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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7324708 | Interpolation method for digital pictures An interpolation method for processing digital pictures divides blank regions among the pixels equally into several squares. The interpolation parameter of each square corresponding to the sampling point is determined. These interpolation parameters are compressed a... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321686 | Image processing apparatus and method for improving the contract of an image Processing for improving the contrast of an image of interest is executed by an image processing circuit in an X-ray photography apparatus. The image is decomposed into coefficient values of a plurality of frequency bands by a frequency-component decomposition circu... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321693 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method including adjustment of coded data to specified target size An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are disclosed for generating coded data having a desired data size at a high speed. The image processing apparatus includes a coding part, two memories, a setting part and a data size adjustment part. The ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7318026 | Encoding apparatus and method, decoding apparatus and method, and recording medium recording apparatus and method An encoding method comprising the steps of forming a difference signal which is the difference between a first channel signal and a second channel signal of an input PCM signal, encoding the difference signal and the second channel signal with a time difference, div... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310366 | Procedure for estimating amplification factors of a CDMA signal The invention concerns a procedure for estimating unknown amplification factors of a received CDMA signal, which encompasses a plurality of code channels, in which respectively an input signal from a symbol plane is split on a symbol plane through splitting with a s... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308028 | Apparatus and method for generating mosaic images The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for generating mosaic images, wherein photographed content is displayed as a still image by a digital TV display or video monitor for an extended period of time. The apparatus of the present invention includes... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305031 | Method and system for the error resilient transmission of predictively encoded signals A system for the introduction of controlled correlation among multiple redundant representations of predictively encoded signals while avoiding predictive mismatch at a receiver when any given sub-set of the multiple representations is received. The system embodies ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7294537 | Method of fabricating thin film transistor with multiple gates using super grain silicon crystallization A method of fabricating a thin film transistor with multiple gates uses a super grain silicon (SGS) crystallization process. The thin film transistor includes a semiconductor layer having a zigzag shape formed on an insulating substrate, and a gate electrode that ov... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295613 | Early detection of zeros in the transform domain A method detects blocks that are to be indicated as skipped at an earlier stage of the encoding process, than would be the case with other implementations of the ITU H.263 and H.264 standards. The method includes transforming 4×4 blocks in the macro blocks having a... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295609 | Method and apparatus for coding image information, method and apparatus for decoding image information, method and apparatus for coding and decoding image information, and system of coding and transmitting image information An image information coding apparatus codes an input image signal in a manner optimized on the basis of the visual characteristics. In quantization, an input image signal is divided into blocks, an orthogonal transform is performed on a block-by-block basis, and res... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7283952 | Correcting model bias during quality and rate control for digital audio An audio encoder regulates quality and bitrate with a control strategy. The strategy includes several features. First, an encoder regulates quantization using quality, minimum bit count, and maximum bit count parameters. Second, an encoder regulates quantization usi... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7277489 | Two dimensional discrete wavelet transforms The method performs a two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform on an image. The image comprises a plurality of blocks of pixels. The method generates (340) a current output block of subband data corresponding to a current block. The current output block is ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7277975 | Methods and apparatuses for decoupling a request from one or more solicited responses Embodiments of apparatuses, systems, and methods are described for communicating information between functional blocks of a system across a communication fabric. Translation logic couples to the communication fabric. The translation logic implements a higher level p... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269564 | Method and apparatus to indicate an encoding status for digital content A method of determining an encoding rate for digital content. According to the method, the a sample of the content data is encoded for a predetermined period of time. The encoding rate is calculated by knowing the size of the sample of content encoded and the length... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7263125 | Method and device for indicating quantizer parameters in a video coding system A method and device for coding of digital video sequence, wherein an indication of quantization parameter (QP) is provided in the encoded bit-stream for decoding purposes. The QP related information is indicated by introducing a sequence level quantization parameter... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260265 | Enhancing compression while transcoding JPEG images Further compression of data allowing economical storage of data for extended periods of time in high-speed access memory is performed in reduced time by performing further compression during transcoding in the transform domain and without restoring image data to its... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7260269 | Image recovery using thresholding and direct linear solvers An image recovery algorithm that recovers completely lost blocks in an image/video frame using spatial information surrounding these blocks. One application focuses on lost regions of pixels containing textures, edges and other image features that pose problems for ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254267 | Encoder for volume data A volume data encoder with high encoding efficiency is provided. The object of the coding is volume data which contains a plurality of tomogram planes output from a CT and an MRI. A header analysis unit separates each plane image into header information and pixel in... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248190 | Variable-length encoding method, variable-length decoding method, storage medium, variable-length encoding device, variable-length decoding device, and bit stream The present invention correctly decodes data encoded with a variable-length encoding method that improves the compression ratio. The variable-length encoding method encodes a unit data composed of a plurality of sub-data while referencing a parameter table, and incl... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248631 | Method for reducing processing power requirements of a video decoder A system and method dynamically process video data received by a video decoder by determining a throttling amount, at a decoder throttling device, based on a measure of computational processing power required to decode at least one bitstream of the video data or the... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7242713 | 2-D transforms for image and video coding A set of one and two-dimensional transforms is constructed subject to certain range limited constraints to provide a computationally efficient transform implementation, such as for use in image and video coding. The constraints can include that the transform has a s... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242960 | Method and system for cellular network services and an intelligent integrated broadcast television downlink having intelligent service control with feedback In an RF communication system, aspects for cellular network and intelligent integrated broadcast television downlink with intelligent service control with feedback may comprise generating a request in a mobile terminal for media to be delivered to the mobile termina... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7242717 | Wavelet domain motion compensation system Motion estimation for interframe coding of digital video is performed by matching blocks of transform coefficients representing a frame to be predicted with a phase-allocated array of coefficients representing a reference frame. ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239716 | Data insertion device and method of inserting data An data insertion device inserts pattern data including information related to digital watermarking into digital image data such as MPEG2 data. First, the MPEG2 data are read picture by picture, and a type of each picture is determined. Then, an insertion intensity ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236528 | System and method for processing time-based media System and method for processing time-based media such as sequences of images, audio sequences, and the like on a computing device such as a personal computer. A method may comprise receiving a plurality of sample data, processing the sample data based on a type of ... | 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 |
| 7233566 | Five-by-three wavelet transform apparatus In a 5×3 wavelet transform apparatus, a function-A module (11) calculates equations A1 and A2, a function-B module (12) calculates equations B1 and B2, function-C0 module (13) calculates an equation C0, and a function-C1 module (14) calc... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7227892 | Method and device for generating a scalable coded video signal from a non-scalable coded video signal The invention is a method of modifying data for obtaining a scalable video signal composed of a base video signal and a set of enhancement video signals from a non-scalable video signal. The method includes a set of attenuation steps applied to coefficients composin... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227898 | Digital signal conversion method and digital signal conversion device An inputted digital signal of a first format (DV video signal) is restored to a variable-length code by having its framing cancelled by a de-framing section 11, then decoded by a variable-length decoding (VLD) section 12, inversely quantized by an inve... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7221709 | Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium An inputted digital signal of a first format (DV video signal) is restored to a variable-length code by having its framing cancelled by a de-framing section 11, then decoded by a variable-length decoding (VLD) section 12, inversely quantized by an inve... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7218790 | Adaptive entropy encoding/decoding for screen capture content Adaptive entropy encoding and decoding techniques are described. For example, a screen capture encoder and decoder perform adaptive entropy encoding and decoding of palettized screen capture content in screen capture video. The encoder selects between different entr... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215707 | Optimal scanning method for transform coefficients in coding/decoding of image and video An optimal scanning method for coding/decoding an image signal is provided. In a method of coding an image signal through a discrete cosine transform, at least one is selected among a plurality of reference blocks. A scanning order in which to scan blocks to be code... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7203238 | 3:2 Pull-down detection In one embodiment, a 3:2 pull-down detection component of a video encoder uses motion vectors to determine whether a repeated field exists in a video sequence. The 3:2 pull-down detection component uses field motion vectors determined by a motion estimator and compa... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200629 | Apparatus and method for Fast Hadamard Transforms A Fast Hadamard Transform generator serially performs a Fast Hadamard Transform of a sampled signal from a first channel. The Fast Hadamard Transform generator comprises a series of stages. Each stage includes a shift register for serially receiving samples of the s... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7194030 | Method for pre-suppressing noise of image A method for pre-suppress noise of an image at least includes the following steps: detecting whether the currently processed DCT coefficient value is equal to or less than a corresponding threshold used for this time during quantizing DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform)... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194137 | Variable length coding method and apparatus for video compression A method and an apparatus to encode a series of quantized coefficients of a transform of a block of image data. The transform is such that 0 is the most likely coefficient amplitude and 1 is the next most likely coefficient amplitude. The method includes forming mod... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194138 | Reduced-error processing of transformed digital data This invention solves problems due to employing error degraded data in digital processing. It particularly solves multi-generation problems wherein transform data degrade during each inverse transform and forward transform cycle even without any processing due to th... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7187714 | Image processing apparatus for suppressing high-frequency components of color difference data An image processing apparatus capable of reducing noise contained in input image data. By determining whether or not, among the absolute values of the AC components of luminance Y, there is at least one value greater than a threshold value A, it is determined whethe... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188132 | Hadamard transformation method and apparatus The present invention provides a method and apparatus that transforms input signals X0, X1, X2, X3 using a 4-point Hadamard transform matrix, and of the resulting transformation data, rounds up the LSB of the first transformed data and ro... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187465 | Quantity-based print job preparation Computer-implemented methods for assembling multiple individual print jobs into an aggregate print job for printing in a print run quantity. Individual print jobs and a print quantity indicating the number of copies of the individual print job to be primed are store... | 03/06/2007 |
