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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7664337 | Film grain generation and addition High-frequency noise is generated that approximates the appearance of traditional “film grain” for a digital video signal. By adding a relatively small amount of film grain noise, the video can be made to look more natural and more pleasing to the human viewer. ... | 02/16/2010 |
| RE41095 | Video coder employing pixel transportation A video encoding method and apparatus is shown wherein image information is represented as a plurality of pixels, the pixels are organized into blocks, pixels transposition is performed on image information at the boundaries of the blocks, the blocks are transform c... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7650043 | Method of reducing blocking artifacts from block-coded digital images and image reproducing apparatus using the same A method of removing blocking artifacts from block-coded digital images and an image reproducing apparatus using the same remove blocking artifacts from a block-coded digital image. The method includes adjusting filtering offsets on a block-by-block basis using moti... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7636490 | Deblocking filter process with local buffers A system and method that optimizes a de-blocking filter process using local buffers. The local buffers may be off of the memory unit in which image data may be stored. The data associated with the image may be loaded into the local buffers. The data may be then fed ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7634150 | Removing ringing and blocking artifacts from JPEG compressed document images A method of removing ringing and blocking artifacts from a decompressed digital image. In one method, a background value of the digital image a background region and foreground regions is determined, and a threshold value is computed. A mapping of the digital image ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7620262 | 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... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7616832 | 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... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7616830 | Method and device for reducing blocking artifacts in a compressed digital image without reducing clarity of edges Artifacts of an incident digital image including pixels carrying information are reduced by determining, for certain pixels being considered from the image, displaced pixels. A displaced pixel associated with a pixel being considered is situated at a location that i... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7616829 | Reducing undesirable block based image processing artifacts by DC image filtering A post-processing manager provides reconstructed block based picture post-processing that is uncoupled from picture decoding by dividing a reconstructed image that was encoded using block based processing into non-overlapping blocks, creating a DC image by computing... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7616831 | 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... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7616833 | 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... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7599571 | 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... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7561752 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus for removing block distortion comprises an area specifying unit 103 for specifying a block distortion area to remove the block distortion therefrom in a reconstructed image decoded from a compressed data, and a block distortion a... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7542620 | Robust temporal dithering and filtering A temporal dithering manager uses temporal dithering to reduce contouring artifacts due to bit limiting. The temporal dithering manager truncates low order bits of an input signal, creates a temporal dither signal based on the truncated low order bits and applies th... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7532767 | Removing ringing and blocking artifacts from JPEG compressed document images A method of removing ringing and blocking artifacts from a decompressed digital image. In one method, a background value of the digital image a background region and foreground regions is determined, and a threshold value is computed. A mapping of the digital image ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7515766 | Apparatus and method for edge handling in image processing A method and apparatus for hardware-base edge handling in video post-processing. In one embodiment, the method includes the identification of at least one unstored input pixel required to compute an output pixel during output pixel computation. Once identified, a pi... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7499598 | 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... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7496239 | 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... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7492959 | 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... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492960 | 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... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492961 | 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... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7463786 | 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... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7454081 | Method and system for video edge enhancement A system and method that enhance edges in images by detecting and correcting edges of the components of the image, such as the luma and the chroma components. The luma and the chroma edges may be corrected to align with one another. The luma edge detection may utili... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7454082 | 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... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7440635 | Method for removing ringing artifacts from locations near dominant edges of an image reconstructed after compression A method to remove ringing artifacts from locations near dominant edges of an image reconstructed after compression. The image is decomposed into blocks small enough so that each would contain only one significant edge. A significant edge is tested as to whether it ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437015 | 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... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7432985 | Image processing method Pixels in a window, which corresponds to the position of an input pixel and has a predetermined size, are extracted from a reduced image obtained by reducing an input image to a predetermined scale. Substitute data used to substitute the value of the input pixel is ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430336 | Method and apparatus for image enhancement for low bit rate video compression A method and apparatus for deblocking and edge enhancement of block based digital video includes determining that two blocks share a common boundary; measuring edge activity of the common boundary, comparing the measured edge activity to a first threshold, filtering... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7426315 | 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 content-dependent, one-dimensional fil... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7415163 | Method of reducing noise in images An image noise reducing method that can properly reduce both block noise and mosquito noise without deterioration of the image quality is provided. The method includes creating a first luminance component image data with the boundaries of the blocks thereof smoothen... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7412109 | System and method for filtering artifacts in images A method filters pixels in an image, by first partitioning the image into blocks. Edge block are identified. A variance of an intensity for each pixel in each edge block is determined. Then, each pixel in each edge block is filtered with a filter that is dependant o... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409103 | Method of reducing noise in images An image noise reducing method that can properly reduce CCD noise which emerges in an image imported from a digital camera is provided. The method includes applying a first filtering step to luminance component image data of the image with each pixel of the luminanc... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406209 | 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... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403667 | 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... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400780 | 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... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397965 | 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... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397966 | 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... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7397967 | 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... | 07/08/2008 |