image processing program  
Picture data is compressed and encoded in consideration of visual characteristics of human beings against colors. A color of pixels is detected corresponding to color difference components Cb and...
7397283 Digital A/V transmission PHY signaling format conversion, multiplexing, and de-multiplexing  
A circuit includes a configurable receiver circuit, a multiplexer or demultiplexer coupled to the configurable receiver circuit, and a configurable driver circuit coupled to the multiplexer or...
7397857 Method for transformation-coding full motion image sequences  
In the case of a method for transformation encoding of moving-image sequences, motion vectors are estimated block-by-block, with which said motion vectors a motion compensation is carried out. The...
7397963 Method and apparatus for storing bitplanes of coefficients in a reduced size memory  
A method and apparatus for storing bitplanes of coefficients in a reduced size memory is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for encoding coefficients comprises applying one or more wavelet...
7397851 Separate plane compression  
A method of distinguishing between regions of an image, separating and masking the original image into multiple image planes, and compressing each separated image plane with a compression method...
7397957 Discrete wavelet transform unit and method for adaptively encoding still image based on energy of each block  
Disclosed is a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) unit for encoding and decoding still images based on the energy of each block. The DWT unit includes an energy calculating section for calculating...
7397855 Rate controlling method and apparatus for use in a transcoder  
A rate controlling method for computing a reference quantization parameter is provided, for use in a transcoder having a variable length decoder, an inverse quantizer, a quantizer and a variable...
RE40415 Picture signal transmitting method and apparatus  
A picture type identifier, indicating one of intra-picture coding (an I-picture), forward or backward predictive coding (a P-picture) and bi-directionally predictive coding (a B-picture), is...
7394855 Error concealing decoding method of intra-frames of compressed videos  
A method conceals errors in an infra-frame of compressed video. The intra-frame is decoded to multiple macroblocks. Each macroblock including pixels arranged in a rectangular array. A lost...
7394850 Method and apparatus for performing digital-to-digital video insertion  
Techniques for seamlessly inserting a second compressed video stream (e.g., for an advertisement) into a first compressed video stream (e.g., for a program video), which can be implemented in an ad...
7394856 Adaptive video prefilter  
A method for adaptively filtering a video signal prior to encoding is provided. The method initiates with calculating a local gradient indicative of a region type. Then, a weight factor is...
7394853 Motion vector coding method and motion vector decoding method  
A motion vector coding method and apparatus that improves efficiency of coding motion vectors when a current block is coded using a plurality of motion vectors. The apparatus includes a motion...
7394851 Encoding apparatus and method, and multiplexing apparatus and method  
An encoder to encode video streams representing a moving picture is provided whose video encoder calculates a bit storage quantity an STD video buffer should have when input of a stream ending with...
7395321 Method and system for prioritized bit rate conversion  
The invention provides a system and a method for providing a multiplexed sequence, the multiplexed sequence including at least one sequence of basic media data units/modified basic media data...
7394852 Method for detecting a moving object in motion video and apparatus  
An apparatus for detecting a moving object in motion video comprises a macro-block determining section for determining the background/non-background of each macro-block of a reconstructed video...
7394854 Signal transmission system  
A signal transmission system: that includes a signal transmission unit ( 101 ) that includes a MPEG decoder ( 102 ), which receives digital broadcasting and outputs a luminance signal Y and two...
7394966 Image communication apparatus for wireless communication of digital images, and method thereof  
An image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit, a recording unit, a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The recording unit records digital image captured by the image capture...
7391931 Method, apparatus, and program for moving image synthesis  
A single high resolution frame is obtained from a plurality of frames sampled from moving image data, regardless of movement of a subject included in the frames. Patches are provided in a plurality...
7391809 Scalable video transcoding  
A scalable video transcoder with limited drifting error is disclosed. The transcoder accumulates re-quantization errors of I-frames or P-frames. The accumulated errors are only selectively...
7391810 High-speed motion estimator and method with variable search window  
A motion estimation apparatus and method capable of reducing the amount of computation required for motion estimation in the compression of moving images are provided, including a first part for...
7391812 Adaptively post filtering encoded video  
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of decoding an encoded video signal that includes a plurality of successive encoded images. The method initially receives an encoded image of the...
7391916 Quantization matrix adjusting method for quality improvement  
A quantization matrix adjusting method for quality improvement by scaling down the default quantization matrix. The adjusting method comprises the steps of: updating a used bits BB_X and an average...
7391808 System and method for upgrading processing capabilities of a media center  
Video data encoded according to new compression standards may be processed by an existing client terminal using an adaptive module that transcodes the video data into a format compatible with the...
7391807 Video transcoding of scalable multi-layer videos to single layer video  
A method transcodes a compressed multi-layer video bitstream that includes a base layer bitstream and an enhancement layer bitstream. The base and enhancement layers are first partially decoded,...
7391811 Stereoscopic image encoding and decoding device multiplexing high resolution added images  
A left-eye image signal and a right-eye image signal are supplied to a pixel structure converter of a stereoscopic image pre-processor, and multiplexed, so to form one image, an interlace image is...
7388912 Systems and methods for adjusting targeted bit allocation based on an occupancy level of a VBV buffer model  
Methods and apparatus are provided to advantageously improve bit rate control in a video encoder, such as an MPEG video encoder. The targeted bit allocation for a picture to be encoded is...
7388915 Video data coding/decoding apparatus and method  
A video data coding/decoding apparatus includes: an encoder dividing a partition partitioned by a data partitioning technique into certain blocks, channel-coding the divided block data and...
7388917 Image-processing method and image processor  
Image data is separated from three lines of image data in accordance with a storage capacity of a source memory. The separated image data is transferred to the source memory, Several pieces of...
7388913 Down scaling of images  
A Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) for an entire original sequence is obtained using the DCT coefficients representing the first half and the second half of the original sequence. This is useful...
7388867 Data networks  
A data network in which at least one switch is provided with the facility for estimating current network demands using a polygonal approximation to scaled cumulant generating function. The...
7388914 Moving picture coding and/or decoding systems, and variable-length coding and/or decoding system  
A coding and/or decoding system includes: a code-word table for storing therein a plurality of code words, which are capable of being decoded both in forward and backward directions and which are...
7388995 Quantization matrix adjusting method for avoiding underflow of data  
A quantization matrix adjusting method for avoiding underflow of VBV by enlarging the default quantization matrix. The adjusting method comprises the steps of: updating a used bits BB_X and an...
7388916 Water ring scanning apparatus and method, and apparatus and method for encoding/decoding video sequences using the same  
A water ring scanning apparatus and method, and an apparatus and method for encoding/decoding video sequences using the same are disclosed. A water ring scanning apparatus includes: a preferential...
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...
7386048 Methods and systems for image intra-prediction mode organization  
Methods and systems for efficient organization and communication of pixel intra-prediction modes.
7386047 Method for determining the likelihood of a match between source data and reference data  
A method, apparatus and an article of manufacture having thereon a computer program, all for reducing data in groups of N values per group. The largest X values of the N values of each group is...
7386050 Fast half-pel searching method on the basis of SAD values according to integer-pel search and random variable corresponding to each macro block  
The present invention relates to a half-pel motion estimation method. The calculation object half-pel, which is in the block of the previous or next reference frame, is not estimated additionally...
7386446 Predictive coding scheme with adaptive speed parameters  
If an adaptive prediction algorithm controllable by a speed coefficient is started from to operate with a first adaption speed and a first adaption precision and an accompanying first prediction...
7386070 Hardware assisted adjacent channel leakage ratio measurement  
A tester module is used to perform an adjacent channel leakage ratio measurement. The tester module includes a translation block, a first filter, a re-sampler, a memory, a router, a second filter...
RE40372 Motion vector prediction method  
A motion vector prediction method in an error resilient mode. In the motion vector prediction method capable of decoding backwards, motion vectors of macro blocks are calculated, and motion vectors...
7386046 Bandwidth sensitive data compression and decompression  
Data compression and decompression methods for compressing and decompressing data based on an actual or expected throughput (bandwidth) of a system. In one embodiment, a controller tracks and...
7382294 Coding apparatus, decoding apparatus, coding method, decoding method, computer readable medium and computer data signal  
A coding apparatus includes a predicting unit, an intermediate-code generating unit, a first coding unit and a second coding unit. The predicting unit generates a piece of prediction data based on...
7382729 Video transmission of layered coded data  
A video transmission system, a video transmitting apparatus, a video receiving apparatus, and a video transmission method whereby, when a plurality of terminals whose characteristics differ receive...
7382924 Pixel reordering and selection logic  
Presented herein are systems and methods for pixel reordering and selection. A decoded frame is stored in a frame buffer with a particular pixel order and byte order. A pixel feeder fetches...
7382830 Apparatus for generating motion control signal from image signal  
In order to easily generate a control signal when a motion in accordance with an image is applied to a chair for an observer, a motion vector is detected from an image signal input to an image...
7382926 Transcoding a JPEG2000 compressed image  
A JPEG2000 compressed image is transcoded to a lower bit-rate or lower resolution, or both, without having to decompress the initial JPEG2000 image and then recompress it to a lower bit-rate and/or...
7382923 Method and device for processing and decoding a coded digital signal  
The present invention concerns a method of processing a coded digital signal containing on the one hand a set of samples of different types obtained by coding a set of original samples representing...