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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184712 | Robust and efficient compression/decompression providing for adjustable division of computational complexity between encoding/compression and decoding/decompression Various embodiments of the present invention include compression/decompression methods, systems, and devices that adjust a division of a total computational complexity of compression and decompression between encoding and decoding. These embodiments include an encod... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8121195 | Memory reduced H264/MPEG-4 AVC codec A method for reducing memory utilization in a digital video codec. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a second reference picture by downsampling a first reference picture using a pattern, wherein the pattern (i) comprises a two-dimensional gri... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8054886 | Signaling and use of chroma sample positioning information Rules for the signaling and interpretation of chroma position are described. One rule, called the short rule, defines fifteen discrete chroma centering positions and corresponding four-bit syntax element. Another rule, called the extended rule, defines 81 discrete c... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8031777 | Multipass video encoding and rate control using subsampling of frames An encoder includes an encoder engine, a storage device and a controller to implement an iterative coding process. The encoder engine compresses a selected portion of a data sequence. The storage device stores the compressed portion of the data sequence after each i... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7987216 | SVC file data sharing method and SVC file thereof A method of sharing data of a scalable video coding (SVC) file and the SVC file are provided. The SVC file includes: a scalable base track including at least one scalable layer entry each storing metadata of the at least one scalable layer; and at least one sub trac... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7974347 | Automating interval selection based on range and size of display area A mechanism for automatically determining an optimal temporal interval for displaying data is provided. The mechanism receives information indicating a temporal range. The mechanism determines the size of a display area in which data corresponding to the temporal ra... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965775 | Selective chrominance decimation for digital images A method of decimation of a digital image, the digital image represented by a plurality of pixels, is claimed. In the pixel domain, the digital image is divided into a plurality of blocks. Certain ones of the blocks are selectively decimated based upon predetermined... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7813430 | Method and apparatus for decimation mode determination utilizing block motion In an apparatus that converts (compresses) motion image data, the amount of motion of a subject in a block of motion image data is detected, and spatial decimation is performed in a mode in which sampling point positions are fixed or in a mode in which sampling poin... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7720156 | Residue image down/up sampling method and apparatus and image encoding/decoding method and apparatus using residue sampling A residue image down- and/or up-sampling method and apparatus and an image encoding and/or decoding method and apparatus using the residue image down- and/or up-sampling method and apparatus are provided. The residue image downsampling method includes: generating a ... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7636393 | Image processing method, image recording method, image processing device and image file format A recording process records low-resolution video data while obtaining a high-resolution image in a window region being a portion of an entire image. Then, the process learns, as a resolution conversion rule, a resolution increasing parameter by using the high-resolu... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7634009 | Method and device for picture compression using a plurality of sampling patterns In order to realize effective picture compression without significantly impairing the resolution, it is proposed that the picture to be compressed be subdivided into a plurality of picture areas, for example into picture blocks each having 16×16 pixels, and the pic... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7627038 | Methods and systems for compressing a video stream with minimal loss after subsampled decoding Transcoding of a video stream to reduce the size of the video stream with little, if any, loss in video quality after subsampling. After accessing a video stream of video pictures (i.e., video frames or fields), the blocks of the video picture are each subject to ma... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7412100 | Apparatus and method for sub-sampling images in a transform domain A method of receiving a bit-stream and extracting data from the bit-stream based on one or more criteria and sub-sampling (for example, filtering and decimating) the extracted data in the transform domain. The method either stores the data for future transmission or... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409103 | Method of reducing noise in images An image noise reducing method that can properly reduce CCD noise which emerges in an image imported from a digital camera is provided. The method includes applying a first filtering step to luminance component image data of the image with each pixel of the luminanc... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7394966 | Image communication apparatus for wireless communication of digital images, and method thereof An image capture apparatus includes an image capture unit, a recording unit, a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The recording unit records digital image captured by the image capture unit on a recording medium. The wireless communication unit transmit... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7369613 | Process for the format conversion of MPEG bitstreams, a system and computer program product therefor A process for format conversion of DCT macroblocks in an MPEG video bitstream that are divided into blocks, each of which includes a plurality of microblocks. In each DCT block, the significant frequencies are identified and preserved, isolating a corresponding micr... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369066 | Efficient 8×8 CABAC residual block transcode system A circuit generally including a first module, a second module and a third module is disclosed. The first module may be configured to (i) generate a plurality of parsed residual blocks by parsing a plurality of 4×4 CAVLC (context-based adaptive variable length codin... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365776 | Image pickup device The present invention provides an imaging apparatus for converting a 24p imaging signal generated with a frame frequency of 24 Hz according to a progressive scanning system into a 60i signal with a field frequency of 60 Hz by 2:3 pull-down processing a... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366239 | Method and system for compressing groups of basic media data units The invention provides a method for compressing a group of basic media data units, the method comprising the steps of: (a) receiving the group of basic media data units; (b) for each basic media data unit of the group performing the steps of: (b1) partially decoding... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359439 | Encoding a still image into compressed video A method for producing a compressed video bitstream having a plurality of frames from data that specifies a single still image. The still image is encoded into data specifying a single intra (“I”) frame having an amount of data that approaches, but remains less ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359558 | Spatial scalable compression A method and apparatus for providing spatial scalable compression using adaptive content filtering of a video stream is disclosed. The video stream is downsampled to reduce the resolution of the video stream. The downsampled video stream is encoded to produce a base... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352808 | System and method for the dynamic resolution change for video encoding The present invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for the predictive encoding of digital video sequences. The objectives of the invention are accomplished by dynamically determining the resolution of a current frame being encoded and out... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349030 | Segment buffer loading in a deinterlacer A display processor integrated circuit includes a display processor portion and an on-chip programmable logic portion. The programmable logic portion can be configured to implement custom video and/or image enhancement functions. The display processor portion perfor... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348936 | Display device and image processing method thereof A display device having an A/D (Analog/Digital) converter receiving a signal from a personal computer (PC) and converting the signal into a digital signal a decoder receiving external input signals from an external signal inputter such as a TV or a Video player that... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7340103 | 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... | 03/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7337321 | Digital content protection using invisible and visible watermarks A technique for distributing digital contents capable of effectively protecting copyrights and the like on the basis of invisible electronic watermark information and electronic watermark information is to be provided. On the sending side, additional information inc... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334129 | Embedding supplemental data in an encoded signal There are two different methods of embedding supplemental data, e.g. for watermarking into an encoded signal. I. For an encoder, which needs auxiliary information for encoding (=probability information in this special case), the auxiliary information to encod... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333034 | Data processing device, encoding device, encoding method, decoding device decoding method, and program The present invention relates to a data processing apparatus, a method and apparatus for encoding, a method and apparatus for decoding, and a program, that allow a reduction in an algorithm delay. An interpolator 51 produces interpolated PCM data by performin... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327490 | Image processing system via network The technique of the present invention ensures output of an image subjected to image processing, which does not depend upon the output environment but reflects the color reproduction characteristics of a shooting device and the intention of a photographer in shootin... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327742 | Communication system and method for sending isochronous streaming data within a frame segment using a signaling byte A communication system, network interface, and communication port is provided for interconnecting a network of multimedia devices. The multimedia devices can send streaming and/or non-streaming data across the network. The network accommodates all such types of data... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324159 | Method and device communicating a command Disclosed are a method, a controlling device (110), a controllable device (130) and an arrangement (100) for communicating a command from the controlling device (110) to the controllable device (130). A watermark is generated compr... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324165 | [Automatic contrast limiting circuit and method thereof with spatial domain infinite impulse response filter] An automatic contrast limiting circuit and method thereof with spatial domain infinite impulse response filter are disclosed. A spatial domain infinite impulse response filter is adapted to generate an output value of the spatial domain infinite impulse response fil... | 01/29/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7319721 | Image information conversion apparatus and image information conversion method An image information conversion apparatus and method by which picture quality deterioration caused by conversion from inputted MPEG2 image compression information into MPEG4 image compression information to be outputted is prevented. When an I picture of an MPEG2 bi... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7315651 | Image recording apparatus and image data selection method An image recording apparatus includes means for recording image data in a recording medium; means for obtaining information for determining a data amount reduction remaining force of image data recorded in the recording medium; means for selecting image data determi... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7310120 | Receiver of analogue video signal having means for analogue video signal conversion and method for control of display of video frames A receiver of analogue video signal having means for analogue video signal conversion has a receiving block (201) for receiving a first analogue video signal, a conversion block (202) for conversion of the first analogue signal into a digital signal, a... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308031 | Video encoding apparatus and video decoding apparatus An alpha-map encoding apparatus includes a first down-sampling circuit (21) for down-sampling an alpha-map signal which represents the shape of an object and the position in the frame of the object at a down-sampling ratio based on size conversion ratio infor... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301994 | Modulation apparatus for reducing time delay of on-channel repeater in terrestrial digital TV broadcasting system Provided is a modulation apparatus that can reduce time delay of on-channel repeaters in a terrestrial digital television broadcasting system. The time delay is caused by a filter during the modulation operation in the on-channel repeaters. The modulation apparatus ... | 11/27/2007 |
