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| 8180166 | Transcoding method A method for transcoding a first codeword to a second codeword, wherein both comprise escape codes and escape levels is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a bitstream to determine the first codeword therefrom, determining whether the first codeword belongs to... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175403 | Iterative backward reference selection with reduced entropy for image compression A system (and a method) are disclosed for optimizing lossless data compression in digital images systems iteratively. The system includes a backward reference module and an entropy encoder. The backward reference module comprises three sub-modules: a backward refere... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8131096 | Variable length coding for clustered transform coefficients in video compression Coding quantized transform coefficients as occur in image compression combines a position identifying method to identify the relative position of clusters of consecutive non-zero-valued coefficients, an amplitude event identifying method to identify amplitude events... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8103115 | Information processing apparatus, method, and program An information processing apparatus that compares an input image with a model image to identify the subject of the input image with the subject of the model image. The apparatus includes feature value extraction means for setting feature points, each of which is on ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8086055 | Variable-length code decoder An apparatus includes at least one general purpose register and at least one special purpose register and an execution unit that executes at least two instructions in parallel, to decode variable length codes, wherein each of the instructions share use of the at lea... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8031959 | Compression system for a bit-plane A compression system and method for a bit-plane is disclosed. A run-length encoder is used to compress a first block of an image, which includes at least a first line in the image. An offset encoder is used to compress a second block of the image, which includes a n... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7936938 | Methods and devices for encoding a digital image signal and associated decoding methods and devices A method of encoding a digital image signal comprising a plurality of samples. The method comprises the following steps, applied during the encoding of each sample with a view to its storage in a buffer. The level of occupancy of the buffer is determined, and the le... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7912306 | Variable length coding for clustered transform coefficients in video compression Coding quantized transform coefficients as occur in image compression combines a position identifying method to identify the relative position of clusters of consecutive non-zero-valued coefficients, an amplitude event identifying method to identify amplitude events... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7860328 | Compression processing apparatus and compression processing method A dividing unit divides respective symbol sequences of input data applied with zigzag scan and a run-length process into a plurality of subsets having similar frequencies of occurrence, depending on a difference in frequencies of occurrence. A table creating unit sc... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7778477 | Image display encoding and/or decoding system, medium, and method A display image encoding and/or displaying apparatus, medium, and method. The image encoding apparatus may include a transform unit, a quantizer, a clipper, and an entropy encoder. The transform unit converts image data to generate a transform block and the quantize... | 08/17/2010 |
| RE41458 | Adaptive variable-length coding and decoding methods for image data An adaptive variable-length coding/decoding method performs an optimal variable-length coding and decoding depending on an intra mode/inter mode condition, quantization step size and a current zigzag scanning position, such that a plurality of variable-length coding... | 07/27/2010 |
| RE41435 | Adaptive variable-length coding and decoding methods for image data An adaptive variable-length coding/decoding method performs an optimal variable-length coding and decoding depending on an intra mode/inter mode condition, quantization step size and a current zigzag scanning position, such that a plurality of variable-length coding... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751637 | Method and apparatus for synthesizing data The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for synthesizing a plurality of data that is in compressed format. According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of creating a synthesized data by synthesizing a plurality of sour... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7697773 | System, method and computer program product for image compression/decompression Disclosed is an apparatus, method, and computer program product for an image compression/decompression. The method for compressing a data structure having a first plurality of sets of image elements with one or more predetermined relationships among the image elemen... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7680349 | Variable length coding for clustered transform coefficients in video compression Coding quantized transform coefficients as occur in image compression combines a position identifying method to identify the relative position of clusters of consecutive non-zero-valued coefficients, an amplitude event identifying method to identify amplitude events... | 03/16/2010 |
| RE41154 | Adaptive variable-length coding and decoding methods for image data An adaptive variable-length coding/decoding method performs an optimal variable-length coding and decoding depending on an intra mode/inter mode condition, quantization step size and a current zigzag scanning position, such that a plurality of variable-length coding... | 03/02/2010 |
| RE41124 | Adaptive variable-length coding and decoding methods for image data An adaptive variable-length coding/decoding method performs an optimal variable-length coding and decoding depending on an intra mode/inter mode condition, quantization step size and a current zigzag scanning position, such that a plurality of variable-length coding... | 02/16/2010 |
| RE41026 | Adaptive variable-length coding and decoding methods for image data An adaptive variable-length coding/decoding method performs an optimal variable-length coding and decoding depending on an intra mode/inter mode condition, quantization step size and a current zigzag scanning position, such that a plurality of variable-length coding... | 12/01/2009 |
| RE40981 | Adaptive variable-length coding and decoding methods for image data An adaptive variable-length coding/decoding method performs an optimal variable-length coding and decoding depending on an intra mode/inter mode condition, quantization step size and a current zigzag scanning position, such that a plurality of variable-length coding... | 11/17/2009 |
| RE40980 | Adaptive variable-length coding and decoding methods for image data An adaptive variable-length coding/decoding method performs an optimal variable-length coding and decoding depending on an intra mode/inter mode condition, quantization step size and a current zigzag scanning position, such that a plurality of variable-length coding... | 11/17/2009 |
| RE40909 | Adaptive variable-length coding and decoding methods for image data An adaptive variable-length coding/decoding method performs an optimal variable-length coding and decoding depending on an intra mode/inter mode condition, quantization step size and a current zigzag scanning position, such that a plurality of variable-length coding... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7574065 | Variable-length code decoder A method that decodes serially received MPEG variable length codes by executing instructions in parallel. The method includes an execution unit which includes multiple pipelined functional units. The functional units execute at least two of the instructions in paral... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7565025 | Image recording method for image data having image components of three channels and a transmission ratio component of one channel, apparatus and computer readable recording medium storing program In the structure for image data having image components of three channels and a transmission ratio component of one channel, the image data structure includes an image area in which the image components of three channels are recorded in a compressed format, and a tr... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7558431 | Method and system for discrete cosine transforms/inverse discrete cosine transforms based on pipeline architecture A method and system for applying pipeline architecture to discrete cosine transform and inverse discrete cosine transform. Each of the discrete cosine transform and inverse cosine transform are divided into four phases computed by process elements. Each phase can be... | 07/07/2009 |
| RE40783 | Adaptive variable-length coding and decoding methods for image data An adaptive variable-length coding/decoding method performs an optimal variable-length coding and decoding depending on an intra mode/inter mode condition, quantization step size and a current zigzag scanning position, such that a plurality of variable-length coding... | 06/23/2009 |
| RE40782 | Adaptive variable-length coding and decoding methods for image data An adaptive variable-length coding/decoding method performs an optimal variable-length coding and decoding depending on an intra mode/inter mode condition, quantization step size and a current zigzag scanning position, such that a plurality of variable-length coding... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548658 | Lossless video data compressor with very high data rate Lossless video data compression is performed in real time at the data rate of incoming real time video data in a process employing a minimum number of computational steps for each video pixel. A first step is to convert each pixel 8-bit byte to a difference byte rep... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7542616 | Apparatus and method for compressing image data An image data compressing apparatus includes an image data compressor for compressing image data input thereto at first and second compression rates to produce first and second compressed data, respectively, an approximate-expression selector having an approximate-e... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7515762 | Method and apparatus for lossless data transformation with preprocessing by adaptive compression, multidimensional prediction, multi-symbol decoding enhancement enhancements A process for improved, lossless data transformation with options for adaptive compression, multidimensional prediction, multi-symbol decoding. ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7505631 | Image coding and decoding methods, image coding and decoding apparatuses, and recording media for image coding and decoding programs In an image coding method of the present invention, after a process such as DCT is performed to digital image data, quantization process is performed, and then, to resultant quantized transform coefficients, variable length coding process is performed with reference... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7480418 | Method for processing a digital image and image representation format An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7466867 | Method and apparatus for image compression and decompression An image compression method for compressing groups of pixel data, including the following steps: MSB portions and LSB portions of the pixel data are compressed separately. Further, the LSB portions are grouped according to their associated MSB portions so that simil... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7450775 | Image processing apparatus for efficient storage of variable block length data An image processing apparatus performs variable-length compression on the image data of each block included in one page, and adds a bit to the resultant code data of each block to make it have a constant data length. The apparatus stores the data length of the added... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7447372 | System(s), method(s), and apparatus for decoding exponential Golomb codes Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for decoding exponential Golomb codes. In one embodiment, there is presented a system for decoding codes having lengths (L) and information bits. The system comprises a circuit and a multiplexer. The circuit p... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7439883 | Bitstream generation for VLC encoded data A bitstream generator is described, for placing variable length coding (VLC) data into a fixed width data stream. The bitstream generator includes an input for receiving VLC data; the VLC data may be separated into a value component, and a length component. The bits... | 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 |
| 7433531 | Image pickup apparatus and method The present invention relates to an image capturing apparatus and method in which the image recording time is reduced and the memory capacity required for compression is also reduced. A number-of-bytes calculation unit 302 determines the number of bytes after... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428341 | Method and apparatus for lossless data transformation with preprocessing by adaptive compression, multidimensional prediction, multi-symbol decoding enhancement enhancements A process for improved, lossless data transformation with options for adaptive compression, multidimensional prediction, multi-symbol decoding. ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7421132 | Image compressor for generating predicted difference code having fixed bit length by requantizing with coarser quantization steps An image compressor of the present invention includes a difference calculating unit and a difference requantizing unit. The difference calculating unit calculates a predicted difference between a pixel value of image data and a predicted value (a calculated value of... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418146 | Image decoding apparatus Coded data are inputted from a stream analyzing unit to an entropy decoding unit. A group of peripheral information registers stores peripheral information on a target pixel for estimating a context used for arithmetic decoding of the coded data. Based on the periph... | 08/26/2008 |
