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7072398 System and method for motion vector generation and analysis of digital video clips  
Given a digital video clip, this invention describes how to efficiently compute the motion vectors and motion trajectory of each identified video object for facilitating various commonly...
7072397 Optimal encoding of motion compensated video  
The present invention involves a system and method for performing motion estimation. For each candidate motion vector, encoding distortion is determined between a macroblock and a reconstructed...
7072399 Motion estimation method and system for MPEG video streams  
The present invention discloses a motion estimation method for MPEG video sequences. The method makes use of a global motion estimation algorithm to determine a set of dominant motion components. A...
7068721 Method and configuration for coding a digitized picture, and method and configuration for decoding a digitized picture  
Pixels in a digitized picture are grouped into picture blocks, which in turn are grouped at least in a first picture region and a second picture region. An overall motion vector is determined,...
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,...
7065139 Video encoding method and video encoder for improving performance  
Video encoding methods and video encoders that provide improved performance while reducing power consumption. In one aspect, a video encoding method comprises the steps of outputting a parameter...
7061980 Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing method, and video processing apparatus  
An object-region-data describing method for describing object region data relating to a time-series variation of an object region in video data including a plurality of frames, the method...
7061981 Motion vector conversion method and conversion apparatus  
The invention provides a motion vector conversion method by which the coding efficiency in image coding of MPEG4 in an image information conversion method can be augmented. In the motion vector...
7058230 Method and apparatus for encoding image data, and computer-readable recording medium in which program for encoding image data is recorded  
An accurate encoding of image data representing a source image, which data is divided into a multiplicity of blocks is performed in accordance with features of the source image by defining a...
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...
7050653 Identification of virtual raster pattern  
A method aims to identify a virtual raster pattern in an image of a surface that is provided with a plurality of position-coding marks. Each mark is associated with a respective intersection of...
7050500 Method and apparatus for motion vector coding with global motion parameters  
A global motion vector coding scheme is used for coding or decoding an image. Global motion parameters are associated with a current image frame. Local motion vectors are derived from the global...
7050502 Method and apparatus for motion vector detection and medium storing method program directed to the same  
A method and apparatus for performing motion estimation under a motion estimation mode suitable for an amount of motion within each E-block detects a motion vector with a small amount of...
7050501 Digital noise reduction techniques  
A preprocessor system ( 10 ) reduces random noise in video pixels by providing a memory ( 19 ) arranged to store first pixels processed during a first time period. A motion detector ( 300 )...
7050108 Motion vector correction circuit and method  
It is determined whether each block ( 51 ) including a plurality of pixels extracted from a basic field ( 30 ) has an edge or not, and then which state, stationary or non-stationary, each of the...
7046821 Image detection processor  
An image detection processor of the present invention enhances the processing speed of the calculation of the center of gravity or the like of a target with a simple constitution. The image...
7046732 Video coloring book  
A decomposed original video sequence includes one or more original camera-motion layers and zero or more original fixed-frame layers decomposed from an original video sequence. The decomposed...
7042945 3-D recursive vector estimation for video enhancement  
A video signal processor enhancing video information evaluates candidate vectors of enhancement algorithms utilizing an error function biased towards spatio-temporal consistency with a penalty...
7039111 Film mode detecting apparatus and method thereof  
A film mode detecting apparatus and method for detecting a film mode by using a periodicity of motion vectors having high autocorrelativity. A motion vector calculating unit adds a size of motion...
7039109 Reducing halo-like effects in motion-compensated interpolation  
The invention relates to a motion-compensated interpolation of a data-signal, which data-signal comprises successive images wherein each image comprises groups of pixels, in which motion vectors...
7039110 Methods of and units for motion or depth estimation and image processing apparatus provided with such motion estimation unit  
In the method of motion estimation a tree ( 120 ) of segments ( 102–114 ) of an image ( 100 ) is generated by performing a hierarchical segmentation. The tree ( 120 ) of segments is analyzed to...
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,...
7031542 Encoding rate controlling apparatus and information encoding apparatus  
The encoding rate controlling apparatus ( 9 ) is provided with a controlling device ( 9 a , 9 b ) for performing a control for the encoding rate by changing a quantization scale code for quantizing...
7031388 System for and method of sharpness enhancement for coded digital video  
A method and system for calculating a UME for each pixel in a frame of video data. A system for enhancing sharpness of a coded digital video signal representative a frame of block-based data is...
7030905 Real-time method and apparatus for tracking a moving object experiencing a change in direction  
A method and apparatus for tracking an object using one or more video cameras together with a plurality of microphones and/or geophones, whereby accurate tracking of the object can be obtained even...
7027512 Spatio-temporal hybrid scalable video coding apparatus using subband decomposition and method  
In video coding techniques, in order to improve a coding efficiency and reduce a computational complexity sharply by mixing a temporal scalability and a spatial scalability, a spatio-temporal...
7027511 Fast motion estimation using N-queen pixel decimation  
The present invention proposes a fast motion estimation using N-queen pixel decimation, whereby after a reference block and a block to be processed are selected in a video sequence, an N×N queens...
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:...
7027510 Method of estimating backward motion vectors within a video sequence  
A method of speeding the computation of backward motion vector estimates which are derived from fields which are available from forward motion vector estimates as based on nearest neighbor...
7023921 Method and apparatus for determining block match quality  
A method and apparatus for determining the quality of a block match for a candidate motion vector in a video encoder system using motion vectors representing the difference in coordinates of a...
7023920 Facilitating motion estimation  
An apparatus and method for facilitating a subsequent choice of a motion vector from a plurality of candidate motion vectors in a motion estimation method, include receiving video image data from...
7023919 Method for coding motion vector using 2-dimensional minimum bitrate predicting technique  
A method for coding a motion vector using a 2-dimensional minimum bitrate predicting technique is disclosed. A mode information (MODE) commonly adopted to the factors ‘X’ and ‘Y’ are...
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...
7020201 Method and apparatus for motion estimation with all binary representation  
A method of motion estimation for video encoding constructs a binary pyramid structure having three binary layers. A state update module registers and updates repeat occurrence of final motion...
7020200 System and method for direct motion vector prediction in bi-predictive video frames and fields  
The present invention is a low complexity method for reducing the number of motion vectors required for bi-predictive frames or fields in digital video streams. The present invention utilizes the...
7020202 Systems 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...
7020192 Method of retrieving video picture and apparatus therefor  
An apparatus for retrieving a video picture includes a decoder section for decoding a coded bit stream of video picture data representing an arbitrary shape object and including shape information...
7016415 Modifying motion control signals based on input video characteristics  
A motion detector ( 300 ) detects motion of images represented by video pixels. A first motion detector ( 320 ) is arranged to generate first motion signals (S) representing detected motion of...
7012963 Positioning of images in a data stream  
A method and mechanism for repositioning video images in a compressed data stream without requiring bit shifting. A P frame image is to be repositioned from an original position to an alternate...
7012960 Method of transcoding and transcoding device with embedded filters  
The present invention relates to a method of transcoding ( 200 ) a primary encoded signal (S 1 ) into a secondary encoded signal (S 2 ). Said transcoding method comprising at least a step of...
7012958 Partition coding method and device  
The invention relates to a method of coding segmented pictures, or partitions, divided into homogeneous regions. Said method, called intra-mode coding process, comprises, for each successive...
7010167 Method of geometric linear discriminant analysis pattern recognition  
Feature attributes are extracted from an observation space to create feature vectors for each class to be identified. A linear transformation matrix is used to reduce the dimension of the feature...
7010036 Descriptor for a video sequence and image retrieval system using said descriptor  
The present invention relates to a descriptor for the representation, from a video indexing viewpoint, of motions of a camera or any kind of observer or observing device within any sequence of...
7010041 Process for changing the syntax, resolution and bitrate of MPEG bitstreams, a system and a computer product therefor  
In order to generate, starting from an input MPEG bitstream, an output MPEG bitstream having at least one entity chosen among syntax, resolution, and bitrate modified with respect to the input...
7010042 Image processor and image display apparatus provided with such image processor  
The image processor ( 101 ) for motion compensated image processing comprises a motion compensation unit ( 106 ) for calculating an output image based on a particular motion vector field and based...
7010039 Motion estimator for reduced halos in MC up-conversion  
An apparatus for detecting motion at a temporal intermediate position between a previous image and a next image has optimizing means ( 1 ) for optimizing a criterion function for candidate vectors,...
7010040 Apparatus and method of transcoding image data in digital TV  
A method and an apparatus of transcoding image data in a digital TV system are disclosed. The method and apparatus of the present invention performs global and local motion compensation processes...
7006100 Cache memory system  
A cache memory system is used in a motion estimation system. The system includes: a first cache memory defined in terms of a first width and a first height, and a second cache memory defined in...
7006571 Method of synthesizing interframe predicted image, and image coding and decoding method and device therefore  
A method is provided to simplify the computation involved in global motion compensation and warping prediction in coding and decoding of motion compensated image signals. In the synthesis of a...