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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128058 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ENCODING AND DECODING MEDIA CONTENT A method of generating a video container format file. The method comprises receiving a still image depicting a scene, receiving at least one object pertaining to the scene, encoding the still image as at least one video block of a video container format file, encoding t... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106612 | METHOD OF EVALUATING THE PROFIT OF A SUBSTREAM OF ENCODED VIDEO DATA, METHOD OF OPERATING SERVERS, SERVERS, NETWORK AND APPARATUS There is disclosed in aspects of the invention a method of evaluating the profit of a substream of encoded video data, a method of operating servers, a network and an apparatus. In the method, a data portion is identified comprising at least some of the data in the subs... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106653 | MULTIMEDIA PROCESSING WITHIN A VEHICULAR COMMUNICATION NETWORK A head end unit for performing multimedia processing within a vehicle is capable in one embodiment of overlaying video graphics onto video streams to produce enhanced video streams. The head end unit is further for converting a high-resolution file to a low-resolution f... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106621 | CHROMA TEMPORAL RATE REDUCTION AND HIGH-QUALITY PAUSE SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method are provided for compressing data. In use, luminescence data of a frame is updated at a first predetermined rate, while chrominance data of the frame is updated at a second predetermined rate that is less than the first predetermined rate. Moreover, ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106622 | Method and Apparatus of Slice Grouping for High Efficiency Video Coding In the H.264/AVC standard, one of the new characteristics is the possibility of dividing an image in regions called slice groups. The use of slice groups provides various possible advantages such as prioritized transmission, error resilient transmission, and etc. The sl... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106643 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM Disclosed herein is an image processing device including: a generating section, a plurality of pieces of stream data with different display sizes being created in advance for each of a plurality of video contents, configured to generate stream data of one stream of a mu... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082214 | Delay Aware Rate Control In The Context Of Hierarchical P Picture Coding The present invention provides bit rate control techniques for a hybrid block based motion compensated predictive video encoder (e.g., H.264, as well as other video coding algorithms and standards). The techniques aim to reduce the picture-to-picture bit rate fluctuatio... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082205 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING COMPRESSIVE MEASUREMENTS OF VIDEO USING SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL INTEGRATION The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for generating compressive measurements of video using spatial-temporal integration. The apparatus includes a detector configured to detect luminance values of a temporal video structure over a period of time base... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082206 | BTSC ENCODER The disclosed BTSC encoder includes a left high pass filter means; a matrix means for receiving the digital left and digital right filtered signals, and including means for summing the digital left and digital right filtered signals and thereby generating a digital sum ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069898 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADAPTIVE TIME-FREQUENCY RESOLUTION IN DIGITAL DATA CODING Embodiments are described for a system and method for implementing an adaptive time-frequency resolution in audio and video coding systems. A method of adaptively transforming the time-frequency resolution for a defined spectrum comprises dividing the spectrum of the in... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051432 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A VIDEO CODEC WITH LOW COMPLEXITY ENCODING A method and apparatus encode and decode a video that has been encoded with minimal computations. A first plurality of random measurements is taken for a first frame at an encoder. A subsequent plurality of random measurements is taken for each subsequent frame at the e... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051419 | IMAGE DATA TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA RECEIVING APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, IMAGE DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD, AND IMAGE DATA RECEIVING METHOD A compression unit compresses image data. An marker insertion unit inserts a synchronization marker for each of the image data compressed by the image compression unit. A transmitter transmits the image data into which the synchronous marker has been inserted, using a t... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044985 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND METHOD OF DETERMINING TRANSMISSION DATE FORMAT To allow a broadcast transmission to be preformed successfully. A source device 10 reads out EDID from EDID ROMs 30a-1 to 30a-N of sink devices 30-1 to 30-N, respectively, by us... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044999 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING MULTILAYER VIDEOS Provided are methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding a bit stream in a multilayer video system in which a base layer and a higher layer use different codecs. The decoding method includes: receiving a bit stream including a higher-layer stream and a base-layer ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039392 | METHOD OF CODING A VIDEO SIGNAL The invention relates to methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding of a video sequence. In connection with encoding/decoding a video sequence it is desirable to increase the video quality without having to increase the bit-rate for the encoded video too much, th... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039309 | Bandwidth sharing in a distributed wireless client application using inverse multiplexing termination A system and method for bandwidth sharing in a distributed wireless client application using inverse multiplexing termination. The system includes: a group of collocated client playback devices having wide area network (WAN) and local area network (LAN) connectivity, an... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039382 | Experience or "sentio" codecs, and methods and systems for improving QoE and encoding based on QoE experiences Certain embodiments teach a variety of experience or “sentio” codecs, and methods and systems for enabling an experience platform, as well as a Quality of Experience (QoS) engine which allows the sentio codec to select a suitable encoding engine or device. The senti... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039384 | CODING BLOCKS OF DATA USING ONE-TO-ONE CODES In general, techniques are described for coding data defining a sequence using one-to-one codes. An apparatus comprising a processing unit and a storage unit may implement the techniques. The processing unit decodes the index using a combinatorial enumeration process to... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036285 | VIDEO DEVICE A video device includes a signal generating circuit configured for generating video signals; an internal resistor connected to the output port of the signal generating circuit and matching with an external resistor of an external device; a detecting circuit connected to... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120027082 | Parallel Rate Control for Digital Video Encoder with Multi-Processor Architecture and Picture-Based Look-Ahead Window A method of operating a multi-processor video encoder by determining a target size corresponding to a preferred number of bits to be used when creating an encoded version of a picture in a group of sequential pictures making up a video sequence. The method includes the ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027075 | Signal Processing Apparatus and Signal Processing Method According to one embodiment, a signal processing apparatus includes a decoder, a detector, an encoder and a generator. The decoder is configured to decode a first image ssignal which is encoded by a first encoding method. The detector is configured to detect whether an ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027093 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MODIFICATION OF AN ENCODED DATA STREAM Embodiments provide methods for modification of an encoded data stream of data packets, wherein each data packet comprises one information bit. In the data stream, the information bits of sequential data packets display time intervals from each other which differ from d... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120020407 | RESOURCE ADAPTIVE VIDEO ENCODING SYSTEM WITH REGION DETECTION AND METHOD FOR USE THEREWITH A system for encoding a video stream into a processed video signal that includes at least one image, includes a region identification signal generator for detecting a region of interest in the at least one image and generating a region identification signal when the pat... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120014429 | Methods and Systems for Parallel Video Encoding and Parallel Video Decoding Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for parallel video encoding and parallel video decoding.... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014430 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE AND IMAGE ENCODING METHOD An image encoding device has: a first acquisition unit and a second acquisition unit that acquire a moving image; an encoding unit that encodes the acquired moving image in accordance with a predetermined encoding order and a predetermined encoding method; and a recepti... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014457 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DATA COMPRESSION USING CONTEXT-BASED CODING ORDER A method is presented for entropy coding data using an entropy coder to encode an input sequence. A context model is used to determine the context of each symbol and a probability estimation is made for each symbol. A method is presented for revising the coding order to... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008695 | ENCODING WITH VISUAL MASKING Some embodiments of the invention encode a sequence of video images based on “visual masking” attributes of the video images and/or portions of the video images. Visual masking of an image or a portion of the image is an indication of how much coding artifacts can b... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008694 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING GRAPHICAL DATA A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving graphical data are provided. The apparatus for transmitting includes a graphical data generating unit that generates graphical data; an encoder that converts the graphical data into a JPEG 2000 code stream; and a tra... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008672 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION, PROCESSING, AND RENDERING OF STEREOSCOPIC AND MULTI-VIEW IMAGES A digital image processing system takes color plus Z channel data as input, preprocesses, decimates, and codes the Z channel in-band as digital watermark data embedded within the color data prior to encoding and transmission. A second digital image processing system rec... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008674 | MULTITHREAD PROCESSOR AND DIGITAL TELEVISION SYSTEM A multithread processor including: an execution unit including a physical processor; and a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) which converts, to a physical address, a logical address output from the execution unit, and logical processors are implemented on the physical ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008673 | System, Method, and Apparatus for Detecting and Classifying Artifacts in Digital Images and Video A system, method, and apparatus for detecting and classifying artifacts in digital images and video is described. In one aspect, a video quality meter is described for detecting a classifying artifacts in digital video, including a parsing module that parses a video dat... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002717 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LIVE STREAMING VIDEO WITH DYNAMIC RATE ADAPTATION A live streaming system/method provides cross platform live streaming capabilities to mobile devices. A file format compatible with legacy HTTP infrastructure is used to deliver media over a persistent connection. Legacy client media players can dynamically change the e... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002721 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MULTI-LAYER RATE CONTROL FOR A MULTI-CODEC SYSTEM A video transmitter comprising a plurality of encoders may be operable to determine, for a transport stream, a constant overall number of bits per time interval corresponding to a frame in the transport stream. For each time interval corresponding to a start and an end ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002716 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING ENCODED CONTENT USING DYNAMICALLY OPTIMIZED CONVERSION An initial content is encoded a first time to obtain a first encoded content. One or more parameters obtained from the first encoding are used to generate an encoding coefficient. The initial content is encoded a second time to obtain a second encoded content. The secon... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002715 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE TRANSMISSION PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE NON TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM An information processing apparatus that generates images for displaying a computer execution result on a display unit of a terminal device connected through a network and that transmits the images to the terminal device. The apparatus includes an image memory that hold... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317772 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR Regarding an apparatus capable of transmitting data using a high-rate transmission channel having narrow directivity and a low-rate transmission channel having wide directivity, data is not correctly sent in some cases because a communication path for the high-rate tran... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317770 | DECODER FOR MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT VIDEO STREAM DECODING By using a single timestamp for both video streams, existing video processing frameworks can be used in a decoder to render a single output video where the detail from one stream is combined with the carrier from the other stream. In one embodiment, the carrier stream c... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317755 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGHLY EFFICIENT COMPRESSION OF VIDEO Compression of video data is achieved by separating the video stream into a high resolution detail stream and a lower resolution carrier stream and by compressing each portion at a rate specific to that portion. By recognizing that the substantial majority of compressio... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110310216 | COMBINING MULTIPLE BIT RATE AND SCALABLE VIDEO CODING Video streams are generated using a combination of Multiple Bit Rate (MBR) encoding and Scalable Video Coding (SVC). Capabilities and requests of the clients are used in determining the video streams to generate as well as what video streams to deliver to the clients. T... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110299586 | QUALITY ADJUSTMENT USING A FRAGMENTED MEDIA STREAM Media files such as MPEG-4 files are fragmented to allow for media creation, delivery, quality adjustment, and place shifting. Playback on a device can begin upon receiving a first MPEG-4 file fragment. Playback stoppage is detected and media stream positi... | 12/08/2011 |
