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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180165 | Accelerated screen codec An accelerated screen codec technique is described that provides a general screen compression framework, which, in one embodiment, is Graphics Processor Unit (GPU) friendly. In one embodiment, in order to compress screen data, blocks in a compound screen image conta... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175399 | Multiple-resolution image processing apparatus Multi-resolution images of a reference image and a target image are generated. Then, whole-range matching is performed on an image of a lower resolution to detect a two-dimensional displacement between the images. Block matching is performed on an image of a higher ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8155459 | Video processing device with low memory bandwidth requirements The present invention relates to a video processing device for processing data corresponding to a sequence of pictures according to a predictive block-based encoding technique. Said device comprises a processing unit (20) including a reconstruction circuit ( | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155460 | Image information decoding apparatus and image information decoding method for motion prediction and/or compensation of images The present invention is directed to an image information encoding apparatus, used in receiving compressed image information through network media when processing of such compressed image information is performed on storage media. A picture sorting buffer delivers i... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150182 | Image information decoding apparatus and image information decoding method for motion prediction and/or compensation of images The present invention is directed to an image information encoding apparatus, used in receiving compressed image information through network media when processing of such compressed image information is performed on storage media. A picture sorting buffer delivers i... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150181 | Method of filtering a video sequence image from spurious motion effects According to the novel method, roto-translational and zooming parameters describing spurious motion effects are determined by exploiting any of the many block matching algorithms commonly used for motion estimation for calculating a motion vector for all or for a se... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139877 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium including shot generation An image processing apparatus includes a shot splitting unit that splits a moving image into a plurality of shots each including a plurality of sequential frames; a shot detecting unit that detects, among the shots, a second shot similar to a first shot that is to b... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135225 | Method for coding RGB color space signal A method for coding an RGB color space signal is disclosed. In accordance with the method, a base plane is encoded using an independent mode, and an enhanced plane is encoded by referring to the base plane without converting the RGB color space signal into YCbCr col... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126281 | Image processing apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for generating motion compensation images An image processing apparatus for generating a motion compensation image. The image processing apparatus includes: a pixel-relative-position calculation section calculating a relative position between a pixel position of a pixel constituting the motion compensation ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121423 | Remote user interface raster segment motion detection and encoding Raster segment commands are generated by a delta encoder and are encoded for raster segments detected to have moved in the current frame with respect to a location of the raster segment in a previous frame. Raster segment motion commands are stored in a queue and, w... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121424 | System, computer program product and associated methodology for video motion detection using spatio-temporal slice processing A system, computer program product and associated methodology for video motion detection combines a series of images of a video sequence into an image volume having vertices of X, Y and t. The image volume is sliced in either the (X,t) or (Y,t) planes, filtered with... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121422 | Image encoding method and associated image decoding method, encoding device, and decoding device Disclosed is an image encoding method in which a series of decoded images are generated from a series of original images with the aid of a first encoding process. Furthermore, a series of second images are generated from an image group of the series of original imag... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116576 | Image processing method and image processing device for reconstructing a high-resolution picture from a captured low-resolution picture The present invention provides an image processing device which is able to reconstruct a high-resolution (HR) picture from low-resolution (LR) pictures, by modifying instability in the pictures due to movement of hands in capturing the images, and also by preventing... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107749 | Apparatus, method, and medium for encoding/decoding of color image and video using inter-color-component prediction according to coding modes A color image and video encoding and/or decoding apparatus, method, and medium using inter-color-component prediction in accordance with an encoding mode are provided. The encoding apparatus for encoding an original image including at least two color image component... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107750 | Method of generating motion vectors of images of a video sequence A digital image processing system and method for removing motion effects from images of a video sequence, and generating corresponding motion compensated images. ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107748 | Adaptive motion search range A technique for performing motion estimation using an adaptive motion search range includes calculating motion vectors for blocks of pixels in a target image, using the calculated motion vectors to generate a search range associated with a target block of pixels in ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103114 | Image processing apparatus, method, storage medium, and program A motion-vector detector determines the centroid of pixels on a reference frame that is identified with position information set in a database and associated with a feature address corresponding to a feature of a target pixel. The motion-vector detector detects, as ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098944 | Image processing apparatus, method, storage medium, and program A motion-vector detector determines the centroid of pixels on a reference frame that is identified with position information set in a database and associated with a feature address corresponding to a feature of a target pixel. The motion-vector detector detects, as ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8086052 | Hybrid video compression method The invention concerns a method for compressing a digitally coded video frame sequence. In the method, a given frame is divided into blocks, and the information content of selected blocks is modified, relying on information contained in a neighboring block or blocks... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077992 | Application based adaptive encoding A system and method for encoding dynamic image information for an image generated by a computer application executing on a processor. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise determining a first set of information describing a reference image. A second ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077991 | Spatially enhanced transform coding A system and method for improving prediction error coding performance of various video compression algorithms. Various embodiments combine the energy compaction features of transform coding with localization properties of spatial coding. In various embodiments, the ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073273 | Moving image receiving apparatus A moving image receiving apparatus has a moving image decoding apparatus (303) for decoding received moving image data. The moving image decoding apparatus (303) comprises: a media buffer (401) for storing moving image data; an intra-map memory ... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068682 | Generating output pixels of an output image from one or more input images using a set of motion vectors having a sub-pixel accuracy An image processing apparatus in which output pixels of an output image are generated from one or more input images using motion vectors having a sub-pixel accuracy. A motion vector allocator allocates motion vectors in the pixels, and compares a current output pixe... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8045812 | Method and system for initializing templates of moving objects A method for tracking a moving object in a sequence of images is provided, comprising: partitioning each of said images of said sequence into blocks, identifying blocks which have moved between consecutive images of said sequence, grouping adjacent blocks, which hav... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041134 | Apparatus to provide block-based motion compensation and method thereof A motion compensation apparatus to provide block-based motion compensation, and a method thereof. A first motion compensation interpolator calculates a first interpolation pixel by reading a first and a second pixel corresponding to a motion vector of an estimated c... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8023754 | Image encoding and decoding apparatus, program and method An image decoding apparatus has a video data decoder for receiving and decoding encoded video data to acquire a plurality of reconstructed images; a subsidiary data decoder for receiving and decoding subsidiary data to acquire subsidiary motion information; and a re... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019169 | Image coding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, image processing apparatus and methods thereof The image coding apparatus according to the present invention includes: a similar image search unit 201 which searches at least one second still image which is similar to a first still image; a coding processing unit 202 which generates a predictive im... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019168 | Motion detecting device and search region variable-shaped motion detector An overall motion detecting device (1) includes a search region variable-shaped motion detector (2) and an overall motion information generator (3). The overall motion information generator (3) controls a surveillance camera (5) wh... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014618 | High-speed motion compensation apparatus and method The present invention relates to a high-speed motion compensation apparatus and method. The high-speed motion compensation apparatus for H.264/AVC includes a bus interface unit for reading a plurality of word addresses from an external storage device, aligning the r... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014619 | Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image A method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image that divide an image sequence into sub-groups and determine encoding modes applied to bi-directional pictures included in each sub-group using correlations between the bi-directional pictures and reference pictur... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009923 | Method and system for motion estimation with multiple vector candidates A method and system for performing motion estimation for a frame associated with a video signal. The method includes receiving at least a reference frame, a first frame, and a second frame, and providing a first plurality of vectors. The first plurality of vectors i... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005308 | Adaptive motion estimation for temporal prediction filter over irregular motion vector samples A method for determining values of motion vectors includes receiving an irregular pattern of motion vectors for a target image, estimating an initial value for each of the motion vectors, using the motion vectors to generate a tap structure for an adaptive temporal ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7986847 | Digital video camera with a moving image encoding feature and control method therefor, that selectively store decoded images as candidate reference images Detects from camera information frames of probable low continuity, such as frames in which a strobe is flashed, and does not use such frames as candidate images for a reference image. As a result, the possibility that the candidate images in the frame memory are ima... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7974481 | Method and apparatus for cost calculation in decimal motion estimation A method and an apparatus for cost calculation in decimal motion estimation are provided. The method comprises the following steps. Firstly, perform interpolation on a current block to get an interpolation result of a position corresponding to a decimal motion vecto... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974482 | Image distribution apparatus, communication terminal apparatus, and control method thereof An image distribution apparatus divides image data of a single frame into a plurality of blocks, orthogonally transforms the blocks and calculates transformation coefficients, quantizes the calculated transformation coefficients, codes the quantized transformation c... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7961961 | Image processing apparatus and image processing program using motion information It is an object to provide an image processing apparatus and an image processing program in which motion information detected from an image is used for a different image processing corresponding to image information so that the detected motion information capable of... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957604 | Moving image coding apparatus, moving image decoding apparatus, control method therefor, and computer-readable storage medium In this invention, even if final code data is to be generated by selectively discarding code data for each bitplane, errors due to bitplane rounding down operation can be suppressed from being gradually accumulated in predicted data such as P- and B-pictures, thereb... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953284 | Selective information handling for video processing A system for selectively handling information. In an example embodiment, the system includes a first mechanism for processing information pertaining to one or more sub-blocks of a macroblock in a first stream and a second stream, and outputting a first processed str... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7925105 | Image transfer and motion picture clipping process using outline of image An image transmission apparatus comprises an outline extraction processor, a selector, and a transmission module. The outline extraction processor extracts an outline of a specific-type image element in each of the image frames and to create outline data, based on i... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925106 | Apparatus and method for detecting motion in continuous images A motion detection apparatus detecting motion in an image may include a black-and-white signal motion detector, a first color signal motion detector, a second color signal motion detector, and a final motion flag output unit. The motion detection apparatus may outpu... | 04/12/2011 |
