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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110222127 | IMAGE CORNER SHARPENING METHOD AND SYSTEM An image processing system, apparatus and method are disclosed for corner enhancing a digital image for rendering on an image output device. According to one exemplary method, pixels associated with corner regions of the digital image are determined using a plurality of... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110129160 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD IN THE IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a block boundary detection module which detects a block boundary in input image data. The block boundary detection module includes a first calculator, a second calculator, and a determination module. Th... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110116714 | Image interpolation method and apparatus using reference block based on direction Provided is an image interpolation method and apparatus using a reference block depending on a direction. The image interpolation method may generate a horizontal reference block and a vertical reference block each with respect to an inputted image, and determine interp... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20100246990 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MEASURING BLOCKINESS LEVEL IN COMPRESSED DIGITAL VIDEO Embodiments include systems and methods of measuring a blockiness level in video data that has been encoded and decoded. In one embodiment, a Q-value is calculated that indicates the blockiness level of a decompressed image. The Q-value can be based on a block map havin... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100232697 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing apparatus includes a gradient calculator that calculates a direction and a magnitude of a gradient of each pixel in an input image using neighboring pixel values; a histogram calculator that calculates a Histogram of Oriented Gradients containing plu... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100177983 | DEBLOCK METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS A deblock method for processing at least one image including a plurality of pixels. The method comprises the step of determining a shift amount of block boundary by pixel data differences between adjacent pixels and thereby determining block boundaries between macrobloc... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100150470 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEBLOCKING SEQUENTIAL IMAGES BY DETERMINING PIXEL INTENSITIES BASED ON LOCAL STATISTICAL MEASURES Systems and methods are presented for improving the quality of an image as perceived by the Human Vision System by smoothing block artifacts in an image. In one embodiment, smoothing is accomplished by identifying target pixels to be smoothed and then replacing the pixe... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100111422 | System and method for reduction of block noise A block noise reduction system and method which may determine a feature value of a local texture at each location of input pixel, may selectively determine 1D filtering mode or 2D filtering mode as a filtering mode based on the determined feature value, and may perform ... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100061649 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING BLOCK NOISE Block noises at block boundaries are removed, but when a contour line in the original image matches a block boundary, the degree of block noise removal is adjusted and image quality is improved. An adaptive filter has a step of calculating the weight of pixels near the ... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100061652 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD An image processing device includes: an estimating module configured to estimate boundaries of blocks in an input image; a characteristic value calculating module configured to calculate a characteristic value of a subject pixel group having constituent pixels including... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100033633 | DETECTING BLOCK ARTIFACTS IN CODED IMAGES AND VIDEO A method is provided for block artifact detection and block artifact determination using multiple features in coded images and video. A method includes identifying a plurality of overlapping blocks in a picture with respect to a current block. Each of the plurality of o... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100021076 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR IMPROVING IMAGE SHARPNESS In a method, apparatus and integrated circuit for improving image sharpness, the method includes the following steps: (a) labeling each of pixels in an image as one of an edge/texture type and a non-edge/texture type; (b) classifying each of the pixels that are labeled ... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100014596 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF COMPRESSED VIDEO SIGNALS BY SMOOTHING BLOCK ARTIFACTS The present invention is directed to systems and methods in which, for a given amount of data required to represent a compressed video signal, the quality of the uncompressed displayed real-time video, as perceived by a typical human viewer, is improved. Systems and met... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20100002953 | DETECTION AND REDUCTION OF RINGING ARTIFACTS BASED ON BLOCK-GRID POSITION AND OBJECT EDGE LOCATION The invention proposes a method (FIG. 2) and respective devices (FIG. 2) and software for an algorithm to detect and remove ringing artefacts and mosquito noise in decompressed pictures and video. The proposed idea is based on the observation that ringing ... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090310882 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CAPABLE OF REDUCING IMAGE RINGING NOISE A method for reducing image ringing noise includes: (a) calculating a line spread function value of each pixel's luminance in an input image; (b) dividing the input image into a plurality of blocks, and calculating an average value and a maximum value of the line spread... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090220169 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT A bilateral filter is implemented to allow a digital image to be enhanced while mitigating the formation of ringing artifacts or halos within the image. The bilateral filter allows the digital image to be decomposed into a detail feature image and a large-scale feature ... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090214133 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD AND PROGRAM An image processing device configured to reduce noise of an image, including: a position control information generating unit configured to calculate a block boundary position for each of blocks and the distance of each pixel from the block boundary position, based on bl... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090161982 | Restoring images The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for restoring (i.e., de-noising and/or stabilizing) images using similar blocks of pixels of one or more different sizes in one or more available image frames of the same scene for provi... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090097775 | VISUAL PROCESSING DEVICE, VISUAL PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT It is possible to inhibit artifacts, even when a special image has been input. The visual processing device of the invention is provided with a spatial processing portion (10) that extracts surrounding image information US from an image signal IS that is input, a... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090060376 | BLOCKING EFFECT REMOVAL SYSTEM AND METHOD A blocking effect removal system and method is provided. A blocking effect removal system, including: a pixel segment extraction unit to extract a pixel segment which satisfies a homogeneity with respect to each pixel group adjacent to a block boundary of an image; a fi... | 03/05/2009 |
| 20090034855 | Method for Determining Boundary Strength A method for determining the boundary strengths of edges in a block-based digitally encoded image is disclosed. The method includes setting the boundary strength of two adjacent blocks in an Inter MB to a first strength value if any one of the two adjacent blocks contai... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090028459 | METHOD FOR REDUCING BLOCKING ARTIFACTS A method for removing blocking artifacts from moving and still pictures, comprising classifying horizontal and vertical boundaries in each picture as blocky or non-blocky; for each blocky boundary, defining an adaptive, picture contentdependent, one-dimensional filtered... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090003724 | Block noise reducer A block noise reducer detects block boundaries in all components of an input video signal and smoothes the different components selectively on the basis of the detected block boundaries and their periodic locations. By removing block noise on the basis of block boundari... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080298473 | Methods for Parallel Deblocking of Macroblocks of a Compressed Media Frame This invention relates to methods for the parallel deblocking of macroblocks of a compressed media frame, such as a frame from a compressed video stream, to smooth out artifacts and discontinuities caused by the compression of the media. These methods for parallel deblo... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080298715 | IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD The present invention relates to an image analysis method for analyzing an image. By inputting starting point coordinates and ending point coordinates of individual image blocks contained in the image, an image block arrangement table is created. The image is analyzed a... | 12/04/2008 |
| 20080247664 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN ADAPTIVE DE-BLOCKING FILTER AFTER DECODING OF COMPRESSED DIGITAL VIDEO A system and method that adjusts the strength of a de-blocking filter to remove block artifacts in compressed video is disclosed. Block artifacts are associated with the block-based image/video compression techniques. The block artifacts deteriorate the quality of compr... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080240604 | Performing deblocking on pixel data In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving pixel data for a portion of an image including a blocking artifact, calculating an artifact strength based on a difference between a two pixels on opposite sides of the blocking artifact, performin... | 10/02/2008 |
| 20080199102 | Block noise detector and detection method, and block noise reducer and reduction method A block noise detector has a spatial difference calculator that calculates differences between values of adjacent pixels. A spatial difference comparator detects edges by comparing the calculated differences. Eight counters count edges detected at different groups of po... | 08/21/2008 |
| 20080193040 | METHOD OF REDUCING A BLOCKING ARTIFACT WHEN CODING MOVING PICTURE A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels S0, S1, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected the... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080193039 | METHOD OF REDUCING A BLOCKING ARTIFACT WHEN CODING MOVING PICTURE A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels S0, S1, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected the... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080193041 | METHOD OF REDUCING A BLOCKING ARTIFACT WHEN CODING MOVING PICTURE A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels S0, S1, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected the... | 08/14/2008 |
| 20080187237 | Method, medium, and system reducing image block noise A method, medium, and system reducing block noise of a digital image, including an encoding/decoding method, medium, and system. The method of reducing block noise of a digital image includes calculating a value of a boundary block that includes a boundary between two n... | 08/07/2008 |
| 20080181530 | Image processing apparatus and method for reducing blocking effect and Gibbs effect This invention discloses an image processing apparatus comprising a filter module, an edge detection module, and a processing module. According to where each pixel locates in an image block, the filter module is used to perform the smooth processing on each pixel to gen... | 07/31/2008 |
| 20080159637 | Deblocking filter hardware accelerator with interlace frame support According to some embodiments, systems, methods, and apparatus are provided to load video data into a hardware accelerator that is not adapted to receive interlace frames, wherein the video data comprises interlace frames, configure the hardware accelerator to receive i... | 07/03/2008 |
| 20080152017 | MPEG NOISE REDUCTION A method of processing an image based upon edge energy is disclosed. The method comprises providing (100) an edge map (540) for a group of pixels, classifying (100, 110, 120) pixels in the group as either smooth region pixels or edge region pixels, ... | 06/26/2008 |
| 20080123988 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PERFORMING BLOCK EFFECT REDUCTION The present invention provides an image processing method for processing an image. The method includes: detecting at least an edge in the image; selecting at least a first pixel and at least a second pixel according to the edge; deciding whether the edge is a block effe... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080101718 | Apparatus and method for deblock filtering A method of processing a frame including a plurality of macro-blocks is provided. Each of the macro-blocks respectively includes M pixels. A local buffer is previously provided. The capacity of the local buffer is equal to the size of N pixels. M and N are both positive... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080095461 | Apparatus and method for determining filter condition area in deblocking filter An apparatus for calculating a boundary strength on a macroblock basis to determine a filter condition area in a deblocking filter includes a memory unit for storing a table containing a filter condition area value for a boundary strength calculation, which correspond t... | 04/24/2008 |
| 20080085061 | Method and Apparatus for Adjusting the Contrast of an Input Image A method and apparatus is provided for adjusting the contrast of an input image. A blurred image corresponding to the input image is obtained, the brightness level of at least some of the pixels in the input image being varied to provide the blurred image. A ring likeli... | 04/10/2008 |
| 20080069472 | METHOD OF REDUCING A BLOCKING ARTIFACT WHEN CODING MOVING PICTURE A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels S0, S1, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected the... | 03/20/2008 |
