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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8229274 | Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal A method of decoding a video signal is disclosed. The method includes decoding a bit stream of a base layer, obtaining flag information, obtaining information indicating an obtaining position of parameters. The parameters includes at least one of information on a ph... | 07/24/2012 |
| 8223831 | System and method for periodic pattern detection for motion compensated interpolation A method for detecting a pattern in an image includes defining a set of pixel values in an image using a window and calculating a Fourier transform of the pixel values. In one embodiment, the Fourier transform of the pixel values forms a spectrum. The method further... | 07/17/2012 |
| 8223832 | Resolution increasing apparatus A resolution increasing apparatus including: a motion image decoding unit that sets a reference frame and a pixel of attention; a provisional-high-resolution-image generating unit that generates a provisional high-resolution image having the number of pixels larger ... | 07/17/2012 |
| 8218616 | Method and system for addition of video thumbnail Provided is a method and system to generate a static or an animated thumbnail for a digital video on a handheld device, in which a first frame of the video is displayed as the static thumbnail and certain periodic frames of the digital video are displayed as the ani... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8213497 | Moving image converting apparatus, moving image converting method, and computer program A moving image converting apparatus includes: a block dividing unit executing block division processing for each of frames that form the moving image data; a motion amount detecting unit detecting a block motion amount corresponding to a motion amount of an object c... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8213495 | Picture decoding method and picture decoding apparatus Provided is a picture decoding method in which a less degraded decoded picture can be reconstructed even if an error has occurred. A picture decoding method for decoding coded data on a block-by-block basis and smoothing, using a deblocking filter, blocking distorti... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8213498 | Bitrate reduction techniques for image transcoding This disclosure describes techniques for encoding data to compress image data to a reduced size. The techniques may be particularly effective in transcoding an image to a reduced size for transmission. An encoding device may transcode an image to an acceptable file ... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8213496 | Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program A motion-vector-setting section (31) sets a motion vector in units of pixel in a target image. Based on the motion vector, a target-pixel-setting section (35) sets a target pixel for each image in plural images to be processed. A motion-blur-amount-set... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8208532 | Method and apparatus for data compression and decompression A method and apparatus for compressing data automatically selects either direct compression of sub-blocks or of compression of transformed sub-blocks to achieve fast and effective data compression. A method and apparatus for decompression automatically performs eith... | 06/26/2012 |
| 8208531 | Information processing device, information processing method, program storage medium, program, data structure, and recording medium manufacturing method The present invention relates to an information processing device and information processing method, program storage medium, program, data structure, and manufacturing method for storage medium wherein a user can determine subtitles with certainty. That is, an attri... | 06/26/2012 |
| 8204107 | Bandwidth reduction mechanism for polar modulation A novel and useful apparatus for and method of reducing phase and amplitude modulation bandwidth in polar transmitters. The bandwidth reduction mechanism of the present invention effectively reduces the phase modulation bandwidth of the polar modulation performed in... | 06/19/2012 |
| 8204104 | Frame rate conversion system, method of converting frame rate, transmitter, and receiver A frame rate conversion system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes a decoding unit decoding a compressed video signal encoded by an encoding method using a motion vector, and an encoding unit superimposing reference control information be... | 06/19/2012 |
| 8204106 | Adaptive compression of video reference frames The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing intermediate compression or decompression for use with a video decoder and a memory. In one aspect, there is provided a method including receiving ... | 06/19/2012 |
| 8204108 | Apparatus and method for detecting letter box, and MPEG decoding device having the same In a device and a method for detecting a letter box for an MPEG decoder, the method includes performing processing area filtering for selecting a processing area of an image used to detect the letter box; performing intra-macroblock filtering for determining the let... | 06/19/2012 |
| 8204105 | Transcoder and coded image conversion method A quantization step determination part inputs an evaluation value (ACT_MB) indicating the dispersion in a macroblock and its average value (ACT_PIC). A subtracter obtains the difference between these values, and a multiplier multiplies the difference by raq | 06/19/2012 |
| 8199805 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method Described herein is an image processing apparatus for calculating a motion vector between two screen images including a target screen image and a reference screen image, including: a base face motion vector calculation section; a high-accuracy base face motion vecto... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8194730 | Efficient use of storage in encoding and decoding video data streams Some embodiments facilitate encoding/decoding of a frame by organizing frame data in a storage structure in a novel manner. Specifically, in a portion of the storage structure allocated for a frame slice, used partition entries are stored in a first section of the a... | 06/05/2012 |
| 8194729 | Apparatus and method for matching compressed video data under wireless fading environment A method and apparatus for matching compressed video data under a wireless fading environment are disclosed. The apparatus includes an encoder for encoding and outputting the video data as a compressed bit stream, a channel error measurement unit for measuring Signa... | 06/05/2012 |
| 8190582 | Multi-processor A multi-processor according to an example of the invention comprises a first control unit which stores first compressed data acquired externally in a first memory, a hardware decoding unit which decodes the first compressed data stored in the first memory and storin... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8190623 | Image search engine using image analysis and categorization An Internet infrastructure that supports searching of images by correlating a search image with that of plurality of images hosted in Internet based servers in selected categories, containing an image search server, and a web browser contained in a client device tha... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8180788 | Image search engine employing image correlation An Internet infrastructure that supports searching of images by correlating a search image with that of plurality of images hosted in Internet based servers, containing an image search server, and a web browser contained in a client device that supports displaying o... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175144 | Method and apparatus for cached adaptive transforms for compressing data streams, computing similarity, and recognizing patterns A method and apparatus for cached adaptive transforms for compressing data streams, computing similarity, and recognizing patterns have been disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention an encoder and decoder begin with a baseline transform. As data is trans... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175145 | Post-processing for reducing quantization noise of an encoder during decoding The invention relates to the processing of a signal that is compression encoded (COD) according to a predetermined encoding type applying a quantification operation (Q) and then decoded (DEC) so that the quantification noise is present in the decoded signal (S*). Th... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170095 | Faster image processing Methods, medium, and machines associated with image processing performance are disclosed. Image data may be copied from input memory to main memory before performing CPU intensive operations, and efficiently copied from memory thereafter. CPU intensive operations ma... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170094 | Method and system for scalable bitstream extraction A scalable video compression system (100) having an encoder (120), bit extractor (140), and decoder (160) for efficiently encoding and decoding a scalable embedded bitstream (130) at different video resolution, framerate, and video... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165195 | Method of and apparatus for video intraprediction encoding/decoding Provided is a method of and apparatus for video intraprediction encoding/decoding. The method of video intraprediction encoding includes dividing pixels of an input block into a plurality of groups, performing intraprediction encoding on pixels of a first group amon... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8144762 | Band extending apparatus and method A band extending apparatus (1) is provided with: first generating device (111, 112) for generating a baseband signal (XB(n)) by up-sampling an input signal (X(n)) and then transmitting it through a low-pass filter; a second generating device (21... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139632 | Video decoder with adaptive outputs In one aspect, there is provided a video decoder including a first write port to write uncompressed video data to a first buffer in a first format adapted based on an input required by the video decoder and to suppress writing to the first buffer. The video decoder ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8117172 | Compact encoding methods, media and systems A method for compact encoding including providing a first value field allocated in a first portion of a memory, wherein a portion of the first value field is utilized to store a fixed-size variable. A most significant zero bit (MSZB) is located in the first value fi... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8102911 | Picture coding device A picture coding device includes a motion prediction unit, an intra picture prediction unit, and an input selection unit. The input selection unit selects a smaller one of a motion total obtained by adding a motion residual and a value into which a motion vector is ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8077769 | Method of reducing computations in transform and scaling processes in a digital video encoder using a threshold-based approach A method of reducing computations utilizing a threshold to increase efficiency and speed of a video encoder is described. Computations of transform and scaling processes of a video encoder are able to be streamlined by utilizing one or more thresholds stored within ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077770 | Methods and apparatus for reducing modulation signal bandwidth in polar modulation transmitters Methods and apparatus for reducing the bandwidth of modulation signals in a phase path of a polar modulation transmitter. An exemplary method includes generating a phase difference modulation signal for a phase path of a polar modulation transmitter, and filtering t... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073047 | Bandwidth sensitive data compression and decompression Data compression and decompression methods for compressing and decompressing data based on an actual or expected throughput (bandwidth) of a system. In one embodiment, a controller tracks and monitors the throughput (data storage and retrieval) of a data compression... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068541 | Systems and methods for transcoding bit streams A data processing system including a buffer configured to temporarily maintain a portion of a plurality of compressed data streams and a switch. Each portion of the plurality of compressed data streams comprise one or more units of an encoded media signal. The switc... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064514 | System and method for dynamically adjusting bandwidth between multiple video streams of videoconference A videoconferencing unit includes first and second encoder that each encodes a video stream of frames and generates variables indicating changes between frames of the video streams. The unit also includes a controller operatively coupled to the first and second enco... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8054879 | Bandwidth sensitive data compression and decompression Data compression and decompression methods for compressing and decompressing data based on an actual or expected throughput (bandwidth) of a system. In one embodiment, multiple access profiles are utilized to assist in compressing data according to various compressi... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8046338 | System and method of organizing data to facilitate access and streaming File formats systems and methods are disclosed that provide a framework that integrates concepts, such as objects based audio-visual representation, meta-data and object oriented programming, to achieve a flexible and generic representation of the audiovisual inform... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036261 | Feature-vector generation apparatus, search apparatus, feature-vector generation method, search method and program A feature-vector generation apparatus includes an input unit configured to input content data including at least one of video data and audio data, a generation unit configured to generate a feature vector, based on information indicating a time at which a characteri... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027380 | Method and apparatus for fast nearest neighbor search for vector quantizers A method comprises identifying a component k of a codevector from a codebook C having one or more codevectors, the component k introducing highest variance for an input vector; allowing ordering of codevectors in the codebook C; and searching for a best match vector... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023559 | Minimizing blocking artifacts in videos Techniques for minimizing blocking artifacts in video images or frames are disclosed. In general, these blocking artifacts are the result of block-based compression standards, such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.261, H.263, and H.264. According to one aspect of the pr... | 09/20/2011 |
