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RE39955 Multiple encoder output buffer apparatus for differential coding of video information  
Feedback is introduced between a video CODEC and the intended communications channel such that the characteristics of the channel are used to drive multiple video output buffers. These multiple...
7231091 Simplified predictive video encoder  
In a video coding method, it is determined to code input video data according a technique selected from the group of: (a) intra-coding, (b) inter-coding without a residual and (c) inter-coding with...
7173731 Apparatus and method for image-processing and computer program product for image-processing  
The image processing apparatus of this invention has a vector conversion unit that converts raster data obtained by scanning graphics into vector data, an enclosed area extraction unit that...
7164511 Distinguishing positive and negative films system and method  
A system and method for scanning a photographic film using a scanner automatedly identifies the film as either a positive or negative and controls the scanner settings to perform the scan...
7154948 Video codec system, method for processing data between system and host system, and encoding/decoding control method in the system  
A video codec system, a data processing method for processing data between the system and an external host system, and an encoding/decoding control method in the system are provided. The video...
6987892 Method, system and software for correcting image defects  
A method, system and software are disclosed for correcting defects formed in a physical medium of an original image. Multiple scans of the original image are recorded, where the multiple scans have...
6924911 Method and system for multi-sensor signal detection  
A method and apparatus for defect detection through color-filter channels is provided. The present invention includes an electronic scanner or similar device having a multilinear imager, a...
6904174 Simplified predictive video encoder  
In a video coding method, it is determined to code input video data according a technique selected from the group of: (a) intra-coding, (b) inter-coding without a residual and (c) inter-coding with...
6862117 Method and apparatus for reducing the effect of bleed-through on captured images  
A method and apparatus are disclosed for reducing the effects of bleed-through on captured images. Multiple images of a single physical medium are recorded by illuminating the physical medium with...
6792162 Method and apparatus to automatically enhance the quality of digital images by measuring grain trace magnitudes  
One aspect of the invention is a method of automatically enhancing a digital image. The magnitudes of grain traces are measured in at least two segments in the digital negative and the digital...
6771833 Method and system for enhancing digital images  
One aspect of the invention is a method of enhancing a digital image comprising at least one image channel. At least one spatial domain segment of a plurality of spatial domain segments of an image...
6750435 Lens focusing device, system and method for use with multiple light wavelengths  
A lens focusing system provides a lens in an optical path between a scene and a photosensitive detector to properly focus a first set of wavelengths of light. At least one representation of the...
6720560 Method and apparatus for scanning images  
A method for generating a digital representation of an image by scanning the image with two different types of light. A system for use in generating a digital representation of an image, as well as...
6711302 Method and system for altering defects in digital image  
One aspect of the invention is a method for correcting a digital image representative of a tangible image. A first corrected intensity value for a first pixel of a first channel of the digital...
6704458 Method and apparatus for correcting heavily damaged images  
A system and method for correcting defects in images. A secondary defect map, defining heavily damaged portions of the image which were not corrected automatically, is generated. The secondary...
6687414 Method and system for normalizing a plurality of signals having a shared component  
One aspect of the invention is a method for normalizing a plurality of signals wherein the plurality of signals have a shared component and wherein at least one of the signals has been distorted in...
6683995 Method and apparatus for correcting large defects in digital images  
An image processing system includes a defect correction system that identifies defective regions of a digital image using a defect map. The defect map is automatically created from an input image...
6650789 Method and system for altering defects in a digital image  
One aspect of the invention is a method for altering defects in a digital image. At least a first pixel of a first channel of a digital image is filtered using digital circuitry to produce a...
6614946 System and method for correcting defects in digital images through selective fill-in from surrounding areas  
A system and method for correcting defects in an image. A correction area surrounding the defective pixel is dynamically chosen to include a predetermined percentage of non-defective pixels. The...
6593558 Luminance-priority electronic color image sensor  
In luminance priority multilayer color film, one of the layers substantially matches the luminance sensitivity of the human eye. This luminance layer distinguishes from prior art color films that...
6590679 Multilinear array sensor with an infrared line  
Surface defect correction technology for photographic images requires an infrared scan along with a conventional color scan. In the present invention, the additional infrared scan needed for...
6498867 Method and apparatus for differential illumination image-capturing and defect handling  
An image processing system is disclosed. The system includes a first light source operable to illuminate an image plane in a first direction and a second light source operable to illuminate the...
6487321 Method and system for altering defects in a digital image  
One aspect of the invention is a method for altering defects in a digital image. At least a first pixel of a first channel of a digital image is filtered using digital circuitry to produce a...
6442301 Apparatus and method for defect channel nulling  
A method of and apparatus for removing the effects of surface and near surface image storage media defects from a scanned image using an infrared record as a norming control. Each pixel in a...
6437358 Apparatus and methods for capturing defect data  
The present invention provides a system for image-capturing devices, such as scanners, to accurately identify defects in objects. The objects can be the physical images to be captured or elements...
6435737 Data pipeline system and data encoding method  
A multi-standard video decompression apparatus has a plurality of stages interconnected by a two-wire interface arranged as a pipeline processing machine. Control tokens and DATA Tokens pass over...
6393160 Image defect correction in transform space  
Surface defects in a reflection scan of a print made with visible light are corrected by using a scan of the print made with infrared light. In accordance with the present invention, surface...
6380539 Four color trilinear CCD scanning  
A single pass scanner having a trilinear array, a source of white light, filters of the three primary colors and a separate source of infrared light is used in various methods of removing...
6266081 Digital image data storage, data transfer and data broadcast apparatus and method  
A image signal processing apparatus and method for static image display are provided. Deformation at an edge of an image can be reduced by eliminating a temporal factor and vertical resolution can...
6133957 Adaptive diagonal interpolation for image resolution enhancement  
A method or device for increasing the resolution of an image generates additional pixels in the image using interpolation. Various tests are performed for each additional pixel to determine whether...
6112017 Pipeline processing machine having a plurality of reconfigurable processing stages interconnected by a two-wire interface bus  
A multi-standard video decompression apparatus has a plurality of stages interconnected by a two-wire interface arranged as a pipeline processing machine. Control tokens and DATA Tokens pass over...
6072910 Method and apparatus for coding image information, and method of creating code book  
A coding apparatus divides digital image information into pixel blocks each having a size of m×n pixels, and subjects the image information to vector quantization in block units. The pixel blocks...
6034674 Buffer manager  
This invention provides a method to control the buffering of encoded video data organized as frames or fields. This method involves determining the picture number of each incoming decoded frame,...
6018354 Method for accessing banks of DRAM  
This invention discloses a method for accessing Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) to store and retrieve data words associated with a two dimensional image. The DRAM includes two separate banks, a...
5984512 Method for storing video information  
An MPEG video decompression method and apparatus utilizing a plurality of stages interconnected by a two-wire interface arranged as a pipeline processing machine. Control tokens and DATA Tokens...
5881301 Inverse modeller  
A multi-standard video decompression apparatus has a plurality of stages interconnected by a two-wire interface arranged as a pipeline processing machine. Control tokens and DATA Tokens pass over...
5861894 Buffer manager  
This invention provides a method to control the buffering of encoded video data organized as frames or fields. This method involves determining the picture number of each incoming decoded frame,...
5852475 Transform artifact reduction process  
A post-processor for a decoded video sequence includes a digital noise reduction unit and an artifact reduction unit which significantly reduce blocking artifacts and mosquito noise in a video...
5835792 Token-based adaptive video processing arrangement  
An MPEG video decompression method and apparatus utilizing a plurality of stages interconnected by a two-wire interface arranged as a pipeline processing machine. Control tokens and DATA Tokens...
5809270 Inverse quantizer  
A multi-standard video decompression apparatus has a plurality of stages interconnected by a two-wire interface arranged as a pipeline processing machine. Control tokens and DATA Tokens pass over...
5809202 Recording medium, an apparatus for recording a moving image, an apparatus and a system for generating a digest of a moving image, and a method of the same  
A system for generating a digest of a moving image according to the present invention includes: a generating section for generating a moving image having a plurality of frames, and for generating...
5805225 Method and apparatus for variable resolution video picture coding/decoding  
A picture series is encoded so that a first type of decoder having only one frame memory and incapable of bi-directional decoding can decode the encoded bitstream, and a second type of decoder...
5724537 Interface for connecting a bus to a random access memory using a two wire link  
The invention provides a RAM interface for connecting a bus to RAM wherein a separate address generator generates the addresses the RAM interface needs to address the RAM. The interface utilizes a...
5543843 Communication jack nose cleaning tool  
In a method of compressing a motion picture signal divided into blocks of picture data and in which each of the blocks is selectively compressed by discrete cosine transform (DCT) coding or by...
5477221 Pipeline synthetic aperture radar data compression utilizing systolic binary tree-searched architecture for vector quantization  
A system for data compression utilizing systolic array architecture for Vector Quantization (VQ) is disclosed for both full-searched and tree-searched. For a tree-searched VQ, the special case of a...
5467413 Method and apparatus for vector quantization for real-time playback on low cost personal computers  
A vector quantization method and apparatus which processes signal vectors constructed from digital image data (such as a digital video stream). The digital video stream is treated as a sequence of...
5371544 Geometric vector quantization  
A geometric vector quantizer coding technique is illustrated in the context of a full motion video coder based on a three-dimensional sub-band framework. The original image data is decomposed into...
5337085 Coding technique for high definition television signals  
A coding technique for high-definition television signals involves splitting the luminance signal into four sub-bands using a sub-band encoder and separately encoding each sub-band using a...
5301350 Real time storage/retrieval subsystem for document processing in banking operations  
A storage/retrieval module apparatus for use in a document imaging system can receive digitized optical image and related information data, convert it to electrical digital data for storage on disk...
5287203 Apparatus for encoding and decoding information on recording medium  
An image processing apparatus includes: a reading part for optically reading an image from an original image on a recording medium; a conversion part for converting the read-out image into a...
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