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7103230 Embedding editing commands in digital images  
When editing a digital image that has previously been saved in a lossy manner (whether such losses result from the editing operations and/or from inherently lossy image file formats such as JPEG),...
7099030 Image communications system  
A communications system receives fax image data encoded with a specific facsimile data format and carrying transmission codes having no relation with image contents, converts the received fax image...
7099506 Image data coding device, image data coding method, image forming apparatus, storage medium and program  
An image data coding device and the like capable of improving the compression ratio of entropy coding of color image data is disclosed. The image data coding device converts input color image data...
7099511 Method and apparatus for coding and decoding image data using critical points  
An image data coding and decoding technique which realizes most efficient compression of the image data. The image data are input and separated into key frames and other intermediate frames....
7098916 Connectivity encoding and decoding of polygon meshes  
Methods of connectivity encoding polygonal mesh representations of objects are described, along with methods of decoding encoded connectivity information for polygonal mesh representations of...
7098931 Image management system and methods using digital watermarks  
Digital watermarking technology is used in an image management system. Images are uniquely identified by digital watermarks. The images are stored so as to be indexed according to their unique...
7099515 Bitplane coding and decoding for AC prediction status information  
In one aspect, an encoder/decoder selects a bitplane mode from a group of plural available bitplane modes, and processes a bitplane according to the selected bitplane mode, wherein the bitplane...
7095895 Semiconductor integrated circuit for realizing coding circuit  
Provided is a circuit for implementing the coding of a DVI (Digital Visual Interface) standard in a small size of hardware, at high speed, and with low power consumption. In a DVI coding circuit,...
7095870 Electronic watermark embedding apparatus and method and a format conversion device having a watermark embedding function  
In an electronic watermark embedding technique, even when image data compression such as MPEG2 compression is conducted for image data of an image including a watermark while keeping deterioration...
7092965 System and method for improved compression of DCT compressed images  
A system providing methods for improved compression of images that have been compressed using Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) based compression is described. A digital image that has been...
7092577 Image compression device, image compression method, electronic camera, computer-readable medium for image compression, and computer system for compressing image data  
An image compression device includes a transformation part for subjecting image data to frequency decomposition and for determining transformation coefficients, a coefficient adjustment part for...
7091981 Data bus compressing apparatus  
A bus compression apparatus for compressing data is provided to suppress an EMI signal and to simplify a data bus structure. In the apparatus, the voltage levels of the digital output signals are...
7092546 Digital watermarking technique  
A watermarking system allowing both sufficiently high quality of watermarked moving pictures and enhanced ease of watermark detection is disclosed. A watermark level of a watermark to be embedded...
7088865 Image processing apparatus having image selection function, and recording medium having image selection function program  
An image processing apparatus having an image selecting function, includes: an evaluation device that takes in a plurality of sets of image data of a subject obtained through image-capturing and...
7088463 Binary data transmission over an image data channel  
A method of sending binary data over an image data channel. The binary data is encoded into an encoded linear matrix image, and the encoded linear matrix image is transmitted over the image data...
7088864 Generating a test suite from an abstract state machine  
A method and apparatus to generate a test suite from an abstract state machine (ASM) involves generating a finite state machine (FSM) for the ASM, and generating the test suite from the FSM. An...
7085379 Image compression device and image decompressing device, and computer-readable recorded medium on which program for allowing computer to execute image compressing method and image decompressing method  
An image compression apparatus capable of efficiently encoding an image without causing color deviation to the eye compresses luminance element image data and two types of chrominance element image...
7085804 Method for processing objects of a standardized communication protocol  
In a method for processing objects of a standardized communication protocol for image and data exchange between devices via a communication network by means of processing devices, the objects are...
7085420 Text detection in continuous tone image segments  
For encoding of mixed-mode images containing text and continuous-tone content, the pixels in the image that form the text content are detected and separated. Text detection classifies pixels as...
7085419 Method and apparatus for coding and decoding image data  
A matching processor detects correspondence information between key frames. A judging unit detects motion vectors from the correspondence information to determine variation of a field of view...
7082226 Image data reproduction method  
A duplicated part of identical images in an encoded image data master is judged to be selected. Image data to be reused is generated by adding a storage instruction to encoded image data of the...
7082217 Method and apparatus for image compression in block units  
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for image compression in block units, and particularly to the image editor, color equalizer and error diffuser functions thereof. According...
7079697 Image compression with transform coefficient analysis  
A method of image/video compression with intra-coding blocks analyzed for sum of absolute magnitudes of AC coefficients of DCT of block to determine whether to approximate the block with 0 AC...
7079690 Method and apparatus for editing an image while maintaining codestream size  
A method and apparatus for editing an image while maintaining codestream size is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining a portion of a codestream to edit, decoding the...
7079691 Method of and apparatus for encoding, method of and apparatus for decoding, and image forming apparatus  
With an encoding section 301 in an encoding apparatus, an image reading section 310 sequentially inputs binary signals by a predetermined bit length; a run counter in a run length processing...
7076105 Circuit and method for performing a two-dimensional transform during the processing of an image  
An image decoder performs a 2-D transform as a series of 1-D transforms, and does so in a more efficient manner than prior decoders. The decoder includes a memory and a processor coupled to the...
7076113 Apparatus and method for adaptive spatial segmentation-based noise reducing for encoded image signal  
An efficient and non-iterative post processing method and system is proposed for mosquito noise reduction in DCT block-based decoded images. The post-processing is based on a simple classification...
7076103 Method, apparatus, and program for image data compression  
When image data are compressed, a degree of image quality degradation can be recognized. At the time of compressing the image data, compression information is added as tag information in a file...
7075683 Dynamic image digest automatic editing system and dynamic image digest automatic editing method  
An image processing section 10 calculates degree of similarity among a plurality of image frames of dynamic image data, determines scene-change frames based on the calculated degree of...
7075681 System and method for reducing the data volume of images  
A system and method for reducing the volume of data necessary to represent an image by utilizing tiling and masking techniques is disclosed. Initially, an image described by raster content having...
7075557 Method of and apparatus for handling high bandwidth on-screen-display graphics data over a distributed IEEE 1394 network utilizing an isochronous data transmission format  
On-screen-display graphics data is transmitted from a source device to a display device over an IEEE 1394-1995 serial bus network utilizing an isochronous data format. The on-screen-display...
7072512 Segmentation of digital video and images into continuous tone and palettized regions  
For encoding of mixed-content images containing palettized and continuous-tone content, continuous tone content regions in the image are detected and separated. Continuous tone content segmentation...
7072060 Print control apparatus, print control method, and memory medium  
To avoid difficulties upon the outputting of data whose amount exceeds the capacity of a memory, without risking image quality degradation and without the need for using a particularly large...
7071848 Hardware-friendly general purpose data compression/decompression algorithm  
Methods and systems are provided for dynamically compressing and decompressing a data stream in a manner that facilitates hardware implementation. In one aspect, a compression system identifies...
7072519 Image coding device and method thereof and image decoding device and method thereof  
A predetermined area of input image data ( 100 ) is read and stored into a memory section ( 1 ). As soon as data is stored in the data read memory section ( 1 ), wavelet conversion filtering is...
7068398 System and method for efficient tile generation from complex raster data  
A system and method for accepting raster data from a Postscript or equivalent image data generator, identifying portions of the raster image which contain continuous tone data and linework data,...
7068846 Image input apparatus and control method therefor  
In an image input apparatus for compressing, in real time, image data obtained by reading an image and storing it in a memory, a memory area is ensured, an original is read and its image data is...
7069495 Bit error resilience for an internet protocol stack  
The invention concerns the bit error resilience of an IP protocol stack based on a secure link layer, in which packet flows are header compressed according to a suitable header compression...
7064873 Integrated circuit  
An integrated circuit fabricated on a single substrate that includes a data bus and purpose-specific functional units connected to the data bus. The functional units include a JAPE decoder and a...
7065251 Method and apparatus for providing adaptive multiple resolution of optical imagers  
Method for image compression, where an acquired image is represented by a two dimensional array of pixels. The array is divided into blocks of identical rectangular areas. Data related to the...
7065253 Wavelet zerotree coding of ordered bits  
A computer system includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores a program to cause the processor to provide wavelet coefficients that indicate an image. The processor represent each wavelet...
7065252 System and method providing improved data compression via wavelet coefficient encoding  
A data compression system is provided in accordance with the present invention. The system includes a scanning component which scans at least a portion of a transformed image. The scan is performed...
7065226 Method for embedding information and extracting the same  
A method of embedding digital watermark information b 1 –b n (2≦n) in image data. The image data is divided into a plurality of areas S each consisting of M×N (1≦M, N) pixels. A plurality...
7065254 Multilayered image file  
To improve compression efficiency and decompressed image quality, images are decomposed into separate layers each containing a limited number of image element types (text, line art, or...
7062097 Computational graceful degradation method using priority information in multiple objects case  
A computational graceful degradation method is disclosed using priority information in multiple objects case. The method degrades the amount of computation in different ratio every object using the...
7062096 Apparatus and method for performing bitplane coding with reordering in a fine granularity scalability coding system  
An apparatus and method for performing bitplane coding with reordering, that may be used in a Fine Granularity Scalability (FGS) system. The apparatus and method reorder coefficients each time...
7062095 Entropic encoding method and device  
A method of ordering bits in an N-bit status word (s[c]) adapted to represent the state of a coefficient (c) during an entropic encoding of the coefficient in several passes is adapted to modify...
7061640 Image processing apparatus that compresses and divides image data for storage  
Conventionally, although a technique has been proposed in which image data is compressed and divided so as to be stored in a storing means, no device has been made as to a process which temporarily...
7062094 System and method for lossless data transmission  
A method for losslessly transmitting data is provided. The data is separated into two or more portions and the second portion is subtracted from the first portion to find a difference. The first...
7058200 Method for the prior monitoring of the detectability of a watermarking signal  
A method for the prior monitoring of the detectability of a watermarking signal inserted by modulation in a set of coefficients representing for example a digital image. The method comprises the...