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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128072 | IMAGE CONVERTING APPARATUS, IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CONVERTING METHOD An image reproducing apparatus that achieves a higher readiness, high-speed backward reproduction, and a minimum amount of data, at a time of executing a backward reproduction. An encoder-side intra predictor transcodes decode images of a front end and a back end of a G... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128073 | VIDEO ENCODING APPARATUS AND A VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, a video encoding apparatus is a video encoding apparatus for subjecting a video image to motion compensated prediction coding, includes an acquisition module to acquire available blocks of blocks having motion vectors from encoded blocks adj... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128071 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING ERROR CONCEALMENT OF INTER-CODED VIDEO FRAMES An embodiment relates to performing error concealment of a corrupted block in a video frame, which is capable of performing a real time reconstruction of corrupted blocks which allow to precisely recover small details and fine movements, in particular, the error conceal... | 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 |
| 20120106645 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND DEVICE FOR OBTAINING MOTION INFORMATION OF VIDEO IMAGES AND TEMPLATE A method is provided. The method includes: determining one or more first candidate reference blocks that correspond to a current block in a first reference frame according to known motion information related to the current block; determining one or more second candidate... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106642 | Motion Estimation for a Video Transcoder A video transcoder for converting an encoded input video bit-stream having one spatial resolution into an encoded output video bit-stream having a lower spatial resolution, wherein motion-vector dispersion observed at the higher spatial resolution is quantified and used... | 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 |
| 20120106640 | Decoding side intra-prediction derivation for video coding Decoding side intra-prediction derivation for video coding. Just decoded pixels within a given picture (image) (e.g., such as a given picture (image) within video data) are employed for decoding other pixels within that very same picture (image) using prediction vectors... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106646 | METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGES, ENCODING AND DECODING DEVICES, CORRESPONDING DATA STREAMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM A method and apparatus are provided for encoding an image sequence. The method includes the following steps, for at least one group of blocks of an image: determining, for each block, at least one parameter characteristic of said block; forming at least one cluster incl... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106639 | MOTION-COMPENSATED TEMPORAL FILTERING BASED ON VARIABLE FILTER PARAMETERS Systems and devices for, and methods of, motion-compensated temporal filtering based on variable filter parameters. A method embodiment includes (a) determining, by a processor having memory, a pixel-related residue image based on a set of differences between a current ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106641 | Method for predicting a block of image data, decoding and coding devices implementing said method A method for predicting a current block belonging to a current image with a view to the coding or the reconstruction of the current block is described. The method comprises the following steps:
| 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106638 | Decoder-Side Motion Derivation with Motion Vector Predictors Systems and devices for, and methods of, decoder-side motion derivation with motion vector predictors. A method embodiment includes (a) determining a starting motion vector predictor by a processor having addressable memory, where the memory comprises a set of two or mo... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106644 | REFERENCE FRAME FOR VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING A method for encoding is adapted to process a digital video signal composed of video frames into a bitstream. Each frame is divided into blocks and at least one block of a current frame is encoded by motion compensation using a block of a reference frame. The method com... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106647 | PREDICTION OF A MOVEMENT VECTOR OF A CURRENT IMAGE PARTITION HAVING A DIFFERENT GEOMETRIC SHAPE OR SIZE FROM THAT OF AT LEAST ONE ADJACENT REFERENCE IMAGE PARTITION AND ENCODING AND DECODING USING ONE SUCH PREDICTION The invention relates to a method for predicting a movement vector (MVp1) of a partition (P1) of a current image (IN) from a plurality of n reference movement vectors associated respectively with n reference partitions that have been previously ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106648 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND VIDEO REPRODUCING DEVICE An image processing device and a video reproducing device capable of detecting the position of a character in a moving image even if pixels of the character have a luminance not higher than a luminance of pixels other than the pixels of the character are provided. A mot... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082229 | SYSTEM FOR NESTED ENTROPY ENCODING Methods and systems for improving coding efficiency of video.... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082228 | NESTED ENTROPY ENCODING Methods and systems for improving coding efficiency of video.... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082227 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING BIT RATE A crawl motion vector is determined based on a speed and direction of the crawling text to be displayed in a text crawl area. A determination whether to re-encode macroblocks in the plurality of pictures is made. The macroblocks in the plurality of pictures that are to ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069906 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD (AS AMENDED) The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method configured to be able to suppress increases in computation due to interpolation processing. For pixels of fractional pixel precision corresponding to sampling positio... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069905 | MOVING IMAGE ENCODING AND DECODING DEVICE A moving picture encoding device includes a prediction signal generation method controller that determines, for each of a plurality of target blocks, a processing method. The processing method can be performed on one of a plurality of reference pictures for generating a... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051430 | METHODS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING SEQUENCE IMPLEMENTING A MOTION COMPENSATION, CORRESPONDING ENCODING AND DECODING DEVICES, SIGNAL AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS A method is provided for encoding an image sequence, including the step of dividing a reference image into blocks and a prediction step that includes the following steps: determining monitoring vectors associated with a common image and dividing the same into sub-blocks... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051431 | MOTION DIRECTION BASED ADAPTIVE MOTION VECTOR RESOLUTION SIGNALING FOR VIDEO CODING Video coding devices may signal or determine sub-integer pixel precision for motion vectors based on a direction of prediction for the motion vector, e.g., whether a reference frame is to be displayed earlier or later than a current frame. In one example, an apparatus i... | 03/01/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120051429 | APPARATUS FOR GENERATING INTERPOLATED FRAME Provided is a system for generating an interpolated frame, which includes an image decoding module configured to decode a first frame from an original image information, the first frame being divided into unit images, and an interpolated frame generating module configur... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051433 | VIDEO PROCESSING DEVICE AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD While temporal and spatial direct modes are both supported, the amount of temporarily-stored direct-mode prediction information is reduced, thereby reducing the memory bus bandwidth. A motion information generator combines a motion vector for an anchor block with the nu... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051434 | VIDEO ENCODING A computerized method for encoding video comprising: dividing a video frame into macroblocks; for each macroblock finding a minimal movement or minimal error motion estimation compensation algorithm pair that encodes and decodes said macroblock with a smallest amount of... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044996 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD The present invention relates to an image processing device an method whereby processing efficiency can be improved. In the event that an object block is a block B1, pixels UB1 and a pixel LUB1 adjacent to the object bl... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044997 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BOUNDARY MOTION VECTOR CORRECTION IN MOTION COMPENSATED FRAME RATE A method of processing video data includes: receiving a first video frame with first blocks of pixels associated with a known motion vector and a second video frame with second blocks of pixels, the second blocks corresponding to the first blocks, and uncovered blocks a... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044998 | TECHNIQUE FOR ESTIMATING MOTION AND OCCLUSION A method and apparatus for estimating motion and occlusion is disclosed. In one aspect, a method of estimating motion and occlusion between three or more frames in a video stream includes identifying a plurality of motion vector candidates for each of a forward directio... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039393 | Video decoding apparatus and method A video decoding apparatus for decoding an encoded video bitstream having frames of video data encoded in rows of macroblocks. The video decoding apparatus comprises a parsing unit configured to receive the encoded video bitstream and to interpret the encoded video bits... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039394 | DYNAMIC IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, DYNAMIC IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, DYNAMIC IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, DYNAMIC IMAGE DECODING METHOD, DYNAMIC IMAGE ENCODING PROGRAM, AND DYNAMIC IMAGE DECODING PROGRAM An object of the present invention is to encode and decode image information more efficiently by generating an appropriate predictive signal. The image encoding device of the present invention comprises an input section 201 for input... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033736 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD The present invention relates to an image processing device and method which enable encoding efficiency in intra prediction to be improved. In the event that the optimal intra prediction mode is mode 0, adjacent pixels to be used for... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033737 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD The present invention relates to an image processing device and method that can suppress decrease in a prediction efficiency accompanied with a secondary prediction. An adjacent pixel prediction unit 83 performs an intra prediction w... | 02/09/2012 |
| 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 |
| 20120027094 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD The present invention relates to an image processing device and method which enable increase in compressed information to be suppressed, and also enable prediction precision to be improved. An SDM residual energy calculating unit 91 ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027080 | ENCODER AND ENCODING METHOD USING CODED BLOCK PATTERN ESTIMATION An encoder includes a motion estimation module configured to perform motion estimation of a current frame based on at least one reference frame, a motion compensation module configured to generate a signal including a compensation image for the current frame from the at... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027091 | Method and System for Encoding Video Frames Using a Plurality of Processors Methods and system provide for the encoding of video frames using a plurality of processors. In one example, a first processor provides a location of a plurality of non-stationary pixels in a current frame by comparing pixel data in the current frame with corresponding ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027095 | MOTION VECTOR DETECTION APPARATUS, MOTION VECTOR DETECTION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM A motion vector detection apparatus comprising, a memory for storing a reference image for motion prediction encoding, a unit for detecting a first motion vector by comparing the reference image with an encoding target block of a plurality of blocks obtained by dividing... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027092 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD According to one embodiment, an image processing device includes a motion detector, a weight predictor, a reference frame selector, an inter-frame predictor, a subtractor, an orthogonal-transferring-quantization module, and an encoder. The motion detector is configured ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027096 | Video compression and encoding method Disclosed herein is a method for encoding at least one video frame having a plurality of blocks including a current block, including determining motion vectors for each of at least some of blocks surrounding the current block, identifying surrounding blocks having that ... | 02/02/2012 |
