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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7952769 | Systems and methods for image processing coding/decoding An image processing system includes a coding device configured to code input image data, and a decoding device configured to decode the coded input image data, wherein, if coding and decoding are repeated on the input image data, the image quality of an image corres... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7397963 | Method and apparatus for storing bitplanes of coefficients in a reduced size memory A method and apparatus for storing bitplanes of coefficients in a reduced size memory is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for encoding coefficients comprises applying one or more wavelet transforms to generate multiple coefficients and storing N bitplanes of e... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7350185 | System, method, and computer program product for effort estimation A system and method for establishing an estimate for proposals and other customer requests which precludes an extensive up front investment in expert opinion and design. This is accomplished by applying a pattern-based technique toward rough application effort sizin... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7333245 | System and method for printing retained print jobs A computing system including a computer and a printer. The computer is operable to transmit a print job to the printer that cases the printer to retain the job. The computer is further operable to record a record of the job. The record includes an identifier of the ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7305654 | Test schedule estimator for legacy builds A test schedule estimator for performing fixes on released software. In a preferred embodiment, historic data from similar builds are used with other data to estimate a time required to perform testing and release based on the number of fixes implemented. ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7295678 | Method for inserting binary messages in a digital image A method and a system for inserting at least one binary code in a digital image, including converting the code into a modification of contours of objects in the image. ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283265 | Raster data compression apparatus and method A plurality of patterns such as solid patterns, edge patterns, half-tone patterns, and verbatim data are losslessly represented in a compressed raster data stream. A pattern selection module selects among the various patterns to provide the best combination of lossl... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7269274 | Digital watermark embedding method, digital watermark extraction method, digital watermark embedding apparatus, and digital watermark extraction apparatus An apparatus for embedding a digital watermark in a document image detects circumscribing outer shapes of characters in the document image and sets a plurality of reference lines that extend in the column direction and are spaced apart in the row direction by a basi... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7260238 | Digital watermark embedding method, apparatus, digital watermark extraction method and apparatus Distance d1 between the right edges of A1 and B2, and distance d2 between the right edges of A3 and B4 are calculated. If data to be embedded is 1, one or a combination of a process for increasing the size of B2 in th... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254197 | Apparatus and method for canceling interference signals in a receiver for a packet data communication system Provided is an apparatus and method for canceling an interference signal in a packet data receiver in which data is transmitted and received over a packet data channel and a packet data control channel. The packet data channel is time-synchronized with the packet da... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7239423 | Image processing apparatus To print a satisfactory image output according to a kind of image without pressure of memory resources and a decrease of transfer speed due to an increase of image data capacity, a CPU of an image processing apparatus expands print data received from an external app... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236652 | Image retrieval apparatus and image retrieving method An object of the present invention is to provide an image retrieval system for computing similarity in the case when components are different between an image feature vector of a query image and the image feature vectors of images to be retrieved when retrieval is c... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233410 | Printer control apparatus and method of controlling the same, printer and method of controlling the same, reader and method of controlling the same, and image forming system There is provided a printer control apparatus which can be applied to an image forming apparatus in which a plurality of types of readers and a plurality of types of printers can be connected to a single controller, and which enable efficient transfer of image data ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7197187 | Reduction of data with limited distortion of image formed of the data A method for reducing data with limited distortion of an image formed of the data includes determining whether reduction of the data is feasible and reducing the data if reduction of the data is feasible. Determining whether reduction of the source data is feasible ... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7190289 | Signal encoding method, signal decoding method, signal encoding apparatus, signal decoding apparatus, signal encoding program, and signal decoding program A signal encoding method according to the present invention is a signal encoding method of dividing a coding target signal as an object of coding into partition units and performing arithmetic coding based on probability-related information in the partition units, w... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7152055 | Method and system for reducing document file size by deleting unused and duplicate template data A computer generated document file comprises content data and template data including, for example, formatting information. The size of the document file is reduced by removing unused and/or duplicate template data. ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7139099 | Image processing device and image processing method Disclosed are an image processing device and an image processing method capable of generating a high-resolution color image of a fine gray scale from image data of a small information amount by using a small memory capacity. A character graphics image of high resolu... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7130074 | Image encoding and recording apparatus An image recording apparatus is provided. The image recording apparatus includes a generator that generates information of recordable capacity of a storage and a holder for holding in advance data to be stored in the storage. A signal generator generates a signal in... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7093170 | Coding apparatus and decoding apparatus for transmission/storage of information An output coding apparatus includes a coder for coding an inputted bitstream to an error correction and/or detection code composed of information bits and check bits; and a bitstream assembling section for assembling an outputted bitstream by inserting a synchroniza... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088463 | Binary data transmission over an image data channel A method of sending binary data over an image data channel. The binary data is encoded into an encoded linear matrix image, and the encoded linear matrix image is transmitted over the image data channel. The received linear matrix image is decoded to recover the bin... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7072072 | Color rendering optimized for text and line art A pure rendering intent is used to render text and line art in color imaging systems. A CMY image goes through a one hundred percent under color removal process creating a CMYK image. The CMYK image is processed by a set of clamping tone reproduction curves. The cla... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072078 | Image storage apparatus, image storage method, and storage medium Information including parameters for JBIG-encoding is managed page-by-page, and image information is JBIG-encoded with the information managed page-by-page, after which the encoded data is stored in an image memory. The encoded data stored is then decoded with the i... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7072404 | Decoding apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium This invention provides a decoding apparatus and control method therefor capable of eliminating visual flaws between frames even if several frames cannot be decoded. The first data is read out (S201), and decoding of the frame data starts (S202). Durin... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7054039 | Fax confirmation device A method and apparatus for placing an indelible mark on each page of a document which has been sent by FAX. The sender's FAX machine applies a clear/transparent chemical or ink message on the surface of the document which contains information such as the FAX machine... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7051248 | Coding apparatus and decoding apparatus for transmission/storage of information An output coding apparatus includes a coder for coding an inputted bitstream to an error correction and/or detection code composed of information bits and check bits; and a bitstream assembling section for assembling an outputted bitstream by inserting a synchroniza... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050187 | Real time fax-over-packet packet loss compensation A device and method for providing real time compensation for packet loss in the transmission of facsimile data over packet networks to avoid the generation of page loss data and the termination of facsimile transmission. Facsimile devices have a low tolerance for in... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7051247 | Coding system and decoding system In a coding system wherein an error correction/detect-ion coding is combined with a synchronization recovering technique using a synchronization code, the problems of a pseudo synchronization and a step out due to error detect-ion are solved. There is provided a cod... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042582 | Printer and printer data processing method For a data transfer mode inside a printer, three types of modes of a mode via an auxiliary storage, a first bypass mode and a second bypass mode are provided. In the mode via an auxiliary storage, a communication task reaches an image generation task via a first buf... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7032137 | Coding system and decoding system In a coding system wherein an error correction/detect-ion coding is combined with a synchronization recovering technique using a synchronization code, the problems of a pseudo synchronization and a step out due to error detect-ion are solved. There is provided a cod... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7009533 | Adaptive compression and decompression of bandlimited signals An efficient method for compressing sampled analog signals in real time, without loss, or at a user-specified rate or distortion level, is described. The present invention is particularly effective for compressing and decompressing high-speed, bandlimited analog sig... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7003500 | Retail point of sale (RPOS) apparatus for internet merchandising The present invention is an apparatus for the money transactions required in the selling of merchandise or media content on the Internet and uses at least one in-person contact with the buyer. A predefined transaction originating at a real place of business authoriz... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6947604 | Method and hardware to implement two-dimensional compression Embodiments are disclosed in which two-dimensional image compression, such as for bi-level images, is implemented. ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6944228 | Method and apparatus for encoding video hyperlinks A system and method of adding hyperlinked information to a television broadcast. The broadcast material is analyzed and one or more regions within a frame are identified. Additional information can be associated with a region, and can be transmitted in encoded form,... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6915017 | Image compression apparatus, image expansion apparatus, image forming apparatus, image compression method, image expansion method and storage medium An image compression apparatus compresses image data by carrying out a parallel processing for every image pattern made up of a plurality of bits. The apparatus includes a first unit for obtaining a run length of the image data and a repetition number of the run len... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6898319 | Method and system for video frame enhancement using edge detection Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a video processing system includes: a video coder. The video coder includes the capability to generate an edge detection map along a predetermined direction for an uncoded frame that is to be coded. | 05/24/2005 |
| 6735344 | Data structure for image transmission, image coding method, and image decoding method There is provided an image decoding apparatus for decoding a coded image signal having an image identifier based on a data structure of the image signal. This apparatus comprises a data analyzer for analyzing the coded image signal with reference to the image identi... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6583887 | Method and apparatus for data compression Compression apparatus is described that operates to select an optimum compression procedure to apply to received image data. The compression apparatus can be employed in a page printer having a print engine that must be provided with video data at a const... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6144322 | Variable length code processor with encoding and/or decoding A variable length code processor is obtained which can perform encoding or decoding process in a plurality of variable length encoding standards. A sequence control section (5) has two control registers (VL-- MODE and VL-- CNT). A CP... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6141122 | Data compressing method, image data memory, and method and device for expanding compressed data A data compressing method which can efficiently compress image data containing color data is provided. A compressed data expanding method which can expand the compressed data at high speed is provided. Image data containing color data are compressed into ... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6141450 | Image compression system using halftoning and inverse halftoning to produce base and difference layers while minimizing mean square errors A two-layer image compression device is disclosed with a halftone circuit, an inverse halftone circuit and a quantization circuit. In this circuit, the halftone circuit converts the input gray-scale image into a binary image and rearranges the binary imag... | 10/31/2000 |
