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6192077 Coding and decoding apparatus with motion compensation  
A coding/decoding apparatus performs predictive coding/decoding with motion compensation. A plurality of motion vectors are unified corresponding to motion of portions of a picture to obtain a...
RE37057 Apparatus and method for converting an HDTV signal to a non-HDTV signal  
A digital video signal reception apparatus comprising a multiplexer selection controller for outputting a plurality of control signals according to a format of a compressed input digital video...
6188796 Picture encoder, picture decoder, picture encoding method, picture decoding method, picture encoding program recording medium, and picture decoding program recording medium  
It is an object to encode an image signal or a shape signal more efficiently than the prior art. As a means to accomplish the object, the change pixel detector 2 receives the input signal 1 as an...
6188725 Interlaced video signal encoding and decoding method, by conversion of selected fields to progressive scan frames which function as reference frames for predictive encoding  
An encoding apparatus includes a selector for periodically selecting fields of an interlaced video signal to be converted to respective progressive scanning frames, by a scanning converter which...
6181435 Image forming method and apparatus  
A printer converts print data in page description language into coded band data as a set of objects such as run-length data, trapezoid data and the like, in band units. Processing time to generate...
RE36999 Video signal coding method  
In a method for encoding successive frames of a digital motion video signal in the form of compressed digital data including an intraframe coded signal and a plurality of interframe coded signals,...
6157745 Method and system for coding and decoding a sequence of segmented images  
The invention relates to an image sequence coding method comprising, after a segmentation of the images into partitions with associated labels, the main steps of coding the contours of the regions...
6151359 Method of video buffer verification  
A method is provided for synchronizing video data buffers in a system including: an encoder for encoding input data into a compressed data bitstream; an encoder buffer for storing the compressed...
6151362 Joint rate control for stereoscopic video coding  
A method and apparatus are provided for controlling and balancing a quality ratio between left and right channels of a stereoscopic video sequence. A complexity measure for each of the channels is...
6148032 Methods and apparatus for reducing the cost of video decoders  
Methods and apparatus for implementing video decoders at a reduced cost are described. The methods include data reduction techniques, simplified inverse quantization techniques, and dynamically...
6148027 Method and apparatus for performing hierarchical motion estimation using nonlinear pyramid  
An apparatus and a concomitant method for encoding image sequences and, more particularly, to a method for reducing the computational complexity in determining motion vectors for block-based motion...
6141385 MPEG coded picture decoding apparatus  
An MPEG coded picture decoding apparatus is provided which can display video data quite the same as original data even if a miss of MPEG coded video data occurs in a transmission line or the like....
6128342 Video coding apparatus which outputs a code string having a plurality of components which are arranged in a descending order of importance  
A video coding/decoding apparatus comprises a prediction circuit that divides an input video signal into large regions and small regions in a hierarchical fashion and produces a prediction signal...
6128041 Method and apparatus for binary shape encoding  
A binary shape encoding apparatus encodes a binary alpha block (BAB) consisting of M×N binary pixels, M and N each being a positive even integer. The apparatus samples every other horizontal lines...
6128345 Image signal coding system  
An adaptive blocking coding system selects an effective blocking of an input image signal to be encoded in accordance with the correlation between fields, even if motion is detected between the...
6125140 Processing encoded signals  
A frame of time-domain video signals Si is supplied via a frame reorderer (40) to a motion vector estimator (41), and then to a DCT transformer (43) and a quantizer (44) to produce a quantized,...
6125144 Picture coding method and picture coder  
A picture coder and a picture coding method which quickly recover the degraded picture quality of partitions, which could not be decoded due to a data error or a data loss, without increasing the...
6122316 MPEG decoding system meeting 2-frame store and letterboxing requirements  
A system and method for decoding an MPEG video bitstream comprises, comprising a macroblock core (MBCORE) which processes video bitstream data and computes discrete cosine transform data and a...
6122314 Method and arrangement for encoding a video signal  
A system encodes an input video signal by subjecting the input video signal to noise reduction to obtain a noise-reduced signal, and encoding a difference between the noise-reduced signal and a...
6122315 Memory manager for MPEG decoder  
An MPEG decoder operates in 2.5 frame store mode, and has an efficient memory management which allows a B picture to be stored and displayed while simultaneously making use of a portion of the...
6118901 Array architecture with data-rings for 3-step hierarchical search block matching algorithm  
The invention discloses a 9-cell array architecture with data-rings for 3-step hierarchical search (3SHS) block-matching algorithm. With the efficient data-rings and memory organization, the...
6118818 Method for decoding MPEG standard video bit stream  
A method for decoding MPEG standard I (Intra-coded) and P (Predictive-coded) picture bit streams using a memory smaller than one video frame of data. The method includes the steps of receiving a...
6115071 Video signal compression apparatus using noise reduction  
Noise reduction circuitry, in a video signal compression apparatus of the predictive DPCM compression type includes a simple nonlinear processing element within the DPCM loop to eliminate residues...
6115070 System and method for DCT domain inverse motion compensation using shared information  
Given compressed video which supports the coding of interlaced and noninterlaced frames through DCT and motion compensation, shared information is used in a macroblock for efficient conversion of...
6111915 Picture decoder  
A picture decoder decodes P frames without having to wait for a next I frame even if a data loss occurs, and ensures quick recovery from degraded picture quality. The picture decoder sends decoding...
6104757 System and method of error control for interactive low-bit rate video transmission  
A new retransmission-based error control technique that does not incur any additional latency in frame playout times and is suitable for interactive video applications. This retransmission...
6094456 Compact image transmission system and image reproducing device capable of reproducing a DCT-based code at a high speed without deterioration of picture quality  
Processing is carried out assuming that a picture structure is fixed to I picture and P picture and that motion compensation value is fixed. header analyzing section 11 identifies the type of...
6091770 Image coding and decoding method and related apparatus  
In a transmitter, a motion detector detects a motion amount of a coded block. A buffer memorizes a detected motion amount. A buffer controller controls the buffer to read the motion amounts in the...
6091776 Delay balanced video encoder system  
A process and apparatus for encoding are provided, wherein fields of a digital signal are processed to detect repeat fields. Adjacent pairs of the non-repeated fields are organized into frames. A...
6088394 Efficient interframe coding method and apparatus utilizing selective sub-frame differencing  
6088061 Video coding device and video decoding device  
A video coding device capable of making coded data have a hierarchical structure, a specified area of each frame is selected. The position and the shape of the selected area are encoded, a pixel...
6075918 Generation of an intermediate video bitstream from a compressed video bitstream to enhance playback performance  
A video decoder system affords playback of video information corresponding to a compressed video bitstream which demands less processor performance than would be demanded for decoding the...
6075556 Three-dimensional image coding by merger of left and right images  
A method is disclosed, for encoding a signal with a three dimensional image sequence using a series of left and right images. Each image in the left image series is a picture formed by...
6069919 Low-delay encoding methods of moving pictures  
A method of low-delay-encoding digital video data for moving pictures, comprises the steps of determining a first row position of first intra-segments in an image frame and a second row position of...
6067320 Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding images  
An image signal expressing pel values and a significance signal, declaring for each pel whether the pel value is significant, are supplied as input signals. By referring to the input significance...
6061400 Methods and apparatus for detecting scene conditions likely to cause prediction errors in reduced resolution video decoders and for using the detected information  
Techniques for identifying blocks of pixels, referred to as constant block regions, having approximately the same intensity in terms of luminance values, are discussed. High contrast vertical...
6057893 Picture encoding method, picture encoding apparatus, picture transmitting method and picture recording medium  
A picture encoding method in which an input picture signal is encoded in a pre-set sequence by one of a plurality of encoding modes including at least the intra-frame coding and forward predictive...
6055012 Digital multi-view video compression with complexity and compatibility constraints  
In a system and method for transmitting and displaying multiple different views of a scene, three or more simultaneous scene signals, representing multiple different views of a scene, are provided...
6052417 Motion image coding apparatus adaptively controlling reference frame interval  
A motion image coding apparatus providing enhanced image quality as compared with the prior art includes a coding unit for coding first, second and third frames, a prediction efficiency calculating...
6052415 Early error detection within an MPEG decoder  
An MPEG digital video decoder system, method and computer program product are presented for monitoring decoding of an encoded digital video signal for one or more predefined illegal conditions....
6049570 Picture coder  
A picture coder decodes P frames without having to wait for the next I frame even if a data loss occurs, and ensures quick recovery from degraded picture quality. The picture coder, which controls...
6049569 Method and apparatus for encoding digital video bit streams with seamless splice points and method and apparatus for splicing such digital video bit streams  
A method of encoding a digital video bit stream which includes a plurality of successively-encoded pictures. The method includes the steps of constructing a seamless In Point in accordance with a...
6047028 Method and apparatus for frame manipulation  
A method for generating an updated video stream from an incoming video stream for use in image encoding applications includes the steps of replacing each predetermined reference frame amongst a...
6044115 Method and apparatus for coding and decoding digital image data using image quantization modification  
An image coding method and apparatus for transforming and quantizing an image to produce transformed and quantized coefficients. The coefficients are coded and a complexity index value is obtained...
6040862 Coding method and recording and reproducing apparatus  
A method for coding a video signal made up of a plurality of sequential video frames. First, correspondence information relating color frame information values to types of video coding is provided,...
6040861 Adaptive real-time encoding of video sequence employing image statistics  
Method, system and computer program product are provided for adaptively encoding in hardware, software or a combination thereof a sequence of video frames in real-time. A first encoding subsystem...
6040879 Method for decoding video data corrupted by channel noise  
In a video decoding method, the video data to be decoded is arranged in a first unit, which first unit includes a plurality of second data units, and each of which second data unit includes an...
6037986 Video preprocessing method and apparatus with selective filtering based on motion detection  
Video preprocessing methods and apparatus which utilize motion detection to control selective filtering of pels in a sequence of video frames wherein a video preprocessor generates first and second...
6037981 Method and apparatus for using digital televisions as remote personal computer displays  
Use of a digital television as a remote display for a computer system is accomplished by capturing video data signals, compressing the captured video data signals, capturing audio output data...
6031574 Device for storing video data  
To reduce the data in a video-server (SER), a compression of the video data of a video film is performed by coding according to the interframe method (K1). In addition, the video data of...