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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184918 | Header-based processing of images compressed using multi-scale transforms A method and apparatus is described for segmenting an image, for adaptively scaling an image, and for automatically scaling and cropping an image based on codestream headers data. In one embodiment, a file that can provide a header that contains multi-scale entropy ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7983498 | Low dynamic range 3-channel color compression 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... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7903889 | System and computer readable medium for the scaling down of data The scaling down of data is provided. At least two blocks of transformed data samples representing at least two blocks of original data samples are received. One of at least two tables of constants is selected wherein each table of constants is capable of reducing t... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7856147 | Method and apparatus for processing a compressed image in an order other than the order of which it was compressed An image processing system that can receive compressed image data corresponding to a representation of an image and process that image data in an order that is independent of the order in which that image data was compressed. A first pass decoding identifies certain... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7672521 | System and method for improved page composition A system and method for page composition in a processor-controlled printing system. Formatted image data is first received to a processor, the data representing image elements to be merged into a new document. At least one compressed cell describing each of the page... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7668385 | JPEG processing engine for low profile systems A method is provided for processing minimum coded units (MCUs) in a Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) bit stream representing an image. A data structure is generated for storing MCU block numbers, corresponding MCU block coordinates, and corresponding MCU block... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7660473 | Error concealment using icons for JPEG and JPEG 2000 compressed images A method and apparatus for concealing errors using lower resolution images for compressed images is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a codestream data of an image and determining a location of an error region in coefficients using an icon... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7602979 | Information processing method and apparatus This disclosure relates to a technique for automatically selecting compression/non-compression for each digital document upon archiving digital documents. Whether or not each digital document is to be stored in a compressed or non-compressed state is determined base... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7548654 | Header-based scaling and cropping of images compressed using multi-scale transforms A method and apparatus are described for performing header-based scaling and cropping of images compressed using multi-scale transforms. In one embodiment, the method for adaptively scaling an image comprises receiving a file containing a header that contains multi-... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7536056 | Header-based processing of images compressed using multi-scale transforms A method and apparatus is described for segmenting an image, for adaptively scaling an image, and for automatically scaling and cropping an image based on codestream headers data. In one embodiment, a file that can provide a header that contains multi-scale entropy ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7492953 | Efficient method and system for reducing update requirements for a compressed binary image A system and method for lossless data compression of byte oriented digital data, including but not exclusively executable program code and related data. This lossless data compression system and method when used to process sets of similar but not identical input dat... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7474793 | Methods for compression using a denoiser Various embodiments of the present invention provide a compression method and system that compresses received data by first denoising the data and then losslessly compressing the denoised data. Denoising removes high entropy features of the data to produce lower ent... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7469068 | Method and apparatus for dimensionally transforming an image without a line buffer The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for serially receiving and dimensionally transforming an image in an ordered sequence of interleaved blocks. Each block comprises an ordered sequence of samples of the image, and the samples of a single block all c... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7463777 | Method for the scaling down of data A method for the scaling down of data is provided. At least two blocks of transformed data samples representing at least two blocks of original data samples are received. One of at least two tables of constants is selected wherein each table of constants is capable ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7447369 | Communication of compressed digital images A method and apparatus for performing partial image uploads. In one embodiment, the method comprises the server sending a portion of the compressed data of a codestream corresponding to an entire image to a client in response to a first request, the server receiving... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7440501 | Method and apparatus for controlling loop filtering or post filtering in block based motion compensationed video coding Adjacent blocks are identified in an image. Coding parameters for the adjacent blocks are identified. Deblock filtering between the identified adjacent blocks is skipped if the coding parameters for the identified adjacent blocks are similar and not skipped if the c... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437007 | Region-of-interest editing of a video stream in the compressed domain The present invention, in one embodiment, is comprised of a method of performing region-of-interest editing of a video stream in the compressed domain. In accordance with this method, a video stream frame comprising an unwanted portion and a region-of-interest porti... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432843 | Compressive sampling and signal inference A signal is temporally compressively sampled. A plurality of analog to digital converters are assembled to sample the signal. Each analog to digital converter of the plurality of analog to digital converters is configured to sample the signal at a time step determin... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428338 | Header-based processing of images compressed using multi-scale transforms A method and apparatus is described for segmenting an image, for adaptively scaling an image, and for automatically scaling and cropping an image based on codestream headers data. In one embodiment, a file that can provide a header that contains multi-scale entropy ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424057 | Data format transcoding apparatus and associated method The present invention provides an apparatus for converting image data, including a block extraction unit extracts a class tap from a composite signal. A pixel-location-mode output unit determines a pixel location mode from the extracted class tap, and outputs it to ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420150 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program An image processing apparatus capable of easily acquiring original data includes an image data storage unit adapted to store data contained in an image, an image reading unit adapted to convert the contents of a paper document into an image by photoelectric conversi... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421131 | System and method for block truncation-type compressed domain image processing A method for block truncation-type compressed domain image processing. Image data is received. Block truncation compression (BTC) is performed on the image data to generate a compressed representation of the image data. The broken pixel representation is enhanced in... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421025 | Macroblock level adaptive frame/field coding for digital video content A method and system of encoding and decoding digital video content. The digital video content comprises a stream of pictures which can each be intra, predicted, or bi-predicted pictures. Each of the pictures comprises macroblocks that can be further divided into sma... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7412099 | System and method for controlling compression ratio and image quality of binary images A method, system and computer-readable medium for achieving a target compression ratio for binary images with a minimum of image degradation. Portions of the binary image are strategically replicated and used to replace adjacent portions of the image. This process i... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408991 | Error detection in low bit-rate video transmission A method for decoding video data blocks using variable length codes, comprising transforming information about the spatial frequency distribution of a video data block into pixel values. Prior to said transformation, a first reference value (Xref) representing the a... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403563 | Image decoding method and apparatus, and television receiver utilizing the same A variable-length decoding (VLD) unit performs a variable-length decoding on an MPEG video stream. An inverse quantization (IQ) unit computes a discrete-cosine-transform (DCT) coefficient by performing an inverse quantization on results of decoding by the VLD unit. ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403664 | Traffic event detection in compressed videos A method detects traffic events in a compressed video. Feature vectors are extracted from the compressed video. The feature vector are provided to a Gaussian mixture hidden Markov model. Then, a maximum likelihood of the Gaussian mixture hidden Markov model is deter... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400678 | Methods in transmission and searching of video information In a method for transmission of video information between HTTP servers and clients in a shared network resource, particularly Internet, the video information is stored as a video file consisting of packet-divided video streams compression-coded with average bit rate... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7391808 | System and method for upgrading processing capabilities of a media center Video data encoded according to new compression standards may be processed by an existing client terminal using an adaptive module that transcodes the video data into a format compatible with the processing capabilities of the client terminal. Further, the adaptive ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386049 | Predictive interpolation of a video signal A method of enhancing picture quality of a video signal is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of generating an interpolated base frame image; receiving a first previously decoded difference picture; receiving a second previously decoded difference picture; ge... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382924 | Pixel reordering and selection logic Presented herein are systems and methods for pixel reordering and selection. A decoded frame is stored in a frame buffer with a particular pixel order and byte order. A pixel feeder fetches portions of the decoded frame and stores portions of the frame in a double b... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373652 | Server-centric search function in an interactive program guide Techniques for searching a program guide database. In accordance with a method, one or more search criteria (e.g., keywords) are received and a request for a search is then sent, along with the search criteria, to a head end of an information distribution system. In... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373003 | Method for the scaling down of data A method, system, and data structure for the scaling down of data is provided. At least two blocks of transformed data samples representing at least two blocks of original data samples are received. One of at least two tables of constants is selected wherein each ta... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369706 | Image-data processing device, image-data processing method, image-data distributing device and image-data transmitting system An image processing device for processing an original image divided into a plurality of blocks that are made up of a plurality of picture elements from encoded image-data which is obtained by encoding a spatial-frequency component of the block as a plurality of spat... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362360 | Digital camera and method for saving digital image A digital camera is provided that includes an imaging device that takes a picture of a subject's image and generates an image signal, an image signal processor that performs predetermined conversion and compression processes on the image signal and generates digital... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360093 | System and method for authentication of JPEG image data A system and method for authentication of JPEG image data enables the recipient to ascertain whether the received image file originated from a known identified source or whether the contents of the file have been altered in some fashion prior to receipt. A unique ha... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359549 | Imaging device, image processing method, and recording medium An image processing method includes obtaining raw image data of an object by generating the object by an imager that generates an image of the object with color decomposition, decomposing the raw image data into a plurality of color planes such that each of the colo... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359570 | Method of reducing a blocking artifact when coding moving picture A method of coding a moving picture is provided that reduces blocking artifacts. The method can include defining a plurality of defining pixels S0, S1, and S2, which are centered around a block boundary. If a default mode is selected... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356082 | Video/audio signal processing method and video-audio signal processing apparatus A metadata extraction unit has a feature point selection and motion estimation unit 62 for extracting at least one feature point representing characteristics of the video/audio signals in a compressed domain of the video/audio signals. Thus, reduction of time... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356149 | Information processing method and apparatus, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium An object of this invention is to eliminate the necessity to manage a plurality of keys even when image data having a plurality of tiles and layers is encrypted using different encryption keys for the respective tiles and layers. For this purpose, in this invention,... | 04/08/2008 |
