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5901249 Method for compressing image signals  
Wavelet transformation is carried out on an original image signal, and the original image signal is thereby decomposed into image signals, each being of one of a plurality of different frequency...
5898794 Image compression method and image processing system  
Disclosed is an image processing system including an image input unit, an extraction unit, a plurality of compression process parts and a selection unit to compress a 1-frame image down to a less...
5892847 Method and apparatus for compressing images  
A system and method is disclosed that compresses and decompresses images. The compression system and method includes an encoder which compresses images and stores such compressed images in a unique...
5889891 Universal codebook vector quantization with constrained storage  
Vectors associated with multiple sources are quantized with a codebook. A mapping function associates each source with a subset of codevectors in the codebook, each subset being defined prior to...
5883984 Method and apparatus for contrast enhancement of color images  
A method for contrast enhancement of pixel data of a decompressed color image includes the steps of computing I component values in an HSI color space for the pixel data of the color image,...
5880784 Method and apparatus for adaptively switching on and off advanced prediction mode in an H.263 video coder  
A feedback mechanism for adaptively enabling and disabling an advanced prediction mode for video data processing is disclosed. A quantization parameter (QP) threshold is set and a QP mean for an...
5850484 Text and image sharpening of JPEG compressed images in the frequency domain  
The text and image enhancing technique according to the invention is integrated into the decoding or inverse quantization step that is necessarily required by the JPEG standard. The invention...
5847841 Mixed-mode symbol removal for facsimile data compression  
A method for data compression provides for an improved digital facsimile document transmission system. The mixed mode method provides that symbols can be located both individually and as a part of...
5848192 Method and apparatus for digital data compression  
A system for processing a stream of digital bit sets, each related to a different subject in a passing array, and including an arrangement for compressing the bit-sets and sending the results to an...
5838821 Method and apparatus for selecting compression method and for compressing file using the selected method  
A method and system for automatically determining a compression method to be used on a file. A histogram of the file is constructed in order to determine if there are a predetermined number of...
5838823 Video image compression and decompression  
A video image compression and decompression system and method operates on frame blocks and uses multiple compression stages to select a best compression method for use with the associated block....
5835618 Uniform and non-uniform dynamic range remapping for optimum image display  
A contexture dependent dynamic range remapping system utilizes background estimation, mask generation, parameter estimation and dynamic range remapping of an original image to provide an optimum...
5832126 Method and apparatus for compressing mixed text and image data  
To convert a mixture of text data and dot-mapped image data to compressed dot-mapped data not exceeding a given size, the text data are converted to dot-mapped data, then losslessly compressed,...
5832125 Bit rate control using short-term and long-term performance characterization  
The performance of video encoding is characterized both over the short term (e.g., based on the previous encoded frame) and over the long term (e.g., based on the previous n encoded frames). An...
5832130 Image signal coding device and method therefor  
Image signal coding device employing a quantization step size selecting unit which includes a multi-step quantization unit for performing quantization on the small blocks output from an orthogonal...
5828788 System for processing data in variable segments and with variable data resolution  
A dynamically configurable video signal processing system partitions and encodes data using a variable number of data segments and variable data resolution. The system partitions data into a...
5828789 Image coding system and image decoding system  
In a coding system, when any of the prediction results of pixel value prediction sections 20 and 21 matches an object pixel, a coding section 50 codes an identifier of the pixel value prediction...
5825935 Subband coding method with wavelet transform for high efficiency video signal compression  
A subband coding method for dividing a digital video signal into a plurality of frequency bands in vertical and horizontal directions in a spatial frequency region includes executing...
5825830 Method and apparatus for the compression of audio, video or other data  
A data compression method utilizing a series of rules which are chosen for best compressing selected data. Rules are provided for converting each datum into a binary value, and encoding this binary...
5822460 Method and apparatus for generating chrominance shape information of a video object plane in a video signal  
An apparatus generates chrominance shape information based on luminance shape information represented by binary values, to thereby describe an object in a video object plane effectively. The...
5822465 Image encoding by vector quantization of regions of an image and codebook updates  
Improved method and apparatus for vector quantization (VQ) to build a codebook for the compression of data. The codebook or "tree" is initialized by establishing N initial nodes and creating the...
5822003 Method and apparatus for performing fast reduced coefficient discrete cosine transforms  
A method is provided for performing a fast 3-coefficient Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) in a software implementation. The method provided exploits symmetries and statistical properties of the...
5822461 Device for determining a quantizing number of an image signal  
A device for determining quantizing number of an image signal comprises a discrete cosine transformation for generating a discrete cosine transformation signal by transforming image data, a segment...
5812700 Data compression neural network with winner-take-all function  
The invention is embodied in an image data system including a lossy image compressor having an image compression ratio in excess of 10 for producing first compressed image data from an original...
5805737 Image signal compressing device  
An image signal compressing device has a quantization processing circuit in which DCT coefficients are quantized using a quantization table, and thus, quantized DCT coefficients are obtained. In a...
5805735 Method and apparatus for compression of digitized image data using variable color fidelity  
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for compressing image data without segregating the image data into scanned and non-scanned components, while at the same time, improving...
5802213 Encoding video signals using local quantization levels  
Video signals are encoded by dividing a current video frame into regions and generating a local complexity measure and a local quantization level for each region, where the local quantization level...
5793896 Ordering corrector for variable length codes  
A computer-implemented method for encoding symbols of a current message with a variable-length code. According to a preferred embodiment, the statistics of the current message, are analyzed,...
5793892 Method and system for compressing a pixel map signal using dynamic quantization  
A pixel map signal is converted into a coefficient signal of block coefficient signals, each representing the pixels in a pixel map block (420) in a pixel map (410) with the coefficients in a...
5793895 Intelligent error resilient video encoder  
A method and apparatus for compressing video data to improve its tolerance to error, especially with a low bit rate network. With this invention video data is divided into a number of frames and...
5790695 Image coding device for coding image signal to reduce the amount of the information in the image  
An image coding device for coding image data includes a motion inter-frame compensation predicting unit for predictively coding an image signal at each frame based on an input image signal and a...
5786857 Image processing system  
An image-processing system in which harmful noises of image compression are effectively removed. The image processing system includes a transformation device for receiving m pixels×n lines of...
5787199 Apparatus for detecting a foreground region for use in a low bit-rate image signal encoder  
An apparatus, for use in a low bit-rate image signal encoder, for detecting a foreground region in an image signal, wherein the image signal has a number of objects therein and the foreground...
5777749 Method and device for compressing bit-map data  
The present invention relates to a bit-map compressing method and a bit-map compressing device. The bit-map data compressing method includes a main scanning step for scanning bit-map data in a main...
5778092 Method and apparatus for compressing color or gray scale documents  
A technique for compressing a color or gray scale pixel map representing a document. The pixel map is decomposed into a three-plane representation, a reduced-resolution foreground plane, a...
5778102 Compression embedding  
A method and apparatus for embedding auxiliary information into the digital representation of host data created by a lossy compression technique and a method and apparatus for constructing...
5778099 Picture block motion detecting apparatus  
The invention selects a plurality of search ranges so that picture block motion detection can be controlled by feed forward sequence. A picture block motion detecting apparatus obtains an activity...
5774635 Procedure for controlling printing quality  
Prior to printing a plurality of measuring points are specified from the digital presentation of the page original on the basis of given initial data. The initial data for the measuring points are...
5774594 Signal compression device  
Blocking means subjects pixel information of an original sample surface to blocking, a DCT circuit transforms the blocks of input data, a quantizer quantizes the DCT-treated data, a VLC circuit...
5771316 Fade detection  
A rate control algorithm for an MPEG-2 compliant encoder is described. The rate control algorithm has embodiments useful for constant bit rate and variable bit rate encoding. In particular, the...
5768436 Device and method for coding video pictures  
The picture quality of an MPEG-encoded video signal is improved considerably by reducing the coefficients after quantization in such a way that the "Lagrangian cost" D+λR (D is distortion, R is...
5768431 Video data compression  
Video data compression apparatus in which successive groups of two or more images are encoded, each encoded group of images including at least one intra-image encoded image and at least one...
5764800 Image data re-compression device  
An actual recordable area in which no image data has been recorded is detected from a recording medium. The actual recordable area is divided by a file size of image data which are compressed with...
5761438 Apparatus for measuring the amount of traffic of a network at a predetermined timing and compressing data in the packet without changing the size of the packet  
In a communication method and apparatus, the load of a network is reduced by compressing data or changing the data compression method in accordance with a busy state of the network. A network's...
5761345 Image processing apparatus suitable for multistage compression  
An image processing apparatus initially stores variable length codes corresponding to a significant frequency component, and variable length codes corresponding to a less significant frequency...
5757967 Digital video decoder and deinterlacer, format/frame rate converter with common memory  
A video decoder/format/frame rate converter with common memory is provided. This device decodes a compressed, interlaced video stream and converts the decoded output to a non-interlaced format...
5758042 Lossy and lossless compression in raster image processor  
Digital input commands defined in a page description language are separated in two types of instructions: first instructions resulting in solid regions on the printed output and second instructions...
5748789 Transparent block skipping in object-based video coding systems  
A method implemented in an object-based video encoder or decoder uses shape information that describes the boundary of a group of pixels representing an object in a sequence of video frames to...
5745251 Image processing method and apparatus for encoding variable-length data  
An image processing apparatus comprising: a first coding device for coding input image data into code data having a variable length; a second coding device for coding code data having the variable...
5745245 Communication apparatus  
The facsimile machine codes image data in order to reduce the data size to be transmitted. In coding an image data, an adaptive template pixel is referred to whose position relative to the pixels...