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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7646435 | Mobile television receiver The invention relates to the reproduction of a television signal on a distant reproduction device. The received television signal is encoded and transmitted in a digital data format over a communication link to the reproduction device. The reproduction device decode... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7432985 | Image processing method Pixels in a window, which corresponds to the position of an input pixel and has a predetermined size, are extracted from a reduced image obtained by reducing an input image to a predetermined scale. Substitute data used to substitute the value of the input pixel is ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7369278 | Image-processing apparatus, image-processing method, image-processing program and image-recording apparatus There is described an image-processing apparatus, which makes it possible to compensate for the defect pixel without causing a sense of incongruity in the image. The apparatus includes an image signal acquiring section to acquire the image signals representing an im... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7333117 | Method of compensating colors in image display device for users with color vision deficiency and device of the same Disclosed are a method of compensating colors in an image display device for users with color vision deficiency and a device of the same, enabling the users with color vision deficiency to view display images as vividly and naturally as normal users. The method for ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324678 | Method for determining noise in radiography In order to model a fluoroscopic noise present in a radiography operation, two successive images of a same zone are used so that it is possible to pair the dots of the two images as a function of the zone of the space that they represent. The pairs of dots are group... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321400 | Method and apparatus for adaptive image data interpolation A method for determining a value for a missing target pixel in an image frame includes generating a classification index from a plurality of classification pixels in a classification window associated with the missing target pixel where the classification index indi... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315660 | Refined quadrilinear interpolation A method of concealing error within a surface delimited by edges and containing points with which erroneous values are associated. A new value is interpolated for at least one point on the surface from interpolation points defined in a projection step by the project... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7305088 | Video distribution playback method, apparatus to be disposed on video distribution end, apparatus to be disposed on video playback end, computer readable medium, and movie distribution method A motion-picture distributor (12) uses a computer system (22) to convert video signals from a master film (14) into serial video data (41) complying with DVD-Video standards. Further, the computer system (22) modifies the sequence ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302024 | Method of and apparatus for detecting impulsive noise, method of operating a demodulator, demodulator and radio receiver In a digital receiver for receiving COFDM modulated television signals or the like, consecutive samples are compared with a detection threshold and the number of samples having amplitudes greater than the threshold is determined. This is compared with a further thre... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7248633 | Image decoding device and image decoding method This invention is an MPEG decoding apparatus (10) for decoding a compression-coded image data stream, the apparatus including a motion compensation circuit (15) and error map table holding means (19) for holding an error map table with respect t... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7241983 | Method for reading out a surface detector A method for reading out a surface detector (3) is proposed, the information content of a faulty detector element (16) being initially corrected with the aid of adjacent detector elements, and then the information content of a plurality of detector ele... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7224484 | Scanner calibration with dead pixel compensation When a sensor of a scanning array is identified as “bad” (defective), data from a neighboring “good” sensor is used to determine pixel data nominally associated with the bad sensor. During a calibration procedure, dark-offset and gain values are determined f... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224375 | Method and device for noise reduction in a pulse-width controlled image display device The invention relates to a method and a device for noise reduction in a pulse-width controlled image display device. A monitoring of whether the brightness of several sequential image points is brighter than a given brightness threshold value occurs. If not the case... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7218738 | Encryption and content control in a digital broadcast system A selective encryption encoder has a packet identifier that identifies packets of a specified packet type forming a part of a program. A packet duplicator duplicates the identified packets to produce first and second sets of the identified packets. A PMT (program ma... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7202894 | Method and apparatus for real time identification and correction of pixel defects for image sensor arrays An image processing system and method compares each pixel of an image obtained from an image sensor array with at least eight surrounding pixels of the same color in the filter array. If the signal of a given pixel is larger than the respective signals of all eight ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7199819 | Device for automatically detecting picture degradation Feature quantities of a transmitted picture and a received picture are extracted from a first and second block-by-block feature quantity extraction parts which are provided on a transmitting and receiving sides, respectively. The extracted feature quantities are tra... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7190725 | System and methods for smoothing an input signal A process and a device operating in real time for identifying and localizing an area in relative movement in a scene and determining the speed and oriented direction of the relative movement in real time. The process carries out temporal processing of a digital vide... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7190409 | Method for displaying an image having a maximal brightness An electro-optical device and a method for displaying an image are disclosed. A clear image with a clear profile can be displayed therein by processing input image data, for example input image data of TV broadcasting received by the device. ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7164511 | Distinguishing positive and negative films system and method A system and method for scanning a photographic film using a scanner automatedly identifies the film as either a positive or negative and controls the scanner settings to perform the scan accordingly. The method includes performing a pre-scan of the film, sampling a... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7158189 | Adaptive non-linear noise reduction techniques An impulse-reducing module (200) reduces random noise in video pixels by providing an impulse detector (244) and an impulse reducer, such as a median filter (250). The impulse detector (244) generates filter control signals in response to... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7142253 | Method and apparatus for processing video pictures for improving picture quality for subsequent display The invention relates to a method for processing data of video pictures for displaying the pictures on a display device like a Plasma Display Panel. The existing false contour effect compensation methods which make a false contour compensation based on shifting sub-... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7139941 | Method for correcting data using temporally preceding data A method and an arrangement for correcting data which are generated by two asynchronous sources, the data from one source, which are present with a first clock, being conducted via a register which is clocked with a second clock assigned to the other source, the out... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7127120 | Systems and methods for automatically editing a video Systems and methods to automatically edit a video to generate a video summary are described. In one aspect, sub-shots are extracted from the video. Importance measures are calculated for at least a portion of the extracted sub-shots. Respective relative distribution... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7119774 | Reducing sparkle artifacts with low brightness filtering A video signal is decomposed into a higher brightness level signal and a lower brightness level signal. The threshold between higher and lower brightness levels is adjustable and related to the transition between lower and higher gain portions of the gamma table for... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7113627 | Location of extended linear defects A method of locating a linear defect on a photographic element, the element having a useful imaging width and the defect aligned with length of the element, includes the steps of: exposing a region of the element to create a latent image which is substantially unifo... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7106894 | Method for reducing X-ray noise For each acquired current image, the displacement of said current image is determined relative to the acquired preceding image in the image acquisition plane, a displaced preceding filtered image is elaborated by spatially displacing the preceding filtered image, ta... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7103208 | Detecting and classifying blemishes on the transmissive surface of an image sensor package A method for determining blemishes in or on the transmissive surface of an image sensor package and determining if such blemishes are acceptable for use of the image sensor package including capturing a digital image of a predetermined scene using the image sensor p... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7102465 | Frequency discrete LC filter bank An inductive (“L”)-capacitive (“C”) filter bank has application for use in a television receiver. The LC filter includes inductors configured in at least one inductive (“L”) bank, and capacitors configured in at least one capacitive (“C”) bank. The i... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7096487 | Apparatus and method for combining realtime and non-realtime encoded content Methods for slice-based encoding of program guides and user interfaces. The program guides include multiple video streams for picture-in-picture and other applications. A method for encoding the program guide includes encoding a first set of slices for each of a plu... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7088202 | Methods and apparatus for an improved discrete LC filter A discrete inductive-capacitive (LC) filter selects between at least two inductor banks to tune the LC filter. The filter receives an input signal that includes one or more bands of frequencies. A control signal selects a band of frequencies for processing. A first ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7080312 | Data transformation for explicit transmission of control information The present invention provides a system and method for explicitly transmitting a block attribute in the data of a block. In one embodiment, a current block of data is randomized in accordance with an ID value from the current block and from at least one temporally a... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7071909 | Reducing sparkle artifacts with low brightness processing A method for reducing sparkle artifacts in a liquid crystal imager, comprises the steps of: low pass filtering only a first lower brightness level signal component of a video signal; and, slew rate limiting only a second lower brightness level signal component of th... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7068325 | Video signal processor and video signal processing method The present invention relates to a video signal processing device for avoiding a phenomenon that noise is upwardly or downwardly shifted due to noise reducing operation when a non-standard signal is input. When a non-standard signal is input as an input video signal... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065288 | System and method of patching missing digital video packets communicated in an IEEE 1394 compliant implementation The present invention is a system and method that facilitates the reduction of presentation glitches in a digital video system. The present invention is a system and method that automatically determines if digital video (DV) data is missing from a stream of DV infor... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7053908 | Method and apparatus for sensing and interpolating color image data We disclose an electronic imaging method and apparatus capable of effectively and accurately sensing and interpolating color image data received from a two-dimensional array of discrete image sensing elements, particularly, from a so-called “Bayer Pattern” array... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050501 | Digital noise reduction techniques A preprocessor system (10) reduces random noise in video pixels by providing a memory (19) arranged to store first pixels processed during a first time period. A motion detector (300) responds to differences between the first pixels and second p... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7039117 | Error concealment of video data using texture data recovery A method for concealing errors in texture partition of a video packet is described. The method includes determining a particular macroblock within the texture partition where error is detected, concealing the error starting at the particular macroblock, and evaluati... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034872 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus includes: a memory having a first field for storing image data and a second field for storing defective pixel position data; a counter for counting the number of pixels of image data sequentially transferred from an image sensor one lin... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7027104 | Video signal processing In video scratch repair, scratches are treated as additive pedestals which are constant or slowly changing along the scratch. For a given picture, these pedestals are estimated and subtracted from the video input to reveal original picture detail. The pedestal can b... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7027710 | Data recording and reproducing apparatus A data recording and reproducing apparatus which can easily perform the editing of audio and/or visual data even at the camera site. In the data recording and reproducing apparatus, a VTR portion and an MO disc portion are integrally constituted. Audio and/or visual... | 04/11/2006 |
