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7349579 Image processing device, image processing method, and image reading method  
The present invention provides an image processing device, an image processing method, and an image reading method, by which encoded data can be easily generated from sub-sampled image data,...
7302107 JPEG encoding for document images using pixel classification  
The invention provides a system and method for JPEG encoding an image that includes variable quantization for each block, depending upon the classification of each block, which is dependent on the...
7203375 Quantization error compensation apparatus and method thereof  
A quantization error compensation includes a dividing unit to divide an input current image signal into a first high-frequency signal and a low-frequency signal; a changing unit to replace bits of...
7151856 Picture coding apparatus and picture coding method  
A frame group target bits number calculating unit ( 31 ) reads the total number of bits on frame group basis allocatable to residual frames from a storing unit ( 36 ), updates subtracting the...
7042949 Robust data transmission using broadcast digital television signals  
A DTV signal includes frames, and the frames include data segments. Data segments are replaced by codewords which represent digital data. The DTV signals are broadcast and received by receivers....
7020194 Apparatus and method for vector descriptor representation and multimedia data retrieval  
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for vector descriptor representation and multimedia data retrieval, which can quantize a plurality of feature values described by a vector...
7003039 Dictionary generation method for video and image compression  
This invention relates to the creation of dictionary functions for the encoding of video signals using matching pursuit compression techniques. After an initial set of reference dictionary images...
6968092 System and method for reduced codebook vector quantization  
The present invention extends the generalized Lloyd algorithm (GLA) for vector quantizer (VQ) codebook improvement and codebook design to a new linearly-constrained generalized Lloyd algorithm...
6968010 Method for efficient low power motion estimation of a video frame sequence  
A method for efficient low power motion estimation of a digital video image is provided in which processing requirements are reduced based upon the content being processed. The method performs...
6947944 Database managing apparatus and database record retrieving apparatus  
A database managing apparatus, which can immediately obtain desired data from a database. A database managing apparatus includes a CPU, an input/output device, a main memory and an external memory....
6944227 Method and apparatus for motion vector field encoding  
A method and apparatus for representing motion in a sequence of digitized images derives a dense motion vector field and vector quantizes the motion vector field.
6925119 Process and system for the compression of digital video signals, a system and a computer program product therefor  
A process for encoding digital video signals organized in frames comprises the operations of dividing the frames into blocks starting from macroblocks subjected to motion-compensation and applying...
6898326 Image processing apparatus and method  
A transformation unit 102 transforms an entered image to multi-resolution space. A quantizer 105 performs vector quantization on a local pattern of an image of a multi-resolution...
6859558 Method for eliminating blocking effect in compressed video signal  
The present invention relates to a method for eliminating a blocking effect in a compressed video signal signal. The method of the invention includes: the encoding step of eliminating a blocking...
6853683 Regularized dequantizer for DCT-based transform coding  
A new dequantization scheme for DCT-based transform coding, such as JPEG, MPEG and H.26x, is disclosed. The new approach drastically reduces blocking artifacts without smoothing the decoded image....
6834081 Coding apparatus and method for orientation interpolator node  
An encoding apparatus and method for an orientation interpolator node are provided. The encoding apparatus for an orientation interpolator node, which provides information on the rotation of an...
6829302 Pixel calculating device  
A pixel calculating device that performs vertical filtering on pixel data in order to reduce frame data in a vertical direction. The pixel calculating device includes a decoding unit 401 for...
6807312 Robust codebooks for vector quantization  
A method for data compression. An encoder receives data vectors from an original data set. The encoder uses a vector quantization codebook to encode the data vectors into encoded vectors. The...
6754282 DC-free run length constrained line coding with channel gain  
A dc-free coding scheme that also provides channel gain employs a code that is based on an alphabet of two and comprises a list of N-dimensional vectors, where N is even, with a maximum run of two...
6728413 Lattice vector quantization in image compression and decompression  
The invention proposes a method of determining an index of a code vector (VC k ) belonging to a predetermined lattice, characterised in that it includes the steps of: determining (E 47 ) a leader...
6728319 Decoding method and apparatus  
A decoder in a communication system using channel optimized vector quantization and including an encoder stores active encoder centroids c i corresponding to active indices i, an active index...
6701021 System and method for encoding/decoding multidimensional data using successive approximation multi-stage vector quantization  
The present method relates to a method for encoding image data using vector quantization. According to the invention, a small first codebook is determined. Each image vector of the image data is...
6671416 Method for transmitting data using an embedded bit stream produced in a hierarchical table-lookup vector quantizer  
A transmission method for video image data using an embedded bit stream in a hierarchical table-lookup vector quantizer comprises the steps encoding an image using hierarchical vector quantization...
6628718 Color solid-state image-pickup camera system  
A color solid-state image-pickup camera system is provided with a color solid-state image-pickup unit for acquiring image information by picking up an image of a subject, a vector quantization...
6625323 Method for compressing and decompressing digital having text  
A method for compressing a digital image having both saturated text and/or line art and pictorial imagery, the method comprises the steps of: receiving the digital image as blocks of pixels;...
6584232 Image encoding apparatus, image encoding method, and recording medium in which image encoding program is recorded  
The block reducing unit 201 reads one block out of each block group. The pixel reducing unit 202 reads pixels on one-out-of-four basis. The block reading unit 203 sequentially reads out...
6546146 System for interactive visualization and analysis of imaging spectrometry datasets over a wide-area network  
The present invention relates to a method of viewing and processing hyper-spectral image data compressed using a VQ algorithm. According to the invention the data is compressed using a codebook of...
6546049 Parameterized quantization matrix adaptation for video encoding  
In video compression processing, such as MPEG-2 compression processing, the quantization (Q) matrix used to quantize discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients is updated from frame to frame...
6539122 Adaptive wavelet coding of hyperspectral imagery  
A hyperspectral image encoder ( 10 ) for compressing hyperspectral imagery includes a differential pulse code modulation (DPCM) loop ( 26 ) to perform data decorrelation in the spectral domain and...
6535555 Quantizing method and device for video compression  
The invention concerns a method comprising a step which consists in a quantizing step relative to a pixel or group of pixels in accordance with a desired rate. The invention is characterized in...
6529553 HVQ compression for image boundaries  
In a system where two types of data are to be compressed using hierarchical vector quantization (HVQ), it would be typical for there to be two compression tables, one optimized for each type of...
6516297 Multiple description lattice vector quantization  
Data is transmitted using multiple description vector quantization by first quantizing the source vector at a lattice vector quantizer. After quantization, a labeling function is applied to the...
6501797 System and method for improved fine granular scalable video using base layer coding information  
There is disclosed an apparatus for controlling the transmission of enhancement layer video data for use in a video encoder containing a base layer encoder and an enhancement layer encoder. The...
6470052 HVQ compression combined with orthogonal rotation  
Using hierarchical vector quantization (HVQ) to accomplish rotation in addition to compression and decompression. During the compression step the image is divided into segments and each segment is...
6404820 Method for storage and reconstruction of the extended hamming code for an 8-dimensional lattice quantizer  
A method of lattice-quantizing an eight-long data point to minimize storage requirements by acquiring the data point, multiplying each coordinate of the data point by {square root over (2)} to form...
6360020 Method and arrangement for vector quantization and for inverse vector quantization of a digitized image  
In a vector quantization of a digitized image, image regions (QB) to be quantized are selected smaller than, for example, image blocks (BB) of an image (B). In the reconstruction, image points...
6320907 Adaptive tree-search vector quantization in MPEG2 decoder  
The memory requirement of MPEG decoders and SQTV/IQTV systems may be reduced by recompressing the MPEG decoded data stream before storing pixels in an external RAM. An efficient compression method...
6314393 Parallel/pipeline VLSI architecture for a low-delay CELP coder/decoder  
An integrated circuit for processing a speech signal in accordance with a CELP standard includes a plurality of processing elements coupled to a data bus in parallel. Each processing element...
6301303 Method and apparatus for predictively coding shape information of video signal  
A method and an apparatus for predictively coding shape information of a video signal. An error between the current shape information and the previous shape information is obtained through the...
6266817 Decoder for a software-implemented end-to-end scalable video delivery system  
A decoder is used in an end-to-end scalable video delivery system operable over heterogeneous networks. The decoder may software-based and computationally low complexity, or may be implemented...
6266375 Method and apparatus for selecting a quantization table for encoding a digital image  
A method and apparatus for selecting a quantization table containing quantization coefficients for encoding image data. A set of quantization tables is examined to determine a quantization table...
6252994 Adaptive quantization compatible with the JPEG baseline sequential mode  
Pixel blocks of an input image are type classified based on an analysis of pixel values for each respective pixel block. A discrete cosine transform (DCT) is performed on the pixel values of each...
6222885 Video codec semiconductor chip  
A semiconductor chip integrating various functional blocks of a video codec for use in a system for real time record and playback of motion video through a computer interface such as a...
6188729 Method and apparatus for effecting seamless data rate changes in a video compression system  
A video compression system comprises a control computer 52; a plurality of encoders 54, 56, 58; a plurality of encoder buffers 60, 62, 64; a multiplexor 66; a data channel 70; a demultiplexor 80; a...
6151416 Method and apparatus for adaptive class tap selection according to multiple classification  
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for restoring a deteriorated signal to an undeteriorated signal. A deteriorated signal consists of a plurality of deteriorated and undeteriorated...
6151414 Method for signal encoding and feature extraction  
A new encoder is provided which operates on a database of n-dimensional signal vectors where such signal vectors are restricted to being non-negative. In the establishment of a codebook for this...
6141458 Method and apparatus for increasing the speed of a full code book search in a quartizer encoder  
A novel vector quantization encoding system comprises a conventional vector formatter and a novel gross quantizer. The vector formatter generates vectors to be searched in a full code book of...
6115725 Semiconductor arithmetic apparatus  
The real time compression of moving images employing vector quantization is realized using simple hardware and with an optimal compression ratio with respect to the communication line capacity...
6108381 Tree search vector quantization for compressing digital video data to be stored in buffers and MPEG decoder and SQTV processor with reduced memory requisites  
A method for reducing the RAM requirement for temporarily storing a stream of data blocks in a coding/decoding system of information transferable by blocks, includes the steps of: compressing and...
6072910 Method and apparatus for coding image information, and method of creating code book  
A coding apparatus divides digital image information into pixel blocks each having a size of m×n pixels, and subjects the image information to vector quantization in block units. The pixel blocks...
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