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7379609 Image processing apparatus and method for conversion between raster and block formats  
An image processing apparatus for converting image data between a raster format and a block format including an image data processor for providing the image data including a luminance component and...
7379500 Low-complexity 2-power transform for image/video compression  
To encode image and video data using a transform having low computational complexity and high compression efficiency, all elements of the matrix can be expressed with power-of-2 elements, with a...
7372905 Filtering intensity decision method, moving picture encoding method, and moving picture decoding method  
A moving picture coding apparatus including an inter-pixel filter having the filters for filtering decoded image data so as to remove block distortion which is high frequency noise around block...
7372485 Digital camera device and methodology for distributed processing and wireless transmission of digital images  
A digital imaging system is described that provides techniques for reducing the amount of processing power required by a given digital camera device and for reducing the bandwidth required for...
7369709 Conditional lapped transform  
A digital media content (e.g., image, video, audio, etc.) encoder/decoder employs a spatially varying parameter to condition the application of an overlap pre-process and post-process to adjacent...
7366909 Dynamic wavelet feature-based watermark  
A dynamic wavelet feature-based watermark for use with digital video. Scene change detection separates digital data into one or more scenes, wherein each of the scenes is comprised of one or more...
7366238 Noise filter for video processing  
A noise filter for a video processing system includes a block selector, a cost calculator, a cost table, a cost comparator, and a coefficient filter. The block selector is coupled to receive data...
RE40079 Video encoding and decoding apparatus  
An encoding apparatus includes an encoder for encoding an alpha-map signal for discriminating a background from an object of an input picture in motion compensation prediction (MV)+transform...
7330595 System and method for video data compression  
A system and method perform video data compression in a manner that limits the need for external memory access. Accordingly, the operational frequency of the local data bus is reduced and power...
7321693 Image processing apparatus and image processing method including adjustment of coded data to specified target size  
An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are disclosed for generating coded data having a desired data size at a high speed. The image processing apparatus includes a coding...
7321686 Image processing apparatus and method for improving the contract of an image  
Processing for improving the contrast of an image of interest is executed by an image processing circuit in an X-ray photography apparatus. The image is decomposed into coefficient values of a...
7310366 Procedure for estimating amplification factors of a CDMA signal  
The invention concerns a procedure for estimating unknown amplification factors of a received CDMA signal, which encompasses a plurality of code channels, in which respectively an input signal from...
7308028 Apparatus and method for generating mosaic images  
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for generating mosaic images, wherein photographed content is displayed as a still image by a digital TV display or video monitor for an...
7295613 Early detection of zeros in the transform domain  
A method detects blocks that are to be indicated as skipped at an earlier stage of the encoding process, than would be the case with other implementations of the ITU H.263 and H.264 standards. The...
7295609 Method and apparatus for coding image information, method and apparatus for decoding image information, method and apparatus for coding and decoding image information, and system of coding and transmitting image information  
An image information coding apparatus codes an input image signal in a manner optimized on the basis of the visual characteristics. In quantization, an input image signal is divided into blocks, an...
7277489 Two dimensional discrete wavelet transforms  
The method performs a two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform on an image. The image comprises a plurality of blocks of pixels. The method generates ( 340 ) a current output block of subband...
7269564 Method and apparatus to indicate an encoding status for digital content  
A method of determining an encoding rate for digital content. According to the method, the a sample of the content data is encoded for a predetermined period of time. The encoding rate is...
7260269 Image recovery using thresholding and direct linear solvers  
An image recovery algorithm that recovers completely lost blocks in an image/video frame using spatial information surrounding these blocks. One application focuses on lost regions of pixels...
7254267 Encoder for volume data  
A volume data encoder with high encoding efficiency is provided. The object of the coding is volume data which contains a plurality of tomogram planes output from a CT and an MRI. A header analysis...
7242717 Wavelet domain motion compensation system  
Motion estimation for interframe coding of digital video is performed by matching blocks of transform coefficients representing a frame to be predicted with a phase-allocated array of coefficients...
7242713 2-D transforms for image and video coding  
A set of one and two-dimensional transforms is constructed subject to certain range limited constraints to provide a computationally efficient transform implementation, such as for use in image and...
7236528 System and method for processing time-based media  
System and method for processing time-based media such as sequences of images, audio sequences, and the like on a computing device such as a personal computer. A method may comprise receiving a...
7233566 Five-by-three wavelet transform apparatus  
In a 5×3 wavelet transform apparatus, a function-A module ( 11 ) calculates equations A1 and A2, a function-B module ( 12 ) calculates equations B1 and B2, function-C0 module ( 13 ) calculates an...
7227898 Digital signal conversion method and digital signal conversion device  
An inputted digital signal of a first format (DV video signal) is restored to a variable-length code by having its framing cancelled by a de-framing section 11 , then decoded by a variable-length...
7221709 Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium  
An inputted digital signal of a first format (DV video signal) is restored to a variable-length code by having its framing cancelled by a de-framing section 11 , then decoded by a variable-length...
7215707 Optimal scanning method for transform coefficients in coding/decoding of image and video  
An optimal scanning method for coding/decoding an image signal is provided. In a method of coding an image signal through a discrete cosine transform, at least one is selected among a plurality of...
7187714 Image processing apparatus for suppressing high-frequency components of color difference data  
An image processing apparatus capable of reducing noise contained in input image data. By determining whether or not, among the absolute values of the AC components of luminance Y, there is at...
7180947 Method and apparatus for a dynamic data correction appliance  
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for a dynamic data correction appliance. A plurality of data points in a first domain may be sampled. The sampled data points may be...
7177356 Spatially transcoding a video stream  
Systems and methods for transcoding a video stream. An incoming video stream is spatially transcoded to reduce the bit rate of the video stream. The incoming video stream is decoded and the stream...
7130351 Storage reduction during compression  
Decompressing compressed video information using relatively less temporary storage is disclosed. A compressed bit stream of video information including a compressed portion is received. A reverse...
7123656 Systems and methods for video compression  
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for video compression. In one embodiment, a method of encoding a matrix of transform coefficients is performed. The method includes...
7103101 Method and system for blind Karhunen-Loeve transform coding  
A method, system, and computer program product for blind Karhunen-Loeve transform (KLT) coding is disclosed, wherein KLT coefficients and possibly additional information are transmitted without...
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...
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...
7035332 DCT/IDCT with minimum multiplication  
A method, apparatus, computer medium, and other embodiments for discrete cosine transform and inverse discrete cosine transform (DCT/IDCT) of image signals are described. A DCT/IDCT module includes...
7020204 Adaptive method of encoding and decoding a series of pictures by transformation, and devices for implementing this method  
A method and a device for coding and decoding a sequence of images or pictures is disclosed. One exemplary embodiment disclosed codes by dividing each picture into blocks of picture elements. Each...
7016416 Low cost video compression using fast, modified Z-coding of wavelet pyramids  
Encoding/decoding a stream of bits is disclosed. An encoding unit uses a modified Z-coder to code the zero/non-zero significance function and Huffman coding for the non-zero coefficients...
7010173 Video coder employing pixel transposition  
A video encoding method and apparatus is shown wherein image information is represented as a plurality of pixels, the pixels are organized into blocks, pixels transposition is performed on image...
6985632 Image processing system, image processing apparatus, and image processing method  
Obtains an image from which noise is removed upon compressing or decoding and displaying an image containing noise. To accomplish this, a subband to which a wavelet transform coefficient of...
6968012 Methods for encoding digital video for decoding on low performance devices  
A video encoder encodes the video stream frame by frame. An encoding process generally includes receiving a video frame, subdividing the video frame into uniform pixel blocks, comparing a selected...
6965647 Robust time domain block decoding  
A method for robust time domain block decoding is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a block of transform domain coefficients, detecting errors in one or more transform...
6952451 Apparatus and method for decoding moving picture capable of performing simple and easy multiwindow display  
Header information capture section extracts information such as the numbers of dots in horizontal and vertical directions, respectively, of the picture, a frame rate and so on from a sequence...
6950471 Coding device, coding method and storage medium  
A code length of image coded data is length-fixed in accordance with a code length representing a required criterion. For this purpose, a discrete wavelet transformation unit 110 performs...
6944225 Resolution-scalable video compression  
A method of data compression. A multiple-level wavelet transform transforms image data of an original image. Motion compensation is performed on a low-frequency band of the transformed image data....
6940908 Compressing video frames  
A method includes generating first difference frames and compressing the first difference frames to form compressed difference frames. The compressed difference frames are decompressed to form...
6931067 Apparatus and method for image coding using tree-structured quantization based on wavelet transform  
An apparatus for image coding using tree-structured vector quantization based on a wavelet transform and a method therefor are provided. The apparatus for image coding using a tree-structured...
6907079 Deblocking filter conditioned on pixel brightness  
An encoder, decoder, and corresponding method are disclosed for encoding pixel data as a plurality of block transform coefficients and decoding encoded block transform coefficients to provide...
6907077 Variable resolution decoder  
A variable resolution decoder of the present invention decodes image data compressed with a compression method such as MPEG-2 supporting interlaced scanning. The decoder performs variable decoding...
6898245 Low complexity video decoding  
Method and apparatus for decoding a compressed video signal having a first resolution for use by a display unit having a second resolution. The method and apparatus involve downscaling the...
6895055 Bit-rate guided frequency weighting matrix selection  
A system and method for generating a frequency weighted (FW) matrix for use in a Fine-Granularity-Scalability (FGS) video coding system. The system comprises: a system for plotting the average...
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