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7620892 Server based image processing for client display of documents  
Methods and systems that allow the viewing of arbitrary documents on a client display by up-loading all necessary image processing steps to the server, thereby eliminating any software downloads...
7620261 Edge adaptive filtering system for reducing artifacts and method  
A method includes receiving image information representing at least one image. The image information defines multiple pixels in the at least one image. The method also includes identifying filter...
7620253 Steganographic systems and methods  
The present invention relates to steganographic systems and methods. Once claim recites a method including: obtaining video content, wherein the video content comprises a steganographic signal...
7620252 System and method for compressing an image  
In a method for compressing an image, a number of non-zero AC coefficients for a component transform and the locations of the non-zero AC coefficients in a transform block are determined. One of a...
7620241 Artifact reduction in a digital video  
A method performed by a processing system is provided. The method comprises detecting an artifact in a first frame of a digital video using a plurality of edges identified in the first frame and...
7620240 Method of encoding and decoding image data by applying image capturing device  
A method of encoding and decoding image data by applying an image capturing device includes generating a difference coding group, applying an modified Hadamard transform (MHT) on the difference...
RE40981 Adaptive variable-length coding and decoding methods for image data  
An adaptive variable-length coding/decoding method performs an optimal variable-length coding and decoding depending on an intra mode/inter mode condition, quantization step size and a current...
7616820 System and method for reducing discontinuity of gray level in an image buffer memory  
A system and method for reducing discontinuity of gray level in an image buffer memory is provided, which reduces N bits to (N−k) bits for each pixel on an input image, so as to save required...
7616804 Wafer edge inspection and metrology  
Some aspects of the present invention relate to a wafer inspection method. A plurality of images is acquired about an edge portion of a wafer. Each of the images comprises a pixel array having a...
7616778 System and method for applying watermarks  
A system and method for selectively inserting a digital watermark into a visual rendering by an image processing device. The image processing device receives an image processing request including...
7613352 Compression encoder  
A DWT unit applies wavelet transform to an input signal to output transform coefficients, and a quantization unit quantizes those transform coefficients with a quantization step size determined...
7613351 Video decoder with deblocker within decoding loop  
Methods and systems for processing an encoded video stream are disclosed. Aspects of the method may comprise generating a plurality of temporal or spatial prediction pixels based on mode...
7613350 Moving image generation apparatus, moving image playback apparatus, their control method, and storage medium  
The invention generates moving image information obtained by compositing a moving image of a user and objects selected by the user, and provides the generated moving image information to the user....
7613348 Medical imaging system having an apparatus for compressing image data  
The invention relates to a medical imaging system having a generation apparatus for continuous image data from successive examination images, having an encoding apparatus for the image data for the...
7613347 Low-complexity image coding  
A system that compresses a digital image. During operation, the system performs a transform operation on a digital image to produce transform domain coefficients, and then quantizes the transform...
7613346 Compositing in multiple video processing unit (VPU) systems  
Systems and methods are provided for processing data. The systems and methods include multiple processors that each couple to receive commands and data, where the commands and/or data correspond to...
7613345 Image coding apparatus and image decoding apparatus and their control methods, and computer program and computer-readable storage medium  
An image coding apparatus for efficient coding on image data having discrete pixel values such as a CG image or a limited color image as well as a natural image where pixel value changes are mild....
7613344 System and method for encoding and decoding an image using bitstream map and recording medium thereof  
Disclosed are a system and method for encoding and decoding an image. The image compression system includes an image segmentation unit ( 110 ) for segmenting a first image into a plurality of...
7612792 Method and apparatus for adaptive video encoding based on user perception and use  
A method and apparatus control the use of transmission bandwidth by detecting a change in presentation of a video picture on a receiving telecommunication terminal; transmitting the detected change...
7612691 Encoding and decoding systems  
Methods and systems enable uncompressed source data, corresponding to previously-compressed data, to be manipulated or otherwise modified, prior to being rendered by a rendering application. For...
7609904 Transform coding system and method  
A transform coding system and method are disclosed which utilize a modified quantization technique which advantageously foregoes the need for inverse quantization at the decoder. New techniques for...
7609903 Spread spectrum signal demodulating method and apparatus  
A spread spectrum signal demodulating method whereby spread-code synchronous acquisition and carrier synchronous acquisition are performed using FFT at high speed, wherein a received signal, of...
7609901 Recording/reproducing system  
Time varying images 712 before coded are rearranged in a coding stage into unitary images 722 having the sequence of time stamps DTS 725 . A GPS or the like provides position information...
7609898 Method and system for progressive image transmission  
A method and system for transmitting an image progressively is provided. The transmission system identifies a first region and a second region of the image. The transmission system also identifies...
7609897 Image coder and image decoder capable of power-saving control in image compression and decompression  
An image decoder comprises a code decompression/decoding unit that decodes code data produced through compression and encoding of image data, a power supply state detection unit that detects a...
7609896 Recorder and method therefor, player and therefor, program, and recording medium  
A recorder operable to compress and code first image data of a moving image, and record the compressed and coded first image data on a data recording medium, including: an extracting mechanism...
7609895 Methods and apparatus for performing MQ-decoding operations  
Methods and apparatus for providing JPEG decoder functions are described. In particular, features and methods of the present invention are directed to an efficient way of implementing a non-common...
7609882 Image compression and decompression method capable of encoding and decoding pixel data based on a color conversion method  
An image compression and decompression method encodes and decodes pixel data based on a color conversion method. Base on the relationships of corresponding color components of two adjacent pixels,...
7606434 Apparatus and method for forming a coding unit  
An apparatus and a method for forming a data structure that improves error resilience when applied to the coding of hierarchical subband decomposed coefficients, e.g., wavelet transform...
7606432 Apparatus and method for providing thumbnail image data on a mobile terminal  
Apparatus and method for providing thumbnail image data on a mobile terminal are provided. The apparatus and method comprise determining whether an image management mode is selected when the mobile...
7606430 Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method utilizing a multiple dictionary compression method for FPD  
A lithographic apparatus comprises an array of individually controllable elements that modulate a beam of radiation, a compressed-pattern memory that stores a compressed representation of a...
7606429 Block-based image compression method and apparatus  
A block-based image compression method and encoder/decoder circuit compresses a plurality of pixels having corresponding original color values and luminance values in a block according to different...
7606428 Schema and style sheet for DIBR data  
A schema and style sheets for DIBR data are provided. The schema includes: a BitWrapper node schema used for graphics data compression; and a DepthImage node schema, which is used for...
7606427 Efficient rate control techniques for video encoding  
This disclosure describes rate control techniques that can improve video encoding. In particular, the described rate control techniques exploit relationships between the number of bits encoded per...
7606426 Image processing apparatus and method and storage medium  
In an embedding technique of an invisible or visible digital watermark information, it is a main object to provide a technique which can reconstruct an original image and avoid an increase of the...
7606388 Contents border detection apparatus, monitoring method, and contents location detection method and program and storage medium therefor  
A contents border detection apparatus and monitoring method. The apparatus comprises a digital watermark detector for detecting a digital watermark embedded in contents for which a time element is...
7603383 Image communication system, server apparatus, and image communication method  
In an image communication system including a server which stores image data encoded in accordance with a hierarchy coding, and a client configured to download the image data from the server and...
7602986 Apparatus and method for compressing binarized images  
An apparatus and method for compressing binarized images ( 90 ) comprising receiving a binarized image ( 70 ) and generating a first sequence of first code symbols ( 80 ) representing the binarized...
7602978 Deriving multiple identifiers from multimedia content  
The presently claimed invention relates generally to content identification, such as deriving identifiers from content itself. One claim recites a method including: using a processor, deriving...
7602977 Digital watermarks  
The present invention relates generally to digital watermarking, steganographic data hiding, and data compression. One claim recites a method including: obtaining media comprising imagery or audio;...
7602976 Compressible earth mover's distance  
A Compressible Earth Mover's Distance (CEMD) better matches how humans perceive distance between distributions. Earth and holes are able to be compressed when moving from the earth to the holes...
7602975 Method and apparatus for image compression  
A method and an apparatus for image compression. First, an image is partitioned into a plurality of image blocks, the image having A×B pixels, each of the image blocks having N×M pixels, wherein...
7602974 Universal fixed-pixel-size ISP scheme  
An Image Signal Processing unit (ISP) has at least one fixed-size line buffer which is smaller than the width of the image buffer. To handle the image data, the image buffer is divided into regions...
7602973 Image processing apparatus, program, recording medium, and image editing method  
An image processing apparatus includes a first image editing unit, an informing unit, a job supplying unit, and a second image editing unit. The first image editing unit edits a low resolution part...
7602950 Medical system architecture for interactive transfer and progressive representation of compressed image data  
In a medical system architecture and method for interactive transmission and progressive representation of compressed image data of multi-component images, image data are obtained at least one...
7602940 Steganographic data hiding using a device clock  
The presently claimed invention relates generally to methods and apparatus associated with steganographic encoding (e.g., data hiding). One claim recites a method including: obtaining plural-bit...
7602936 Method to make wavelet watermarks resistant to affine transformations  
A method and/or apparatus for embedding and detecting watermarks in a set of data frames, where a secondary domain is used for combining the data frame, watermark, and a geometric pattern for...
7600183 System and method for data publication through web pages  
A system and a method for publishing a newspaper page or other data through a Web page, to make it available more easily through a network such as the Internet. The data is automatically converted...
7600031 Sharing digital content via a packet-switched network  
In one aspect, the invention provides a method for sharing content. The method is performed by a data acquisition device and comprises upon encountering a content transfer condition, if a size of...
7599564 Jpeg-compressed file creating method  
Image feature values Va and Vb are derived from image data, coefficients C and D are determined based on the image feature values Va and Vb, and an approximate expression expressed with the file...