Class 348/27 - Quantizer

Subclass of Class 348 - Television
Definition: Subject matter wherein a picture signal is separated into
No. of patents: 39
Last issue date: 11/06/2007

Number	Title	Issue Date
7293276	Interactive television program guide for recording enhanced video content Interactive television systems and methods are provided for enhancing program guide content using recording and alert features for video related to promotions, advertisements, and other selectable displays presented in an interactive television application such as a...	11/06/2007
7263202	Watermarking to control video recording Video programs are identified by watermark data subliminally conveyed within the picture data. By reference to such program identification data, video recording devices can automatically identify desired programs, and respond accordingly. For example, if a desired t...	08/28/2007
7240217	Reprogrammable subscriber terminal A reprogrammable subscriber terminal of a subscription television service which can have the control program code of its control processor modified by downloading new program code from the headend. The control processor stores a boot program in an internal read only...	07/03/2007
7231091	Simplified predictive video encoder In a video coding method, it is determined to code input video data according a technique selected from the group of: (a) intra-coding, (b) inter-coding without a residual and (c) inter-coding with a residual, wherein inter-coding codes the input video data with ref...	06/12/2007
7225455	Electronic television program guide schedule system and method Systems and methods are provided for using an electronic program guide application to access a non-program guide application. The electronic program guide application provides a program guide display from which a user can access the non-program guide application. Th...	05/29/2007
7215384	Method and apparatus for simplifying field prediction motion estimation Motion estimation on a received stream of data comprising at least a predicted frame and an anchor frame, and utilizing even-parity field prediction to predict content of each of a plurality of fields of the predicted frame from corresponding fields of the anchor fr...	05/08/2007
7200611	TV program database Before a programming guide is created, a unique code is assigned to each TV program that can be identified in the programming guide. Prior to the creation of the programming guide, a viewer selects the unique code corresponding to the TV show that the viewer would l...	04/03/2007
7099289	Automatic retransmission and error recovery for packet oriented point-to-multipoint communication Point to multipoint wireless communication, including automatic retransmission and error recovery for packet oriented point to multipoint communication, which integrates adaptive and dynamic responsiveness for parameters for automatic retransmission using wireless c...	08/29/2006
7088910	Optimizing use of storage space in a video data recording system Systems and methods for optimizing the use and availability of storage space in a video data recording system. An intelligent disk recording and management system selectively assigns tags to determine the manner and/or priority of recording programs onto a storage d...	08/08/2006
7047547	Electronic television program guide schedule system and method An electronic program schedule system which includes a receiver for receiving broadcast, satellite or cablecast television programs for a plurality of television channels and a tuner for tuning a television receiver to a selected one of the plurality of channels. A ...	05/16/2006
7013478	Method and apparatus for interactive program suggestion A method and an apparatus suggests programs for viewing by a subscriber. Terminals installed at a subscriber's home and at central locations, such as bookstores, video rental stores and libraries, provide responsive or intelligent search functions to suggest program...	03/14/2006
6904174	Simplified predictive video encoder In a video coding method, it is determined to code input video data according a technique selected from the group of: (a) intra-coding, (b) inter-coding without a residual and (c) inter-coding with a residual, wherein inter-coding codes the input video data with ref...	06/07/2005
6868415	Information linking method, information viewer, information register, and information search equipment On an information registering equipment, content of interest rendered by media, such as a video image of interest distributed by TV broadcasting is captured and displayed. Position/area on the image are defined with a mouse or the like to obtain the target position/...	03/15/2005
6850639	Color space quantization descriptor structure The present invention relates to a color space quantization descriptor structure for performing quantization of a color space in order to search a multimedia based on contents when multimedia feature information is color information, particularly when the multimedia...	02/01/2005
6671290	Receiving apparatus and recording/reproducing system for digital broadcasts An apparatus for receiving a digital broadcast signal includes a tuner operable to select a desired transmission channel over which to receive the digital broadcast signal and demodulate a transport stream which is transmitted over the selected transmissi...	12/30/2003
6043897	Image forming apparatus In an image forming apparatus for reading a document image and forming the document image on a paper, document image data are divided into a plurality of blocks and the document image data are compressed in the unit of block to be stored in a first memory...	03/28/2000
5774357	Human factored interface incorporating adaptive pattern recognition based controller apparatus A human interface device for a user, including a data transmission selector for selecting at least one of a plurality of simultaneously transmitted programs being responsive to an input; a program database containing information relating to at least one t...	06/30/1998
5764804	Data encoding and decoding system A data encoding system for encoding input color pixel data and outputting encoded data. The data encoding system includes a reference pixel generating device which outputs reference pixel data corresponding to the input color pixel data to be encoded; a p...	06/09/1998
5663763	Picture signal encoding method and apparatus and picture signal decoding method and apparatus An encoding and decoding apparatus and method which has the primary benefit over the prior art of not requiring storage of the nonlinear sequence of numbers representative of the quantization characteristics. The hardware required for quantization is redu...	09/02/1997
5574503	Adaptive interframe video data compression and start-up techniques A start-up and compression technique for transmitting data. A process is provided which utilizes the calculated difference between individual pixel values of subsequent video frames to the current displayed data in order to update. Additionally, technique...	11/12/1996
5543844	Method and apparatus for coding image data Input image data is divided into a plurality of blocks. An orthogonal transform device subjects the input image data to orthogonal transform every block. A memory temporarily stores output data from the orthogonal transform device. A first quantizer quant...	08/06/1996
5469208	Dequantization using decrements and multiply A dequantization device is provided for receiving input quantized data values and providing output dequantized data values. A conditional decrement device receives the input quantized data values and conditionally decrements the input data values accordin...	11/21/1995
5450506	Image data processing apparatus and method An image data processing apparatus generates output data representing an image in a spatial domain from a plurality of sets of input data, each representing in a spatial frequency domain a sub sampled version of the image in the spatial domain. An error d...	09/12/1995
5434623	Method and apparatus for image data compression using combined luminance/chrominance coding A technique is provided for a color imaging system having a luminance component and two color difference (chrominance) components, which allots more space in the compressed data stream to the signal component of greater information content or complexity; ...	07/18/1995
5404168	Method and apparatus for encoding an image signal using a multi-stage quantizing number determiner A quantizing number is determined using multiple stages of code amount estimating circuits. Thus, an optimum quantizing number may be selected from among a number of quantizing numbers which is not limited to the number of code amount estimating circuits....	04/04/1995
5389973	Quantization control circuit A quantization control circuit determines an optimum scaling factor for quantizing orthogonal transformation coefficient data that correspond to a predetermined time period of a digital video signal. A first scaling factor is determined from the orthogona...	02/14/1995
5347310	Apparatus for compression encoding video signals Apparatus for compression encoding video signals, comprising block segmenting circuits for segmenting a vertical interval, such as a field or frame, of video picture elements into a plurality of blocks of picture elements. An orthogonal transformation, su...	09/13/1994
5258924	Target recognition using quantization indexes An apparatus for detecting the presence of a target in an n-dimensional array of digital data samples comprises: 1) a reading module, which reads the samples from the data array in overlapping groups; 2) a quantizing module, coupled to the reading module,...	11/02/1993
5257209	Optical flow computation for moving sensors A method for using a computer-based imaging system, which may be in motion, to observe a moving object and determine its motion. The imaging system is used to obtain at least two images separated by a known time interval. The apparent motion of the observ...	10/26/1993
5194746	Method and device for examining components with data digitized into a large number of gray levels A method and device for processing and representing data corresponding to defects in a part, wherein an initial image is discretized into a plurality of image points and the intensity at each point is digitized by gray level, for display on a monitor. For...	03/16/1993
5125046	Digitally enhanced imager for the visually impaired The invention consists of an apparatus and method for creating high resolution, high contrast images to enhance the functional vision of visually impaired individuals. The apparatus includes an image scanning device, a digital image enhancement device and...	06/23/1992
4737844	Method for the generation of real-time control parameters for smoke-generating combustion processes by means of a video camera A method for generating real-time control parameters by a video camera for smoke-generating combustion reactions is disclosed. In accordance with the method, a video camera is used for obtaining a video signal, which is digitized and filtered temporally a...	04/12/1988
4706121	TV schedule system and process A system (90) controls a television receiver (126) to allow user selection of broadcast programs from schedule information. A data processor (110) is connected to receive the schedule information from an FM receiver (94), decoder (98) and data demodulator...	11/10/1987
4656507	Quad-edge video signal detector Apparatus and method for processing a raster scan video signal representing an image and detecting the outline of one or more objects in the image represented by the video signal. The steps of the method include encoding the raster scan video signal as a ...	04/07/1987
4395732	Statistically adaptive analog to digital converter An improvement in an analog-to-digital converter wherein a series string of capacitors is utilized to generate reference voltages for the comparators of the converter. The digitized output of the converter is then used to control a predetermined timed dis...	07/26/1983
4268863	Threshold selection circuit A threshold selection circuit, suitable for a processing unit for the processing of video signals obtained from an angle tracking device, is provided with a number (N) of video integrators to receive video signals above certain threshold levels decreasing...	05/19/1981
4120589	Method and apparatus for measuring the distribution of a light field about the optical axis of a light source A video signal produced by picking up the light image of light projected upon a screen is quantized by a plurality of voltage comparators grouped in pairs and applied with different reference voltage levels. One of the outputs of comparators of respective...	10/17/1978
4053928	Edge detection analyzer A contrast detection analyzer for detecting all edges sensed during a cirar scan and their angles with respect to vertical, wherein an edge near the center of the scan is detected, the angle is measured regardless of the light or dark orientation, and th...	10/11/1977
3963866	System for determining the contour of a plane form Disclosed is a system for determining the contour of a plane form in which system the plane form is exposed to an industrial television camera; the video signal from the camera is converted into a train of binary signals "1" or "0", depending on whether a...	06/15/1976

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