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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7440625 | Method and apparatus for decoding compressed and encoded digital images A method for decoding-decompressing a compressed-encoded digital data sequence relating to at least one compressed-encoded digital image and for providing at least one respective decoded-decompressed digital image. ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7397400 | Variable length data encapsulation and encoding Systems, apparatus, and methods of encoding variable length data for efficient transport over a wireless channel. A wireless terminal can determine a frame size to encode, and can encode and transmit the frame data as one or more encoded blocks selected from a famil... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397957 | Discrete wavelet transform unit and method for adaptively encoding still image based on energy of each block Disclosed is a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) unit for encoding and decoding still images based on the energy of each block. The DWT unit includes an energy calculating section for calculating energy of an input image in unit of a block having a predetermined numb... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7359004 | Bi-level and full-color video combination for video communication Systems and methods for video communication are described. In one aspect, network bandwidth conditions are estimated. Bi-level or full-color video is then transmitted over the network at transmission bit rates that are controlled as a function of the estimated bandw... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7339583 | Computer graphics data coding apparatus, decoding apparatus, coding method and decoding method Computer graphics data coding apparatus includes unit configured to acquire computer graphics data items, unit configured to pre-process acquired computer graphics data items, controlling/coding unit configured to subject pre-processed computer graphics data items t... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340418 | Visual database for linking geography to seismic data A medium having a plurality of computer readable files relating to geophysical seismic data recorded thereon. The files include a map display having multiple levels of geographic detail and including a plurality of surface seismic data lines. A plurality of compress... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336838 | Pixel-data selection device to provide motion compensation, and a method thereof A pixel-data selection device providing motion compensation, and a method thereof. A first and a second storage parts store a current frame/field including first pixel-data and a previous frame/field including second pixel-data, respectively, corresponding to at lea... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336681 | Data format and data transfer A signal format that can be accessed, as a file, by the computer on which it is stored is provided with a plurality of concatenated content packages. The content package comprises System, Picture, Audio and Auxiliary Items. The System, Picture, Audio and Auxiliary I... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328270 | Communication protocol processor having multiple microprocessor cores connected in series and dynamically reprogrammed during operation via instructions transmitted along the same data paths used to convey communication data A communication protocol processor is presented including a transmit unit and a receive unit, each having multiple microprocessor cores connected in series. Each microprocessor core performs an operation upon a stream of communication data, conducted along a data pa... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7302648 | Method and apparatus for resizing buffered windows Methods and apparatuses for resizing buffered windows. In one aspect of the invention, a method to resize a buffered window on a data processing system includes: determining an estimated size for a window which has a first pixel image of a first size buffered in a f... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302003 | Method and device for image interpolation with motion compensation A method of interpolating images intended to be incorporated, into a sequence of moving images, each between a first original image and a second original image of the sequence, comprises an estimation of a motion vector associated with a given pixel block of a curre... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295715 | Apparatus and method for detecting frequency Provided are an apparatus and method for precisely processing an input signal by detecting the frequency characteristic of the signal and applying the detection result in an image signal processing block to reduce noise in the signal or enhance the details of the si... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292772 | Method and apparatus for decoding and recording medium for a coded video stream A video decoder reproduces an MP@ML/MPEG-2 video bit stream at an arbitrary speed. When a slice decoder control circuit receives parameters, the slice decoder control circuit sequentially supplies parameters of a picture layer and a write pointer associated with a f... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292635 | Interframe wavelet video coding method An interframe wavelet video coding (IWVC) method by which an average temporal distance (ATD) is minimized is provided. The IWVC method comprises receiving a group-of-frames and decomposing the group-of-frames into difference frames and first average frames between t... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7289565 | Multiple description coding communication system A method and apparatus reliably encode and decode information over a communication system. The method includes transforming two coefficients into two pairs of random variables, one random variable in each pair having substantially equal energy as one random variable... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286165 | Image pickup apparatus with a variable length encoder and data quantity monitor This invention is a digital still camera having a coded data quantity monitoring circuit (9). This monitoring circuit (9) detects the quantity of data of an image signal compressed by a JPEG compression circuit (7). When a CPU (10) judges... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283562 | Method and apparatus for scaling input bandwidth for bandwidth allocation technology A method and apparatus are provided for scaling an input bandwidth for bandwidth allocation technology. An original bandwidth count value of an input flow is received. A bandwidth scalar constant is provided and used for scaling the received original bandwidth count... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280600 | Blockwise coding process, of MPEG type, in which a resolution is assigned to each block The invention relates to a process for coding images transmitted according to the so-called multiresolution technique. According to this process, a step of pixel level processing of so-called mixed blocks of pixels, that is to say those shared between at least one z... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280709 | Scan line interpolation device, image processing device, image display device, and scan line interpolation method In the conversion of a video signal from interlaced to progressive scanning, the value of each pixel on an interpolated scan line is calculated by a procedure that includes calculating similarity values for pairs of pixel blocks located in point-symmetrical position... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274389 | Camera apparatus and image processing system with variable resolution In an image capture apparatus, the data rate of image data output from the image capture device is changed by calculating a first data rate of the image data according to a first size of a variable display area that displays the image data. Information indicating th... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7266245 | Image signal compression method and system An image signal compression method and system. Without involving the current processing pixel, an encryption key and a decryption key are respectively and separately generated by a compression subsystem and a decompression subsystem. Both of the encryption and decry... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263538 | Curve tracing system A curve tracing system and method of extracting a smooth curve from a plurality of image data points includes the steps of: partitioning the data points into a plurality of groups each defined by a center point, manipulating the center points into a sequential order... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260692 | Methods and apparatus for accessing trace data A system provides mechanisms and techniques to retrieve trace data from a trace buffer residing in a data storage system. The software program operating on a processor within the data storage system operates in trace mode to produce trace data in the trace buffer up... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7256821 | Network compatible image capturing apparatus and method In order that a digital video (DV) camera function as a WWW server in a network, an image capturing section captures an image of a subject. A DV encoder encodes an image signal input from the image capturing section. A recording and playback section plays back DV da... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254824 | Encoding optimization techniques for encoding program grid section of server-centric interactive programming guide An interactive program guide (IPG) may include a program grid section and a multimedia section. The program grid section typically contains program information organized in a grid with a time axis and a channel axis. The multimedia section may include video for adve... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7250878 | Decoding device with multi-buffers and decoding method thereof A decoding device includes a variable-length decoding circuit, a first buffer, a second buffer and a DC/AC prediction circuit is disclosed. The variable length decoding circuit decodes a first block and a second block from a compressed media stream. The first and se... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7239748 | System and method for segmenting an electronic image A system and method of identifying foreground segments in a JPEG image. The method includes the steps of: selecting a block in the JPEG image; extracting a set of DCT coefficients from the block, wherein the set comprises the first N AC components of the block; comp... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7237197 | Method and system for presenting a video stream of a video streaming device A method and system for providing video data to a user on a computer is provided. According to the method and system, a video streaming device attached to the computer provides a video stream that is displayed on the computer. Images that were previously captured wi... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233619 | Variable general purpose compression for video images (ZLN) Methods, medium, and machines which compress, enhance, encode, transmit, decompress and display digital video images in real time. Real time compression is achieved by sub-sampling each frame of a video signal, filtering the pixel values, and encoding. Real time tra... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7231308 | Test system dynamic range extension through compression compensation A method for extending dynamic range and a test system with extended dynamic range compensate for a compression effect on measured data caused by a receiver channel of the test system being compressed. The measured data is magnitude and phase data for one of a devic... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227589 | Method and apparatus for video decoding on a multiprocessor system A method and apparatus for decoding compressed video. The method includes reading a stream of compressed video into a memory. The video includes multiple pictures, with each picture having one or more independent elements. Thereafter, assigning, via a first processo... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7224832 | Image coding device, and image decoding device using irreversable coding without mask image An object of the invention is to provide an image coding device and an image decoding device enabling a transmitting color function through irreversible coding by performing the processing to reduce the occurrence of noises at the encoder's end without using a mask ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221707 | Image processing apparatus employing hierarchical encoding When image data to be encoded is divided into image data items in a plurality of hierarchies and an image data item in a given hierarchy among the divided image data items in the plurality of hierarchies is to be encoded as an intra picture, an image encoding appara... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218676 | Method and a decoder for decoding MPEG video A decoded picture and parameters of a sequence layer, a GOP layer and a picture layer respectively for displaying the decoded picture are stored as a set in each of picture banks and parameter banks of a frame memory. Parameters of each layer stored as a set with a ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219119 | Procedure for computing the Cholesky decomposition in a parallel multiprocessor system The invention relates to a procedure for computing the Cholesky decomposition of a positive definite matrix into a product of a lower and an upper triagonal matrix having a dimension of L in a multi-channel procedure, wherein: the ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215381 | Image display device in digital TV Disclosed is an image display device in a digital TV that is capable of carrying out the conversion into various kinds of resolution by using single bit map data in the digital TV. The image display device includes: a data processing part for executing bit map conve... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7193660 | Image processing apparatus According to the present invention, an image processing apparatus is provided for inputting moving image data composed of a plurality of frames, for detecting definitions of a plurality of frames in the moving image data and a range of successive frames indicating a... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190880 | Player and disc system for producing video signals in different formats A system for playing a selected one of multiple audio tracks recorded in synchronized fashion with a motion picture on an optical disk. The optical disk has encoded on it a mixing master music and effects (“M&E”) track, or a switching master M&E track. Individua... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187372 | Image data transmission apparatus and method for image display system An image display system comprises: a transmission device (PC) 10, for transmitting image data upon receiving a drawing command from an OS or an application; and a receiving monitor 40, for displaying, on a high-resolution panel 41, image data re... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187418 | Systems and methods for delivering picture-in-picture signals at diverse compressions and bandwidths T Systems and methods for providing picture-in-picture, or other multi-picture displays. Some of the systems include two or more video and/or data signals that are coupled to a transmission device. In addition, a selector signal is coupled to the transmission device... | 03/06/2007 |
