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Mark Twain ; Christmas greetings, 1890
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8233746 | Image processing device, image processing method and program An image processing device is provided that includes an image acquisition unit that obtains video data that includes a plurality of consecutive frames, and also obtains image data that correspond to some of the frames and have a higher spatial resolution than the fr... | 07/31/2012 |
| 8218908 | Mixed content image compression with two edge data representations A method (200, 400) of compressing an input image (201) is described. The method (200, 400) starts by extracting image gradient data representing pixel differences along contours of the image. Next, the method forms an edge based image from the ... | 07/10/2012 |
| 8213746 | Super-resolution image processing A method for iterative derivation of a master image from sampled images of non-identical, at least partially overlapping, regions of a scene. The method includes defining a transformation operator mapping positions within the master image to corresponding positions ... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8213747 | Variable resolution images In accordance with one or more aspects, a variable resolution image is displayed at an initial resolution. The variable resolution image has multiple portions, at least two of which have different resolutions. A request to display one of the multiple portions of the... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8208760 | Image resolution adjustment method There is disclosed an image resolution adjustment method comprising the steps of: performing a predetermined selection rule to select one of scaling modes based on a source resolution Vi and a display resolution Vo to generate a scaling value set for outputting a sc... | 06/26/2012 |
| 8200046 | Method and system for enhancing short wave infrared images using super resolution (SR) and local area processing (LAP) techniques A high resolution image of a scene or object is generated by collecting a plurality of images, enhancing the plurality of images to produce a sequence of enhanced images, registering the sequence of enhanced images, accumulating the intensities of the registered seq... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8180179 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program executing image processing method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus including an area sensor unit reading image data items corresponding to frames from an original image, a correction unit correcting the inclinations of the image data items, a high-resolution conversion unit acquiring image data with a ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8170376 | Super-resolution device and method A super-resolution device and method for setting at least one of a plurality of pixels included in image data as target pixels, the image data including pixels arranged in a screen and pixel values representing brightness, an area including the target pixel and peri... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8150214 | Inferred discovery and construction of multi-resolution images A method and a processing device may be provided for discovering and constructing multi-resolution images. Content, including an image, may be obtained from a specified address via a network and rendered to a display monitor of the processing device. The processing ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139898 | Image process method and apparatus for image enlargement and enhancement An image processing device includes an image acquisition module, a memory module, and an image signal processing module, for performing an image enlargement and enhancement. The image acquisition module sequentially reads in an image block, including a unit pixel ma... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131116 | Image processing device, image processing method and image processing program The resolution of an image of an object is increased. The illumination equation parameters of the object are estimated, and a resolution-increasing process is performed on the estimated illumination equation parameters. Then, the resolution-increased illumination eq... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121436 | Methods and systems for image scaling Methods and systems for scaling an input image are provided. A pixel neighborhood that includes a plurality of pixels neighboring a pixel is selected. At least part of the pixel neighborhood is compared directly to a predetermined pattern in order to determine wheth... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121435 | Systems and methods for resolution switching Systems and methods are provided for switching a resolution of an image, wherein the image includes at least one block. In some embodiments, the image is compressed. At least one compressed block in the compressed image is tagged, if the data size of the compressed ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111950 | Image processing apparatus and method to generate reduced image An image processing apparatus and method are provided in which a reduced image is generated by removing some of a plurality of pixels of an original image. A pixel value of a pixel to be removed is reflected into a pixel value of an adjacent pixel and a reduced imag... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111949 | Image processing device, image projection apparatus, image processing method, recording medium, and computer data signal A captured image projection apparatus obtains projection parameters and image effect correction parameters from a moving image captured at a low resolution in a task different from a task in which capturing of a high-resolution still image is to be performed, when a... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107772 | Image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including a tone converting section to convert a tone level of a target pixel in multi-level image data based on a threshold value of the tone level so that the number of tone levels is reduced; a resolution converting sect... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098963 | Resolution conversion apparatus, method and program An apparatus includes unit acquiring a target image as a target of resolution conversion, unit acquiring an additional image from the image source, unit estimating a corresponding point in the target image using corresponding point estimation methods, the correspond... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098962 | Signal processing method, apparatus, and program A method includes inputting to-be-processed data including a set of first-N-dimensional-coordinate values in an N-dimensional space and first-sampling values, inputting search-pattern data including a set of second-N-dimensional-coordinate values in the N-dimensiona... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098960 | Image processing apparatus, computer readable medium storing program, image processing method, and computer data signal An image processing apparatus includes: a table generation unit that generates a table in which a coefficient set including predetermined weighting coefficients and pixels contained in a resolution converted image are related to each other on the basis of a size of ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098961 | Resolution enhancement apparatus and method A resolution enhancement apparatus includes unit to acquire a first image, unit to perform edge emphasis on the first image to obtain a second image, unit to detect, using one of the first image and the second image, points corresponding to image regions at a precis... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090220 | Resolution enhancement of video sequences with arbitrary enhancement factor Restoration based super-resolution combines a video sequence of low-resolution noisy blurred images using maximum likelihood estimation without regularization to produce a higher resolution image or video sequence up to a maximum enhancement factor r for the given v... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086074 | Image processing system and method This invention relates to an image processing system and method, the image processing system comprising an image capturing unit; a resolution conversion unit; a detection unit; an image conversion processing unit; an image compression unit, and a memory unit, the pr... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081847 | Method for up-scaling an input image and an up-scaling system The invention relates to techniques of up-scaling an input image represented by an input video signal in an image up-scaling system, especially to a method and an image up-scaling system for up-scaling an input image represented by an input video signal, the method ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078008 | Device, method and program for processing image Disclosed herein is a device for processing a moving image, the device including: a selection unit which selects an image group composed of a plurality of still images including a target image from the moving image, according to specified information for specifying ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078007 | Enlarging a digital image Enlarging a digital image. In one example embodiment, a method for enlarging a digital image includes various acts. First, an enlargement factor λ is selected for an input image. Next, a pixel in the input image is selected. Then, a supporting window is placed over... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078010 | Method and device for video image processing, calculating the similarity between video frames, and acquiring a synthesized frame by synthesizing a plurality of contiguous sampled frames To acquire a high-resolution frame from a plurality of frames sampled from a video image, it is necessary to obtain a high-resolution frame with reduced picture quality degradation regardless of motion of a subject included in the frame. Because of this, between a p... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078009 | Optical flow registration of panchromatic/multi-spectral image pairs A method for processing remotely acquired imagery includes obtaining imagery data defining a first image of a panchromatic image type, the first image having a first spatial resolution, and obtaining imagery data defining a second image of a multi-spectral image typ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068700 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and electronic appliance In an image processing apparatus, the amount of motion between a low-resolution image as a datum image and each of N low-resolution images is detected and, based on the detected amounts of motion, the datum image, and M consulted images (N>M≧1) selected out of the... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064733 | Variable resolution images In accordance with one or more aspects, a variable resolution image is displayed at an initial resolution. The variable resolution image has multiple portions, at least two of which have different resolutions. A request to display one of the multiple portions of the... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055101 | Subpixel registration Sub pixel image alignment includes mapping first pixels from a first image and second pixels from a second image to a coordinate system and applying one or more sub-pixel shifts to the mapped first pixels. For each sub-pixel shift, an overall energy is calculated an... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045827 | Image downsampling during processing A method of preparing a document for printing may include determining a preferred image resolution for an image on a document. An electronic file may be received. The electronic file may comprise data representing a first embedded image having a nominal resolution. ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041152 | Image resolution increasing method and apparatus An image resolution increasing method include setting a first block which is included in a low resolution image and is located at a first position, and a second block which is included in a high resolution image and is located at a second position, and setting, as a... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041151 | Fast method of super-resolution processing The present invention provides a fast method of super-resolution processing which realizes speedup of the high-speed super-resolution processing by speeding up the calculations of an evaluation function and the differential of the evaluation function with respect to... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036494 | Enhancing image resolution Methods, machines, and machine-readable media for enhancing image resolution are described. In one aspect, a respective motion map is computed for each pairing of a reference image and a respective image neighboring the reference image in a sequence of base images. ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036495 | Resolution conversion apparatus, method, and program An apparatus includes a first-acquisition unit acquiring, from target image data, an input image pattern including pixel values within a predetermined range with reference to each of ideal corresponding points, a second-acquisition unit acquiring, as candidate image... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031976 | Circuit and method for decoding an encoded version of an image having a first resolution directly into a decoded version of the image having a second resolution An image processing circuit includes a processor that receives an encoded portion of a first version of an image. The processor decodes this encoded portion directly into a decoded portion of a second version of the image, the second version having a resolution that... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031975 | System and method of image zooming with intensity preservation Systems and methods image zooming with intensity preservation is disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of minimizing energy levels over a set of high-resolution image pixels of a high-... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8019182 | Digital image modification using pyramid vignettes The present disclosure includes systems and methods relating to digital image modification using pyramid vignettes. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a method that includes receiving a request associated ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014633 | Method and apparatus for suppressing ringing artifacts within super-resolution image processing Apparatus and methods for reducing ringing artifacts when generating super-resolution pictures and/or videos and for controlling the balance between sharpness and introduction of artifacts. After motion estimation and motion masking for all input frames, the method ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014632 | Super-resolution device and method A super-resolution device and method for setting at least one of a plurality of pixels included in image data as target pixels, the image data including pixels arranged in a screen and pixel values representing brightness, an area including the target pixel and peri... | 09/06/2011 |
