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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8111939 | Image processing device and image processing method An image processing device includes: an estimating module configured to estimate boundaries of blocks in an input image; a characteristic value calculating module configured to calculate a characteristic value of a subject pixel group having constituent pixels inclu... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107761 | Method for determining boundary strength A method for determining the boundary strengths of edges in a block-based digitally encoded image is disclosed. The method includes setting the boundary strength of two adjacent blocks in an Inter macroblock to a first strength value if any one of the two adjacent b... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8045821 | Coding method conversion apparatus A coding method conversion apparatus converts the first coded data coded by the first coding method into the second coded data. The coding method conversion apparatus includes: an H.264 decoder which decodes the first coded data; a deblocking filter strength calcula... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7983505 | Performing deblocking on pixel data In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving pixel data for a portion of an image including a blocking artifact, calculating an artifact strength based on a difference between a two pixels on opposite sides of the blocking artifact, perfo... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974491 | Block noise removal device A block noise removal device calculates a block boundary correction value which indicates a correction amount for a pixel sample value immediately before a block boundary position and a correction amount for a pixel sample value immediately after the block boundary ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965900 | Processing an input image to reduce compression-related artifacts In a method for processing an input image to reduce compression-related artifacts, a plurality of block transforms of the input image having respective plurality of block-grid locations are generated, where each of the block-grid locations is shifted with respect to... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7957607 | Decoding apparatus, dequantization method, and computer readable medium storing program thereof There is provided a decoding apparatus that decodes data encoded by transform coding in units of predefined image areas, including a coefficient setting unit that sets modification coefficients for each of the image areas; and a dequantized value generating unit tha... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7907789 | Reduction of block effects in spatially re-sampled image information for block-based image coding A method of processing block-based image information including up sample filtering pixels located along boundaries of image blocks using a first filter strength and up sample filtering at least a portion of the pixels that are not located along boundaries of the ima... | 03/15/2011 |
| RE41953 | Decoding apparatus including a filtering unit configured to determine a pixel value using a weighted average operation A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 11/23/2010 |
| RE41932 | Decoding apparatus including a filtering unit configured to filter an image by selecting a filter mask extending either horizontally or vertically A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 11/16/2010 |
| RE41910 | Method of determining a pixel value using a weighted average operation A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 11/02/2010 |
| RE41909 | Method of determining a pixel value A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 11/02/2010 |
| RE41776 | Decoding apparatus including a filtering unit configured to filter an image based on averaging operation and difference A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805016 | Decoding apparatus and decoding method A decoding apparatus having a de-ringing filter to filter image data decoded from encoded image data by orthogonal transformation encoding. In the de-ringing filter, a subtracter generates an absolute value of difference between a value of a filter object pixel and ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7792385 | Scratch pad for storing intermediate loop filter data A video processing apparatus and methodology are implemented as a combination of a processor and a video decoding hardware block to decode video data by providing the video decoding block with an in-loop filter and a scratch pad memory, so that the in-loop filter ma... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7778480 | Block filtering system for reducing artifacts and method A method includes identifying a pair of image data blocks separated by a boundary. The image data blocks include image information defining multiple pixels in at least one image. The method also includes identifying at least one filter length based on edge contents ... | 08/17/2010 |
| RE41459 | Method of image filtering based on selected pixels and a difference between pixels A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 07/27/2010 |
| RE41446 | Decoding apparatus including a filtering unit configured to filter an image by application of a weighted average operation A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 07/20/2010 |
| RE41437 | Decoding apparatus including a filtering unit configured to filter an image based on averaging operation including a shift operation applied to selected successive pixels A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 07/13/2010 |
| RE41436 | Method of image filtering based on averaging operation including a shift operation applied to selected successive pixels A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 07/13/2010 |
| RE41422 | DECODING APPARATUS INCLUDING A FILTERING UNIT CONFIGURED TO FILTER AN IMAGE BY PERFORMING AN AVERAGING OPERATION SELECTIVELY BASED ON AT LEAST ONE CANDIDATE PIXEL ASSOCIATED WITH A PIXEL TO BE FILTERED A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 07/06/2010 |
| RE41423 | Decoding apparatus including a filtering unit configured to filter an image based on comparison of difference between selected pixels A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 07/06/2010 |
| RE41420 | Method of image filtering based on comparison of difference between selected pixels A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 07/06/2010 |
| RE41419 | Method of image filtering based on selected pixels in different blocks A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 07/06/2010 |
| RE41421 | Method of filtering an image by performing an averaging operation selectively based on at least one candidate pixel associated with a pixel to be filtered A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 07/06/2010 |
| RE41404 | Decoding apparatus including a filtering unit configured to filter an image based on comparison operation and averaging operation applied to selected successive pixels A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 06/29/2010 |
| RE41402 | Method of image filtering based on comparison operation and averaging operation applied to selected successive pixels A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 06/29/2010 |
| RE41406 | Decoding apparatus including a filtering unit configured to filter an image based on selected pixels and a difference between pixels A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 06/29/2010 |
| RE41405 | Decoding apparatus including a filtering unit configured to filter an image based on selected pixels in different blocks A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 06/29/2010 |
| RE41403 | Method of image filtering based on averaging operation and difference A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 06/29/2010 |
| RE41387 | Decoding apparatus including a filtering unit configured to filter an image using a selected filtering mask and threshold comparison operation A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 06/22/2010 |
| RE41385 | Method of filtering an image using selected filtering mask and threshold comparison operation A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 06/22/2010 |
| RE41386 | Method of filtering an image including application of a weighted average operation A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a var... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7738726 | Block distortion reduction apparatus A block distortion reduction apparatus, enabling easy processing by a small-sized circuit configuration and enabling generation of block distortion reduction parameters by any area unit inside a frame, which averages encoding coefficients in a macroblock units to ob... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7729556 | Method for improving image quality and image processor for same In order to improve image quality of high compression ratio images, a de-blocking process is performed on decoded image data, and then an edge enhancement process is performed on the de-blocked image data. Performing the edge enhancement process after performing the... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7715647 | Data processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, and methods and programs for processing image data A data processing apparatus capable of performing processing in units of block data by using processing results of other block data in a short time is provided, wherein a deblocking filter performs horizontal filtering processing and vertical filtering processing on... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7715648 | Apparatus and method for compensating compression blocking artifacts based on gray value comparisons of adjacent blocks An apparatus and method for compensating images in a display device is disclosed. Distortion ratios of image blocks are calculated based on a gray value difference between each of a plurality of pairs of pixels in the image blocks that face each other at a boundary ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7706627 | Method for reducing blocking artifacts A method for removing blocking artifacts from moving and still pictures, comprising classifying horizontal and vertical boundaries in each picture as blocky or non-blocky; for each blocky boundary, defining an adaptive, picture contentdependent, one-dimensional filt... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7676109 | Deblocking method according to computing mode determined from a first value and a second value, the second value determined according to precisely eight pixels A deblocking method, for removing blocking artifacts comprises selecting a plurality of first pixels according to a bandwidth of a memory device, wherein the first pixels are uniformly distributed at two sides of a block boundary; calculating a first value according... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7668392 | Block noise detecting and reducing method and apparatus, using comparison of adjacent pixel boundary differences with predicted pixel boundary differences A pixel boundary difference detector detects a pixel boundary difference across a pixel boundary on the basis of a difference value between pixel values of adjacent pixels across the pixel boundary on a picture plane of an input image frame, and a predicted pixel va... | 02/23/2010 |
