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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128061 | DYNAMIC TIME SYNCHRONIZATION A method is provided in certain example embodiments and may include evaluating a first video stream being encoded by a first encoding element, where the first video stream is provided at a first bit rate. The method may also include evaluating a second video stream bein... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128063 | CHANNEL ADAPTIVE VIDEO TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR USE WITH LAYERED VIDEO CODING AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH A video transmission system includes a transceiver module that transmits a video signal to a remote device over at least one communications channel wherein the video signal is transmitted as at least one separate video layer stream chosen from, an independent video laye... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128060 | Method and Apparatus of Spatial Motion Vector Prediction An apparatus and method for deriving a motion vector predictor or a motion vector predictor candidate or a motion vector or a motion vector candidate for a current block are disclosed. In video coding systems, the spatial and temporal redundancy is exploited using spati... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128062 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPLICING A COMPRESSED DATA STREAM A method of splicing a first data stream and a second data stream is disclosed. The method comprising detecting a splice in-point and a splice out-point within the first data stream, wherein the splice in-point is a frame in the first data stream and in the splice out-p... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128059 | Method of adaptive motion estimation in search windows for video coding The invention discloses a method of adaptive motion estimation in search windows for video coding, which uses adjacent MBs to predict the range of search window, storing MVs of adjacent MBs respectively for each reference frame, then using MVs of three adjacent MBs to d... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106623 | ADAPTING A VIDEO STREAM Adapting characteristics of a video stream. A source video stream is received comprising instructions to employ at least one reference frame at a video adaptation device, wherein the source video stream is encoded. The source video stream is adapted, at the video adapta... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106625 | ADAPTING VIDEO STREAM FOR ERROR RESILIENCE Adapting characteristics of a video stream. A video stream is received, at a video adaptation device, which employs a first reference frame. A determination is made, at a video adaptation device, to splice the video stream to employ a second reference frame in place of ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106629 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR SIGNALING INTRA PREDICTION FOR LARGE BLOCKS FOR VIDEO ENCODERS AND DECODERS Methods and apparatus are provided for signaling intra prediction for large blocks for video encoders and decoders. An apparatus includes a video encoder for encoding picture data for at least one large block in a picture by signaling intra prediction for the at least o... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106627 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING USING ADAPTIVE GEOMETRIC PARTITIONING Methods and apparatus are provided for video encoding and decoding using adaptive geometric partitioning. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding picture data for a region in a picture using adaptive geometric partitioning, wherein a subset of geometric partitions... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106628 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING BINARY SETS USING ADAPTIVE TREE SELECTION Methods and apparatus are provided for encoding and decoding binary sets using adaptive tree selection. In one exemplary encoding method embodiment, picture data is encoded for a block in a picture; in which one of a plurality of trees structures is selected to code a b... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106624 | Method and Apparatus of Slice Boundary Filtering for High Efficiency Video Coding An apparatus and method for video coding having intra-slice deblocking, intra-slice adaptive loop filter, and intra-slice adaptive offset are disclosed. In a video coding system, a picture is often divided into slices and each slice is independently processed so that er... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082215 | Simplified Binary Arithmetic Coding Engine A method of entropy coding in a video encoder is provided that includes assigning a first bin to a first single-probability bin encoder based on a probability state of the first bin, wherein the first single-probability bin encoder performs binary arithmetic coding base... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082209 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING VIDEO QUALITY A system, apparatus, method and article for dynamic adjustment of video quality are described. The apparatus may include a power status module to receive power status information for a communication device, and a video quality adjustment module to adjust at least one as... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082213 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD An image encoding device include a predicting unit for adaptively determining the size of each motion prediction unit block according to color component signals, and for dividing each motion prediction unit block into motion vector allocation regions to search for a mot... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082210 | CODING PREDICTION MODES IN VIDEO CODING A video encoder can maintain, by generating, storing, adjusting, altering, and/or updating, one or more variable length coding (VLC) tables that represent a mapping of prediction modes to codewords. One or more codewords representing a selected prediction mode can be co... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069894 | Method Of Transmitting Video Data A sink device wirelessly transmits a device capability response message to a source device. The device capability response message includes a video information message including at least one video format identification code (VIC) for identifying a video format of video ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051420 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING A method for encoding data is disclosed. In the method, a current need parameter is calculated for the encoder based on a complexity of video being input to the encoder. A need parameter bias value having a predetermined value is added to the current need parameter. A d... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044986 | LOW COMPLEXITY ADAPTIVE FILTER For a first series of video blocks, an encoder determines two filters, a first decoding filter that is to be transmitted to a decoder and a first interim filter that is not to be transmitted to the decoder. The first interim filter is used to determine which coded units... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044987 | Entropy coder supporting selective employment of syntax and context adaptation Entropy coder supporting selective employment of syntax and context adaptation. In video coding, different entropy coding is selectively and adaptively employed based on local and/or remote consideration(s). For example, certain entropy coding may be context adaptive wh... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039383 | CODING UNIT SYNCHRONOUS ADAPTIVE LOOP FILTER FLAGS An apparatus and method for coding unit-synchronous adaptive loop filtering (ALF) for an image area that is partitioned into a plurality of coding units are disclosed. In a conventional approach, the slice-level bitstream cannot be generated until all coding units in a ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033728 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGES BY ADAPTIVELY USING AN INTERPOLATION FILTER The present invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for encoding and decoding images by adaptively using an interpolation filter in consideration of the characteristics of input images. The apparatus of the present invention comprises a prediction block-genera... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033040 | Filter Selection for Video Pre-Processing in Video Applications Filter selection methods and filter selectors for video pre-processing in video applications are described. A region of an input image is pre-processed by multiple pre-processing filters and the selection of the pre-processing filter for subsequent coding is based on th... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033727 | EFFICIENT VIDEO CODEC IMPLEMENTATION A device and a method are provided. The device may include: a first encoder arranged to apply a first type encoding process on an input frame element to provide a first type encoded frame element; the input frame elements belong to an input frame; a second encoder arran... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120027079 | Adaptive Interpolation Filters for Multi-Layered Video Delivery Adaptive interpolation filters for multi-layered video delivery are described. Combinations of such adaptive filters with other pre-processing steps in the context of frame or 2D compatible 3D and 2D scalable video delivery system are also addressed.... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027076 | METHOD FOR IMAGE VISUAL EFFECT IMPROVEMENT OF VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING The present invention relates to method for image visual effect improvement of video encoding and decoding. The method at an encoder comprises enhancement process of image boundary information, adaptive brightness transformation process, and adaptive enhancement process... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027078 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a converter, a detector and a first filter processing module. The converter is configured to produce a plurality of decoded pictures at least by decoding and converting a motion picture stream, th... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120014432 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR IMAGE CONVERSION Disclosed is a conversion apparatus including a decoding unit that decodes input encoded data into image data, and a size conversion unit that converts size of the image data based on a size conversion request received from outside and that expands/contracts, or splits/... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014433 | ENTROPY CODING OF BINS ACROSS BIN GROUPS USING VARIABLE LENGTH CODEWORDS This disclosure describes techniques for entropy coding bins representing video data symbols with reduced bottlenecks in the entropy coding process. The techniques of this disclosure enable an entropy coding device to perform entropy coding of bins grouped into bin subs... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120014431 | 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 |
| 20120014434 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THINNING OF SCALABLE VIDEO CODING BIT-STREAMS A system for videoconferencing that offers, among other features, extremely low end-to-end delay as well as very high scalability. The system accommodates heterogeneous receivers and networks, as well as the best-effort nature of networks such as those based on the Inte... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120008677 | H.264/AVC BASED APPROACH TO SCALABLE VIDEO COMPRESSION A scalable video compression method and apparatus for encoding an input frame sequence having temporally sequential frames includes partitioning each of the frames of the input frame sequence into a top field and a bottom field to form a base layer sequence of fields an... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008676 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO BY USING BLOCK MERGING, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO BY USING BLOCK MERGING Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding a video by using block merging and a method and apparatus for decoding a video by using block merging. The method of encoding includes: determining an encoding mode indicating a current data unit for encoding of a picture... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120008675 | CODING SYNTAX ELEMENTS FOR ADAPTIVE SCANS OF TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS FOR VIDEO CODING In one example, an apparatus for encoding video data includes a video encoder configured to scan a two-dimensional block of transform coefficients to produce a one-dimensional vector of the transform coefficients, determine values indicative of whether the transform coe... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120002718 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING VIDEO CODEC TO BE USED BETWEEN STATIONS Provided is a video codec selection method which includes transmitting, by a station management entity (SME) of a first station, a codec selection request primitive which requests approval of a use of at least one codec to be used for compression of at least one video s... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317756 | Coding device, imaging device, coding transmission system, and coding method A coding device includes: an obtaining section configured to obtain moving image data including a plurality of pieces of image data reproducible at a predetermined rate; a determining section configured to determine whether coding of each piece of the image data of the ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317757 | INTRA PREDICTION MODE SIGNALING FOR FINER SPATIAL PREDICTION DIRECTIONS A video encoder selects a prediction mode for a current video block from a plurality of prediction modes that includes both main modes and finer directional intra spatial prediction modes, also referred to as non-main modes. The video encoder may be configured to encode... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317758 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING IMAGE AND VIDEO An image processing apparatus including: an encoding section encoding image data including images from a plurality of viewpoints; an amount-of-code calculation section determining a viewpoint and a picture type of the image data encoded by the encoding section, and calc... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110310960 | ENCODING AND DECODING MULTI-VIEW VIDEO WHILE ACCOMMODATING ABSENT OR UNRELIABLE CAMERA PARAMETERS A method of encoding multi-view video using camera parameters and a method of decoding multi-view video using the camera parameters are provided. The method of encoding multi-view video using the camera parameters includes detecting the camera parameters from each of a ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310958 | SYSTEM FOR ENTROPY DECODING OF H.264 VIDEO FOR REAL TIME HDTV APPLICATIONS An embodiment relates to a decoder for decoding CABAC encoded video data in real time for HDTV applications. The decoder comprises a binary arithmetic decoder block for converting an input bit stream into a bin string, a context memory for storing a plurality of context... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310959 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDECODING AND DECODING BITSTREAM INCLUDING BASE LAYER A method and apparatus for extracting a higher quality video stream for a given bit-rate by replacing a specific frame by a base layer frame at a predecoder are provided. A predecoding method performed by the predecoder includes selecting a mode by determining frames to... | 12/22/2011 |
