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Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128259 | TRANSFERRING SYSTEM FOR HUGE AND HIGH QUALITY IMAGES ON NETWORK AND METHOD THEREOF A transferring system for huge and high quality images on network and a method thereof are disclosed, wherein various individual image data are converted into high quality image data to be converted into layered image data, and classified into a plurality of sub cells, ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128258 | DESIGN METHOD OF CIPHER AND PICTURE CIPHER SYSTEM A design method of cipher is provided. First, a database with a plurality of picture units is provided. Then, a part of the picture units of the database are selected to form a passing picture, and the passing picture is transferred to an encoder. The encoder selects at... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106860 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing method applied to an image processing device is capable of implementing bitstream stitching technique after interrupting image processing process. The image processing method includes steps of processing the i-th slice of N slices in an image to gene... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106861 | IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD A compressing method is applicable to compress of an image at a fixed compression ratio, in which the image has a raw data. The compression method includes the steps of receiving the raw data with a predetermined length as a compression unit; compressing the compression... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082390 | IMAGE TRANSMISSION TERMINAL The present invention is an image transmission terminal including: an image capture unit (17, 47) that outputs pixel signals; an image data generating unit (18, 48) that generates and outputs image frame data; a first image data compression unit (19, 49... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120068999 | METHOD OF PROCESSING IMAGE DATA, METHOD OF DISPLAYING IMAGE USING THE SAME AND DISPLAY APPARATUS PERFORMING THE METHOD OF DISPLAYING IMAGE A method of processing image data comprises storing image frame data in a first memory, repetitively reading the image frame data stored in the first memory to output high frequency image frame data and correcting the high frequency image frame data based on previous fr... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069047 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM, AND IMAGE EDITING PROGRAM An image display apparatus is provided that includes a determination unit and a display management unit. The determination unit is configured to determine whether auxiliary information and still image data are stored together. The auxiliary information is stored to indi... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120045138 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE DATA The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for encoding images, more particularly to an encoding unit in conjunction with a library of pictorial entities and image qualifiers. The method and apparatus provide encoding an image by using a code factor table in con... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120033893 | IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE REPRODUCTION METHOD An image reproduction apparatus decompresses and outputs compressed data, and includes: a reproduction unit which reads, per predetermined unit of processing, the compressed data as unit compressed data from a recording medium; a decompression unit which decompresses th... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120027317 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD An image processing apparatus and method capable of compressing a current image using one of a plurality of compression algorithms based upon similarity (or fluctuation level) between a previous image and the current image are discussed.... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120013758 | Memory Compression Technique with Low Latency per Pixel In an embodiment, a compression unit is provided which may perform compression of images with low latency and relatively little hardware. Similarly, a decompression unit may be provided which may decompress the images with low latency and hardware. In an embodiment, the... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120002892 | Viewing Digital Slides Virtual slide image data and corresponding information are stored in a data storage area on a virtual slide image server. A client viewer requests image data at a particular resolution. The image server obtains corresponding image data from the data storage area at a re... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002893 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME SERVICE OF HUGE AND HIGH QUALITY DIGITAL IMAGE ON INTERNET A method for providing real time service of huge and high quality digital image on internet is disclosed, wherein data relevant to a general life such as a general photo, an advertising leaflet, and a pamphlet and professional image data exhibited in an art gallery, exh... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002873 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BLOCK BASED IMAGE COMPRESSION WITH MULTIPLE NON-UNIFORM BLOCK ENCODINGS Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and apparatus for block based image compression with multiple non-uniform block encodings. In one embodiment, an image is divided into blocks of pixels. In one embodiment the blocks are four pixels by four pi... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002890 | ALIGNMENT OF DIGITAL IMAGES AND LOCAL MOTION DETECTION FOR HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR) IMAGING Disclosed embodiments relate to the alignment of images, particularly in HDR imaging applications. In one embodiment, image pyramids may be generated using a reference image and a source image. A difference bitmap is generated for each level of the image pyramids and is... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120002891 | Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding graphic data A graphic data encoding method and apparatus generating a bitstream by encoding a header having at least one piece of first information determined in consideration of a predetermined graphic profile from among multiple pieces of encodable first information; and encoding... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317912 | Method, apparatus and computer-readable medium coding and decoding depth image using color image A depth image may be compressed and transmitted after being sampled to have less information before being coded, as opposed to a conventional scheme of compressing an original depth image. An uncompressed depth image of a non-transmitted depth image may be restored by s... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317929 | 2 DIMENSIONAL SIGNAL ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE An image is divided into subbands by wavelet transform using the Haar function as the base, and the lowest-frequency LL subband is entirely encoded. LH, HL, and HH subband coefficients which belong to the wavelet decomposition level of each hierarchy are then encoded su... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317931 | COMPRESSING HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGES IN A LOW RESOLUTION VIDEO A method for compressing an image as a sequence of video frames, comprising dividing the image into a plurality of tiles and compressing a tile, or part thereof, as a frame in the video sequence.... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110299789 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS AT A PIXEL LEVEL Systems and methods process an image having a plurality of pixels includes an image sensor to capture an image; a first-layer to encode local patches on an image region; and a second layer to jointly encode patches from the same image region.... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110280491 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ENCODING 3D IMAGE Disclosed is a three-dimensional (3D) image encoding apparatus. The 3D image encoding apparatus includes a first compressed information generation unit to generate first compressed information used to encode one image of two types of images to form a 3D image and a seco... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110280482 | IMAGE DATA EXPANSION APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA COMPRESSION APPARATUS AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME A portion of an image that has been compressed is displayed promptly. To achieve this, an image is divided into a number of units and an RST marker is inserted into a unit every ten units. The image is compressed and recorded unit by unit. In a case where an area which ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110274349 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING SIZE OF IMAGE DATA An input image (IMG1) may be converted to a lower-resolution output image (IMG2) by: determining a location (OP) of an output pixel (P2) with respect to said input image (IMG1), determining values of elements (E) of a filter array (FA1... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110274365 | ELECTRICAL-DEVICE-IMPLEMENTED IMAGE CODING METHOD An electrical-device-implemented image coding method includes: a raw block is obtained from an image. There are a max pixel value and a min pixel value among the raw pixel values of the image. A first difference sum, which is sum of differences between the raw pixel val... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110274174 | Method for coding a picture sequence, corresponding method for reconstruction and stream of coded data representative of said sequence A method for reconstruction of a picture sequence coded in accordance with a coding method specifying a set of coding tools and/or their associated coding parameters is disclosed. The pictures being divided into coding entities. The method for reconstruction according t... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110268366 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE CONVERSION APPARATUS It is an object of the present invention to provide a technique for eliminating the unnaturalness in a generated moving image while achieving high speed processing in an image processing apparatus comprising a deblocking filter. A transcoder (1) comprises an MPEG... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110267502 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD An image processing system is adapted to compress a captured image having a plurality of regions of interest (ROIs). The image compression device includes an image dividing unit, a resolution distribution unit and an encoder. The image dividing unit divides the captured... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110262047 | DOT PATTERN ENCODING STRUCTURE, ITS DECODING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE A dot pattern encoding structure includes at least a pattern unit including a unit recognition portion containing a plurality of first dot patterns part or all of which are co-linear and equally distanced, and a plurality of first and second virtual grid lines passing t... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110262048 | GRAPHICAL DATA PROCESSING A method for processing graphical data representing a sequence of images prior to compression, including analysing a plurality of adjacent areas of an image from the sequence to determine: (i) a first set of areas, each of which includes changes when compared with a cor... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110255796 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE An image signal encoding unit 107 generates image encoded data by encoding a plurality of images from multiple viewpoints different from each other. A depth information encoding unit (e.g., a depth signal encoding unit 108) generates depth information enco... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110249151 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM An image processing apparatus of the present application includes a reduced image generation section generating a first reduced image obtained by reducing at least a target image being a noise reduction target, out of the target image and a reference image to be a refer... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110244793 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM A transmission apparatus includes: setting means for setting a transmission target period during which transmission data is transmitted to a destination apparatus; control means for resizing the transmission data in such a way that the size thereof becomes smaller than ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110243471 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING INTERPOLATION BASED ON TRANSFORM AND INVERSE TRANSFORM Provided are a method and apparatus for interpolating an image. The method includes: selecting a first filter, from among a plurality of different filters, for interpolating between pixel values of integer pixel units, according to an interpolation location; and generat... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110243464 | IMAGE PROCESSING CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD An image processing control device includes an adjacent pixel difference absolute value phase-based total value calculation unit configured to calculate adjacent pixel difference absolute value phase-based total values obtained by summing adjacent pixel difference absol... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110235927 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD The image processing apparatus of the present invention comprises: an rendering unit for, when image data that includes two or more objects is inputted, rendering the two or more objects as bitmap data; a generation unit for generating attribute information for the imag... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110235888 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND RADIOGRAPHIC APPARATUS USING THE SAME An image processing method is provided including the steps of generating a first band image through high-pass filter processing to a source image having an image of a subject falling thereon; generating a reduction image through reduction of the source image; performing... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110229028 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a decoder, a first sharpening module, and a second sharpening module. The decoder decodes an encoded image to obtain a decoded image. The first sharpening module performs first sharpening on the decoded... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110229047 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PRGRAM An image encoding apparatus includes a band division unit configured to perform frequency band division for generating coefficient data of each of a plurality of frequency bands from image data of a block unit and, with regard to the frequency band division, to perform ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110216980 | IMAGE TRANSMITTER AND IMAGE RECEIVER A system LSI serving as an image transmitter is a device for transmitting image data to a display device LCD connected by a data signal line. The system LSI comprises: an output image memory for storing the image data to be transmitted; a subtraction processing unit for... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110206278 | CONTACT IMAGE SELECTION AND ASSOCIATION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MOBILE DEVICE A method and computing device for encoding an image according to a preset encoding parameter for the image. The encoding producing an encoded image having a file size. If it is determined that the file size exceeds a maximum file size and the encoding parameter does not... | 08/25/2011 |
