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RE40829 Method for encoding and decoding moving picture signals  
A method for encoding and decoding digital moving picture signals which can decode subframes appropriately in relation to time if a part of a bit stream is missing or an error occurs in the bit...
7558319 Method and apparatus for reproducing images, and image recording apparatus  
Structure information on picture within a GOP of a coded data sequence is acquired beforehand. At the time of high-speed reproduction, a high-speed reproduction mode judging unit judges by...
7557963 Label aided copy enhancement  
Regions within a scanned document are labeled according to content. These labeled regions allow for particular enhancement and sharpening methods to be applied. The labeled regions may be further...
7558431 Method and system for discrete cosine transforms/inverse discrete cosine transforms based on pipeline architecture  
A method and system for applying pipeline architecture to discrete cosine transform and inverse discrete cosine transform. Each of the discrete cosine transform and inverse cosine transform are...
7558801 Distributing limited storage among a collection of media objects  
A quality level determining the extent to which each image file is compressed is automatically computed for each image file in a set to ensure that the total size of the compressed image files does...
7558419 System and method for detecting integrated circuit pattern defects  
There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a technique of, and system for inspecting integrated circuits, including, for...
7558427 Method for analyzing image data  
The invention relates to a method for analyzing image processing procedures, in which unprocessed original image data is stored, stored original image data is retrieved, retrieved original image...
7554557 Device and method for image compression and decompression  
An image compression device includes a floating-point texture-loading unit, a shader, a RGB to YCrCb compressor, and a parameter adjusting unit. The floating-point texture-loading unit receives raw...
7555168 Method of wavelet coding a mesh object  
The invention relates to a method for the coding an object having at leas two dimensions which is associated with a basic mesh comprising a set of basic surfaces and with coefficients in a base of...
7555166 Pattern analysis-based motion vector compensation apparatus and method  
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for compensating for estimated motion vectors by deciding whether a pattern image exists in target blocks for motion estimation. A motion estimation part...
7551789 Reversible overlap operator for efficient lossless data compression  
An efficient lapped transform is realized using pre- and post-filters (or reversible overlap operators) that are structured of unit determinant component matrices. The pre- and post-filters are...
7551750 Holographic digital watermark  
A digital watermark which is incorporated, perceptibly or imperceptibly, into a diffractive device such as a hologram. When applied to protect and/or authenticate a document of value or a product,...
7551786 System and method for efficient non-overlapping partitioning of rectangular regions of interest in multi-channel detection  
A system and method in a multi-channel detection system for multi-rate filter bank applications for converting overlapping rectangular two-dimensional (2D) regions into a new set of non-overlapping...
7551773 Encoding image data using mask lookup table and decoding such encoded image data  
In one aspect, an image is quantized by assigning sub-ranges of pixel values in the image to respective quantization levels. The quantized image is encoded based at least in part on a mask lookup...
7551752 Systems and methods for authenticating objects using multiple-level image encoding and decoding  
A method of producing a digital multiple-level encoded image is presented. The method comprises obtaining a digital authentication image, obtaining a first encoding parameter set comprising one or...
7551788 Digital image coding device and method for noise removal using wavelet transforms  
A digital image coding device based on wavelet transform technology includes a lower-bitplane replacement section which is provided after a coefficient modeling section and before an arithmetic...
7551785 Method and system for compressing a continuous data flow in real-time using cluster successive approximation multi-stage vector quantization (SAMVQ)  
The present invention relates to a method and system for compressing a continuous data flow in real-time based on lossy compression. In real-time data compression, a series of multi-dimensional...
7551796 Image processing apparatus, image data generation and transmission method and image data generation and transmission program  
An image processing apparatus connected to an external apparatus via a network includes an selecting unit for selecting an application mode and an image quality mode, a scanning unit for scanning...
7549052 Generating and matching hashes of multimedia content  
Hashes are short summaries or signatures of data files which can be used to identify the file. Hashing multimedia content (audio, video, images) is difficult because the hash of original content...
7548984 Stream distribution system, stream server device, cache server device, stream record/playback device, related methods and computer programs  
The invention aims to protect content copyright and reduce the load on a stream server device in a stream distribution system having the stream server device, which stores bitstreams that include...
7548653 Digital video broadcasting  
A method is provided for transmitting a plurality of informational video programs over a single digital transport stream to a plurality of receivers, wherein the receivers are operative to select...
7545987 Image processing apparatus and image processing method  
When a plurality of image data are to be compressed, an image correlation information extraction unit extracts respective image correlation information of image data, using first image data as...
7545382 Apparatus, system, and method for using page table entries in a graphics system to provide storage format information for address translation  
A graphics system utilizes page table entries to provide information on the storage format used to store graphics data. The page table entries, in turn, may be used for address translation....
7545988 Image blocking artifact reduction via transform pair  
An apparatus using a compact blocked and Wavelet transform pair suppresses block artifacts in image compression systems by re-purposing one or more block transform coefficients with Wavelet...
7545534 Image processing apparatus, method and program binarizing received image data  
An image processing apparatus receives and binarizes image data in accordance with first and second algorithms to output first and second binarized data which are in turn compared and in accordance...
7542615 Image area extraction method, image reconstruction method using the extraction result and apparatus thereof  
This invention has as its object to detect an image area of interest in an image file by a method with a lighter processing load by making determination using characteristics of a quantization...
7542614 Image feature identification and motion compensation apparatus, systems, and methods  
Apparatus, systems, and methods disclosed herein may estimate the magnitude of relative motion between a scene and an image capture device used to capture the scene. Some embodiments may utilize...
7542612 Signal processing method and signal processing device  
A storage unit which stores n pieces of data is formed by m memories (m≠n). The n pieces of data are sorted into the memories such that the n pieces of data can be read in parallel no matter...
7542623 Image processing apparatus and method, and computer program and computer-readable storage medium  
This invention obtains information required to quantitatively evaluate block distortion of an image on the basis of encoded data that utilizes the compression encoding technique for respective...
7542613 Image processing apparatus  
When a moving area and a fixed area are detected on a screen, it is determined whether the detected moving area and the fixed area overlap or not. As a result, when it is determined that an overlap...
7542611 Image processing apparatus and method for converting first code data sets into second code data for JPEG 2000 and motion JPEG 2000  
In an image processing apparatus, first code data including multiple sets of code data in which image data of multiple static images are compressed and encoded, are synthesized. The first code data...
7539345 Method of processing image and audio information, image and audio processing apparatus and computer program that causes a computer to process image and audio information  
A method of processing image information in which the image information is encoded by the bit plane and compressed by truncating one or more of the bit planes. Since the index parameter indexing...
7536054 Image compression device, image compression method, image compression program, compression encoding method, compression encoding device, compression encoding program, decoding method, decoding device, and decoding program  
There are provided an image compression device, method, and program, a compression code data encoding device, method, and program, and a decoding device, method, and program. The image compression...
7535592 Image processing apparatus for simultaneous processing of a plurality of print data  
This invention relates to an image processing apparatus capable of processing plural jobs at a high rate. The image processing apparatus is comprised of first and second buffer memory devices,...
7536055 Image compression device, image output device, image decompression device, printer, image processing device, copier, image compression method, image decompression method, image processing program, and storage medium storing the image processing program  
In a data compressing section, an image decompressing section decompresses compression RGB data, obtained by lossy compression, to generate decompression RGB data. A second segmentation section...
7536058 Imaging apparatus and imaging method for compressing image data to a fixed length  
An imaging apparatus comprises an imaging device to take an image, a device to create a main image by resizing a main image before compressing imaged by the imaging device, and then by compressing...
7536643 Interface for compressed video data analysis  
The invention described herein provides a video analysis tool to assist a computer programmer working on a program that effects video data. The tool may be integrated with program code. When...
7532345 Host-based printed driver  
A system includes a controller operable to receive a first data set comprising data in a first format type, the first-format-type data representing an image. The system further includes a circuit...
7532765 Run length encoded digital image  
Methods, apparatus and computer readable medium are described that compress and/or decompress digital images in a lossless or a lossy manner. In some embodiments, a display controller may quantize...
7532221 Texture-based packing, such as for packing 16-bit pixels into four bits  
A method and system for rendering three-dimensional graphics, including text, provides a compressed texture bitmap. The compressed texture bitmap may represent multiple symbols, each comprised of...
7532761 System and method for optimizing data recovery for a partially destroyed document  
A system and method are provided for optimizing data recovery for a partially destroyed document by exploiting the localized nature of typical partial document destruction. The system and method...
7532740 Method and apparatus for embedding auxiliary information within original data  
This patent application is generally related to watermarking and steganography. In one implementation, a method of embedding auxiliary information within original data is provided. The original...
7532133 Methods and apparatuses for generating and recovering 3D compression data  
A method of generating three-dimensional (3D) compression data, and an apparatus to perform the method, the method including generating configuration information of the 3D compression data;...
7529412 Image processing apparatus and method for converting image data between raster scan order and block scan order  
In an image processing apparatus and method for converting a raster format into a block format, generated image data is separated into given color components so as to be stored in a single line...
7529414 Moving image recording method  
The present invention relates to an image processing device for compressing and expanding image data by means of the JPEG method when the image data is subjected to a moving image recording...
7529413 Method for reducing data amount in an image memory system  
A method for reducing data amount in an image memory system is disclosed. First, it omits one image column from every N image column in left and right portions of the input image, respectively,...
7529416 Method and apparatus for transferring digital data between circuits  
A method and apparatus transfer digital data between a coder/decoder circuit and a signal processor. The transfer of the digital data includes (a) obtaining, at a first circuit, a block of data...
7529383 Image input apparatus  
An image input apparatus which reconfigures a single reconfigured image from a plurality of low-resolution, object reduced images formed in a specified region on the light detecting element by the...
7528982 Printer, print instruction terminal, printing system, printing program, and printing method  
A printer is provided that stores raw data. Printing is performed with the material data merged together in accordance with a print instruction from a print instruction terminal. The material data...
7529415 Adaptive and progressive protection of fixed images encoded in wavelets  
A process for secured distribution of fixed numerical images according to a nominal format resulting from numerical encoding in wavelets, represented by a original stream including a packet...