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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8065354 | Compression of 16 bit data using predictor values Systems and methods compress and decompress 16 bit data. The 16 bit data may be signed or unsigned and represented in a fixed point or floating point format. A fixed block size of data is compressed into a fixed length format. Data compressed using a medium quality ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7962538 | Method of operand width reduction to enable usage of narrower saturation adder An electronic computing circuit for implementing a method for reducing the bit width of two operands from a bit length N to a reduced bit length M, thus, M | 06/14/2011 |
| 7912881 | Data compression method A method for transmitting the value of a parameter in a compressed form, the method comprising the steps of: accepting successive numbers representing the value of a parameter; manipulating each number, the manipulation comprising placing the number in a form compri... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7849118 | Data transformation method and data transformation circuit capable of saving numeral operations A data transformation method capable of saving numeral operations, the data transformation method includes encoding a plurality of digital data to generate a plurality of sets of byte data according to an encoding mode, determining a plurality of repetition patterns... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7801935 | System (s), method (s), and apparatus for converting unsigned fixed length codes (decoded from exponential golomb codes) to signed fixed length codes Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for converting unsigned fixed length codes to signed fixed length codes. In one embodiment, there is presented a circuit for converting an unsigned code to a signed code. The circuit comprises a multiplexer. T... | 09/21/2010 |
| RE41152 | Lempel-Ziv data compression technique utilizing a dictionary pre-filled with frequent letter combinations, words and/or phrases An adaptive compression technique which is an improvement to Lempel-Ziv (LZ) compression techniques, both as applied for purposes of reducing required storage space and for reducing the transmission time associated with transferring data from point to point. Pre-fil... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7606847 | Dense and randomized storage and coding of information We describe a method for dense encoding of information. Bennet and Wiesner (Phys. Rev. Lett. 69:2881-2884, 1992), using EPR-pairs, showed that n bits can be encoded by n/2 quantum-bits, from which the original bits can be retrieved. Here, in a completely different (... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7599975 | Decompression of compressed 16 bit data Systems and methods compress and decompress 16 bit data. The 16 bit data may be signed or unsigned and represented in a fixed point or floating point format. A fixed block size of data is compressed into a fixed length format. Data compressed using a medium quality ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7424172 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus and display apparatus suitable for the application of image processing method A lattice dividing unit determines lattice lines to divide parameters of all points of a picture at every division and supplies distortion correction parameters (distortion correction coordinates) on the lattice points to a distortion correction memory (not shown). ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418155 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus and display apparatus suitable for the application of image processing method A lattice dividing unit determines lattice lines to divide parameters of all points of a picture at every division and supplies distortion correction parameters (distortion correction coordinates) on the lattice points to a distortion correction memory (not shown). ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7382376 | System and method for effectively utilizing a memory device in a compressed domain A system and method for effectively storing compressed information in an electronic device includes a memory device coupled to the electronic device for storing the compressed information. A compression module sequentially performs a forward write procedure to store... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373014 | Post-processing method for reducing artifacts in block-coded digital images, and post-processing device for actuating such method A post-processing method reduces artifacts in block-coded digital images. The method includes: dividing an input image into a plurality of image blocks; for each image block, estimating global features of said image block providing information on an average content ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373002 | Image processing apparatus and method, and computer program The present invention provides an image processing apparatus that records currently displayed video onto an external medium as a still image. A JPEG file includes compressed data and auxiliary Exif information, and the auxiliary information includes a user informati... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372591 | Image forming device and image forming method An mage forming device and image forming method capable of performing selective data compression. Printing data transmitted from a host computer are stored in RAM and developed into image data by CPU. The CPU determines whether or not the greatest raster length in t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372995 | Analysis apparatus An analysis apparatus includes an information acquisition part for acquiring shape information about an analysis target object, an additional information extraction part for extracting additional information on the analysis target object from the shape information, ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370069 | Numerical value conversion using a look-up table for coefficient storage A device for performing numerical value conversion of a digital input value in a first unit to a second unit being a natural unit includes a look-up table storing an array of coefficients for performing the numerical value conversion. The look-up table is indexed us... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370068 | Sorting of records with duplicate removal in a database system A database system includes an enhanced technique for performing sorts in which removals of duplicate records are performed to compact the size of segments being sorted. To enhance a query plan, the duplicate record removal is performed as early in the query plan as ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366910 | System and method for string filtering A computer-based method for scanning data using string filtering includes compressing a data string using a hashing algorithm to obtain a data-string signature, and then determining that the data-string signature matches a known data-string signatures stored in a lo... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366238 | Noise filter for video processing A noise filter for a video processing system includes a block selector, a cost calculator, a cost table, a cost comparator, and a coefficient filter. The block selector is coupled to receive data from the quantization unit and selects blocks for additional filtering... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366352 | Method and apparatus for performing fast closest match in pattern recognition A method and apparatus for determining a closest match of N input patterns relative to R reference patterns using K processing units. Each of a set of input patterns are loaded into the K processing units. One of the Reference patterns is sequentially loaded into ea... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363335 | Modular arithmetic apparatus and method selecting a base in the residue number system A modular arithmetic apparatus has a plurality of base parameter sets in read only memories. A base selection unit in the modular arithmetic apparatus selects one of the base parameters sets according to an input modulus p. A plurality of operation units 30, ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358874 | Data compression using a stream selector with edit-in-place capability for compressed data A method for encoding an input file into an output file that is compressed so that the number of bits required to represent the output file is less than the number of bits of the input file. The encoding method includes the parsing of the input file into a series of... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360061 | Program instruction decompression and compression techniques A data processing system including an instruction cache 8 and an instruction decompression circuit 10 between the instruction cache 8 and a compressed instruction data memory 12. The instruction decompression circuit decompresses compress... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352915 | Image processing method, image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus and display apparatus suitable for the application of image processing method A lattice dividing unit determines lattice lines to divide parameters of all points of a picture at every division and supplies distortion correction parameters (distortion correction coordinates) on the lattice points to a distortion correction memory. A polynomial... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349933 | Analog data compression Analog data is compressed by processing certain data from data storage and interpolating data between data points which fall within an acceptable error range. Data points are compressed by modifying or eliminating data depending upon the slope relationship of a stor... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343404 | Efficient representation of system network management object identifiers Systems and methods for efficient storage of network management object identifiers are provided. Object identifiers such as SNMP MIB object identifiers are stored in a compressed form. In one embodiment, a single integer represents multiple elements of an object ide... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336713 | Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding data A DPCM operation which can reduce the size of differential data and a method and an apparatus for encoding data using the DPCM operation are provided. A method for generating differential data includes generating differential data by performing a DPCM operation on q... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333542 | Moving picture decoding apparatus and moving picture decoding method A memory compression and expansion section (11 of FIG. 1) applies compression to a decoded image, and the result is stored in a frame memory. Based on an occupied content of the frame memory (FIG. 1, 106), in case that the number of coded bits f... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330809 | Trace data compression system and trace data compression method and microcomputer implemented with a built-in trace data compression circuit A trace data compression system includes a data acquisition circuit which is configured to acquire address information for identifying an address for reading or writing operation of a microcomputer which performs predetermined processing, and data information as ope... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328412 | Method and apparatus for displaying a gain control interface with non-linear gain levels A method for displaying a gain control interface having a gain level display with non-linear gain levels. The gain level display has a first end having an associated first pixel offset value and a second end having an associated second pixel offset value. A range of... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328283 | Header compression/decompression apparatus and header compression/decompression method A header compression/decompression apparatus that improves the throughput of an overall multilayer protocol stack at a network node. In this apparatus, an encoding section 106 compresses multilayer header information included in a protocol data unit on a mult... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327891 | Automatic selection of a visual image or images from a collection of visual images, based on an evaluation of the quality of the visual images The invention automatically evaluates the quality of the visual images in a collection of visual images and selects one or more visual image(s) from the collection based on the evaluation of the quality of the visual images. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7318077 | Method for two-dimensional representation, interpolation and compression of data A method for representation, interpolation and/or compression of data includes identifying a two-dimensional interpolation function s(z) based on a sampling function a(z). A Cauchy integral theorem is applicable for the interpolation function s(z). The interpolation... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7318078 | System and method adapted to facilitate dimensional transform Systems and methods that facilitate dimensional transformations of data points are disclosed. In particular, the subject invention provides for a system and methodology that simplifies dimensional transformations while mitigating variations of a distance property be... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315652 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus for decoding a compressed image data, the image data being divided to a plurality of tiles, each of which is a basic unit of process in encoding or decoding process, said apparatus comprising: a detector which detects an existence statu... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7305425 | Method and device for digital filtering of interpolated values In the digital filtering of an input signal (3), which has been produced by interpolation of a pilot signal (2), under certain circumstances numerous values originating from the past have to be stored. In order to reduce the storage space required for ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7277592 | Spacial deblocking method using limited edge differences only to linearly correct blocking artifact A de-blocking method smoothes pixels along a row or column that crosses a block boundary. Smoothing is performed to remove quantization or compression artifacts that appear on block edges when pixels in adjacent blocks are separately compressed. A maximum-allowed ed... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269291 | Method and apparatus for high speed data compression and decompression A subband processing apparatus useful for wavelet conversion and compression-decompression operations includes a plurality of memories and a plurality of analytic filter banks. The plurality of memories store an input signal in a way such that the input signal is di... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7266150 | Interpolation of video compression frames A method, system, and computer programs for improving the image quality of one or more predicted frames in a video image compression system, where each frame comprises a plurality of pixels. A picture region or macroblock of certain types of frames can be encoded by... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7266038 | Method for activating and deactivating electronic circuit units and circuit arrangement for carrying out the method The invention provides an electronic circuit arrangement having an electronic circuit module (100) constructed from one or more electronic circuit units (101a-101n), a select signal generating unit (105) for generating a sel... | 09/04/2007 |
