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| 8111748 | Method and apparatus for video coding In uniform superposition of two predictions toward a weighted superposition, such as in coding B frames, weighting is based on reliability of a reference picture used for determination of the prediction. Since there is a relationship between the reliability and the ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107528 | Picture processing apparatus, picture processing method, information processing apparatus, recording medium, and program A reusable quantization value Qref included in history information or parameter information is obtained in step S21. In step S22, it is judged whether or not the quantization value Qref obtained in step S21 is smaller than a predetermined minimu... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8094715 | Video signal encoding device and video signal encoding method Included are: a prefilter (101) for outputting, based on filter characteristics control data, predetermined frequency components in an input video signal as current image data; encoding means (116) for subjecting the current image data to an encoding p... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094716 | Method and apparatus of adaptive lambda estimation in Lagrangian rate-distortion optimization for video coding A method for hybrid video coding is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) calculating a bit rate based on a percentage of quantized zero coefficients resulting from encoding a plurality of components of a video signal, (B) calculating a distortio... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094717 | Image generation apparatus and image generation method An image generation apparatus generates a new video sequence with a high S/N ratio and suppressed motion blurs, from an original video sequence and a still image which are generated by capturing the same dark, moving object. The image generation apparatus includes: ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090016 | Activity normalization for video encoding The invention facilitates the normalization of activity normalization parameters to be used to select the proper quantization value for encoded video data that directly influences the Human Visual System (HVS). ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090017 | Method and apparatus for coding interlaced video data Often hierarchical bi-directionally predicted frame structures are used for encoding a video picture sequence. The frames may consist of interlacing fields. A method for encoding interlaced video, wherein inter-prediction of fields is used and reference lists are as... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081679 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a quantizing unit configured to quantize an input moving image signal using a set quantization scale; a coding unit configured to perform variable length coding on an output of the quantizing unit; an activity detecting unit co... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081678 | Picture coding method and picture decoding method The picture coding method of the present invention is a picture coding method for coding a picture on a block-by-block basis, comprising: a selection step of selecting one of at least two sizes as a size of a block on which orthogonal transformation should be perfor... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077775 | System and method of adaptive rate control for a video encoder A method of adaptively adjusting a QP of a video encoder to control output bit rate including estimating the QP based on a complexity of a previous frame and encoding bit rate information of a current frame to provide an estimated QP, determining a threshold value b... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073052 | Layered Wyner-Ziv video coding for transmission over unreliable channels A system and method for video coding. Energy-concentrating transform operations are performed on video data to obtain transformed data. Nested scalar quantization is performed on the transformed data to generate blocks of coset indices. Bit planes of the blocks of c... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064517 | Perceptually adaptive quantization parameter selection A system (and a method) are disclosed for adaptively selecting quantization parameter for each region of input video signal to be encoded within a video processing system. The system includes a frame partition module, an edge feature detector, a macroblock adaptive ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064516 | Text recognition during video compression A method for encoding an image of a video stream divided into macroblocks comprising determining a maximum of variance of luma blocks in a macroblock, determining if the maximum of variance exceeds a predetermined threshold, determining if the motion vectors of the ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059713 | Video coding apparatus A video coding apparatus carries out a compression coding of a video based on a result of predicting a motion vector predicted between frames of the video. A quantization parameter control unit comprised of the apparatus calculates a ratio of an accumulation value, ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059714 | Methods and systems for residual layer scaling Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for managing and combining data contained in layers in a multilayer bitstream such that one or more transform coefficients in a first layer are used to modify one or more coefficients in a second laye... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054880 | Parallel rate control for digital video encoder with multi-processor architecture and picture-based look-ahead window A method of operating a multi-processor video encoder by determining a target size corresponding to a preferred number of bits to be used when creating an encoded version of a picture in a group of sequential pictures making up a video sequence. The method includes ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045614 | Quantization control for variable bit depth The quantization parameter QP is well-known in digital video compression as an indication of picture quality. Digital symbols representing a moving image are quantized with a quantizing step that is a function QSN of the quantization parameter QP, which f... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045615 | Deblock filtering techniques for video coding according to multiple video standards This disclosure describes deblock filtering techniques in which an in-loop deblock filter of a first codec is used as a post deblock filter of a second codec. A number of techniques are also described to facilitate input parameter adjustments and allow for the effec... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036267 | Rate control for video coder employing adaptive linear regression bits modeling A rate control system is disclosed for video coding applications. The rate controller assigns a quantization parameter for video data in a picture in response to complexity indicators indicative of spatial complexity, motion complexity and/or bits per pel of the pic... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8036268 | Moving image encoding apparatus, moving image encoding method, and video device According to one embodiment, a moving image/picture encoding apparatus of an embodiment comprises an encoded information acquisition module, an encoding complexity calculation module, an encoding complexity conversion module, and a transcode module. The encoded info... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031769 | Method and device for controlling quantization scales of a video encoding bit stream According to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a method for controlling quantization scales when encoding video signals is disclosed, which comprises: (a) generating a new quantization scale; and (b) comparing the new quantization scale with a prior... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031768 | System and method for performing optimized quantization via quantization re-scaling A method, system, and program product for quantizing discrete cosine transform coefficients, e.g., for MPEG compression, with minimal bit rate overhead and without using a quantization matrix. This is done by scaling a uniform quantization parameter for the entire d... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027384 | Scalable MPEG video/macro block rate control A scaleable macro block rate control method particularly well-suited for MPEG video. There is provided a method to easily derive a quantization parameter (QP) value using information such as bit usage, previous QP values and SAD values from the past encoded and futu... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8027383 | Mosquito noise reduction filter in digital decoders A method for processing a compressed signal of digital video is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a decompressed signal by decompressing the compressed signal of digital video, (B) generating a filtered signal by spatial filtering ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8018997 | System and method for video encoding A video encoding method and system are provided for encoding a video sequence. The video sequence includes N sub-sequences which each includes a plurality of frames. When the video encoding system encodes the jth frame in the ith sub-sequence of the video sequence, ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014447 | Process and arrangement for encoding video pictures Today's video codecs require the intelligent choice between many coding options. This choice can efficiently be done using Lagrangian coder control. But Lagrangian coder control only provides results given a particular Lagrange parameter, which correspond to some un... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014448 | Method and apparatus for encoding and/or decoding moving pictures A method of encoding moving pictures using a plurality of quantization matrices. The method involves selecting one of the plurality of quantization matrices in consideration of an at least one characteristics of an input image; transforming the input image; and quan... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005141 | Method for efficient encoding and decoding quantized sequence in Wyner-Ziv coding of video A computer-based method for encoding and decoding quantized sequences in Wyner-Ziv coding of video, bi-partite graph is used in an iterative process. The method takes as input to an encoder a sequence of quantized data from a finite alphabet, the sequence comprising... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005140 | Soft decision and iterative video coding for MPEG and H.264 A method of encoding video data using soft decision quantization makes use of iterative encoding to provide the ability to optimize encoding across different functional elements in a hybrid video encoder. Iterative encoding is used to allow quantization step size, m... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005139 | Encoding with visual masking Some embodiments of the invention encode a sequence of video images based on “visual masking” attributes of the video images and/or portions of the video images. Visual masking of an image or a portion of the image is an indication of how much coding artifacts c... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000388 | Parallel processing apparatus for video compression A method of and an apparatus for parallel processing video compression is described herein. A picture is divided into N zones vertically, and Vertical Split Parallelism (VSP) deploys N+1 processes: N M-coding processes for general macroblock coding in N zones and on... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7995649 | Quantization adjustment based on texture level A video encoder identifies a current smooth region of a current picture in a sequence and performs temporal analysis by determining whether a corresponding region in at least one previous and/or future picture is smooth. Based at least in part on the temporal analys... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986731 | H.264/AVC coder incorporating rate and quality controller A rate control system is disclosed for video coding applications. The rate controller assigns a quantization parameter for video data in a picture in response to complexity indicators indicative of spatial complexity, motion complexity and/or bits per pel of the pic... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7983337 | Moving picture coding device, moving picture coding method, and recording medium with moving picture coding program recorded thereon According to one embodiment, a moving picture coding device which performs a motion-compensated prediction for moving picture data in macroblocks, applies discrete cosine transform and quantization to a prediction error obtained by the motion-compensation prediction... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978767 | Method and apparatus for encoding and/or decoding moving pictures A method of encoding moving pictures using a plurality of quantization matrices. The method involves selecting one of the plurality of quantization matrices in consideration of an at least one characteristics of an input image; transforming the input image; and quan... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978765 | Context-adaptive macroblock type encoding/decoding methods and apparatuses Macroblock types of macroblocks of a video picture are encoded by adaptively employing codewords of codeword tables, based at least in part on one or more macroblock type related characteristics of one or more neighboring macroblocks of interest. The codewords may b... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7978766 | Method and apparatus for encoding and/or decoding moving pictures A method of encoding moving pictures using a plurality of quantization matrices. The method involves selecting one of the plurality of quantization matrices in consideration of an at least one characteristics of an input image; transforming the input image; and quan... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7974340 | Adaptive B-picture quantization control The present application is directed to techniques and tools for adapting the quantizer as well as the quantization step size used during video encoding. For example, a video encoder uses a non-uniform quantizer (having a relatively large dead zone ratio) for B-pictu... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970055 | Method and apparatus for compressing image data There is provided an image data compression apparatus capable of effectively suppressing an image data volume after compression processing. A bit rate value is detected according to the image data volume after the compression processing. According to the bit rate si... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970051 | Method and apparatus for encoding and/or decoding moving pictures A method of encoding moving pictures using a plurality of quantization matrices. The method involves selecting one of the plurality of quantization matrices in consideration of an at least one characteristics of an input image; transforming the input image; and quan... | 06/28/2011 |
