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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 20110206286 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS A wavelet transform unit performs a wavelet transform on original images and a quantization unit quantizes wavelet transform coefficients. A ROI selector selects a region of interest or regions of interest in the original image, and a ROI mask generator generates ROI ma... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110200265 | METHOD OF RECORDING IMAGES AND DATA FOR RETRIEVING THESE IMAGES According to this method, for the formulation and recording of the retrieval data, each of the images (2) taking the form of a two-dimensional array of rows and columns of pixels, the image is divided into blocks (4) of pixels, each block (4) compri... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199633 | Halftone bit depth dependent digital image compression Image processing methods and systems wherein a compression strategy for a digital image is determined using a halftone bit depth. In one aspect of the invention, an imaging node comprises a processor, a storage element communicatively coupled with the processor and a pr... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110200262 | SPATIAL DATA ENCODING AND DECODING Methods and systems for spatial data encoding and decoding are described. A tile may be designated within a source frame. The tile may be divided into at least one bit area. A particular message bit value of a message may be accessed. A statistical property calculation ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110199285 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WAVEFORM COMPRESSION AND DISPLAY A method for displaying waveform data may compress and transfer a large collection of data (e.g., a waveform) acquired from a device onto a screen without compromising any major features of the waveform. Waveform data maybe acquired with a data acquisition instrument. T... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110194781 | Method for processing a digital image An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit bei... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110194727 | IMAGE DATA PROCESSIG SYSTEMS FOR HIDING SECRET INFORMATION AND DATA HIDING METHODS USING THE SAME An image data processing system includes an image input module, a bit map generation module and an encoding module. The image input module receives an image and secret information and obtains at least one gray-level image according to image. The bit map generation modul... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110188763 | Image Header Compression Mechanism A computer system is disclosed. The computer system includes a database to store image files and a compression unit to compress the image files. The compression unit includes a cache controller to control caching of header components of an image file common to two or mo... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110188764 | ENCODING METHOD, ENCODING DEVICE, AND ENCODING PROGRAM FOR ENCODING INTERLACED IMAGE It is an object of the present invention to provide an encoding method, an encoding device, and an encoding program for encoding an interlaced image in a simple and effective manner. The encoding method includes: a frequency conversion step (s101) of converting t... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110182365 | Method and System for Parallel Processing Video Data Described herein is a method and system for parallel processing video data. The system having parallel encoder devices can create a balance between quality of service and delay. In order to maintain quality, compression parameters in a group of pictures can be produced ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110175914 | OPTIMIZED IMAGE DELIVERY OVER LIMITED BANDWIDTH COMMUNICATION CHANNELS Large-scale images are retrieved over network communications channels for display on a client device by selecting an update image parcel relative to an operator controlled image viewpoint to display via the client device. A request is prepared for the update image parce... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110176742 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: an analysis filtering section configured to transform a line block into coefficient data decomposed into frequency bands by performing an analysis filtering process hierarchically, the line block including image... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110176743 | DATA COMPRESSION METHODS Data compression methods include an adaptive context sensitive compression (ACSC) method for data compression, a generalized discrete wavelength transform (GDWT) method for data compression, and a data compression method combining both the ACSC method and the GDWT metho... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110170789 | METHOD FOR ENCODING A SEQUENCE OF DIGITIZED IMAGES Pixels with associated pixel values form a sequence of digitized images that are encoded by predicting pixels of the images and encoding the prediction errors. At least a part of the pixels are encoded by determining trajectories, each running through a pixel to be enco... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110170615 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO IMAGING PRUNING Methods and apparatus are provided for video image pruning. An apparatus includes a data pruner for pre-processing a picture prior to, and in preparation for, compression by encoding. The data pruner selectively removes, in the spatial domain, at least one region within... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110158549 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM If reusable data is included in a record of VDP data, a compression level used in compressing page data including the reusable data is associated with the reusable data and stored together with the reusable data. If, after that, a record of VDP data including reusable d... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110141310 | METHOD FOR BLOCK-ENCODING OF A RASTER IMAGE OF PIXELS, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM AND IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE A method of block-encoding a raster image by successive two-dimensional decompositions of blocks of the image in a base of functions using a combined application of a one-dimensional core of vertical decomposition of n pixels and of a one-dimensional core of horizontal ... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110142339 | Method and System for Compressive Color Image Sampling and Reconstruction A method and system for compressive color image sampling and reconstruction. A sample set of data generated by transforming and sampling an optical property of an original image in a spatial basis, wherein the transformation effected is substantially diagonal in the spa... | 06/16/2011 |
