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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7750972 | Digital camera A digital camera has a signal processor, a high-frequency detector, a sampling processor, and a compression processor. The signal processor generates luminance and color difference data on the basis of image-pixel signals read from an image sensor. The high-frequenc... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7047307 | Method and apparatus for broadcasting media objects with guaranteed quality of service A method and apparatus for broadcasting media objects for such bandwidth-intensive applications as Media on Demand (MoD) or Video on Demand (VoD) employ a novel StairCase Broadcast (SCB) scheme. A media server in accordance with one example of the invention includes... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7016411 | Image signal coding method, image signal coding apparatus and storage medium Provided are a depth image obtaining section that obtains a depth image from the same viewpoint as in the input image, a layer section that separates the input image into a foreground image and a background image as layered images using depth information of the dept... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7010172 | Image acquiring method, image processing method, and image transforming method An image is picked up through sampling in a predetermined sampling pattern to acquire an image signal representing the image. Sampling information, which concerns the predetermined sampling pattern, is appended to the image signal, which has been acquired. The sampl... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6970508 | Image coding and decoding using mapping coefficients corresponding to class information of pixel blocks It is possible to produce a decoded image with a high image quality from data of the lowermost hierarchy obtained during hierarchical coding operation. An image of a first hierarchy equal to an original image is successively thinned in thinning units so that an imag... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6947060 | Image forming apparatus, electron beam apparatus, modulation circuit, and image-forming apparatus driving method An image forming apparatus which performs pulsewidth modulation with a pulsewidth set by counting a clock. Especially, for grayscale level correction by setting the frequency of the clock, the periodic clock is counted, and an output pattern is changed in accordance... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6850268 | Apparatus for detecting passenger occupancy of vehicle An apparatus for detecting the passenger occupancy of a vehicle includes, at least two image pickup sections provided at a specified distance, a measuring section measuring a distance to an object on the basis of the at least two images acquired by the at least two ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6829371 | Auto-setup of a video safety curtain system A two-dimensional (2-D) machine-vision safety method and apparatus performs high-integrity, high efficiency machine vision. The system digitally filters a configurable number of time-sequenced camera images of a viewed area to create a filtered image. Objects within... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6813313 | Method and system for high-level structure analysis and event detection in domain specific videos A system and method analyzes a compressed video including a sequence of frames. The amount of a dominant feature in each frame of the compressed video is measured. A label is associated with each frame according the measured amount of the dominant feature. Views in ... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6810079 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable storage medium storing thereon program for executing image processing A specific frame is selected from a plurality of frames of moving image data, and an initial contour corresponding to an extraction target is generated in the selected frame. The initial contour is converged to the contour of the extraction target. An initial contou... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6714591 | Video image coding device and video image decoding device A moving picture coder has a first coding mode in which the entire picture is coded and a second coding mode in which a partial region of the picture is coded. Coding is so performed that the frame rate inside the partial region is higher than that outside the parti... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6709387 | System and method for controlling in vivo camera capture and display rate Systems and methods which vary the frame capture rate of the camera and/or frame display rate of the display unit of in vivo camera systems are discussed. The capture rate is varied based on physical measurements related to the motion of the camera. Alternatively, t... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6414725 | Method and apparatus for synchronized multiple format data storage A data storage system is described that simultaneously stores incoming data in a plurality of different digital formats linked together to permit economical accessibility and browsing of stored content by providing user access to reduced-resolution versio... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6326960 | Video output phase control in a decoder The present invention provides a method and apparatus for providing video output phase control in a decoder. In particular, the present invention provides a decoder that precisely aligns output of video display data with a time stamp associated with the v... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6172672 | Method and system for providing snapshots from a compressed digital video stream A method and system are provided for delivering video from a client to a server over a communication medium with a limited bandwidth. An initial image quality that allows the video to be displayed in real time at the client is determined based on a predet... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6037983 | High quality reduced latency transmission of video objects A system and method for transmitting a video object used in generating a plurality of frames of a video sequence over a limited bandwidth channel to reduce latency associated therewith includes separating the video object into a plurality of segments each... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5956430 | Image information coding apparatus and method using code amount of a selected pixel block for changing coding parameter An image information coding apparatus includes a block generator for dividing image information into pixel blocks, each of which consists of a predetermined number of pixels. A block selector selects a pixel block in a position different from that of a pi... | 09/21/1999 |
