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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189908 | System and method for compressing video data and alpha channel data using a single stream A system and method provides video data and its corresponding alpha channel data using a single stream or file, compressed using the same format and decompression algorithm for each of the video data and the alpha channel data. ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8175381 | Image processing method and apparatus An image processing apparatus performs conversion and a first compression on upper bits in image data, thereby generating a first compressed data set, and performs a second compression on lower bits in the image data, thereby generating second compressed data. The i... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170335 | Image processing systems employing image compression and accelerated decompression A system for processing an image includes a non-transitory memory component storing a set of executable instructions, and a scalable tile processing device. The executable instructions cause the system to receive image data, partition the image data into tiles, tran... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170333 | Image processing systems employing image compression A system for processing an image includes a an image data input port, a compressed image data output port or a compressed image data storage node, a non-transitory memory component storing a set of executable instructions, and a scalable tile processing device. The ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170334 | Image processing systems employing image compression and accelerated image decompression A system for processing an image includes a non-transitory memory component storing a set of executable instructions, and a scalable tile processing device. The executable instructions cause the system to receive image data, partition the image data into tiles, tran... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165392 | Image decoder and image decoding method for decoding color image signal, and image decoding method for performing decoding processing The present invention makes it possible to include, when encoding processing is applied to three color components using a 4:0:0 format, data for one picture in one access unit and makes it possible to set the same time information or the same set encoding modes amon... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165394 | Reconstruction of image in a Bayer pattern Architecture for decoding (demosaicing) a source image and performing reconstruction directly from the Bayer pattern to reduce memory size and improve communication bandwidth. The architecture can be easily implemented in hardware such as in field programmable gate ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165393 | High dynamic range texture compression A method for compressing a high dynamic range (HDR) texture. A first block of texels of the HDR texture in a red-green-blue (RGB) space may be transformed to a second block of texels in a luminance-chrominance space. The first block may have red values, green values... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155437 | Perceptually lossless color compression A system and method of color data compression may perform variations of MRC compression including taking into consideration means and/or variances within k×k cells of an image, background texture, background smoothed color, and gradient components for determination... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155436 | Systems and methods for color data compression Systems and methods are provided for reducing data size of at least one bitmap image, wherein the bitmap image comprises a plurality of image components, wherein each image component is associated with a distinct color plane. The plurality of color planes may be ran... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150151 | Method for coding pixels or voxels of a digital image and a method for processing digital images A method for coding pixels or voxels of a digital or digitalized two dimensional or three dimensional image includes the steps of: providing a digital image in which each pixel or voxel is defined by a variable in a grey scale image, or by HSV or RGB values in a col... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150152 | Device and method for encoding image data A reading unit reads image data. A re-reading unit that re-reads the image data read by the reading unit by performing, in a pixel matrix consisting of a plurality of pixels of the image data read by the reading unit, a process of scanning pixels in a partition in w... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150153 | Ray-based compression mapping in a color management system What is disclosed is a novel system and method for performing ray-based compression mapping in a color management system. The present method compresses a color point located at or near a boundary surface of a color gamut to a point beneath the gamut surface in order... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144981 | Texture compression based on two hues with modified brightness In an image-encoding scheme, an input image is decomposed into image blocks comprising multiple image elements. The image blocks are then encoded into encoded blocks. An encoded block comprises a first color codeword, a second color codeword, a color modifier codewo... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8131070 | Color processing apparatus, color processing method, computer readable medium and computer data signal A color processing apparatus includes an image signal acquisition section, a color component preservation section, a first color conversion section, a color gamut compression section and a second color conversion section. The image signal acquisition section acquire... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131071 | Digital video camera non-integer-ratio Bayer domain scaler An apparatus having a buffer and a circuit is disclosed. The buffer may be configured to receive a digital image. The digital image generally has (i) a Bayer color representation and (ii) two initial dimensions in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction resp... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8111914 | Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image by using inter color compensation Provided are an image encoding method and apparatus and an image decoding method and apparatus that are capable of canceling a correlation remaining in a residual image by predicting the residual image by using residual pixel values of restored neighboring pixels of... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8098931 | Method for adaptively selecting filters to interpolate video data A method for adaptively selecting filters to interpolate video data is provided. In the present method, when receiving video data encoded by a 4:2:2 sampling format, a plurality of filters having different weights are adaptively selected to convert the color compone... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094931 | Method of color components compression A method of color components compression is provided. In the present method, when receiving video data encoded by a 4:4:4 sampling format, color components of each set of neighboring pixels in the video data is down-sampled and a first difference of the color compon... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086032 | Image processing device, image processing method, and image pickup apparatus An illumination component extractor is operable to extract an illumination component from input image data by: performing a smoothing process a certain number of times to generate a plurality of smooth image data having resolutions different from one another from th... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8068667 | Systems and methods for color data compression Systems and methods are provided for reducing data size of at least one bitmap image comprising at least one block, wherein the block comprises a plurality of image components, each image component being associated with a distinct color plane. The method may include... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8055069 | Image data sampling method In a method for sampling image data from an image frame with component video, the image frame includes a first component frame, a second component frame and a third component frame. The method comprises steps of selecting a first component portion, a second componen... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050495 | Rich media file format and delivery methods A rich media file is a self-contained file, including both the information to be viewed by a user and the viewer that displays the information to the user. The information can be formatted however the client likes: for example, the information can be split across se... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8031937 | Frame buffer compression and decompression method for graphics rendering Methods and apparatus are disclosed for the processing of frame buffer data, such as color buffer data, in graphics processing applications. Although more generally applicable, these methods and apparatus are particularly useful in real-time, polygon-based, 3D rende... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023729 | Apparatus and method of reducing color smearing artifacts in a low resolution picture A method of reducing color smearing or color artifacts in a low resolution picture that is subjected to chrominance downsampling prior to display on a display device first upsamples the pixels in each row of the picture to double the picture width, then downsamples ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019151 | Methods and apparatus for image compression and decompression using graphics processing unit (GPU) The invention provides, in some aspects, methods for image compression that utilize the central processing unit (CPU) of a digital data processor and its associated graphics processing unit (GPU), together, in order to compress an image. In related aspects of the in... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014597 | Method for efficient compression and decoding of single sensor color image data A method is described to greatly improve the efficiency of and reduce the complexity of image compression when using single-sensor color imagers for video acquisition. The method in addition allows for this new image compression type to be compatible with existing v... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7983480 | Two-level scanning for memory saving in image detection systems A method and system for scanning a digital image for detecting the representation of an object, such as a face, and for reducing memory requirements of the computer system performing the image scan. One example method includes identifying an original image and downs... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7965888 | Digital video camera non-integer-ratio bayer domain scaler An apparatus having a buffer and a circuit is disclosed. The buffer may be configured to receive a digital image. The digital image generally has (i) a Bayer color representation and (ii) two initial dimensions in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction resp... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7929757 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method for gathering vector data from an image If the processing time of a labeling process performed on a target rectangle found to be an image of a character/line drawing is equal to or longer than a given threshold, an unprocessed region of the target rectangle which has not yet been labeled is analyzed (S... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7903873 | Textual image coding Textual image coding involves coding textual portions of an image. In an example embodiment, a textual block of an image is decomposed into multiple base colors and an index map, with the index map having index values that each reference a base color so as to repres... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7889920 | Image processing for copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image data According to the claimed invention, an image processing apparatus is provided, wherein the image processing apparatus comprises a color determiner, adapted to determine a color of image data; a color space determiner, adapted to determine a color space for compressi... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7873212 | Compression of images for computer graphics A method for encoding an image having color components of each image pixel represented by a value of a high dynamic range, the method comprising: decomposing the image into a plurality of image blocks; separating, from the high dynamic range value of each pixel, col... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7853076 | Device and method for creating a saliency map of an image The invention concerns a device and a method for creating a saliency map of an image. It comprises the steps of: Projection of said image according to the luminance component and if said image is a color image, according to the lum... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853077 | Data compression apparatus and data compression program storage medium A data compression apparatus has: first difference creating section that creates first difference data including a succession of numerical values representing differences between adjacent numerical values on numerical values constituting the color data; second diffe... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7817849 | Method and apparatus for graphical data compression A system comprising a first computer and a second computer remotely located from the first computer and in communication with the first computer via a network. The second computer comprises an encoder module which encodes and transmits a pixel color datum to the fir... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7801356 | Methods and apparatuses for generating compressed data representing a visual frame The methods and apparatuses detect a color of each of a plurality of pixels within a frame; group a portion of the plurality of pixels having a common color into a block; and generate a color list including the common color based on a threshold value corresponding t... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7787691 | High quality image processing In a high quality image-encoding scheme an input image is decomposed into several image blocks comprising multiple image elements. The image blocks are encoded into encoded block representations. Such a block representation comprises two color codewords, a color mod... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7787690 | Image compression and expansion device RGB image data outputted from an ADC (3) is processed in an SPU (42) and an RPU (43) and then buffered into a memory (48) as YUV image data. The YUV image data is outputted from a YUV output unit (45), encoded by an image compressi... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7778459 | Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus Provided are an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, in which one of a plurality of color component images of an input image is predicted from a different color component image using a correlation between the color component images and the encoding order of... | 08/17/2010 |
