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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7349474 | Method and apparatus for variable bit-rate control in video encoding systems and computer program product therefor A method for controlling the bit-rate of a bitstream of encoded video signals at a variable bitrate, the bitstream being generated by compressing a video sequence of moving pictures, wherein each picture comprises a plurality of macroblocks of pixels compressed by a... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7251276 | Loop-filtering method for image data and apparatus therefor A loop-filtering method for reducing quantization effect generated when an image data is encoded and decoded, and an apparatus therefor. The loop-filtering method includes the steps of extracting a flag indicating whether the image data requires loop-filtering using... | 07/31/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7095784 | Method and apparatus for moving picture compression rate control using bit allocation with initial quantization step size estimation at picture level A method and apparatus for rate control in moving picture compression. Bit allocation with initial quantization step size estimation is used at picture level. With the relationship between pre-analyzed activity of current picture to be encoded and actual complexity ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7058127 | Method and system for video transcoding A system for transcoding compressed video signal, including a plurality of pictures, comprising an estimator to gather information and estimate the signal characteristics about the video signal; a decoder to completely or partially decode the compressed video signal... | 06/06/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6947485 | System, method and apparatus for an instruction driven digital video processor The present invention provides a system, method and an apparatus for a digital video processor comprising an error memory and a merge memory, a half pixel filter communicably coupled to the merge memory, a controller communicably coupled to the error memory, the mer... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6937657 | Motion video signal encoder and encoding method A motion video signal encoder maximizes image quality without exceeding transmission bandwidth available to carry the encoded motion video signal by comparing encoded frames of the motion video signal to a desired size of frame. If the size of encoded frames differ ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6912584 | Media coding for loss recovery with remotely predicted data units An improved loss recovery method for coding streaming media classifies each data unit in the media stream as an independent data unit (I unit), a remotely predicted unit (R unit) or a predicted data unit (P unit). Each of these units is organized into independent se... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6870883 | Parallel encoding and decoding processor system and method Encoding and decoding systems for MPEG encoding and decoding at a high speed using a parallel processing system, wherein macroblocks to be processed are designated for first to third processors which are made to carry out all processings of encoding, variable length... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6868124 | Method and systems for compressing a video stream with minimal loss after subsampled decoding Transcoding of a video stream to reduce the size of the video stream with little, if any, loss in video quality after subsampling. After accessing a video stream of video pictures (i.e., video frames or fields), the blocks of the video picture are each subject to ma... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6825885 | Motion information coding and decoding method The invention relates to a method of coding motion information associated to an image sequence, comprising the steps of subdividing each image into blocks and applying to each block a block-matching algorithm for defining a shifted block as the prediction of the cur... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6778709 | Embedded block coding with optimized truncation A multi-layer embedded bitstream is generated from a subband decomposition by partitioning each subband of the decomposition into a plurality of blocks; and encoding the blocks of each subband. The blocks of each subband are coded independently of each other. Result... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6751354 | Methods and apparatuses for video segmentation, classification, and retrieval using image class statistical models Techniques for classifying video frames using statistical models of transform coefficients are disclosed. After optionally being decimated in time and space, image frames are transformed using a discrete cosine transform or Hadamard transform. The methods disclosed ... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6711300 | Quantization and compression of information in a direct acyclic graph A technique wherein the number and position of a quantization parameter node is determined in response to the quantization parameters and a preselected error. The size of scene graph and the corresponding amount of memory required to store the scene graph can be red... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6549577 | Computational resource allocation in an information stream decoder The invention comprises a method an apparatus for allocating processing resources in an information stream decoder in response to format indicia included within a compressed information stream. Specifically, the invention comprises an apparatus and method... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6535251 | Video encoder and method for adjusting quantization step in real time A video encoder for encoding a series of groups of frames with an adjustable quantization step, and a method for adjusting the quantization step. The method tracks a complexity parameter of the encoded scenes, and computes a first quantization value in de... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6460116 | Using separate caches for variable and generated fixed-length instructions A microprocessor configured to rapidly decode variable-length instructions is disclosed. The microprocessor is configured with a predecoder and an instruction cache. The predecoder is configured to expand variable-length instructions to create fixed-lengt... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6460153 | Apparatus and method for unequal error protection in multiple-description coding using overcomplete expansions A projection onto convex sets (POCS)-based method for consistent reconstruction of a signal from a subset of quantized coefficients received from an N×K overcomplete transform. By choosing a frame operator F to be the concatenization of two or more K×K ... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6347116 | Non-linear quantizer for video coding A quantizer and dequantizer for use in a video coding system that applies non linear, piece-wise linear scaling functions to video information signals based on a value of a variable quantization parameter. The quantizer and dequantizer apply different non... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6320590 | Data bus compressing apparatus A bus compression apparatus for compressing data is provided to suppress an EMI signal and to simplify a data bus structure. In the apparatus, the voltage levels of the digital output signals are summed in accordance with the resistance values of the data... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6310915 | Video transcoder with bitstream look ahead for rate control and statistical multiplexing A method is provided for transcoding, i.e., decoding, and re-encoding, a previously encoded video signal, to a second encoded representation. A number k>1 of previously encoded pictures of the previously encoded video signal are received in a buffer. Each... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6243497 | Apparatus and method for optimizing the rate control in a coding system A method and apparatus for selecting a quantizer scale for each frame to optimize the coding rate is disclosed. A quantizer scale is selected for each frame such that the target bit rate for the frame is achieved while maintaining a uniform visual quality... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6167086 | Overhead data processor in a memory efficient image processing system In an MPEG compatible image signal processor an MPEG data stream is decoded, decompressed and recompressed before blocks of image pixel values are stored in memory. The recompression system evaluates block data to determine the range and minimum pixel val... | 12/26/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5604540 | Structure and method for a multistandard video encoder A structure and a method for providing a video signal encoder under the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standards are provided. In one embodiment, a novel scheme for mapping an image to an external memory allows fetching of video data by either field of frame. In addit... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5530479 | Method of compression-coding a motion picture and an apparatus for same A method and an apparatus for compression-coding of thinned-out motion picture frame are described. A received motion picture data is subject to DCT (discrete cosine transformation). The DCT coefficients are stored in a frame memory, and also accumulated ... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5396567 | Process for adaptive quantization for the purpose of data reduction in the transmission of digital images A process for adaptive quantization with quantization errors which have little disturbing visual effects, using a digital block-related process for data reduction in digital images or image sequences. It is provided in this process that an image to be tra... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5204899 | Vector quantization method employing mirrored input vectors to search codebook A vector quantization me employs mirrored input vectors to increase the reproduction quality of transmitted vector quantized data. A codevector is selected from a vector quantization codebook for each possible orientation of an input vector. The codevecto... | 04/20/1993 |
| 4831636 | Coding transmission equipment for carrying out coding with adaptive quantization Coding transmission equipment wherein an plurality of adaptive coding units having different processing characteristics are provided, and the adaptive coding unit having the optimum processing characteristic for a current input signal is selected from amo... | 05/16/1989 |
