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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179474 | Fast iterative motion estimation method on gradually changing images A fast iterative motion estimation method enables motion estimation to take place with fewer computations. The motion estimation and error determination steps are combined, each position in the search area is monitored to determine whether error value reaches the mi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7868946 | Adaptive motion compensated interpolating method and apparatus A motion compensated interpolating method of adaptively generating a frame to be obtained by interpolating two frames according to features of a motion vector and an apparatus therefor. The adaptive motion compensated interpolating method includes estimating motion ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7362374 | Video interlacing using object motion estimation One embodiment disclosed relates to the use of object motion estimation to interlace a progressive video sequence. One of a plurality of consecutive frames is segmented and motion vectors for each segment are determined though object motion estimation. Interpolated ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362379 | Image processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program Inter-field-interpolation spatial transition is calculated based on the sum of absolute values of differences between pixel values of an inter-field-interpolated pixel and adjacent pixels on the same field. Inter-field-interpolation temporal transition is calculated... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356172 | Methods and systems for motion tracking Systems and methods are described for tracking motion in a medical imaging system. The methods use landmark sets including hard landmarks and soft landmarks. The systems can include means for generating a landmark set, means for constructing a landmark set spatial r... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356439 | Motion detection apparatus and method An image motion detection apparatus and method detecting a motion in a moving image by sequentially being input with a plurality of fields that are temporally successive and detecting motion information values representing presence and absence of motion for each pix... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356167 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method for correcting image data One target pixel is selected from a plurality of defective pixels. By adjusting a searching interval based on the number of pixels included in image data to be processed, one or more normal pixels are searched and detected on each of opposed sides across the target ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352812 | Method and apparatus for controlling loop filtering or post filtering in block based motion compensationed video coding Adjacent blocks are identified in an image. Coding parameters for the adjacent blocks are identified. Deblock filtering between the identified adjacent blocks is skipped if the coding parameters for the identified adjacent blocks are similar and not skipped if the c... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349583 | Global motion estimation image coding and processing The invention provides methods for global motion estimation, determining a coarse estimation, and refining a coarse estimation. Embodiments of the invention provide a fast and robust global motion estimation algorithm based on two-stage coarse-to-fine refinement str... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349475 | Motion vector detection method and apparatus A motion vector detection method includes extracting a first block from the m-th picture, extracting second blocks having a large correlation with respect to the first block from a (m+n)-th picture ((m+n)>m-th), detecting first motion vectors between the first and s... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342964 | Multi-standard variable block size motion estimation processor An apparatus generally having a first circuit, a second circuit and a third circuit is disclosed. The first circuit may be configured to generate a plurality of difference values by calculating an absolute difference between each pixel from a current block and a cor... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7308147 | Image processing apparatus, image recording apparatus, image reproducing apparatus, camera system, computer program, and storage medium An image processing apparatus includes an image compression device which performs a discrete wavelet transform of pixel values for each rectangular portion to produce wavelet coefficients, and performs a hierarchical compression coding of the wavelet coefficients fo... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7274402 | Method and apparatus for motion-vector-aided pixel interpolation In a method and apparatus for motion-vector-aided interpolation of a pixel in an intermediate image lying temporally or spatially between first and second images, motion vectors are assigned to the pixel to be interpolated, one pixel in each image being assigned to ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7265777 | Method for abstracting multiple moving objects A motion detection method is used to abstract multiple moving objects. The motion detection method uses a first frame and a second frame to locate the moving objects appearing in a fixed scene. The method includes calculating a difference of each pixel between the f... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260148 | Method for motion vector estimation A method and apparatus for encoding video includes selecting a prediction motion vector for a current block of a current image frame from respective motion vectors of two or more neighbor blocks of the current block. Then the current block and a neighbor block corre... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7245770 | Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7245744 | Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242792 | Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242804 | Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239722 | Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233701 | Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing apparatus and video processing method A region data describing method for describing, over a plurality of frames, region data about the region of an arbitrary object in a video, the method specifying the object region in the video with at least either of an approximate figure approximating the region or... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7215384 | Method and apparatus for simplifying field prediction motion estimation Motion estimation on a received stream of data comprising at least a predicted frame and an anchor frame, and utilizing even-parity field prediction to predict content of each of a plurality of fields of the predicted frame from corresponding fields of the anchor fr... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7203380 | Video production and compaction with collage picture frame user interface A method, system, and apparatus for easily creating a video collage from a video is provided. By segmenting the video into a set number of video segments and providing an interface for a user to select images which represent the video segments and insert the selecte... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7173968 | Method for coding and decoding a digitalized image A method and an arrangement in which a digitized image with picture elements is allocated to a number of image segments. The image segments, preferably image blocks, are spread such that interspaces remain between the image blocks to be encoded. The interspaces are ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7170935 | Image processing apparatus and method, and computer-readable memory Frames constituting an input moving picture are extracted by a frame extraction unit, the extracted frames are compared and scene changes in the moving picture are discriminated by a scene-change discrimination unit. Scene-change information relating to specific sce... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7126989 | Image coding method and image decoding method A picture coding apparatus (300) is a picture coding apparatus that codes a difference between picture data (Img) representing an input picture and predictive picture data (Pred) representing a predictive picture for the input picture and generates coded pict... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7120277 | Segmentation unit for and method of determining a second segment and image processing apparatus A method of determining segments in a series of images based on previous segmentation results and on motion estimation. A second segment (108) of a second image (106) is determined based on a first segment (102) of a first image (100), wi... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116800 | Image segmentation system and method The present invention relates in general to systems used to process images. In particular, the present invention is an image segmentation system and method used to isolate the segmented image of a target person, animal, or object from an ambient image which includes... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7092445 | Video coder providing implicit coefficient prediction and scan adaptation for image coding and intra coding of video A predictive video coder performs gradient prediction based on previous blocks of image data. For a new block of image data, the prediction determines a horizontal gradient and a vertical gradient from a block diagonally above the new block (vertically above a previ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088773 | Motion segmentation system with multi-frame hypothesis tracking In one embodiment, a video encoder encodes digital video using motion segmentation. According to one embodiment, motion segmentation is performed using multiple frames. The motion segmentation may operate by determining multiple classification hypotheses and by re-c... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085401 | Automatic object extraction A method for automatic, stable and robust object extraction of moving objects in color video frames, achieved without any prior knowledge of the video content. For high rate video, the method includes providing at least a first and a second high frame rate video fra... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085431 | Systems and methods for reducing position errors in image correlation systems during intra-reference-image displacements A position error correcting, or reducing, method and system used in an image-correlation system which obtains an error function generally reflecting an error occurring over a nominal reference image update length and an error occurring at a first frequency and vario... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7079689 | Image processing apparatus and its method, and program An initial similarity candidate calculator calculates a similarity between first and second images, which are expressed by quantized DCT coefficients, on the basis of at least first and second image feature amounts of the first and second images. A coefficient conve... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075544 | Apparatus and method of processing image in thin-client environment and apparatus and method of receiving the processed image A thin client/server network image processing system has a communication network, a thin client system, and a server, which performs a predetermined application at the request of the thin client system according to a thin client/server network environment/architectu... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7072398 | System and method for motion vector generation and analysis of digital video clips Given a digital video clip, this invention describes how to efficiently compute the motion vectors and motion trajectory of each identified video object for facilitating various commonly encountered visual applications, such as video compression for transmission and... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7058127 | Method and system for video transcoding A system for transcoding compressed video signal, including a plurality of pictures, comprising an estimator to gather information and estimate the signal characteristics about the video signal; a decoder to completely or partially decode the compressed video signal... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058228 | Image data compression or expansion method and apparatus, and image transmission system and monitoring system using the method and device Image data compression method and apparatus which improves image quality in a scene where image greatly changes and reduces the image data, and image transmission system and monitoring system using the method and apparatus. The image data compression apparatus which... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7046728 | Method of video coding the movement of a human face from a sequence of images Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, a technique for coding the movement of a head or face from a sequence of images is disclosed. A variety of potential alternative embodiments are discussed. ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7031497 | Method for computing optical flow under the epipolar constraint Point matches between images within an image sequence are identified by sparse optical flow computation and employed to compute a fundamental matrix for the epipolar geometry, which in turn is employed to derive an epipolar geometry constraint for computing dense op... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7016544 | Digital image encoding and decoding method and digital image encoding and decoding device using the same A method for decoding a bitstream data obtained by encoding a target image comprises the steps of: (a) extracting from the bitstream data, coordinates point date indicating frame coordinates points of the reference image, coordinat... | 03/21/2006 |
