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7230982 Decision feedback equalizer for minimum and maximum phase channels  
This invention describes an apparatus and method to improve the performance of a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) for time-varying multi-path channels. For minimum-phase channels, the equalization...
7212573 Method and/or apparatus for determining minimum positive reference indices for a direct prediction mode  
An apparatus comprising a first processing circuit and a second processing circuit. The first processing circuit may be configured to generate (i) one or more prediction samples and (ii) a...
7212570 Video converter and computer program for executing said video converter  
A video converter for converting a coding format of a great deal of video contents has three kinds of conversion modes including a conversion mode for performing conversion in two steps in...
7173970 Methods and apparatus for decoding and displaying multiple digital images in parallel  
Methods and apparatus for implementing a reduced cost HDTV/SDTV video decoder are disclosed. The described joint video decoder is capable of decoding HDTV pictures at approximately the resolution...
7149248 Command packet system and method supporting improved trick mode performance in video decoding systems  
A system, method, and apparatus for reducing the video decoder processing requirements are presented herein. During a rewind operation, a reference picture for a group of pictures is decoded and...
7149250 Video encoding method  
The present invention relates to an encoding method processing video object planes (VOPs) of I, P or B type and including a dynamic allocation of said VOPs. According to said method, for each input...
7133455 Providing error resilience and concealment for video data  
An apparatus for providing error concealment, error resilience, and/or error resilience modification. The apparatus includes a first block to process a P-type frame in a video bitstream using a...
7130350 Method and system for encoding and decoding data in a video stream  
In a block-based video stream, a first bit representing video data at a predefined location is identified. The video data at the first bit is replaced with a bit of non-video data prior to being...
7106798 Smooth scanning presenter  
Described herein is a technology for the presentation digital video. One implementation, described herein, smoothly presents variable-speed scanning of a compressed digital video stream—for...
7092576 Bitplane coding for macroblock field/frame coding type information  
In one aspect, for a first interlaced video frame in a video sequence, a decoder decodes a bitplane signaled at frame layer for the first interlaced video frame. The bitplane represents field/frame...
7092443 Process and device for video coding using the MPEG4 standard  
The device is characterized in that it comprises means for preventing the “skipped macroblock” mode of coding of a macroblock of an image of P type on the basis of a correlation item measuring...
7068722 Content adaptive video processor using motion compensation  
A system and method for providing a method for reducing artifacts in a video sequence of image frames is disclosed. The method and system include classifying scenes in the sequence of image frames,...
7058130 Scene change detection  
In one embodiment, a scene change detection component of a video encoder uses motion vectors to determine whether a scene change occurs in a video sequence. The scene change detection component...
7054366 Systems and methods for MPEG subsample decoding  
A decoder decimates MPEG or other video data by subsampling the output of an inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) module. The decimation process is useful for reducing the volume of data that...
7031387 B picture mode determining method and apparatus in video coding system  
A B picture mode determining method and apparatus in a video coding system includes the steps of: setting sum of absolute difference (SAD) initial values of a 4×4 and 16×16 intra prediction mode,...
7027509 Hierarchical hybrid shot change detection method for MPEG-compressed video  
The present invention relates to a hierarchical hybrid shot change detection method in MPEG-compressed video circumstances, wherein the method according to the present invention comprises:...
7020199 Method and apparatus for processing MPEG data  
A data proccssing device, for example, an MPEG decoder, comprises a bus system [BUS] over which a transmitter circuit, for example a variable length decoder circuit [VLD], can transfer a series of...
7020198 Rate control for an MPEG transcoder without a priori knowledge picture type  
A rate control system suitable for use with a digital video transcoder, such as one conforming to the MPEG standard. The proposed rate control system starts coding with any reasonable set of...
7016412 System and method for dynamic adaptive decoding of scalable video to balance CPU load  
There is disclosed an apparatus for controlling the processing load of a scalable video decoder that decodes an incoming scalable video bit stream and generates a baseband video signal. The...
7016414 Method and system for skipping decoding of overlaid areas of video  
A system and method that reduces computational complexity of a decoder by identifying a skippable region in an overlaid area. The invention provides a system for processing encoded video data,...
7003035 Video coding methods and apparatuses  
Video coding methods and apparatuses are provided that make use of various models and/or modes to significantly improve coding efficiency especially for high/complex motion sequences. The methods...
6996174 MPEG video decoder with integrated scaling and display functions  
A digital video decoder system, method and article of manufacture are provided having integrated scaling capabilities for presentation of video in full size or a predetermined reduced size, while...
6990147 Generating a non-progressive dummy bidirectional predictive picture  
The invention concerns a method ( 200 ) and system ( 100 ) for generating a dummy bidirectional predictive picture which can be repeated during display with substantially no vibration in which the...
6987807 Frame compression using differential codes and an escape code  
Digital video data streams that conform to standards such as the ITU-T H.263 and MPEG-4 ISO/IEC standards are compressed to reduce the amount of memory needed to store these streams. Information...
6975681 Method and apparatus for coding moving pictures  
A moving picture coding method and apparatus is provided that performs motion compensation interframe predictive coding, thus improving the compression efficiency. The magnitude of a forward motion...
6973129 Overlapped field detecting apparatus capable of detecting non-overlapped fields mostly overlapped  
In an overlapped field detecting apparatus, a delay unit delays a video signal, and a subtracter calculates a difference between the video signal and an output signal of the delay unit on a...
6963614 Video frame synthesis  
A method comprising selecting a number of blocks of a frame pair and synthesizing an interpolated frame based on those selected blocks of the frame pair. Additionally, the synthesis of the...
6963605 Method for estimating the motion between two digital images with management of mesh overturning and corresponding coding method  
The invention relates to a method for estimating the motion between two digital images and to the use of this method for coding images. The aim of the method is to eliminate the disturbances caused...
6940910 Method of detecting dissolve/fade in MPEG-compressed video environment  
There is provided a method of detecting dissolve/fade in an MPEG-compressed video environment, which includes the steps of: detecting a candidate sequence that is presumed to use a dissolve/fade...
6937658 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and distribution media  
An information processing apparatus capable of accurately detecting commercials included in a television broadcast. A commercial candidate section detector detects a commercial candidate section...
6925125 Enhanced aperture problem solving method using displaced center quadtree adaptive partitioning  
The disclosed method provides a new resolution of the aperture problem, which is one of the basic problems present in motion estimation technology. The method constitutes a resolution of this...
6917649 Method of encoding video signals  
The present invention relates to a method of encoding, which receives an input video signal (IS) for providing a compressed video data signal (CS). Said method comprises the steps of segmentation...
6914937 Image control apparatus  
An image control apparatus is capable of coding an image signal with increased efficiency for improved image quality. The image control apparatus has a comparison processing unit for carrying out...
6912254 DECODING SYSTEM AVAILABLE FOR COMPRESSED DATA STREAMS FOR CONCURRENTLY REPRODUCING STABLE PICTURES METHOD FOR DECODING COMPRESSED DATA STREAMS AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM FOR STORING PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTIONS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE METHOD  
An MPEG decoding system concurrently reproduces three pictures on a screen of a display unit on the basis of pieces of video data information representative of different kinds of pictures...
6907069 Picture coding apparatus, picture coding method, and recording medium having picture coding program recorded thereon  
A plurality of picture frames is arranged as one group according to correlation between picture frames in a picture sequence. Then, a coding mode corresponding to each of the picture frames of the...
6900846 Format converter using bi-directional motion vector and method thereof  
A format converter which performs frame rate conversion and de-interlacing using a bi-directional motion vector and a method thereof are provided. The method includes the steps of (a) estimating a...
6885704 Coding apparatus and coding method of time-varying image signal  
A picture counter 205 counts and outputs the number of pictures input from the beginning of communication. A coding controlling section 206 outputs coding scheme information for controlling a...
6862318 Image data encoding device  
Introduced in an image data encoding device is a logic-memory combined chip in which a memory device and a signal processing device are combined. A logic part and a memory part can be connected to...
6850567 Embedding supplemental data in a digital video signal  
An MPEG-encoded video signal includes groups of pictures (GOPs), each GOP having an intraframe coded (I) picture and a series of predictively encoded (P) pictures and bidirectionally predictively...
6850571 Systems and methods for MPEG subsample decoding  
Decimating MPEG or other video data by subsampling the output of an inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) module. The decimation process is useful for reducing the volume of data that must be...
6847683 Video coding method and corresponding encoder  
The invention, provided for an implementation, in a video encoder with base layer coding means and enhancement layer coding means, relates to a method of coding the video objects (VOs) of a...
6831949 Switching compressed video bitstreams  
An MPEG bitstream is switched in the video domain in between a decoder and recoder pair which remain continuously in operation but which are transparent through re-use in the recoder of coding...
6823010 Method for switching a first digital audio-visual program video component(s) on a second digital audio-visual program video component(s)  
First digital audio-visual program video component(s) are switched on a second digital audio-visual program video component(s) by switching on the beginning of the first set of images including an...
6810080 Method and apparatus for decoding video data  
A video decoder for decoding video pictures encoded according to the MPEG-2 standard, having reduced memory requirements, including a memory for storing means for storing a plurality of anchor...
6801574 Apparatus of layered picture coding, apparatus of picture decoding, methods of picture decoding, apparatus of recording for digital broadcasting signal, and apparatus of picture and audio decoding  
A video signal layering-encoding system has at least either a frequency distribution unit to judge a frequency distribution in an input video signal or a motion judgment unit to judge the motion of...
6798835 Apparatus and method of switching moving-picture bitstream  
Moving-picture bitstreams are switched at a predetermined switching timing to form a successive moving-picture bitstream. Each bitstream carries first pictures to be used as reference pictures for...
6795503 Video coding method and apparatus that predicts macroblock code length  
As the video signals of macroblocks are coded, they are stored in a buffer. When the total code length of the stored macroblocks exceeds a predetermined value, all but the most recently coded...
6792476 Storage medium, and method and apparatus for information processing  
An information processing apparatus, disposed between a controlling portion and hardware, for performing a process corresponding to a program that contains capsulated process portions for...
6785331 Predictive encoding and decoding methods of video data  
Video data predictive encoding methods using the two kinds of prediction modes, the global and local motion compensation modes, are provided, by which unnecessary MCSEL is reduced as much as...
6768774 Video and graphics system with video scaling  
A video and graphics system has a reduced memory mode in which video images are reduced in half in horizontal direction during decoding. The video and graphics system includes a video decoder for...
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