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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....
7606433 Encoding apparatus, encoding method, and storage medium  
In an encoding apparatus or an encoding method, motion-image data is input, an encoding parameter is output such that a predetermined number of codes are used for encoding the input motion-image...
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...
7602982 Method for image coding by rate-distortion adaptive zerotree-based residual vector quantization and system for effecting same  
Methods and systems for encoding, transmitting and decoding digital images by rate-distortion adaptive zerotree-based residual vector quantization are disclosed. A method of the invention includes...
7602981 Image storage and display system, maintenance system therefor, and image storage and display method  
The invention provides an image storage and display system including: an image storage server that includes an image file storing unit for storing image data; and image display terminals that are...
7602846 Efficiently distributing video using a hybrid network that uses existing infrastructure  
A method and apparatus for transporting a video program in compressed form from a source location to a second location. The method comprises receiving at an intermediate location a first compressed...
7599563 Data-transceiving equipment, image processor, and image-processing method  
An encoding unit ( 44 ) individually encodes display image-forming image data, i.e., image data from an image input unit ( 2 ), decoded data from a decoding unit ( 46 ), and graphics image data...
7596178 Video encoding method, video decoding method, video encoding apparatus, video decoding apparatus, video encoding program, and video decoding program  
A video processing system is provided with video encoding apparatus 1 and video decoding apparatus 2 . The encoding apparatus 1 outputs a maximum delay time that is incurred by backward...
7593583 Apparatus, method and program for compressing information  
An information compression apparatus which compresses information and uses a DCT frequency conversion algorithm includes a plurality of block registers, a correction level register, a first control...
7587092 Layer-based context quantization with context partitioning  
Conditioning states are selected for coding a source from a plurality of potential conditioning states. The potential conditioning states represent a series of context events, such as a plurality...
7587091 De-interlacing using decoder parameters  
Locations of reference blocks of pixels of decoded interlaced video reference fields decoded from a compressed stream of video data are computed using motion vectors decoded from the same stream of...
RE40909 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...
7580585 Lossless adaptive Golomb/Rice encoding and decoding of integer data using backward-adaptive rules  
A method and system of lossless adaptive Golomb/Rice (G/R) encoding of integer data using a novel backward-adaptive technique having novel adaptation rules. The adaptive G/R encoder and decoder...
7580584 Adaptive multiple quantization  
With adaptive multiple quantization, a video or other digital media codec can adaptively select among multiple quantizers to apply to transform coefficients based on content or bit rate...
7580461 Barbell lifting for wavelet coding  
A method for encoding motion-compensated video data includes generating, for a current frame, a high-pass wavelet coefficient based on a function of pixels in a temporally adjacent frame. The...
7580458 Method and apparatus for video coding  
In uniform superposition of two predictions toward a weighted superposition, such as in coding B frames, weighting is based on reliability of a reference picture used for determination of the...
7577337 Audio/video data recording/reproducing device and method, and audio/video data reproducing device and method  
An audio/video data recording/reproducing device is provided that allows all video and audio signals, which can be displayed by a display of the audio/video data recording/reproducing device...
7577307 Fast adaptive lifting lossless wavelet transform  
An adaptive lifting transform provides lossless image data compression on an improved edge prediction process. The adaptive predictor works on pixel-by-pixel basis that does not need bookkeeping...
7577306 Digital image coding system having self-adjusting selection criteria for selecting a transform function  
In a digital signal processing system, a method for selecting a transform function to apply to an input signal based on characteristics of the signal, and for self-adjusting criteria which are used...
7577197 Video encoder transmitting extracted image to exterior during encoding process  
A video encoder includes a frame synchronizer to temporarily store video data supplied from an exterior in a plurality of memory banks repeatedly selected in a predetermined sequence and to read...
7574064 Fast lifting lossless wavelet transform  
The lifting transform reduces the number of lifting steps in lossless data compression while improving the overall rounding errors incurred in the real-to-integer conversion process at each of the...
7574063 Image coding method and apparatus  
To reduce the computation cost of rate/distortion optimization in image compression, the rate/distortion gradient of a frame of interest is classified to m categories. A category information...
7574062 Image processing apparatus and method capable of finely adjusting data compression rate  
An image processing apparatus includes a coding part that performs coding on image data based on the result of decomposing the image data into bit planes block by block, and a quantization part...
7574061 Encoding device and method utilizing table data for selection of bit planes  
An encoding process is provided which can easily control the compression rate or guarantee a maximum required processing time when representing the factor data, obtained from a wavelet...
7570824 Image processing method, image processor, image forming apparatus and memory product  
Image data is transformed into spatial frequency components, the transformed spatial frequency components are quantized, a modification process of changing spatial frequency components in a...
7567960 System and method for clustering, categorizing and selecting documents  
A method and system of providing a recommendation measures a distance between a first document and group of clustered historic documents using a compression-based dissimilarity measurement (CDM)....
7567721 Digital watermarking of low bit rate video  
Methods for embedding digital watermarks in compressed video include perceptual adapting a digital watermark in predicted and non-predicted data based on block activity derived from the compressed...
7565491 Associative matrix methods, systems and computer program products using bit plane representations of selected segments  
Associative matrix compression methods, systems, computer program products and data structures compress an association matrix that contains counts that indicate associations among pairs of...
7565021 Efficient implementation of block-based transform on graphics processing unit  
Implementations of transforms, such as a discrete cosine transform (DCT) and inverse DCT on a graphics processing unit (GPU), use direct matrix multiplication. GPU features such as parallel...
7565018 Adaptive coding and decoding of wide-range coefficients  
A block transform-based digital media codec more efficiently encodes wide dynamic range transform coefficients in two parts: a normalized coefficient and bin address. The normalized coefficient...
7564382 Apparatus and method for multiple description encoding  
Apparatus and method for generating multiple descriptions of compressed data is disclosed. In the apparatus and method, transform coefficients are generated from input data and quantized. An energy...
7561749 Apparatus, method, and computer-readable storage medium for lossy and lossless encoding of image data in accordance with an attribute of the image data  
Encoded data of a target data amount can be generated by one image input operation in which both lossless encoding and lossy encoding are adopted. For this purpose, a first encoding unit, which...
7558432 Adaptive quantization of depth signal in 3D visual coding  
A method of representing an image or sequence of images using a depth map comprises transforming an n-bit depth map representation into an m-bit depth map representation, where m<n, using a...
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...
7557740 Context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) decoding apparatus and decoding method thereof  
A decoding method is adapted to be implemented using a Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) decoding apparatus, and includes: initializing a plurality of context variables;...
7551787 Adaptive compression quality  
Images are captured and are stored (either in compressed or non-compressed form) in non-volatile storage at a predetermined quality or Q level. When the storage fills to a predetermined threshold,...
RE40783 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...
7548657 Adaptive video compression of graphical user interfaces using application metadata  
Systems, methods and computer accessible medium are provided through which an input data stream consisting one or more media regions before entering a network to be rendered by a display coupled a...
7545992 Image processing system and image processing method  
This present invention provides an image processing system and image processing method which can reliably transmit image information to a destination without attaching a large file which applies...
7542616 Apparatus and method for compressing image data  
An image data compressing apparatus includes an image data compressor for compressing image data input thereto at first and second compression rates to produce first and second compressed data,...
7539341 Systems and methods for processing image data prior to compression  
Systems and methods provide data processing before data compression. The data processing includes contrast enhancement and/or custom color mapping.
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...
7532358 Hardware implemented loss-less page data compressor/decompressor  
One embodiment of the invention is directed to a printer that is configured to interleave color plane data. The interleaved data is compressed, thereby forming compressed data having runs, seedrow...
7529419 Data processing device capable of processing image data with small memory capacity, image processing method, and program product  
In an image processing device, image data is divided into a plurality of band data including first and second band data. The first band data and the second band data have an overlap region, from...
7529301 Image processing apparatus employing hierarchical encoding  
When image data to be encoded is divided into image data items in a plurality of hierarchies and an image data item in a given hierarchy among the divided image data items in the plurality of...
7523234 Motion estimation with fast search block matching  
A video encoder and corresponding method are provided for encoding video signal data for an image block and a particular reference picture index to predict the image block, where the encoder...
7522777 Image sensing apparatus and control method thereof  
This invention enables deleting and protecting a part of sensed image data in accordance with a situation so as to enable efficient utilization of a finite capacity of a storage medium. To realize...
7512281 Image processing apparatus that can generate coded data applicable to progressive reproduction  
An image processing apparatus divides data related to an image into bit-planes and performs a coding process on data of each of the bit-planes. The image processing apparatus includes a multi-layer...
7502518 Apparatus and method for coding image based on level of visual attention and level of perceivable image quality distortion, and computer program product therefor  
An apparatus for coding an image includes a setting unit that sets quantization width for each coded block of an image frame of image data. The apparatus also includes a visual attention...
7502517 Image coding apparatus including a coded quantity prediction expression retaining unit  
The image coding apparatus is provided to realize image coding with little calculation quantity and through rate distortion optimization thereby maintaining a favorable image quality. The image...