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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110292452 | METHOD OF ADJUSTING LINE DATA AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS A method of adjusting line data is provided, where a dot pattern for one line is represented by dot data indicative of dot formation and blank data indicative of no dot formation. The method includes: determining whether X or more blank data are arranged consecutively, ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110164827 | AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT DELIVERY SYSTEM A system for processing video data to improve image quality at low data rates comprising an encoder generating an entropy signal representing the relative entropy of the video data and a plurality of filters each receiving the entropy signal and a threshold setting and ... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110150356 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An image processing apparatus includes: a characteristic value calculation unit calculating a block luminance average value, which is an average value of luminance values in each of spatial blocks obtained by dividing an input image in a space direction, and a block lum... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110142364 | RENDERING PIECE-WISE SMOOTH IMAGE FROM COLOUR VALUES ALONG PATHS Methods (100), apparatuses, and computer program products for rendering a piece-wise smooth image are disclosed. The image is specified by image values along opposite sides of paths. The paths (210) are converted (110) to chains of straight line seg... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110142351 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING AN IMAGE EDGE A system and method for processing an image edge includes an edge filter that processes an image input to generate edge data. An edge-smoothing filter processes the edge data to filter-out image noise and preserve the image edge, thus generating edge-smoothed data. An a... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110102852 | SUSAN-BASED CORNER SHARPENING This closure provides image processing methods and apparatus for corner enhancing a digital image for rendering on an image output device. According to an exemplary method, the method determines whether or not image pixels are associated with a corner as a function of t... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20100183222 | System and method for edge-enhancement of digital images using wavelets Systems, methods, and techniques are provided for performing any one or more of edge-preserving image sharpening, edge-preserving image smoothing, edge-preserving image dynamic range compression, and edge-aware data interpolation on digital images, wherein a pixel predi... | 07/22/2010 |
| 20100091195 | De-ringing Device and Method A de-ringing device and a method thereof are provided. The de-ringing device, operative with a lookup table for storing a plurality of intensity coefficients, comprises a buffer and a de-ringing intensity determining unit. The buffer stores an input pixel sequence. The ... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100080488 | FAST DIRECTIONAL IMAGE INTERPOLATOR WITH DIFFERENCE PROJECTION Described is a technology in which a low resolution image is processed into a high-resolution image, including by a two interpolation passes. In the first pass, missing in-block pixels, which are the pixels within a block formed by four neighboring original pixels, are ... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100054593 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An image processing apparatus executes smoothing processing (reduction conversion) of an input image to acquire a smoothed image (reduced image), acquires a normalization parameter for normalization from the smoothed image, and normalizes pixel values of the input image... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100054622 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR SMOOTHING OF EDGES IN IMAGES TO REMOVE IRREGULARITIES System, method, and apparatus for smoothing of edges in images to remove irregularities are disclosed. In one aspect of the present disclosure, a method of image processing includes, identifying an edge in an image having an associated set of edge characteristics, deter... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100033497 | Edge adjustment method, image processing device and display apparatus A noise removing filter removes noise from an input image and an edge component extracting unit extracts edge components. The edge components are extracted by calculating a difference between the input image and a smoothed image, which is obtained by smoothing the input... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20090262247 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS FOR IMAGE RESCALING WITH EDGE ADAPTIVE PHASE CONTROL IN INTERPOLATION PROCESS A video image processing system is described that generates the interpolated video images with sharp and jaggedness-free edges. A method of video image processing is also described that interpolates video images to generate the video images with sharp and jaggedness-fre... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090256848 | Filtering Method and Apparatus for Anti-Aliasing Embodiments of a filtering method and apparatus for anti-aliasing as described herein take advantage of improved existing hardware by using as input the data stored in the multisampling anti-aliasing (MSAA) buffers after rendering. The standard hardware box-filter is th... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090154831 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DITHERING A PIXEL VALUE IN IMAGE Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for dithering a pixel value in a image. The method includes checking a difference in chrominance signals between a particular pixel and a pixel adjacent to the particular pixel, in an input image, designating the particular pixel a... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090103808 | CORRECTION OF DISTORTION IN CAPTURED IMAGES An image processing method comprises analysing an image of a portion of text, and detecting the inter-line spacing and the inter-word spacing across the area of the image. Based on the inter-line and inter-word spacings, a quadrilateral shape is derived which represents... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090097776 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR This invention obtains a high-quality output image in which a jaggy or a disconnection of a thin line hardly stands out. An edge detection unit detects whether the pixel of interest is an edge pixel or a non-edge pixel. A screen processing unit performs screen processin... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090080792 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANTI-ALIASING SCAN CONVERSION Methods and apparatuses for anti-aliasing scan conversion. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method to scan convert an image on a data processing system includes: sampling the image in a first direction to generate first signals for points along a second line... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20080317373 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM An image processing apparatus includes a ridge strength detecting unit for detecting a ridge strength that is the strength of a ridge included in an image. When a pixel value is changed in the form of a pulse in accordance with a positional change in a region that inclu... | 12/25/2008 |
| 20080292205 | IMAGE OUTPUT APPARATUS, IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD AND IMAGE OUTPUT PROGRAM PRODUCT An image output apparatus is provided with an image conversion unit for converting image data into an output image of intermediate gradation using a line screen for forming pixel points in stripes, an element angle storing unit for storing the angle information of line ... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080056604 | Method, medium and system processing image signals A method, medium and system processing an image signal. The system includes an edge detection module to detect a pixel belonging to an edge in an input image, a period determination module to determine a period of change in pixel values based on a first value of the pix... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20080024843 | Methods for generating anti-aliased text and line graphics in compressed document images A method and system for storing and generating anti-aliased text and lineart data from compressed document image files, using a MRC model that represents the image as an ordered set of mask/image pairs at resolutions appropriate to the content of each layer. The method ... | 01/31/2008 |
| 20070172142 | IMAGE PROCESSING CIRCUIT AND METHOD THEREOF An image processing circuit for processing at least one jagged edge in an image represented by an input video signal. The image processing circuit includes: a detection module for detecting an edge by labeling a specific portion within input data carried by the input vi... | 07/26/2007 |
| 20070103570 | Apparatus, method, recording medium and program for processing signal A horizontal direction component pixel extractor extracts a pixel of interest and a horizontal direction component pixel thereof from an input video signal. A vertical direction component pixel extractor extracts the pixel of interest and a vertical direction component ... | 05/10/2007 |
| 20070086673 | Reducing video flicker by adaptive filtering A method of reducing video flicker by adaptive filtering may include receiving a group of lines of video data and detecting one or more edges within the group of lines of video data. Pixels that are associated with the one or more edges may be filtered using a first set... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20060232602 | Font generation system A method for displaying a simulated anti-alias font on a display device, the method comprising providing a first font element, the first font element being semi-transparent, providing a second font element, and rendering the first font element and the second font elemen... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060159362 | Interpolation processing method, interpolation processing program, and imaging apparatus An interpolation processing method for performing interpolation processing of image data obtained by photoelectrically converting an object image using interpolation data, includes a first step of estimating object information, a second step of generating first input im... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20060146075 | Method and apparatus for magnifying computer screen display A screen magnification tool to scale the content of a computer display screen by distinguishing text and non-text elements of the content and applying different scaling methods to the text and non-text elements. Information about the text elements is stored in a databas... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060133690 | Methods for generating anti-aliased text and line graphics in compressed document images A method and system for storing and generating anti-aliased text and lineart data from compressed document images files, using a MRC model that represents the image as an ordered set of mask/image pairs at resolutions appropriate to the content of each layer. The method... | 06/22/2006 |
| 20060092176 | Anti-aliasing characters for improved display on an interlaced television monitor Anti-aliasing characters for improved display on an interlaced television monitor is described. In one implementation, an expanded character is generated by increasing a character's original dimensions. The expanded character includes multiple sub-blocks and each sub-bl... | 05/04/2006 |
| 20050276506 | Apparatus and method to remove jagging artifact In an apparatus and a method to remove jagging artifacts, a calculating unit defines a window of a predetermined size based on a current pixel in an input current frame or field, and calculates at least one eigen value and at least one eigen vector to determine a featur... | 12/15/2005 |
| 20050190410 | Methods and apparatus for smoothing text outlines Methods and apparatus are provided to smooth a jagged outline of a reconstructed text generated through any of a variety of systems, such as, for example, an image scanner. Given the reconstructed text with a jagged outline, the methods smooth the outline of the text fi... | 09/01/2005 |
| 20050180654 | Directional interpolative smoother A method and system for smoothing a frame to remove jagged edges are presented. The method and system generates a smoothing filter with consolidated pixels. Edges within the smoothing filter are analyzed to select an edge direction used for smoothing. A smoothed pixel i... | 08/18/2005 |
| 20050129328 | Corner sharpening of text and line art in a super resolution anti-aliasing image path A method for sharpening the corners of digital image data within an anti-aliasing image path so as to overcome corner rounding when displayed or printed. The method comprises stepping a window across the image data and comparing that windowed data to templates or perfor... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050094890 | Method and apparatus for image detail enhancement without zigzagged edge artifact A method and system for detecting slant edge areas in an image comprising a plurality of pixels, and for preventing zigzagged slant edge artifacts in an image detail enhancement process. Image pixels that belong to a slant image edge are detected and gain suppression fa... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050088534 | Color correction for images forming a panoramic image A method for color matching a first image and a second image, wherein a first region of the first image and a second region of the second image overlap, includes removing overlapping pixels in the first and the second regions that have pixel values are too different, ge... | 04/28/2005 |
| 20050083348 | Type size dependent anti-aliasing in sub-pixel precision rendering systems Methods and systems for selecting different anti-aliasing filters to be applied to objects of image data rendered with pixel sub-component precision based on the attributes of the objects of the graphics image. For example, when rendering a character traditional anti-al... | 04/21/2005 |
| 20050078884 | Method and apparatus for interpolating a digital image A digital image interpolation method and apparatus for correcting a pixel value of an image to thereby minimize a stair-stepping artifact and emphasize a contrast of the edge pixel. The method and apparatus are provided for calculating an interpolation factor and an edg... | 04/14/2005 |
