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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170357 | Apparatus and method for generating coded block pattern for alpha channel image and alpha channel image encoding/decoding apparatus and method using the same An apparatus and a method generate a coded block pattern (CBP) of an alpha channel image. An apparatus and a method encode or decode the alpha channel image using the method. The alpha channel image encoding apparatus includes a CBP generator generating a CBP of a f... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8126283 | Video encoding statistics extraction using non-exclusive content categories In some embodiments, content-category-level encoding statistical indicators (statistics) are assigned to weighted linear combinations of corresponding macroblock-level statistics. Content categories may identify potentially overlapping content types such as sky, wat... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8107754 | Systems and methods for randomly accessing compressed images An embodiment of a method for encoding a source image comprising multiple data units, performed by an image encoding unit, comprises the following steps. A quantized DC coefficient and multiple AC coefficients of a data unit are generated. A value at the (0,0) eleme... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8068684 | Compression of digital images of scanned documents A first aspect of the invention relates to a method for creating a binary mask image from an a inputted digital image of a scanned document, comprising the steps of creating a binarized image by binarizing the inputted digital image, detecting first text regions rep... | 11/29/2011 |
| RE42853 | Method and apparatus for coding an image object of arbitrary shape It is known to represent a square block of an image which has a maximum horizontal or vertical extension N as N vectors each representing one column or row, and encode it using an N×N discrete cosine transform matrix. We introduce a technique which transforms an in... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8023755 | Generating subimages of an image to use to represent the image Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for generating subimages of an image to use to represent the image. A determination is made of a pixel location on one axis of an image comprising a plurality of pixels. The image is divided into multiple sub... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023756 | Image encoding apparatus and method of controlling same This invention encodes an image mixed of a character or line-drawing image and a natural image. An extraction unit extracts the color of a pixel, which constitutes a high-frequency component, from the input image data as an extracted color and generates identificati... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019171 | Vision-based compression Systems and methods provide vision-based image compression. In one implementation, inpainting is the vision-based technique selected to augment a conventional signal-processing-based technique. For some regions of a source image, an exemplary system efficiently extr... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7983499 | Method and apparatus to prioritize video information during coding and decoding A method and apparatus prioritizing video information during coding and decoding. Video information is received and an element of the video information, such as a visual object, video object layer, video object plane or keyregion, is identified. A priority is assign... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7945104 | System and method for encoding and decoding using texture replacement The invention provides devices and methods that process images. The invention processes a received signal representing information of texture and information of an image, which has the texture removed from at least one region. The image information is encoded to obt... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7929795 | Coding scheme for a data stream representing a temporally varying graphics model Introducing a further prediction stage, namely a prediction of the motion vectors or the prediction error of the first prediction stage, does indeed at first increase the encoding or compression effort and, correspondingly, also the decoding or decompression effort,... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7853092 | Feature block compression/decompression A compressor for compressing a block of feature vectors representing a feature associated with image elements, includes electronic circuitry for determining the distribution of the feature vectors, electronic circuitry for transforming each point pattern in a predet... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7809203 | Apparatus for encoding and decoding key data and key value data of coordinate interpolator and recording medium containing bitstream into which coordinate interpolator is encoded An apparatus for encoding and decoding key data and key value data of a coordinate interpolator and a recording medium, on which a bitstream, into which a coordinate interpolator is encoded, is written, are provided. The bitstream includes key data encoding/decoding... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7809204 | Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding key value data of coordinate interpolator A method and an apparatus for encoding/decoding key value data of a coordinate interpolator used in a three-dimensional graphic animation are provided. The apparatus for encoding key value data of a coordinate interpolator representing the position of each vertex of... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7773821 | Method and device for compressing and expanding image data A method for compressing image data having pixels arranged like a matrix in a line direction and a sub scan direction orthogonal to the line direction is provided herein. The disclosed method allows for a reduction in memory capacity necessary for the expansion of t... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7702171 | Screen data transmitting device A screen data transmitting device for transmitting screen data to a screen display terminal through a network. A generation device generates a display image data. A storage device stores compression properties information associating a plurality of compression schem... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7684630 | Digital image adjustable compression and resolution using face detection information A method of adjustable spatial and/or temporal compression of an image including a face includes identifying a group of pixels that correspond to a face within a digitally-acquired image. A first compression portion of the image including the group of pixels is dete... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7676105 | Method, apparatus, article and system for use in association with images According to some embodiments, a set of images may be determined, including at least one training image and at least one image to be provided to a viewer. A reduced training image may be created based on the training image, and at least one enlarging parameter may b... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7643692 | Method and system of generating geometric characteristics of a digitally encoded image The system of generating geometric characteristics of a digitally encoded image comprises a display device (2) capable of displaying a digitized image, communicating with a control unit (4), and comprising a man-machine interface (6) and means o... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7630570 | Method and apparatus to prioritize video information during coding and decoding A method and apparatus prioritizing video information during coding and decoding. Video information is received and an element of the video information, such as a visual object, video object layer, video object plane or keyregion, is identified. A priority is assign... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7606435 | System and method for encoding and decoding using texture replacement The invention provides devices and methods that process images. The invention processes a received signal representing information of texture and information of an image, which has the texture removed from at least one region. The image information is encoded to obt... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7599567 | Image encoding apparatus and image encoding method In an image encoding apparatus, pattern image cut-out means cuts out partial regions of an image of image data and generates pattern images. At the same time, the pattern image cut-out means outputs position information that is representative of positions on the ima... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7567720 | Raster to vector conversion of a digital image A raster to vector conversion method of an initial digital image including a pixel matrix, includes generating a digital image divided into polygons by dividing the initial digital image into a plurality of base triangles and defining similarity criteria depending o... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7548657 | Adaptive video compression of graphical user interfaces using application metadata Systems, methods and computer accessible medium are provided through which an input data stream consisting one or more media regions before entering a network to be rendered by a display coupled a remote video frame buffer is compressed on the basis of one or more c... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7539348 | Digital map shape vector encoding method and position information transfer method It is an object to provide a method of coding the position information of a digital map in a small data volume by utilizing a compressing and coding technique. In a coding method of coding data indicative of a shape vector on a digital map, an arithmetic processing ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7477795 | Image compression and expansion technique The present invention aims at improving an image compression rate and enhancing quality of images after expansion. An image compression device generates compressed data formed by compressing an image. The device includes a boundary area detection section for detecti... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7466866 | Digital image adjustable compression and resolution using face detection information A method of adjustable spatial and/or temporal compression of an image including a face includes identifying a group of pixels that correspond to a face within a digitally-acquired image. A first compression portion of the image including the group of pixels is dete... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7457474 | Generalized scalability for video coder based on video objects A video coding system that codes video objects as scalable video object layers. Data of each video object may be segregated into one or more layers. A base layer contains sufficient information to decode a basic representation of the video object. Enhancement layers... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7424172 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus and display apparatus suitable for the application of image processing method A lattice dividing unit determines lattice lines to divide parameters of all points of a picture at every division and supplies distortion correction parameters (distortion correction coordinates) on the lattice points to a distortion correction memory (not shown). ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420560 | Unique method for performing zoom-in and zoom-out operations with horizontal and vertical video decimation within a wireless device having a video display A method of presenting a selected portion of graphical images within a wireless terminal that includes receiving an original graphical image, having a source resolution, to be presented on a display screen. The native pixel resolution of the display screen may diffe... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418155 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus and display apparatus suitable for the application of image processing method A lattice dividing unit determines lattice lines to divide parameters of all points of a picture at every division and supplies distortion correction parameters (distortion correction coordinates) on the lattice points to a distortion correction memory (not shown). ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418145 | Compression device and decompression device In a compression device, a central processing unit acquires data containing a plurality of element points for specifying the shape of an object composing the map image, and thereafter calculates a second-order differential value of a predetermined one of the plurali... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415160 | Terminal and method for transporting still picture Terminal and method for transporting a still picture uses a moving picture terminal after extraction of a frame unit of still pictures, for example, from a moving picture. The extracted still picture frames can be encoded in a fixed quantizing value and stored befor... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7397962 | Automatic method of identifying image subregions for reuse during datastream transmission A method, system, and computer program product are provided, wherein the bandwidth necessary to transmit an item of image data is reduced. When items of image data are identified in a datastream, they are extracted from the datastream. The image data item is then di... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7386159 | Magnetic watermark for text documents The present invention is a method and apparatus for applying magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) technology to enable the embedding of coded information within text characters of a document. ... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382927 | System for constructing mosaic images A mosaic image construction system includes at least one of a decoder receiving or an encoder transmitting a sequence of pixel data frames. The sequence includes at least a first pixel data frame and a second pixel data frame. The second pixel data frame is preferab... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376266 | Segmented layered image system Systems and methods for encoding and decoding document images are disclosed. Document images are segmented into multiple layers according to a mask. The multiple layers are non-binary. The respective layers can then be processed and compressed separately in order to... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366357 | Systems and methods for adjusting image data to form highly compressible image planes The image data is processed into a background plane and a plurality of foreground planes. Holes are inserted onto the background plane, in regions which are assigned to a foreground plane. The background plane is sub-sampled, and holes remaining in the sub-sampled i... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365748 | Unique method for performing horizontal and vertical video decimation within a wireless device A method of presenting graphical images within a wireless terminal that includes receiving an original graphical image, having a source resolution, to be presented on a display screen. The native pixel resolution of the display screen may differ from that of the ori... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362905 | Methods and systems for DV encoding and decoding Methods and systems for multi-stage DV encoding and decoding. A skip command may be issued by a microprocessor or DRAM controller via a physical link when DRAM bandwidth is overtaxed. Corresponding encoding and decoding systems implementing the proposed DV encoding ... | 04/22/2008 |
