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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110170607 | WEAV Video Compression System Compression of a video by segmentation, transformation, transform encoding, difference encoding, and muxing. The segmentation looks at energies of the frames, in order to find three different things: black frames which have energy less than the specified amount, consecu... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110103489 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING BY WAVELET TRANSFORM A wavelet transform encoding apparatus includes a coefficient encoding unit which encodes each group of multiple wavelet transform coefficients LH, HL, and NH located spatially at the same position within multiple high-frequency subbands belonging to the same hierarchy.... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110051814 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method for processing an image is provided. The system includes an encoder configured to subdivide the image into N subregions. The value of N is computed based upon a spatial resolution of the image, a granularity value and a level of wavelet decomposition... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110032994 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR WAVELET BASED PROCESSING A method for compressing digital data. The method comprises creating a plurality of wavelet coefficients associated with an input signal by iteratively performing a plurality of wavelet transforms to a plurality of sub-bands of the input signal, adjusting a zerotree dat... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110007819 | Method and System for Compression of Hyperspectral or Multispectral Imagery with a Global Optimal Compression Algorithm (GOCA) A computer based method and system for compressing digital hyperspectral or multispectral image data. The method includes initially reducing the plurality of spectral bands of the hyperspectral data to a smaller number of spectral bands using principal component analysi... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110002384 | VIDEO ENHANCEMENT USING RECURSIVE BANDLETS A wavelet transform is applied to successive images of a video sequence to obtain wavelet coefficients for each image, and directions of regularity are estimated in association with the wavelet coefficients. Recursive weights are also determined to be associated with th... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100329352 | Systems and methods for compression, transmission and decompression of video codecs Embodiments of this invention include computer-implemented mathematical methods to develop software and/or hardware implementations that use wavelet transforms (WT) to pre-process video frames that can then be compressed using a variety of codecs to produce compressed v... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100246395 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD An information processing device includes: an encoding section that encodes image data to generate a codestream, the image data being to be transmitted to another information processing device; a controlling section that controls whether or not main data of the codestre... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100172419 | Systems and methods for compression, transmission and decompression of video codecs Embodiments of this invention include mathematical methods to develop software and/or hardware implementations that use wavelet transforms (WT) to pre-process video frames that can then be compressed using a variety of codecs to produce compressed video frames. Such com... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100166077 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSING VIDEO INFORMATION A method and apparatus is disclosed for efficiently encoding data representing a video image, thereby reducing the amount of data that must be transferred to a decoder. The method includes transforming data sets utilizing a tensor product wavelet transform which is capa... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100135400 | Processing Or Compressing N-dimensional Signals With Warped Wavelet Packets And Bandelets A method and apparatus for processing or compressing an n-dimensional digital signal by constructing a sparse representation which takes advantage of the signal geometrical regularity. The invention comprises a warped wavelet packet transform which performs a cascade of... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100020882 | 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 operations are repeated for multiple pixels in an array of pixels in the curre... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100014590 | IMAGE DATA PROCESSING Methods of spatial compression of image data using trees formed with logic gates are described. Data encoding is achieved using a five-level wavelet transform, such as the Haar or 2/10 transforms. A dual transform engine is used, the first engine being used for the firs... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090323819 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TEMPORAL WAVELET COMPRESSION A system is described that comprises a method and apparatus for further compressing an already compressed data stream, using a mathematical comparison computation. The method comprises: receiving a data stream that has been compressed using a first compression protocol;... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090103624 | POLYMORPHIC CODEC SYSTEM AND METHOD An input module obtains a media signal to be communicated to a destination system, after which an identification module identifies a plurality of segments within the media signal. A codec includes a selection module that automatically selects different compression metho... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090034624 | Method and Apparatus For a Multidimensional Discrete Multiwavelet Transform Methods and apparatuses for compressing and decompressing digital data. The method for compressing digital data comprises a number of steps: a) generating a vector-valued dataset according to the digital data, b) transforming the vector-valued dataset into multiwavelet ... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080240251 | Method For the Encoding of Wavelet-Encoded Images With Bit Rate Control, Corresponding Encoding Device and Computer Program The disclosure relates to a method of coding at least one still or animated image, in which said image is associated with (i) a basic mesh formed by a set of faces that are defined by a set of vertices and edges and (ii) coefficients in a base of wavelets corresponding ... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080137750 | MOTION ADAPTIVE IMAGE PROCESSING A method of image processing for image conversion, comprises the steps of calculating a difference measure of the difference in pixel values between corresponding blocks of a current image field and a preceding image field, calculating a variability measure of the varia... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080137749 | Assessing Quality of Service Using Digital Watermark Information The disclosure details methods of measuring the quality of service of received media signals by analyzing digital watermarks embedded in such signals. The quality of a received video or audio signal can thereby be assessed without having the original version of the sign... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080056372 | Method for processing digital image with discrete wavelet transform and apparatus for the same An apparatus for processing an image with a discrete wavelet transform is provided. For one-dimensional circuit, the method changes conventional image data processing flow and uses common product of sequential calculations with respect to the time axis. The calculations... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20080049841 | Hardware Method for Performing Real Time Multi-Level Wavelet Decomposition A graphics controller for performing real-time multi-level wavelet decomposition is provided. The graphics controller, includes an interface for receiving streaming data. The graphics controller includes wavelet decomposition circuitry configured to receive the streamin... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20080031344 | Wyner-Ziv and Wavelet Video Coding Wyner-Ziv and wavelet video coding is described. In one aspect, Wyner-Ziv frames from multiple frames of source video content are zero-tree entropy encoded to generate encoded Wyner-Ziv content. The zero-tree entropy encoding operations are based on high-order statistic... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080031347 | Methods and Systems for Transform Selection and Management Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for managing and combining layers in a multi-layer bitstream.... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080031346 | Methods and Systems for Image Processing Control Based on Adjacent Block Characteristics Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for managing and combining layers in a multi-layer bitstream.... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080031345 | Methods and Systems for Combining Layers in a Multi-Layer Bitstream Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for managing and combining layers in a multi-layer bitstream.... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080013846 | WAVELET TRANSFORMATION DEVICE AND METHOD, WAVELET INVERSE TRANSFORMATION DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A wavelet transformation device for performing wavelet transformation at a plurality of levels as to image signals, comprises: a first buffer for storing, independently for each of the levels, a part of coefficients from the results of analysis filtering in the horizont... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20080008395 | Image compression based on union of DCT and wavelet transform A union of DCT (discrete cosine transform) and wavelet transform can generate a much sparser representation of the digital image signal than either of them alone. After the block-based DCT, the coefficients are rearranged into a number of frequency groups such that the ... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20080002775 | Signal analysis employing matched wavelet A method of analyzing a signal, the method including obtaining a series of digital values representative of a quasi-period waveform having a plurality of cycles, with each cycle having at least a first target feature. The method includes comparing a first prototype wave... | 01/03/2008 |
