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Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| 20120070095 | METHOD OF COMPRESSING IMAGE DATA In a method of compressing image data which include a plurality of pixel values which are associated with a respective pixel, the pixel values are coded for at least some pixels in accordance with the following steps:
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| 20120051659 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An apparatus capable of dividing an m-value image into a plurality of divided images and performing quantization into an n-value image (2≦n<m) for each divided image includes a first quantization unit for quantizing a first region in the divided image similarly to ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120014615 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR OPTIMIZATION OF DATA COMPRESSION A sequence of n coefficients is compressed by determining a cost-determined sequence of n coefficient indices represented by a cost-determined sequence of (run, index derivative) pairs under a given quantization table and run-index derivative coding distribution, wherei... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120002895 | BITMAP COMPRESSION FOR FAST SEARCHES AND UPDATES Bitmap compression for fast searches and updates is provided. Compressing a bitmap includes receiving a bitmap to compress, and reading the bitmap to determine a value of a bit location for all bits in the bitmap. In one embodiment, a compressed bitmap is created by enc... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317933 | Image Coding Method for Facilitating Run Length Coding and Image Encoding Device Thereof An image coding method for run-length coding (RLC), including quantizing a coefficient string representing a plurality of pixel values to generate a first quantization coefficient string, determining a cutoff quantization coefficient in the first quantization coefficien... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317932 | IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD WITH VARIABLE QUANTIZATION PARAMETERS AND VARIABLE CODING PARAMETERS An image compression method is used for processing a plurality of pixels of an image. The image compression method includes the steps of receiving N pixels; analyzing the N pixels and generating a content type corresponding to the N pixels; obtaining a quantization para... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110292247 | IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD WITH RANDOM ACCESS CAPABILITY An image compression method with random access capability. The method includes intracoding of digital images. The image is partitioned into small blocks and each block is coded independently of other blocks in the image. The encoder generates a fixed and predetermined n... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110280492 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus includes: an intermediate code generating unit that, when a data string that matches an input data string of image data is found from data string of the image data input in the past, outputs a length and a position of the found data string ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110222791 | Post-Beamformer Ultrasound Compression Embodiments of the invention compress ultrasound RF data after the receiver beamformer. An efficient compression algorithm is disclosed that incorporates the use of the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) and the Discrete Wavelet Packet (DWP) transform, followed by quantiza... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110200266 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD The present invention can realize an image processing device and an image processing method that enable a simplified circuit configuration. An image encoding device (200) encodes an input image (91) in an ordinary process that is the same as main encoding ... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110182524 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD The present invention enables a circuit configuration to be simplified. An image encoding device (100) receives an input image (91) that is line-scanned in units of MBs as scan blocks, each constituted by a plurality of 4×4 blocks, while being scanned in ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110182525 | IMAGE SEARCHING DEVICE AND METHOD, PROGRAM AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM An encoded code stream is searched for a frame generally coincident with a specific frame without having to decoding the frame to its original image. The present invention provides an image search device that searches an object encoded code stream formed by compression ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110170794 | IMAGE CODING DEVICE, DIGITAL STILL CAMERA, DIGITAL CAMCORDER, IMAGING DEVICE, AND IMAGE CODING METHOD Coding processing performed by an image coding device (100) includes: processing (S133) of performing coding by leaving surplus bit(s), when the digit number B of binary data of the difference value between (a) a value of a to-be-coded pixel and (b) a pred... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110150352 | VARIABLE LENGTH CODING FOR CLUSTERED TRANSFORM COEFFICIENTS IN VIDEO COMPRESSION Coding quantized transform coefficients as occur in image compression combines a position identifying method to identify the relative position of clusters of consecutive non-zero-valued coefficients, an amplitude event identifying method to identify amplitude events in ... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110142134 | IMAGE CODING METHOD AND IMAGE CODING APPARATUS A method of coding an original image, including: partitioning (S110) the original image into blocks; determining (S120) a coding condition for a current one of the blocks; and coding (S130) the current block according to the determined coding condit... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110135198 | CHROMINANCE ENCODING AND DECODING OF A DIGITAL IMAGE What is disclosed is a system and method for encoding and decoding chrominance values of a digital images. In one example embodiment, a digitized image comprising a plurality of pixels is received. A degree of chrominance precision is determined for a selected pixel bas... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110123128 | BIT RATE CONTROL CIRCUIT AND METHOD FOR IMAGE COMPRESSION A bit rate control circuit for image compression includes a compression unit, a R-value calculation unit, a linear quantization factor (LQF) calculation unit. The compression unit is used to performs a first quantization process on an image based on a default LQF (LQF 05/26/2011 | |
| 20110116725 | DATA COMPRESSION METHOD AND DATA COMPRESSION SYSTEM A data compression system and a data compression method using the same are provided. The data compression method includes acquiring original data from a memory and performs image processing and quantization on the original data to transform the original data into a quan... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110103705 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS An image encoding method and an image decoding method, the image encoding method including: degrading a quality of a first image which is obtained through a sensor of an imaging device to generate a second image having a target resolution; generating additional informat... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110097006 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGING An imaging device, is provided, comprising: a plurality of compression circuits configured to receive K initial imaging signals and to generate second through Kth modified imaging signals, and a plurality of delay values; and a bit multiplexer configured to g... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110052089 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM An image processing system that can reduce the amount of operations for compression processing includes a characteristic region detecting section that detects a characteristic region from an image and a compressing section that compresses the image by compressing each p... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110052090 | IMAGE TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS AND IMAGE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM A server device compares an image before changing with an image after changing and specifies a difference image that is an image part different between the two images. The server device determines patterns of boxes (rectangles) enclosing the difference image. In image t... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110038557 | Method for Sending Compressed Data Representing a Digital Image and Corresponding Device A method for sending compressed data representing at least part of a digital image includes the following steps:
| 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038556 | DIGITAL IMAGE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION A method of compressing a digital image defined by a plurality of pixel values in each of one or more channels includes adjusting each pixel value in each of the one or more channels by an average pixel value for that channel. The method further includes splitting each ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110037763 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REAL TIME 3D MESH COMPRESSION, BASED ON QUANITZATION An apparatus for 3D mesh compression based on quantization, includes a data analyzing unit (510) for decomposing data of an input 3D mesh model into vertices information (511) property information (512) representing property of the 3D mesh model, an... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110019931 | IMAGE RECORDING DEVICE, IMAGE RECORDING METHOD AND PROGRAM There is provided an image recording device, including: a highly-gradating unit for highly-gradating an input image having a first gradation depth, thereby generating a high gradation image having a second gradation depth higher than the first gradation depth; an image ... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100310188 | ENCODING METHODS AND APPARATUS INCLUDING BUFFER RATE CONTROL Methods and apparatus for performing image encoding and rate control as part of the image encoding process, e.g., a JPEG-2000 compliant image encoding process, are described. As part of the image encoding processes, rate control operations are performed based on rate st... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100278231 | Post-decoder filtering A method of providing post-processing information to client decoders. The method includes encoding a video, by an encoder and determining one or more parameters of sharpening, color space bias correction or contrast correction for post-processing of a frame of the encod... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100260258 | IMAGE CODING DEVICE, CODING RATE CONVERSION DEVICE, AUDIO VIDEO STREAM RECORDING DEVICE, NETWORK DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, COEFFICIENT CONVERSION DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND IMAGE CODING METHOD An image coding device (301) in an aspect of the present invention includes: a quantization unit (304) which quantizes an orthogonal transform coefficient set (217) obtained by orthogonally transforming image data (310), so as to generate a q... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100232721 | IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS An image compression method includes: inputting an original image data and performing a specific transform operation upon the original image data to generate a transformed image data; performing a quantization operation upon the transformed image data according to a qua... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100220938 | IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE An image signal processing device 1 comprises an encoding part 10, a delay part 20, a difference calculation part 30, a decoding part 40, a quantization error determination part 50 and a corrected image data output part 60. | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100202705 | IMAGE COMPARING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR, IMAGE RETRIEVING APPARATUS AS WELL AS PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM A coding parameter extracting unit extracts and supplies coding parameters of a code stream to an image characteristic amount output unit. A code stream characteristic amount extracting unit outputs a first vector calculated based on the number of zero bit planes for ea... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100189252 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING OF IMAGES XHD video is acquired from a camera fitted with an ultra-wide field-of-view lens such as a fish eye lens. The active picture portion of the images are divided into patterns each having a plurality of pixels. The patterns are assigned coordinate values and then reformatt... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100183233 | IMAGE DATA COMPRESSION DEVICE, ENCODER, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT AND METHOD OF COMPRESSING IMAGE DATA An image data compression device includes a quantization part quantizing image data with a quantization step that varies based on a quantization parameter, a FIFO buffer part buffering quantized data of a plurality of frames, a coded data formation part reading out the ... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100171970 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING METHOD An image forming apparatus is provided with a resolution conversion unit 101 that integrates n pixels that are contiguous in the sub-scanning direction, and that determines an average value of pixel values of the n pixels as a pixel value of integrated pixels, a ... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100172582 | ENCODER, DECODER, ENCODING METHOD AND DECODING METHOD An encoder, a decoder, an encoding method and a decoding method are provided. The encoder includes a reversible color transform module, a difference pulse code modulation (DPCM) intra prediction module, a quantization module, a reversible frequency transform module and ... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100166326 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE IN BITMAP FORMAT An apparatus and a method of encoding/decoding an image are provided. The method includes generating a bitmap table by mapping a quantized image, that is quantized according to a predetermined bit-depth, to a map table, and setting a bitmap index corresponding to each p... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100166328 | IMAGE ENCODER AND IMAGE ENCODING METHOD The image encoder includes a block arrangement unit configured to chromatically subsample an externally input image signal and to arrange the image signal in units of a plurality of blocks, a plurality of Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) units configured to perform DCT w... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100158107 | SIMD-PROCESSOR-FRIENDLY MPEG-2 INTRA-QUANTIZER A method and apparatus for performing quantization during video compression, such as within an MPEG-2 encoder. Intra-quantization is particularly recited, although the teachings may be applied to inter-quantization as well. Computationally intensive portions of the quan... | 06/24/2010 |
