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6510177 System and method for layered video coding enhancement  
A system and a method for encoding, transmitting, decoding and storing a high-resolution video sequence using a low-resolution base layer and a higher-resolution enhancement layer. The base layer...
6507618 Compressed video signal including independently coded regions  
In a MPEG or other video system, regions of each frame may be independently coded for later, independent extraction directly from a compressed bit stream. An encoder/transcoder receives raw video,...
6507617 Video coding  
This invention relates to a system for compression of video sequences that is using motion compensated prediction. The key part of such system is motion vector field coding. The goal of motion...
6501799 Dual-prime motion estimation engine  
An apparatus performs motion estimation based on an average of previous field references in a flexible, yet high performance manner. The apparatus has a command memory for storing a motion...
6501796 Method and device for video compression  
The invention relates to a process for compressing digital data of a sequence of synthesis images describing a scene which is the subject of a script, comprising a processing step for modelling the...
6501800 Variable bit-rate encoding device  
A variable bit-rate encoding device is provided that can perform a variable bit-rate encoding process at high rate. The subtracter 103 calculates a predictive error between compressed frame data...
6501794 System and related methods for analyzing compressed media content  
A method comprising receiving media data in a compressed, digital domain, analyzing motion vectors associated with the received media content while in the compressed digital domain and identifying...
6498815 Method and arrangement for video coding  
A hybrid video encoder which carries out motion estimation and compensation ( 8 ) in the transform domain. In such an encoder, the calculation of a prediction block (Ŷ) from previously encoded...
6498810 Method for motion vector coding of MPEG-4  
A method for motion vector coding of an MPEG-4 includes determining motion vector candidates, and selecting a candidate having a minimum bit rate among motion vector candidates in an encoder. A...
6496539 Method and apparatus for detecting motion  
There is disclosed a method and apparatus for detecting motion by a video encoder. The method starts with dividing a target block whose motion is to be detected into blocks at different pixel...
6496538 Method and apparatus for motion estimation for digital video encoding  
A method for determining motion estimation in a set of video frames including the comparing of a first macroblock from a video frame in the set of video frames to a second macroblock in a reference...
6493390 Motion compensation image encoding device  
A motion detecting device for enhancement of the image quality at ultra-low bit rates is disclosed, which permits quantization of the prediction error with the highest possible degree of accuracy,...
6489996 Moving-picture decoding method and apparatus calculating motion vectors to reduce distortion caused by error propagation  
A moving picture coded by inter-frame coding, with motion compensation, is decoded by an apparatus that stores at least two previously decoded frames, together with information identifying any...
6490322 Digital opaque projector for easy creation and capture of presentation material  
A method for managing a frame of data includes capturing the frame of data from an image at a location. It is determined whether the image is a new image. The frame of data is displayed if the...
6489995 Method and apparatus for motion vector concealment  
An innovative method and apparatus for decoding an encoded image such as a video. In one embodiment a method for decoding an encoded block of an image, e.g.,a video frame, having an error in its...
6483876 Methods and apparatus for reduction of prediction modes in motion estimation  
In image encoding methods or systems, first and second motion vectors are determined for the two fields comprising a frame based on a field search. The first and second motion vectors then may be...
6480544 Encoding apparatus and encoding method  
In an encoding apparatus for processing a video signal with a signal processing circuit, producing coefficient data by an orthogonal transform of differential data obtained by motion compensation,...
6480543 Detection of a change of scene in a motion estimator of a video encoder  
The compression and coding of digital data pertaining to video sequences of pictures including motion estimation for removing temporal redundance are provided by recognizing the occurrence of a...
6477279 Image encoding and decoding method and apparatus using edge synthesis and inverse wavelet transform  
A digitized image is encoded by detecting edges in the image, encoding the position and sharpness of the detected edges, filtering the image by a low-pass filter to generate a low-frequency image,...
6473460 Method and apparatus for calculating motion vectors  
A motion estimation system for finding motion vectors between first and second images selects first and second overlapping blocks of pixels from the first image. The motion estimation system then...
6473461 Half-pixel motion estimation in motion video signal encoding  
A motion estimator/compensator determines whether to use half-pixel motion vector encoding by comparing the relative benefit of using half-pixel encoding, represented in terms of distortion between...
6473462 Process for estimating a dominant motion between two frames  
The process for estimating a dominant motion between two frames combines a phase correlation peak detection algorithm ( 1 ) and a multi-resolution robust regression algorithm ( 3 ) for improving...
6473459 Scene change detector  
A coding parameter extracting unit extracts predictive-coded mode information, motion vectors, and coded transformed coefficients from video-signal-demultiplexed information. An abrupt scene change...
6470050 Image coding apparatus and its motion vector detection method  
The present invention provides an image coding apparatus and its motion vector detection method, which can reduce a system cost also when the throughput of image data is increased. The image coding...
6466696 Deriving polygonal boundaries from quadtree representation  
A method of conversion of a quadtree representation of image data into a corresponding representation of edges of regions within the image is disclosed. In one configuration the method comprises...
6466623 Method and apparatus for motion estimation for high performance transcoding  
Methods and systems for generating motion vectors for re-encoding video signals are disclosed. The motion vector is determined by the sum of a base motion vector and a delta motion vector. In the...
6462785 Motion display technique  
When there is an inability to convey motion that is occurring in the frames of a video source by a full-frame-rate transmission, a surrogate effect, other than another form of motion, may be used...
6462791 Constrained motion estimation and compensation for packet loss resiliency in standard based codec  
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for transmitting a plurality of images of at least over a packet network. A plurality of motion vectors based on at least one moving object is...
6459452 System, method, and apparatus for decoding digital video sequences  
A system, method, and apparatus are disclosed that support decoding of motion-compensation-encoded digital video sequences while having reduced storage requirements.
6459734 Motion detection circuit and a noise suppression circuit including the same  
An interframe difference signal is generated from the video signal and its one-frame delayed video signal. A filter removes a carrier color signal from the interframe difference signal to output...
6456660 Device and method of detecting motion vectors  
A motion vector detection device is provided that can suitably detect motion vectors by setting an optimum search range of vector values of a motion vector. The motion vector detection section 103...
6456659 Motion estimator algorithm and system's architecture  
A motion estimator operating on a recursive mode reduces the number of operations per pixels required by the particular coding process being implemented. The coding process includes the MPEG...
6456661 Method of transcoding coded digital signals and corresponding transcoder  
By inserting a downsampling filter between the decoding and re-encoding parts of a transcoder, a reduced resolution transcoding is performed. Before transferring the decoded motion vectors to the...
RE37858 Motion compensation predicting encoding method and apparatus  
A motion compensation predicting coding apparatus includes a motion detector for comparing pixel data in an image signal with pixel data of the previous image signal to generate a motion vector....
6449311 Methods and apparatus for error concealment utilizing temporal domain motion vector estimation  
A method and apparatus for concealing errors during decoding of a video bit stream utilize estimates, if possible, motion vectors in the temporal domain. If estimation in the temporal domain is not...
6449312 Method of estimating motion in interlaced video  
A method of estimating motion in interlaced video involves, firstly, a frame search ( 61 ), where a search is conducted for the frame structure using a sub-sampled block matching metric (e.g....
6445741 Motion estimation  
In a method of estimating motion vectors from subsampled video data (I), first vectors are estimated (ME, PM 2 ) between an image with a first sub-sampling phase and an earlier image sub-sampled...
6445742 Method and apparatus for transmitting and recovering video signal  
A method and an apparatus for transmitting and recovering a video signal are provided. The method for transmitting a video signal that has a hierarchical structure of a frame, groups of blocks...
6442204 Video encoding method and system  
In the Improved PB-frames mode, one of the options of the H.263+ Recommendation, a macroblock of a B-frame may be encoded according to a forward, a backward or a bidirectional prediction mode. The...
6442202 Motion vector field error estimation  
A technique is disclosed for estimating the measurement error in motion vectors used for example in a motion compensated video signal process. For each motion vector corresponding to a region of an...
6442203 System and method for motion compensation and frame rate conversion  
A system and method for de-interlacing, motion compensation and frame rate conversion of digitally encoded video signals. The invention utilizes multiple motion vectors per pixel of the final...
6438170 Method and apparatus for motion estimation using block matching  
Block matching is a robust and simple method of motion estimation for television pictures. One important parameter in block matching is the block size. Large blocks give more reliable motion...
6430316 Motion vector compensation using overlapping weighted windows  
A soft windowing technique involves the use of a window for vector assisted frame differing, the window being larger than a macroblock of the structure defined over the video picture. The edges of...
6430223 Motion prediction apparatus and method  
A motion prediction apparatus and method that is capable of preventing the redundancy of calculation occurring during a motion prediction. In the apparatus, a first motion estimator predicts a...
6430224 Stereo video data coding apparatus  
A corresponding MB 2 for the left sequence is determined from the parallax vector of a coding-object MB 1 of the frame Bi for the right sequence. The motion vector {circle around (2)} of the...
6424676 Motion vector detecting method and device, and storage medium  
An improved motion vector detecting method is provided that can ensure a wide search area while suppressing detection of erroneous motion vectors at the same time. Specifically, when detecting...
6418168 Motion vector detection apparatus, method of the same, and image processing apparatus  
A control circuit specifies a first search area by using a motion vector found in units of macroblocks between a plurality of frames located previous to first frame, specifies a second search area...
6414994 Method and apparatus for generating smooth residuals in block motion compensated transform-based video coders  
A method and apparatus for identifying a prediction block which generates smooth residuals in block motion compensated transform-based video coders. A base block from a first image, and a candidate...
6414995 Motion vector detection system  
The present invention relates to a motion vector detection method and system for detecting a motion vector for motion compensation in moving picture compression. The motion vector detection system...
6411652 Motion estimation  
A method of comparing a current block in a current frame to a plurality of background blocks in a preceding frame. Each block includes a matrix of data values arranged in a given number of columns....