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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170355 | Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided, in which one of color component images forming an image is predicted from a different color component image using a correlation between the color component images. A first color component image selected f... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8160373 | Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images Image decoder including: a memory to store a reference image which is a previously decoded image; and a synthesizer to receive an encoded bitstream including information of I and P frames, and execute motion compensation by synthesizing a predicted image of a curren... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8150178 | Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus Provided are an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, in which one of a plurality of color component images is predicted from a different color component image reconstructed using a correlation between the plurality of color component images. Using a reconst... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150179 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes an encoder, a decoder, and a display unit. The encoder performs scalable encoding to encode input image data to obtain code data to be stored in a storage unit. The decoder decodes the code data stored in the storage unit to ob... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150180 | Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method According to a picture coding method of the present invention, a coded picture identified by a picture number is stored, as a reference picture, into a storage unit; commands indicating correspondence between picture numbers and reference indices for designating ref... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139875 | Image encoding device, image decoding device, image encoding method and image decoding method An encoding device includes a color component separating unit for separating an input bit stream for the respective color components, a block dividing unit for dividing an input color component signal into blocks to generate a signal of an encoding unit area, a pred... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131094 | Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding 3D mesh information A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding three-dimensional mesh information are provided. The method and apparatus separately encode/decode order information of elements, such as vertices and faces, of a three-dimensional mesh model (original model) in consi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126280 | Enhanced decompression of compressed data Enhanced decompression of compressed images, in which a decompressed image with a target resolution is assembled using an iteratively decompressed and downscaled quantity of scanlines of a compressed image, the quantity of scanlines correlating to a downscaling fact... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121421 | Media content management The invention relates to media management and combats media degradations arising when transcoding the media. The invention solves this by—generating processing hints based on the media transcoding. The hints are employed for controlling a post-transcoding processi... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111931 | Image processing device An image processing device and method decodes encoded image data, and converts a resolution of the decoded image data. The encoded image data is formed by encoding image data partitioned into blocks, each block including a plurality of pixels aligned in a matrix sha... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111932 | Digital image decoder with integrated concurrent image prescaler According to some embodiments, encoded information associated with an image is received at a decoder. The encoded information may be decoded at the decoder to generate full-sized first image pixels representing a full-sized version of the image. Moreover, the full-s... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107745 | Image processing device An image processing device and method decodes encoded image data, and converts a resolution of the decoded image data. The encoded image data is formed by encoding image data partitioned into blocks, each block including a plurality of pixels aligned in a matrix sha... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107746 | Image processor A decoding unit includes a first processing unit including ND decoding units and decoding a group of Normal Data, a second processing unit decoding a group of Flex Bits, and a selector. The ND decoding units perform decoding of the group of Normal Data, stepwise var... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107744 | Picture buffering for prediction references and display The invention relates to an encoder for forming an encoded picture stream. The pictures are defined as reference pictures or non-reference pictures, and information relating to decoding order and output order of a picture is defined for pictures of the picture strea... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8077990 | Efficient content compression and decompression system and method A content compression/compression system and method are disclosed in which a pre-processing step is performed before any compression and a post-processing step is performed once a compressed piece of content is decompressed. ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073270 | Image decoding apparatus and method An image decoding apparatus is provided, including a parser and an AC decoder. The parser is provided for parsing a bit stream to acquire a first unit. The first unit includes a DC code and a plurality of AC codes respectively corresponding to a DC coefficient and A... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073271 | Method and device for condensed image recording and reproduction A method for reproducing image data in a recording medium, and including selecting one or more camera digital data streams for reproduction, the one or more camera digital data stream including intra coded image data and/or predictive coded image data, the intra cod... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073269 | Image decoding apparatus and image decoding method An image decoding apparatus obtains the prediction error or a restored image of the encoding object image by inverse processing of the encoding processing of encoded image data encoded by motion compensation predictive coding, in which a restored image is obtained b... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064710 | Image processing apparatus, method of controlling thereof, and program An object of the present invention is to detect characteristics of images such as blurring and the like without expanding compressed and stored image data. And, the above-described detection is realized by detecting image characteristics on the basis of attached inf... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8041133 | Method and system for progressive image transmission A method and system for transmitting an image progressively is provided. The transmission system identifies a first region and a second region of the image. The transmission system also identifies a first resolution and a second resolution. The transmission system t... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036476 | Image encoding/decoding device and method thereof with data blocks in a determined order The invention provides an image encoding/decoding device and method. An encoding/decoding architecture of the invention includes: encoders for encoding image data into data blocks; a reordering multiplexer for receiving the data blocks and determining an order by wh... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036477 | Image decoder and mobile device including the same In one aspect, a mobile device is provided which includes a memory configured to store an original image and an output image, a display device configured to display the output image, and an image decoder. The image decoder is configured to receive the original image... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036475 | Compression for segmented images and other types of sideband information A method and apparatus for processing JPM files having layout objects and sideband information is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a JPM file having layout objects. The layout objects include at least one layout object that represents sid... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027545 | Adaptive 2N-ARY tree generating method, and method and apparatus for encoding and decoding 3D volume data using it A method and apparatus for encoding and/or decoding depth image-based representation (DIBR) data are provided. The encoding method includes: converting 3-dimensional (3D) volume data into adjustable octree data with predetermined labels given to nodes; by referring ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8023753 | Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method According to a picture coding method of the present invention, a coded picture identified by a picture number is stored, as a reference picture, into a storage unit; commands indicating correspondence between picture numbers and reference indices for designating ref... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023752 | Decompression of 16 bit data using predictor values Systems and methods compress and decompress 16 bit data. The 16 bit data may be signed or unsigned and represented in a fixed point or floating point format. A fixed block size of data is compressed into a fixed length format. Data compressed using a medium quality ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8014616 | System and method for fixed point continuation for total variation based compressed sensing imaging A method of compressed sensing imaging includes acquiring a sparse digital image b, said image comprising a plurality of intensities corresponding to an I-dimensional grid of points, initializing points (x(k), y(k)), wherein x(k) is ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014617 | Decoding apparatus, dequantizing method, distribution determining method, and program thereof A decoding apparatus includes a random number generating section and a decoding section. The random number generating section generates random numbers according to distribution of original data corresponding to respective quantization indexes. The decoding section g... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014615 | System and method for decompressing video data and alpha channel data using a single stream A system and method receives video data and its corresponding alpha channel data using a single stream or file, each of the video data and alpha channel data in the same format, and decompresses each set of data using a single decompression algorithm. ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009922 | Image compression/decompression device and method thereof An image compression/decompression device and a method thereof are provided. In the method, a first array is generated according to an input image array, and further, a second array is generated by performing an edge detection algorithm according to the input image ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005305 | Method and apparatus for generating a halftoned image from a compressed image A method and apparatus are provided for generating a halftoned image from an image compressed by a domain transformation yielding coefficients for resulting domain components and by a coding operation by which these coefficients are coded. The method includes perfor... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005306 | Decoding apparatus, inverse quantization method, and computer readable medium A decoding apparatus includes a classification section, a distribution-information generation section and an inverse-quantization-value generation section. The classification section classifies quantization indices contained in input code data into a plurality of gr... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005307 | Decoding apparatus, decoding method, computer readable medium storing program thereof, and computer data signal This invention provides a decoding apparatus including an intensity setting unit that sets a modification intensity based on modified image information and a modification unit that modifies decoded image information with an intensity set by the intensity setting uni... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7986846 | Apparatus and method for processing an image signal in a digital broadcast receiver A method and apparatus for decoding a coded video data in a digital broadcast receiver. The method includes: determining a resizing control signal for resizing a received video data; analyzing header information from a decoded video stream and separating and outputt... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7978921 | Low dynamic range 3-channel color decompression Systems and methods for representing low dynamic range data in compressed formats with a fixed size block allow low dynamic range data to be stored in less memory. The compressed formats use 8 bits per pixel to represent 24 bits of low dynamic range data for each pi... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978920 | Method and system for processing an image, method and apparatus for decoding, method and apparatus for encoding, and program with fade period detector An image processing system includes a decoder configured to decode an encoded image and an encoder configured to encode the image decoded by the decoder. The decoder includes a decoder adapted to decode the encoded image, and a detector adapted to detect, on the bas... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970220 | Image processing apparatus and method for performing decoding process on coded data of motion picture based on a plurality of attributes thereof An image processing apparatus includes a decoding unit for performing a decoding process on coded data of a moving picture on a frame-by-frame basis, and a controller for controlling the decoding unit. The controller designates a first decoding condition using multi... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970221 | Processing multiview video Decoding a multiview video signal comprises receiving a bitstream comprising the multiview video signal encoded according to dependency relationships between respective views, and view-dependency information representing the dependency relationships in a two-dimensi... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970219 | Color image encoding and decoding method and apparatus using a correlation between chrominance components A color image encoding and decoding method and apparatus use a correlation between chrominance components in order to improve coding efficiency. The color image decoding method includes: transforming chrominance components of a color image in each of two or more int... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7957603 | Digital image decoder with integrated concurrent image prescaler According to some embodiments, encoded information associated with an image is received at a decoder. The encoded information may be decoded at the decoder to generate full-sized first image pixels representing a full-sized version of the image. Moreover, the full-s... | 06/07/2011 |
