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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8154564 | Dynamically configurable bilinear filtering system Apparatus and methods for a bilinear filter system comprising a pre-formatter module, a bilinear module, an accumulator module, and a format module. The pre-formatter module is configured to receive texel data and convert it to a normalized fixed point format. The b... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8102403 | Techniques for interior coordinates A method for determining interior coordinates is disclosed. The method includes receiving information specifying an object having a plurality of sites and a boundary. Interior coordinates associated with each of the plurality of sites are determined based on the bou... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8072465 | Image processing method and system The invention provides the image method and apparatus to increase the sharpness of a resized image. The image includes a plurality of pixels with an alpha value and an image data. The method detects the alpha value of neighboring first and second pixels. Weighting v... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8072464 | 3-dimensional graphics processing method, medium and apparatus performing perspective correction A 3D graphics processing method includes receiving a homogeneous coordinate and an attribute value of both end points of one scan line of a polygon composed of a plurality of perspective projected vertices, calculating a reference value indicating an amount of persp... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8040357 | Quotient remainder coverage system and method Embodiments of the present invention pixel processing system and method provide convenient and efficient processing of pixel information. In one embodiment, quotient-remainder information associated with barycentric coordinate information indicating the location of ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 7965303 | Image displaying apparatus and method, and image processing apparatus and method In an image displaying apparatus including a motion compensated rate converting (FRC) portion, deterioration of image quality is prevented in an image having a high-speed region and a low-speed region mixed. The FRC portion includes a motion vector detecting portion... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7956870 | Systems and methods for providing image rendering using variable rate source sampling Systems and methods are provided for variable source rate sampling in connection with image rendering, which accumulate and resolve over all samples forward mapped to each pixel bin. In accordance with the invention, the textured surface to be rendered is sampled, o... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956871 | Color disparity correction in image sensors methods and circuits A method of displaying a captured image includes using an array of pixels to capture an image. The array of pixels includes a first plurality of pixels of a first color, a second plurality of pixels of a second color, and a third plurality of pixels of a third color... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7940282 | System and method for robust multi-frame demosaicing and color super resolution A method of creating a super-resolved color image from multiple lower-resolution color images is provided by combining a data fidelity penalty term, a spatial luminance penalty term, a spatial chrominance penalty term, and an inter-color dependencies penalty term to... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936359 | Reconfigurable floating point filter A reconfigurable floating point data filter may be implemented by configuring a texture filter in response to state data, where the state data specifying at least a data width of input texture data to be filtered, where the input texture data is in a floating point ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7834889 | Data conversion circuit having look-up table and interpolation circuit and method of data conversion Data conversion circuits and methods of data conversion that enable to keep the continuity in the converted data while reducing a required memory capacity are disclosed. An exemplary conversion circuit includes a LUT that stores representative correction values and ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7791616 | Method for efficiently transforming a raster image from one map projection to another map projection A method and system for efficiently converting an image from a first map projection to a second map projection image. The method includes precomputing coordinates in the first map projection for a subset of the total number of pixels in an empty second map projectio... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7773094 | Method and device for the display of images A device for the display of images with a data processing system is provided. The device includes a display device; a memory storing an original image comprising a number of pixels; and a processor operable to generate a second image on the basis of the original ima... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7710437 | Color interpolation algorithm A method for interpolating pixel colors in a digital system is provided. The method comprises obtaining at least two pixels of a first color having a first level of similarity, wherein the at least two pixels are positioned adjacent a first pixel to be restored; cal... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7683914 | Triangulation based raster image interpolation A method of smoothing a triangulated raster image includes the steps of: triangulating the image to create triangles having vertices, each of which is centered on a pixel of the image; comparing the costs of a first and a second orientation of an edge of each pair o... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7679620 | Image processing using saltating samples A saltating sample image enhancement system and method that provides an image processing operation in which a filter considers one or one or more exact source image pixels; one or more bilinearly interpolated source image samples, where the bilinear weights are coup... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7636095 | Pixel delta interpolation method and apparatus A method for rendering an object including receiving a pixel tile representing a portion of a primitive to be rendered, determining attributes of a reference pixel within the pixel tile, and determining the attributes of neighboring pixels within the pixel tile base... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7554559 | Edge directed de-interlacing One implementation of a method for edge directed video de-interlacing in accordance with the disclosed invention includes obtaining at least a portion of a field of input video data including at least portions of four consecutive rows of field pixels including first... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7528844 | Interpolation of plotted points between sample values A video display for digitized video data interpolates values between time samples, such as luminance over a horizontal line or over an average of all the horizontal lines in a video signal, so as to produce a digitally plotted test display resembling the continuous ... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7483040 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, recording medium, and program In an image processing apparatus for converting resolution of an image, a weight for a statistical diagonal interpolation pixel is set based on a slope having the statistically highest confidence level, the statistical diagonal interpolation pixel is combined with a... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7439986 | Pixel filtering using shared filter resource between overlay and texture mapping engines A configurable filter module for providing shared filter resource between an overlay engine and a texture mapping engine of a graphics system. The configurable filter may comprise a plurality of linear blend units each of which receives data input from one of the ov... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436413 | Image data processing apparatus and image display apparatus The invention provides an image data processing apparatus including a memory for storing plural values indicating plural brightnesses when a predetermined display element is driven based on discrete plural drive values, and an operation circuit for converting a firs... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436412 | Graphics engine with efficient interpolation A graphics engine includes a setup unit and a rendering unit. The setup unit computes coefficients A, B, and C used for interpolating an attribute v of a triangle to be rendered for a graphics image. The setup unit then derives compressed coefficients Ã, {tilde ove... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7427990 | Data replacement method and circuit for motion prediction cache A system for decoding a video bitstream and a method for replacing image data in a motion prediction cache are described. For each of the cache lines, a tag distance between pixels stored in the cache line and uncached pixels that are to be stored in the cache is ca... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7427994 | Color gradient paths A system and method for generating color gradients is provided. The system generates color gradients using techniques from geometric surface modeling. The system and method of the present invention allow designers to specify very complex gradients in a simple way. T... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7423791 | Color conversion using barycentric projections A method and apparatus for interpolating values for a color space from an input color value. A unit hypercube enclosing the input value is generated based on values from a look up table. A set of boundary conditions are then imposed on the unit hypercube. To perform... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7412107 | System and method for robust multi-frame demosaicing and color super-resolution An integrated method for both super-resolution and multi-frame demosaicing includes an image fusion followed by simultaneous deblurring and interpolation. For the case of color super-resolution, the first step involves application of recursive image fusion separatel... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7403207 | Intensity weighting for sub-pixel positioning A method for determining intensity of a sub-pixel position within a pixelated image to enhance the image quality thereof. In a first step of this method information is received regarding a first pixel at a position X0,Y0, having an intensity I(X0,Y0). In a second st... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400330 | Magnification of indirection textures An indirection texture magnification system and method for producing high-resolution indirection texture results. The system and method uses an indirection texture, designed for use with a low-resolution texture image, and a high-resolution texture image, which is a... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7391903 | Image processing method, image processing program and image processing processor for interpolating color components An image processing method for converting a first image, which is expressed in a colorimetric system made up of a plurality of color components and is constituted of a plurality of pixels each holding color information corresponding to a single color component, to a... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379618 | Image conversion method, texture mapping method, image conversion device, server-client system, and image conversion program A shadow portion is distinguished in a given image (S2 to S6). On the shadow portion, a conversion process based on the brightness value of a pixel is performed (S7), while on a portion other than the shadow portion, a conversion process based o... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379625 | Edge direction based image interpolation method A method for interpolating pixel data of an omitted line by use of pixel data from an interlaced scan, for de-interlacing an interlaced video image. Image edge direction is detected at the center position of every two neighboring scan lines in an interlaced scan. Al... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375850 | Image output apparatus, method of controlling the image output apparatus, and image output system Using a drawing engine, a printer subjects image data to color matching processing into its own device color space. If the image data is a geometric object having a change in color, a gradation handler interpolates a changed value of color in the geometric object in... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7365711 | Driving apparatus of plasma display panel and method for displaying pictures on plasma display panel A plasma display panel (PDP) driving apparatus and a method for displaying pictures on the PDP increases the ability to express low gray scales without increasing the number of sub-fields. Input picture signal data are delayed by one frame and the number of high-ord... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366347 | Edge detecting method There is provided an edge detecting method, which is capable of preventing a noise influence caused by imaging device and a color interpolation. The edge detecting method includes the steps of: setting a first kernel based on a center pixel in pixel data arranged in... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362337 | Method and apparatus for adjusting size of image A method for transforming an original image to a new image is provided. The original image includes M rows of original data; the new image includes Q rows of new data. The method first generates a (2i−1)th row and a (2i)th row of intermediate data respectively bas... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362376 | Method and apparatus for video deinterlacing and format conversion A method for deinterlacing a picture is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a plurality of primary scores by searching along a plurality of primary angles for an edge in the picture proximate a location interlaced with a field of the... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7349026 | Method and system for pixel constellations in motion adaptive deinterlacer In a video system, a method and system for pixel constellation in a motion detection deinterlacer are provided. An output pixel in an absent line of a current frame may be determined based on a constellation of pixels from at least one present line above and at leas... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348992 | Apparatus for and method of color compensation An apparatus for color compensation includes a chroma deflection generation unit to calculate a chroma deflection based on an input chroma signal and a predetermined first reference value, a hue deflection generation unit to calculate a hue deflection based on an in... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7340113 | Image processing apparatus with SIMD-type microprocessor to perform labeling An image processing apparatus includes a plurality of processor elements including registers and configured to process respective data items, a global processor configured to control the plurality of processor elements; the global processor and the plurality of proc... | 03/04/2008 |
