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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120002901 | Method and Device for Image Zooming A device and a method for image zooming are provided, in which two FIFO buffer units and a read/write control unit are added between a data storage unit and an image zooming unit. The read/write control unit respectively controls two FIFO buffer units to obtain and outp... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110311162 | SCALING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IMAGE SIGNALS Input pixel values associated with input pixel positions having a first spacing along a direction are received and processed to determine output pixel values associated with output pixel positions having a second spacing along the direction, from respective combinations... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110311163 | TEMPORAL VIDEO INTERPOLATION METHOD WITH 2-FRAME OCCLUSION HANDLING A direction of regularity, which minimizes a directional energy computed from pixel values of consecutive first and second frames of an input video sequence, is respectively associated with each pixel of the first frame and with each pixel of the second frame. Another d... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110299766 | DATA DRIVEN INTERPOLATION USING GEODESIC AFFINITY Often, information regarding images and/or other data may be incomplete. For example, an image may have depth information associated with a portion of the image, but not the entire image. It may be advantageous to extrapolate the values from the known points to the enti... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110274371 | METHOD FOR GENERATING A HIGH QUALITY UP-SCALED IMAGE, AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE A method for generating a high quality up-scaled image includes: utilizing at least four pixels within a source image as reference pixels within the high quality up-scaled image, where the reference pixels are utilized as a portion of pixels within the high quality up-s... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110268370 | SUPER-RESOLUTION DEVICE AND METHOD A super-resolution device and method for setting at least one of a plurality of pixels included in image data as target pixels, the image data including pixels arranged in a screen and pixel values representing brightness, an area including the target pixel and peripher... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110235945 | Image processing apparatus, image processsing method, and program An image processing apparatus includes: a representative value calculation unit calculating a representative value from an input first image signal; an interpolation unit interpolating the representative value calculated by the representative value calculation unit usin... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110229021 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTERPOLATING AND RENDERING IMAGE ON MOBILE DEVICES An apparatus and method for efficiently interpolating and rendering transformed images on mobile devices are provided. The method includes obtaining a plurality of super pixels by virtually increasing a resolution of the original image, determining a sampling position o... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110206297 | IMAGE DATA CONVERTING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONVERTING IMAGE DATA, PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM An image data converting device of at least one embodiment of the present invention for converting, by linear interpolation, input image data having a predetermined resolution into delta arrangement image data having a resolution that is smaller than the predetermined r... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110200270 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR THE SAME In an aspect of an image processing technique according to the present invention, a high-frequency component is extracted from a low-resolution image z which is a restoration target, and a high-frequency image z′ is generated (#20). Interpolation filter coeffic... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110200274 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMAGE RESIZING BASED ON INTERPOLATION ENHANCED SEAM OPERATIONS Methods and systems for resizing an image utilizing content-aware seam operations include defining low-energy seams defining contextually less-important information and utilizing such information for interpolation based on one-dimensional manifolds. The interpolation ca... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110176744 | Apparatus and method for image interpolation using anisotropic gaussian filter An apparatus and method for image interpolation using an anisotropic Gaussian filter, the image interpolation apparatus including: an edge information calculator calculating a first edge orientation that is an orientation of an edge of each of a plurality of pixels that... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110170803 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING An image processing apparatus for generating an enlarged image obtained by enlarging an original image. The image processing apparatus includes a change rate calculation unit which calculates a first pixel change rate at a first pixel position of the original image and ... | 07/14/2011 |
| 20110150354 | IMAGE UP-SAMPLING METHOD USING 2D WAVELET FILTERS An original image is up-sampled to a final image by constructing at least two sub-banded filtered images of the original image with 2D wavelet-based decomposition filters, each filtered image being of the same resolution as the original image. Each sub-banded filtered i... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110142331 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COLOR INTERPOLATION A system and method of color interpolation includes a spatial convolution unit that receives an output of an image sensor and then performs spatial convolution on the received image-sensor output, thus generating a convolution signal. A color interpolation unit performs... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110129164 | FORWARD AND BACKWARD IMAGE RESIZING METHOD A forward and backward image resizing method is used for resizing a low-resolution image into a high-resolution image. In the method, the low-resolution image is obtained first, and then a forward and backward image resizing process is performed, so as to resize the low... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110115934 | INCREASING IMAGE RESOLUTION USING COMBINED DIFFERENTIAL IMAGE A method for increasing the resolution of a digital image comprising: receiving an input digital image of a scene; interpolating a high-resolution image using an interpolation function; receiving a blur kernel associated with the interpolation function; initializing a c... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110116107 | IMAGE DOWN-SAMPLING WITH FINE DETAIL ENHANCEMENT A method for resizing an input digital image having input pixel values to produce an output digital image having output pixel values, wherein the output digital image has a lower resolution and wherein single pixel width details in the input digital image are preserved,... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110085742 | FAST IMAGE RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT WITH DE-PIXELING An output image that corresponds to a higher-resolution version of a source image is produced. In this process, source pixels of the source image are processed with a set of linear non-separable filter kernels to produce the output image with a corresponding output pixe... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110081100 | USING A PIXEL OFFSET FOR EVALUATING A PLANE EQUATION One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique controlling the pixel location at which the plane equation is evaluated. Multiple pixel offsets (dx, dy) may be specified that each define to a sub-pixel sample position. Attributes are then calculated for e... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110075948 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM An image processing apparatus that generates an output image according to interpolation performed by using an input image includes a pixel-value calculating unit that calculates a pixel value of a pixel of the output image according to interpolation performed by using p... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110075947 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM An imaging apparatus includes an intermediate image generating section to generate a second structure component and a second texture component by magnifying each of a first structure component and a first texture component separated from an original image by an intermed... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110064327 | Image Data Fusion Systems And Methods Systems and methods for image data fusion include providing first and second sets of image data corresponding to an imaged first and second scene respectively. The scenes at least partially overlap in an overlap region, defining a first collection of overlap image data ... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110052095 | USING CAPTURED HIGH AND LOW RESOLUTION IMAGES A method for producing an improved high resolution image is disclosed including capturing low resolution images and a high resolution image; combining the low resolution images to provide an aggregate low resolution image; reducing the resolution of the high resolution ... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110051990 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIGNAL PROCESING NON-UNIFORMLY SAMPLED DATA According to various embodiments, a method is provided for improving data and a system is provided that is configured to perform the method. The method can comprise processing a data signal by using an optical system comprising a signal processor. The method can compris... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110044562 | INTERPOLATOR AND DESIGNING METHOD THEREOF Interpolation of signed values A and B is efficiently performed by simple circuitry. To calculate an interpolated value C based on a 4-bit values A (bits a3a2a1a0) and B (bits b3b2b1b0 02/24/2011 | |
| 20110038018 | PIXEL INTERPOLATION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PIXEL INTERPOLATION, AND IMAGE READING APPARATUS USING THE SAME An embodiment has: weighting interpolation section for obtaining a pixel value for a missing pixel by a one-dimensional weighting interpolating method, using pixels in the vicinity of the missing pixel as reference pixels, and for generating a primarily interpolated ima... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110032269 | Automatically Resizing Demosaicked Full-Color Images Using Edge-Orientation Maps Formed In The Demosaicking Process Automatically resizing demosaicked full-color images using edge-orientation maps formed in the demosaicking process. In a first example embodiment, a method for automatic upsampling of a demosaicked image includes several acts. First, a demosaicked image and an edge-ori... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20100322536 | IMAGE ENLARGEMENT APPARATUS, METHOD, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND PROGRAM An image enlargement apparatus (108) includes: an interpolation unit (104 and the like) that generates a high-resolution interpolation image (OL) from a low-resolution image (101); a synthesis unit (105) that generates a first high-resolution... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100303383 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE EFFICIENT COMPUTATION OF IMAGE TRANSFORMS Image transforms that can be performed through a reverse lookup process in which output pixel addresses of an output image are reverse transformed into input pixel addresses. In some embodiments, rather than reverse transforming all output pixel addresses, a subset of o... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100303351 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM An image processing apparatus includes a unit configured to calculate a plurality of characteristic amounts from an input image, a unit configured to calculate a first multidimensional lookup table based on the characteristic amounts, a unit configured to calculate attr... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100290715 | IMAGE GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, PROGRAM THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM WHICH STORES THE PROGRAM An image generation method for generating image information of an image C by using an image A and an image B having a bit depth higher than that of image A. Image C having the same bit depth as image B is generated by increasing the bit depth of image A by means of tone... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100259607 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGING Methods and apparatus for imaging according to various aspects of the present invention may generate an enhanced image of a target in an environment using image data from a sensor. The methods and apparatus may scale the image data to a higher resolution and register th... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100254630 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING SUPER RESOLUTION IMAGES FROM RAW DATA REPRESENTATIVE OF COLOR FILTER ARRAY IMAGES A method and apparatus for generating a super-resolution image are provided. The method may include obtaining a first set of RAW data representing a first image captured at a first resolution and obtaining, from the first set of RAW data, at least one first sample of da... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100246998 | IMAGE INTERPOLATION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR OBTAINING INTERPOLATION COEFFICIENTS An image interpolation method includes: obtaining pixel values of integer pixel points and/or sub-pixel points in the row, column or any other directions of pixel points; obtaining pre-calculated interpolation coefficients, and interpolating the pixel points. A method f... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100215284 | System and Method for Implementing Graphics and Video Scaling Algorithm Using Interpolation Based on Symmetrical Polyphase Filtering A video processing system may implement a video scaling algorithm using interpolation based on polyphase filtering. A video or graphics scaler may be utilized to scale luma, chroma, and/or alpha information in a video image. The scaler may comprise a first polyphase sub... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100208996 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR RESTORING LOW-RESOLUTION TEXT IMAGES A system that extracts text from an image includes a capture device that captures the image having a low resolution. An image segmentation subsystem partitions the image into image segments. An image restoration subsystem generates a resolution-expanded image from the i... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100195934 | IMAGE INTERPOLATION METHOD, IMAGE INTERPOLATION DEVICE, AND PROGRAM An image interpolation method obtains an image line pixel value between two adjacent image lines. The method acquires a luminance change of pixels of two image lines and decides a region of two image lines where only one portion similar to a part of the luminance change... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100195927 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VIDEO IMAGE PROCESSING, CALCULATING THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN VIDEO FRAMES, AND ACQUIRING A SYNTHESIZED FRAME BY SYNTHESIZING A PLURALITY OF CONTIGUOUS SAMPLED FRAMES To acquire a high-resolution frame from a plurality of frames sampled from a video image, it is necessary to obtain a high-resolution frame with reduced picture quality degradation regardless of motion of a subject included in the frame. Because of this, between a plura... | 08/05/2010 |
| 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 |
