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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7346217 | Digital image enhancement using successive zoom images A method and Electro-Optical (EO) system for processing imagery comprising selecting a first frame of data as a template frame; capturing a second frame of data using the EO system, for a plurality of pixels of the second frame, correlating the plurality of pixels o... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7336832 | Processor and processing method for an image signal, image display apparatus, generation apparatus and generation method for coefficient data used therein, program for executing each of these methods, and computer-readable medium recording the program A class sorting section obtains a class code CL indicating a class to which pixel data y of a target position in an image signal Vb belongs using motion compensation vector information mi stored in a buffer memory in pair with pixel data of an image signal Va corres... | 02/26/2008 |
| 6970508 | Image coding and decoding using mapping coefficients corresponding to class information of pixel blocks It is possible to produce a decoded image with a high image quality from data of the lowermost hierarchy obtained during hierarchical coding operation. An image of a first hierarchy equal to an original image is successively thinned in thinning units so that an imag... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6947060 | Image forming apparatus, electron beam apparatus, modulation circuit, and image-forming apparatus driving method An image forming apparatus which performs pulsewidth modulation with a pulsewidth set by counting a clock. Especially, for grayscale level correction by setting the frequency of the clock, the periodic clock is counted, and an output pattern is changed in accordance... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6937657 | Motion video signal encoder and encoding method A motion video signal encoder maximizes image quality without exceeding transmission bandwidth available to carry the encoded motion video signal by comparing encoded frames of the motion video signal to a desired size of frame. If the size of encoded frames differ ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6873737 | Image encoding system, image decoding system and methods therefor A system and method are provided for realizing high speed and high efficiency in compression of image data having periodicity. The present invention includes the following: an image input unit to input image signal; a first predictive converter which converts relati... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6654503 | Block-based, adaptive, lossless image coder Method and system for lossless compression coding of a digitally represented image. The image is expressed as one or more blocks, each block having a sequence of pixels with binary pixel values. Within each block, a predictor index is chosen that predicts... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6636642 | Image coding device, image decoding device, image coding/decoding device and image coding/decoding method To realize image coding/decoding device that can compress an input multivalued image with high compression efficiency, the following measures are taken. First and second predictors predict the value of a target pixel based upon image data according to res... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6414717 | Picture converting apparatus, picture converting method, learning apparatus, learning method, and record medium A picture reducing circuit 1 reduces a supplied original picture. An upper hierarchical level picture memory 2 stores an input upper hierarchical level picture. A predictive tap obtaining circuit 3 extracts a predictive tap from the upper hierarchical lev... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6256343 | Method and apparatus for image coding In an image coding such as the international standard H.263, when a motion compensated predictive error signal is orthogonal transformed, derived transform coefficients are quantized and coded, and a motion vector is coded, in order to be liable to detect... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6226327 | Video coding method and apparatus which select between frame-based and field-based predictive modes An encoder considers a frame representing a picture as comprised of areas. For each area, the encoder decides which of frame-based or field-based orthogonal transformation will be most efficient at reducing spatial redundancy in that area. For each area, ... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6160849 | Selectable field and frame based predictive video coding An encoder considers a frame representing a picture as comprised of areas. For each area, the encoder decides which of frame-based or field-based orthogonal transformation will be most efficient at reducing spatial redundancy in that area. For each area, ... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6157676 | Digital video signal inter-block interpolative predictive encoding/decoding apparatus and method providing high efficiency of encoding An image encoding apparatus for application to images expressed as respective frames of a digital video signal, whereby an image is converted into an array of blocks with specific blocks predetermined as being independent internally encoded blocks and the... | 12/05/2000 |
| 5953460 | Image encoding method and an image encoder wherein a one-dimensional signal having the fastest energy conversion rate is selected and outputted as a coded signal An image signal is transformed by at least two different mathematical transformations to obtain at least two different transformed signals. A selected one of the transformed signals is quantized and coded, the selection being made so as to minimize the si... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5883976 | Selectively utilizing multiple encoding methods The invention is to exactly select an enconding method with satisfactory encoding efficiency, by comparing the final predicted code lengths for plural encoding methods, prior to the actual encoding operation. This object can be attained by an encoding dev... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5867231 | Method and apparatus for decoding video signal A method for decoding a video signal in which the decoding operation is completed within a predetermined time irrespective of the presence of an error which is generated on a bit strings. In the case where a bit strings formed by coding a video signal for... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5844630 | Apparatus and method for detecting motion vectors of pivel blocks of a digitized video signal A motion detector and a motion area detector detect shifts of areas at which motions exist by using signals of fields before and after the field to be detected. According to shifts of the detected areas, an initial vector closest to the true motion is sel... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5719628 | Video signal coding method and apparatus An efficient coding system for interlaced video sequences with forced refreshing capabilities. An input picture of is divided into two fields, a first and a second field. Certain lines or portions of lines in each respective field are designated for force... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5394190 | Video signal encoding apparatus A field to be encoded is divided into blocks. Then, first, second, and third motion vectors relative to data of a block of the field to be encoded are calculated from data of an m-th preceding field (m: even), data of an n-th preceding field (n: odd), and... | 02/28/1995 |
| 4633325 | Adaptive predictive encoding and/or decoding apparatus An adaptive predictive encoding apparatus generates predictive values P1, P2, . . . , Pn with respect to a quantized value X of a picture element x. Predictive error signals Y1, Y2, . . . , Yn | 12/30/1986 |
| 4559563 | Adaptive prediction for binary encoded documents containing a mixture of text, line drawings and halftones This is a circuit and method for adaptively selecting one of a plurality of predictor patterns to encode a stream of image data blocks such as would be output from a raster-input-scanner. A variety of halftone and nonhalftone predictor patterns are used a... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4470146 | Adaptive quantizer with instantaneous error robustness A robust ADPCM encoder with a modified leaky quantizer and a pair of parallel predictors is provided. A large leakage is initially inserted into the quantization scale adaptation by utilizing a number of most recent multipliers in a modified leaky Jayant ... | 09/04/1984 |
| 4215374 | Encoding device comprising predictors for thinned and unthinned patterns For selectively carrying out predictive encoding of an original pattern of a first tone on a background of a second tone and a thinned pattern having, in effect, the first tone on its background corresponding to the second tone, a device comprises a predi... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4202011 | Television signal coder A television signal coder of the type which makes use of correlations to compress the amount of information transmitted. n fields are selected for every m fields (m, n being positive integers; m>n), and a predicted signal level for each picture element in... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4144547 | Apparatus and method for encoding halftone and line copy data A system for encoding halftone and line copy data having an unknown screen frequency and/or angle is disclosed. The data, in binary pixel form, is inputted to multiple predictors, each adapted to handle different types of imagery. The predictions made are... | 03/13/1979 |
