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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8139876 | Image processing apparatus, control method for image processing apparatus, program, and storage medium When an original image containing a code image is lossy-compressed, the image quality of the code image is deteriorated. Thus, due to the deterioration of the image quality of the code image, information contained in the code image cannot be acquired. Thus, a portio... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8107747 | Codevector trainers and real-time compressor for multi-dimensional data The present invention relates to a real-time wideband compressor for multi-dimensional data. The compressor comprises a plurality of compression engines for simultaneously compressing a plurality of data subsets of a set of input data vectors and providing compresse... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8073272 | Methods and apparatus for video decoding Techniques for performing the processing of blocks of video in multiple stages. Each stage is executed for blocks of data in the frame that need to go through that stage, based on the coding type, before moving to the next stage. This order of execution allows block... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068681 | Method and system for pipelined processing in an integrated embedded image and video accelerator A method and system for pipelined processing in an integrated embedded image and video accelerator is described. Aspects of a system for pipelined processing in an integrated embedded image and video accelerator may include circuitry that enables pipeline processing... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8036517 | Parallel decoding of intra-encoded video A video stream (for example, H.264 video) includes intra-encoded portions. Decoding an intra-encoded portion utilizes the result of decoding one or more other portions (called predecessors) in the frame. Frame reconstruction involves identifying a portion that has n... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7970222 | Determining a delay Embodiments for determining a delay are disclosed. ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7912302 | Multiprocessor decoder system and method Multiprocessor decoding is accomplished in a first mode by generating with a series of n processors, from a set of data macroblocks, the entropy decoding output of each data macroblock and storing the entropy decoding output of each data macroblock in n storage elem... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7881546 | Slab-based processing engine for motion video Systems and methods of encoding a video signal that includes a succession of images are disclosed. A system may include a plurality of independently programmable processing elements (PEs), an input interface device adapted to receive, buffer, and divide the input vi... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7860325 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method for parallel decompression of image files An image processing method according to one aspect of the present invention is an image processing method for decompressing a compressed image data file using at least one of a hardware-based decompression processing and a software-based decompression processing, wh... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7773817 | JPEG image processing circuit A JPEG image processing circuit, capable of performing a JPEG process at high speed, and with low power consumption, and of automatically recovering from a slight trouble, has been disclosed. In the JPEG processing circuit, a JPEG processing section is configured so... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7760951 | Method and system for pipelined processing in an integrated embedded image and video accelerator A method and system for pipelined processing in an integrated embedded image and video accelerator is described. Aspects of a system for pipelined processing in an integrated embedded image and video accelerator may include circuitry that enables pipeline processing... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756347 | Methods and apparatus for video decoding Techniques for performing the processing of blocks of video in multiple stages. Each stage is executed for blocks of data in the frame that need to go through that stage, based on the coding type, before moving to the next stage. This order of execution allows block... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7747092 | Image encoding apparatus and method, and image decoding apparatus and method An image encoding apparatus and method, and an image decoding apparatus and method. An image encoding apparatus includes: an image input unit receiving an image to be encoded; a transform encoding unit transform coding the image provided from the image input unit to... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7729548 | System for high bandwidth imaging across PC chipsets and custom ASIC's An image processing system includes at least one processor having a plurality of PCI Express channels and at least two application specific integrated circuits. The application specific integrated circuits are communicatively coupled to the at least one processor by... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7729549 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes an extraction unit to extract layer levels of each packet included in partial encoded data, an estimation unit to calculate the number of layer levels of each packet based on the ext... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7630565 | Parallel video encoder with whole picture deblocking and/or whole picture compressed as a single slice An apparatus comprising (i) a segmentor circuit, (ii) a plurality of encoders and (iii) a multiplexer circuit. The segmentor circuit may be configured to segment a picture into a plurality of strips. Each of the plurality of encoders may be configured (i) to encode ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7590295 | Semiconductor device and an image processor An apparatus for encoding a plurality of image data series and decoding a plurality of encoded image data series includes an interface control circuit for executing data read/write operation from and to a memory area, an encoding/decoding circuit for selectively exe... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7515759 | 3D video coding using sub-sequences A stereo-view image sequence is coded in an H.264-based sub-sequence coding by coding a first view of the stereo-view image sequence into a base layer of a sub-sequence coding. The second view of the stereo-view image sequence is coded into an enhancement layer of t... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7450770 | Architecture and method for parallel embedded block coding The present invention provides a high-speed, memory efficient parallel coding technique for embedded block coding with optimized truncation (EBCOT) used in still image compression. Attributing to parallel processing method and structure, it processes a discrete wave... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7412101 | Semiconductor device and an image processor An apparatus for encoding a plurality of image data series and decoding a plurality of encoded image data series includes an interface control circuit for executing data read/write operation from and to a memory area, an encoding/decoding circuit for selectively exe... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7406205 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus (1) is adapted to carry out a heavy-load operation that requires a longer processing time as compared with other ordinary operations. The apparatus comprises multiple heavy-load processing units (14, 15, 16, 17) arranged i... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7369284 | Image signal processing method, image signal processing device, and image signal processing system A color image signal processing device having a high resolution and excellent color reproducibility even though the device comprises a one-chip color sensor. The data format for transmitting image information inputted through an input unit to an output unit includes... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369065 | Using operation codes to control a decoder to generate data from an input data stream into an output data stream Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for using operation codes to control a decoder to generate data from an input data stream into an output data stream. An encoder generates an input data stream for a decoder comprising at least one operation ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7360230 | Overlay management A method of personalizing a broadcast channel, comprising: receiving an input from a user (110); and personalizing the broadcast channel; and transmitting the personalized broadcast channel to the user using a compressed video transport method. Preferably, co... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355917 | Two-dimensional data memory A two-dimensional data memory (1) comprising memory elements which are arranged in rows and columns, which are designed to store in each case one data word, which in the row direction and in the column direction are coupled locally to their respectively adjac... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352903 | Methods and apparatus for implementing JPEG 2000 encoding operations Improved methods and apparatus for implementing JPEG 2000 MQ encoding operations are described. The following features of the invention may be used alone or in combination to implement JPEG 2000's coefficient bit modeling 1) Lists of coefficients to be processed in ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349135 | Time multiplexed image data decompression circuit A circuit which uses a compressor to divide each separation image into 8-line strips, and to independently compress each strip, a single decompressor to decompress two or more color image separations, strip by strip, by interleaving them, and to apply them to two or... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346640 | Image processing apparatus supporting both discrete cosine transform and discrete wavelet transform An image processing apparatus supporting both discrete wavelet transform and discrete cosine transform with reduced hardware resources. The image processing apparatus is composed of an input unit receiving a plurality of pixel data, a controlling unit selecting a de... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7339507 | Device for video decoding A device for video decoding is disclosed. It includes at least a pipeline scheduler, a decoding core, a segmented context memory and a context cache. The pipeline scheduler and the decoding core could decrease the time taken in a code-decoding period. The segmented ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336852 | Image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus and recording medium for image processing program An image processing apparatus, an image reading apparatus, an image forming apparatus and a computer-readable recording-medium for storing an image processing program are disclosed. The image processing apparatus can synthesize coded data encoded in accordance with ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336386 | Image processor including a data compression unit having a switch and image processing method thereof The image processor comprises a switch that divides image data into m×n pixels, having n lines with m pixels per one line; a group of line memories that store the divided image; a compression device which batch compresses the image data of m×n pixels. Further, a c... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336838 | Pixel-data selection device to provide motion compensation, and a method thereof A pixel-data selection device providing motion compensation, and a method thereof. A first and a second storage parts store a current frame/field including first pixel-data and a previous frame/field including second pixel-data, respectively, corresponding to at lea... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333663 | Method and apparatus for efficient entropy coding of images Method and apparatus for encoding image data is described. In an example, a memory stores bit-planes associated with the image data. Each of the bit-planes is partitioned into data units. A bit modeler communicates with the memory and produces modeled data in respon... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330195 | Graphic pieces for a border image A graphic piece can be used to add a border to an image. The graphic piece is created by creating a graphic image foreground image and a graphic image background image. The foreground and background images are merged into a graphic image file, the contents of which ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7298912 | Method and apparatus for assigning codeblocks to coders operating in parallel A method and apparatus for assigning codeblocks to coders operating in parallel is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises decomposing input data into a plurality of code-blocks, and assigning the plurality of code-blocks, on a code-block basis, to a plur... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7292732 | Image compression/decompression apparatus and method An image compression apparatus includes an image transformer for transforming each pixel of an image data into binary bit array. The bits of a same bit plane are located in a same column. A context modeler, coupled to the image transformer, includes a context model ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292264 | Multiple image processing and synthesis using background image extraction A technique of efficiently extracting and synthesizing an object image from a plurality of images captured at different image magnifications. An image processing method of the present invention includes the steps of generating a first background image corresponding ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286714 | Method and device for compressing an image signal based upon differential quantization of data Method of compressing a digital image signal in which a first quantization step set, which is unique for a given segment, is determined so that the number of bits needed to encode the quantized data corresponding to this segment is greater than a target value. This ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280707 | Registration of separations Images may be registered using temporal (time-based) and spatial information. In a film implementation, because film is a sequence of frames, using information from neighboring frames may enable a temporally smoother visual experience. In addition, it may be benefic... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7277586 | Images combination processing system, images combination processing method, and images combination processing program An images combination processing system has a CCD or an imaging element including CCDs for picking up an image, compression processing portions for applying JPEG compression, etc. to image data in respective areas into which a picked-up image is divided, a buffer fo... | 10/02/2007 |
