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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7050637 | Image coding method and apparatus and image decoding method and apparatus An image coding and decoding technology for digital movie or video that provides for error checking within the digital video files. The digital video is coded in a data stream that includes key frames and correspondence data between key frames as well as additional ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046387 | Efficient coding of color images including monochrome images A device for processing images includes a compressing/coding unit which encodes image data including a plurality of color components to produce fixed-length codes, a memory unit which stores therein the codes produced by the compressing/coding unit, a distribution-m... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046817 | Image processing apparatus and method therefor It is one object of the present invention to prevent embedded verification information from being lost even when a quantization process is performed after verification information has been embedded. A pre-embedding portion 32 converts a image data value so th... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042941 | Method and apparatus for controlling amount of quantization processing in an encoder A method and apparatus for controlling the amount of quantization processing used within an encoder that compresses video and/or audio data include processing that begins by receiving discrete cosine transform data of a block of a frame of data. The process then pro... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042943 | Method and apparatus for control of rate-distortion tradeoff by mode selection in video encoders A Method And Apparatus For Control of Rate-Distortion Tradeoff by Mode Selection in Video Encoders is Disclosed. The system of the present invention first selects a distortion value D near a desired distortion value. Next, the system determines a quantizer value Q u... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039248 | Method for transforming video data by wavelet transform signal processing A method to transform video data having an interest region by wavelet transform signal processing. First, the video data is transformed to high frequency image data and low frequency image data. Then, first image data recording first information responding to the in... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7039108 | Method and device for coding and decoding image sequences In the method of coding according to the invention whether or not a predetermined encoder capacity parameter has been reached is tested prior to the actual coding of an image sequence. A reduction of the coding format can take place when the capacity parameter has b... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034878 | Camera apparatus and method of taking pictures including simplified processing A camera apparatus including a camera unit which acquires an image, a line-of-sight detection unit which detects a point of eye fixation of a user within a camera screen, and an importance computation unit which determines levels of importance for respective areas o... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035473 | Distortion-adaptive visual frequency weighting The ability of the visual system to detect contrast in an image is a function of the frequency of the contrasting pattern and the distortion of the image. The visual system is more sensitive to contrasting patterns of lower frequency. When the image is significantly... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035474 | System and method for recompressing a digital image using requantization A system and method for recompressing a JPEG image using requantization is described. DCT transform coefficients for a compressed JPEG image are statistically analyzed to generate a stored numeric error representation. Local minimizers are determined from the stored... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035215 | Method for synchronization adaptation of asynchronous digital data streams The present invention proposes a method for synchronization adaptation of asynchronous digital data streams comprising the steps of providing a first digital data stream (PCM_IN) at a first sample rate (CLK—1); inputting said first digital data s... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7030880 | Information processor In an information processing apparatus for conducting an affine transformation representative of ( x ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031387 | B picture mode determining method and apparatus in video coding system A B picture mode determining method and apparatus in a video coding system includes the steps of: setting sum of absolute difference (SAD) initial values of a 4×4 and 16×16 intra prediction mode, a forward prediction mode, a backward prediction mode, a bi-directio... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031541 | System, method and program for improved color image signal quantization A system and method of processing a component color image signal extracted from image signals are disclosed, including a quantizing unit for quantizing the component color image signal over a plurality of quantization regions of the component color image signal, suc... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031542 | Encoding rate controlling apparatus and information encoding apparatus The encoding rate controlling apparatus (9) is provided with a controlling device (9a, 9b) for performing a control for the encoding rate by changing a quantization scale code for quantizing the dynamic image information, and for c... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031538 | Method and apparatus for feature-based quantization and compression of data A method and apparatus for compression and restoration of images, videos, surfaces, curves and, generally, pixel-based data sets, including: feature-based quantization using a set of N isocontours; compressing each of these N contours using a level set-based compres... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031537 | Method and apparatus for specifying quantization based upon the human visual system A method and apparatus for specifying quantization based upon the human visual system is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises specifying scalar quantization for application to one or more bit planes of luminance information in image data using a human ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027982 | Quality and rate control strategy for digital audio An audio encoder regulates quality and bitrate with a control strategy. The strategy includes several features. First, an encoder regulates quantization using quality, minimum bit count, and maximum bit count parameters. Second, an encoder regulates quantization usi... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7028189 | Derivation and quantization of robust non-local characteristics for blind watermarking An implementation of a technology is described herein for deriving robust non-local characteristics and quantizing such characteristics for blind watermarking of a digital good. ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027655 | Digital image compression with spatially varying quality levels determined by identifying areas of interest Methods and systems for compression of digital images (still or motion sequences) are provided wherein predetermined criteria may be used to identify a plurality of areas of interest in the image, and each area of interest is encoded with a corresponding quality lev... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027507 | Moving-picture coding and decoding method and apparatus with reduced computational cost A coded moving-picture signal is decoded by a resolution-converting motion compensation process and a resolution-converting inverse discrete cosine transform, both of which decrease the resolution of the picture, thereby reducing the amount of reference picture data... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027446 | Method and apparatus for set intersection rule matching A method and apparatus for of high-speed and memory efficient rule matching, the rule matching being performed on an m-dimensional universe with each dimension bound by a given range of coordinate values, and a set of rules that apply to an undetermined number of co... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027506 | Object-based bit rate control method and system thereof An object-based bit rate control method and a system therefore provides a user with satisfactory quality of image by using significance of the object. The object is separated from the image, and significance is imposed on each object. A quantization parameter is dif... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7024044 | Method of compressing digital images A method is for compressing a digital image that is made up of a matrix of elements, with each element including a plurality of digital components of different types for representing a pixel. The method includes splitting the digital image into a plurality of blocks... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7020775 | Derivation and quantization of robust non-local characteristics for blind watermarking An implementation of a technology is described herein for deriving robust non-local characteristics and quantizing such characteristics for blind watermarking of a digital good. This technology finds the proper balance between minimizing the probability of false ala... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020671 | Implementation of an inverse discrete cosine transform using single instruction multiple data instructions Compressed data are decompressed using an inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT). A first one directional (1D) IDCT is performed resulting in a plurality of first 1D IDCT coefficients followed by a second 1D IDCT resulting in a plurality of second 1D IDCT coeffici... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020777 | Derivation and quantization of robust non-local characteristics for blind watermarking An implementation of a technology is described herein for deriving robust non-local characteristics and quantizing such characteristics for blind watermarking of a digital good. ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7020194 | Apparatus and method for vector descriptor representation and multimedia data retrieval The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for vector descriptor representation and multimedia data retrieval, which can quantize a plurality of feature values described by a vector descriptor respectively, represent the quantized feature values in t... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7016546 | Block area wavelet transform picture encoding apparatus In wavelet transform encoding, high-quality encoding is to be realized by enabling picture quality control from one fractional area to another. An input picture 100 is read out in an amount corresponding to a number of lines required for wavelet transform and... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7016548 | Mobile image transmission and reception for compressing and decompressing without transmitting coding and quantization tables and compatibility with JPEG The invention relates to a method in image processing, wherein an image in digital form is in coding phase compressed, quantized by a quantization matrix (QL, QC) and coded by a coding matrix (HL1, HK1, HL2), wherein one or more data frames are ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012960 | Method of transcoding and transcoding device with embedded filters The present invention relates to a method of transcoding (200) a primary encoded signal (S1) into a secondary encoded signal (S2). Said transcoding method comprising at least a step of decoding a current picture of the primary encoded signal, sa... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7010170 | Image coding device and method To compress and encode an image by dividing the image into units of blocks, a method in which features of each block are detected and different operations are applied according to the features has been used often so as to reduce coding distortion and improve subject... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006714 | Image retrieval device, image retrieval method and storage medium storing similar-image retrieval program An image retrieval device and method capable of high speed image retrieval. The image retrieval device has a first coefficient transforming section to transform a first group of image feature descriptors extracted from image data accumulated in an image database and... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7007303 | Systems and methods for authenticating documents A method and device for creating a notarized document from a document, comprising acquiring image data of the document; generating a document data file based on the image data, the document data file comprising a exemplar table and a block table; and appending the d... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006568 | 3D wavelet based video codec with human perceptual model A video encoding/decoding system based on 3D wavelet decomposition and the human perceptual model is implemented. JND is applied in quantizer design to improve the subjective quality of compressed video. The 3D wavelet decomposition helps to remove spatial and tempo... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006698 | Method and apparatus for compressing a video image An apparatus and method for performing two-pass real time video compression is provided. Tactical decisions such as encoding and quantification values are determined in software, whereas functional execution steps are performed in hardware. By appropriately apportio... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006703 | Content recognizer via probabilistic mirror distribution An implementation of a technology, described herein, for facilitating the recognition of content of digital goods. At least one implementation, described herein, derives a probabilistic mirror distribution of a digital good (e.g., digital image or audio signal). It ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7003167 | Single-pass guaranteed-fit data compression using rate feedback An image-compression system provides for high-quality guaranteed-fit image block-by-block compression in a single pass. A baseline block-target allocator determines a baseline target size for the compressed blocks resulting from the source-image blocks. A block targ... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003171 | Method, apparatus and recording medium for data compression Fast and efficient data compression can be carried out. Original image data are subjected to wavelet transform. The obtained wavelet-transformed data are classified and bit allocation is determined. Based on the determined bit allocation, the wavelet-transformed dat... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7003731 | User control and activation of watermark enabled objects Methods and systems for associating watermark enabled objects with machine behaviors. Machine behaviors refer to actions by devices or systems in response to a triggering event. Examples of these behaviors include fetching a web page, opening an email client to send... | 02/21/2006 |
