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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180180 | Method for magnifying images and videos This invention is a method applicable to an image processing device, which includes the steps of providing a preprocess module for extracting a high-frequency portion of an image inputted into the device, extracting a gradient of the image and decomposing the image ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175417 | Apparatus, method, and computer-readable recording medium for pixel interpolation A disclosed pixel interpolation apparatus for converting an image to a predetermined resolution includes a first interpolating part configured to calculate a first interpolation pixel value by performing high order interpolation using pixel values of plural first re... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175416 | Pixel interpolation apparatus and method thereof A pixel interpolation method includes the following steps. First, multiple first macroblocks and second macroblocks are generated according to pixel data of a first real pixel row and pixel data of a second real pixel row, respectively. Next, block matching is perfo... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170378 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program An image processing apparatus that generates an output image according to interpolation performed by using an input image includes a pixel-value calculating unit that calculates a pixel value of a pixel of the output image according to interpolation performed by usi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170377 | Image processing apparatus, control method of image processing apparatus, program, and storage medium An image processing apparatus includes an interpolation unit (205, S708) which interpolates, based on the result of forming an image when executing calibration and the result of forming an image after executing calibration, the fluctuation amount of th... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8145014 | Apparatus and method of removing color noise of digital image There is provided an apparatus for removing color noise including: a color interpolation unit performing color interpolation on a bayer pattern image output from an image sensor; a high-pass filter unit performing high-pass filtering on each of the pixels of the bay... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139899 | Increasing resolution of video images A method and apparatus for increasing resolution of video images are disclosed. Vectors may be produced based on a sequence of video frames. Low dimensional vectors may be produced from the vectors. Groups of at least two of the low dimensional vectors may be interp... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135237 | Apparatuses and methods for noise reduction Methods and apparatuses provide noise reduction in a demosaiced digital image by processing the digitized signals received from a color pattern pixel array for noise reduction previous to, or as part of, a demosaicing process by using a weight matrix. ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135238 | Free view generation in ray-space The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate more efficient free view generation in Ray-Space by way of a Radon transform. The architecture can render virtual views based upon original image data by employing Ray-Space interpolation tech... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131117 | Method for magnifying images and videos and associated image processing device This invention is a method applicable to an image processing device, which includes the steps of providing a preprocess module for extracting a high-frequency portion of an image inputted into the device, extracting a gradient of the image and decomposing the image ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126293 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program In the present invention, there is provided an image processing apparatus including: a detecting section configured to detect a motion vector from an input image signal acting as the image signal for each of chronologically input pixels; a determining section config... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8116594 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus includes: a detecting unit configured to detect a motion vector from an input image signal acting as the image signal for each of chronologically input pixels; a determining unit configured to determine whether the input image signal in... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107775 | Image processing apparatus and method, and electronic camera An image processing apparatus obtains color image data by performing an interpolation processing for an image signal output from a color image pickup element having color filters arranged like a mosaic, by using a filter. The apparatus includes an interpolation proc... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107774 | Image data processing method and image display apparatus An image data processing method is provided. In this method, a plurality of original pixel values of an image is input. An interpolation position of a target pixel in the image is determined. Whether the interpolation position is in a central region of an object or ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107773 | Video signal processing apparatus and video signal processing method A video-signal processor includes: a first correlation detector obtaining a correlation value of every symmetric pair of pixels positioned in point-symmetry around an interpolation pixel on an interpolation line interpolated between two real lines; a second correlat... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098964 | Raw image processing A system, a method and computer-readable media for processing raw image data with a graphics processing unit (GPU). Raw image data generated by an imaging sensor is received. A set of instructions for demosaicing the raw image data is communicated to the GPU. The GP... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090221 | Method and apparatus for detecting displacement with sub-pixel accuracy A method for detecting displacement with sub-pixel accuracy includes the steps of: capturing a first array image and a second array image; interpolating the first array image to form a reference image; interpolating the second array image to form a comparison image;... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086075 | Motion adaptive image processing An image processing method for image conversion by combining two or more source values based on a mixing parameter to generate an output pixel value. A metric is calculated for a selected pixel at a given image field based on the directly preceding image field and a... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8073292 | Directional hole filling in images When transforming a 2.5D video format to a plurality of images viewed from different virtual positions, it can occur that for certain output pixels, no input data is available. Therefore, these output pixels do not have any definite values assigned in their pixel lo... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064734 | Image processing device image processing method, and computer program An image processing device for enlarging an image includes an attribute determining unit, a pattern matching determining unit, and a data selecting unit. The attribute determining unit determines an attribute of each pixel constituting an input image. The pattern ma... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059920 | Method and apparatus for pixel interpolation A pixel interpolation method for interpolating pixel values of a plurality of target positions of a target picture is disclosed. The pixel interpolation method includes: dynamically setting a plurality of edge detection ranges corresponding to the plurality of targe... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055102 | Local edge count heuristic for vector interpolator A vector interpolator optimizes the conversion of an interlaced signal to a non-interlaced signal. The vector interpolator improves the visual clarity of slanted features in a displayed image by adjusting the luminance value of each pixel such that the appearance of... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8031977 | Image interpolation method, medium and system An image interpolation method interpolating image information of a point in a space constructed by a plurality of planes. According to the method, a reliable interpolated value can be rapidly obtained by searching for the nearest plane to the point, obtaining inform... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8009935 | Pixel interpolation circuit, pixel interpolation method, and recording medium A correlation along a horizontal direction and a correlation along a vertical direction are calculated with respect to a neighboring region around an interpolation target pixel by using respective pixel values of R pixels, G pixels, and B pixels in Bayer data. The p... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000563 | Interpolation device An interpolation process for scaling is performed directly on raw data from an image pickup apparatus. Raw data, constituted by inputted Bayer pattern array are as a set of pixels positioned on respective lattice points on a square lattice. A position of an interpol... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991246 | Image deinterlacing Method and devices are provided for processing an image in which a row of pixels with associated light intensity values successively alternates with a row of pixels to which values are to be associated. In each current row of pixels with associated values, pixels ar... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986859 | Converting bayer pattern RGB images to full resolution RGB images via intermediate hue, saturation and intensity (HSI) conversion In one embodiment, R and B values for each G pixel element are interpolated and the RGB values are converted to HSI values. The converted HSI values are interpolated to determine interpolated HSI values for the R and B pixel elements and then the interpolated HSI va... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7957611 | Image scaler with controllable sharpness A method and system for scaling an original image into a scaled image is disclosed. Rather than using the corresponding position in the original image to generate the pixels values of a current pixel in the scaled image, image scalers in accordance with the present ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953298 | Image magnification device, image magnification method and computer readable medium storing an image magnification program A high-definition magnified image is obtained by simple computation. A magnified image is obtained by obtaining a deteriorated image on the basis of an input original image, determining enhancement filters used for individual small areas of the original image using ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949205 | Image processing unit with fall-back An image processing unit for computing a sequence of output images on basis of a sequence of input images, comprises: a motion estimation unit for computing a motion vector field on basis of the input images; a quality measurement unit for computing a value of a qua... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945121 | Method and apparatus for interpolating image information A method and apparatus for interpolating image information obtains pixel information for a plurality of pixels surrounding a location of a pixel to be interpolated, whether the pixel is a missing pixel or an existing pixel whose color or intensity information is to ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941007 | Low level video detail tracking by intuitionistic fuzzy relationship calculus To interpolate a value for a pixel, multiple patterns are selected. Each pattern is used to determine a pixel angle. One of the determined pixel angles is then selected based on the reliability of the pixel angles. The selected pixel angle can be selected based on i... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941006 | Pixel interpolating method and device The n-tap filtering for generating interpolated pixels is converted into calculation of terms consisting of the difference and sum of the pixel values of adjoining pixels. When the difference is equal to or less than a predetermined value, the calculation related to... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936950 | Apparatus for creating interpolation frame An area detecting unit detects a first matching area in a first reference block in the first reference frame, a second matching area in a second reference block in the second reference frame. A settling unit settles a secondary motion vector to be assigned to a mism... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7912323 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image display apparatus A first edge width correction process (2) is carried out in which edge widths are corrected by an interpolation process using zoom ratio control values (RZC) generated according to the edge widths in image data; an enlargement processing process (3) th... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7899273 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program An image processing apparatus that generates an output image according to interpolation performed by using an input image includes a pixel-value calculating unit that calculates a pixel value of a pixel of the output image according to interpolation performed by usi... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7889950 | Kernel regression for image processing and reconstruction A method of image processing using kernel regression is provided. An image gradient is estimated from original data that is analyzed for local structures by computing a scaling parameter, a rotation parameter and an elongation parameter using singular value decompos... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885488 | Image processing apparatus, method and medium Provided are an image processing apparatus, method and medium, more particularly, an image processing apparatus, method and medium which perform interpolation such that a pixel value in each pixel region included in a digital image and an average value of interpolat... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885487 | Method and apparatus for efficiently enlarging image by using edge signal component A method and an apparatus for efficiently enlarging an image, where the outermost Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) components from a DC value are regarded as high frequency components in DCT components expressed in one two-dimensional coordinate system, the edge sign... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881563 | Distortion correction of images using hybrid interpolation technique The specification and drawings present a new method system, apparatus and software product for correcting a geometrical distortion of an image using a hybrid interpolation technique by a digital image processor. After calculating corrected coordinates of the pixels ... | 02/01/2011 |
