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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8103117 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method employing recursive filtering Recursive filtering that multiplies image data of a previous frame read out from a memory by a, multiplies image data of the present frame by (1−a), adds the resultants together, and stores the resultant of the addition in the memory is performed. Here, a is a coe... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8019173 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method employing recursive filtering Recursive filtering that multiplies image data of a previous frame read out from a memory by a, multiplies image data of the present frame by (1−a), adds the resultants together, and stores the resultant of the addition in the memory is performed. Here, a is a coe... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7903901 | Recursive filter system for a video signal A recursive filter system and method is provided. A weighted value of luminance and chrominance of a stored picture element is generated by summing weighted values of luminance and chrominance of a picture element and neighboring picture elements. A first proportion... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7783125 | Multi-resolution processing of digital signals Representations of an input signal at different lower resolutions are obtained, where n denotes a level of resolution, and where 0≦n≦N. Level n=N corresponds to the representation having the lowest resolution, and level n=0 corresponds to the input signal. The r... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7599570 | Multiscale sharpening and smoothing with wavelets A method and apparatus for processing image data are described. In one embodiment, a method of processing image data comprises decomposing the image data into multiple decomposition levels by applying a wavelet transform to the image data, and modifying coefficients... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7433084 | Digital de-screening technique for scanned documents A method and system for de-screening an image signal utilizing a bank of filters to provide several increasingly blurred versions of the original image signal is disclosed. At any given time, only two of these blurred versions are created, on a pixel-by-pixel basis.... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7412091 | System and method for registration of cubic fisheye hemispherical images Systems and methods for registering hemispheric images obtained using a fisheye lens for panoramic viewing, relating to spatial alignment and colour balancing of complement half-side images derived from the hemispheric images. The systems and methods for spatial ali... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7409092 | Method and apparatus for the surveillance of objects in images Object detection and tracking operations on images that may be performed independently are presented. A detection module receives images, extracts edges in horizontal and vertical directions, and generates an edge map where object-regions are ranked by their immedia... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7408986 | Increasing motion smoothness using frame interpolation with motion analysis Techniques and tools for video frame interpolation and motion analysis are described. The techniques and tools may be implemented separately or in combination in software and/or hardware devices for various applications. For example, a media playback device uses fra... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7397964 | Gaussian blur approximation suitable for GPU A Gaussian blur approximation is applied to an image by repeated down-sampling operations followed by an up-sample operation. By using a truncated Gaussian filter as the down-sample filter, the frequency spectrum removed during down-sampling operations closely appro... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7379561 | Method and system for differentially and regularly modifying a digital image by pixel Th invention relates to a method and system for modifying a digital image (100) consisting of pixels. Said digital image is divided into areas (103). At least one area value is assigned to each area Zi (103). At least one parameter value Vpij ( | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375856 | Halftone screen frequency and magnitude estimation for digital descreening of documents An efficient method and system for eliminating halftone screens from scanned documents while preserving the quality and sharpness of text and line-art is disclosed. The method and system utilizes one or more independent channels with different sensitivities (e.g., M... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7359576 | Using difference kernels for image filtering Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for filtering an image. A filter kernel is received to determine one or more filtered values for each pixel in a sequence of pixels, where adjacent pixels are separated by a characteristic distance in the i... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356197 | Variable tap filter architecture for image processing An embodiment of the present invention is an apparatus to filter two-dimensional (2-D) data. A first filter processes two-dimensional (2-D) data in a block of pixels in a first dimension for a plurality of filter sizes. The block has a swath. A register file stores ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355757 | Fast edge reconstruction with upscaling for pulse width modulation rendering A selected antialiasing technique is applied to non-labeled gray-scale or color image data by deconstructing an image into a set of binary images, applying the antialiasing method to each binary image to generate antialiased images, and combining the antialiased ima... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7343047 | Systems and methods for arriving at an auto focus Figure of Merit A method comprises detecting edges in at least a region of a captured focus image, using adjacent pixels of the region to obtain first edge detection results and filtering the first edge detection results. The first filtering comprises comparing differences in pixel... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7268790 | Display system with framestore and stochastic dithering A display system provides temporal stochastic dithering to image data for storage in a frame buffer for display. Stochastic dithering is used to reduce the size of the frame buffer and the complexity of the drive circuitry that is used to display an image in accorda... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268835 | Device and method for noise reduction of a video signal The disclosure relates to a device and to a method for noise reduction of a video signal. The device is comprised of the following components. A motion-compensated interpolation means, a recursive filter intended to receive the output of the recursive filter motion-... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7257271 | Noise reduction in color digital images using pyramid decomposition A method of removing noise from a color digital image, including receiving an original color digital image including a plurality of pixels represented in a primary-color space; producing at least one residual digital image and at least one base digital image from th... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7248745 | Differential image adjustments Methods and apparatus implementing systems and techniques for adjusting images. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: receiving input defining an adjustment to be applied to a differential representation of a source image, calculating the differ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245400 | Method and device for proofing raster print data while maintaining the raster information The screened printing data are subjected to a filtering method, the raster information being maintained. Intermediate tonal values are produced by the filtering method, using the binary tonal values, the intermediate tonal values being configured in such a way that,... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7242808 | Method and apparatus for analysis of variables Various components of the present invention are collectively designated as Analysis of Variables Through Analog Representation (AVATAR). It is a method, processes, and apparatus for measurement and analysis of variables of different type and origin. AVATAR offers an... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236642 | Method and structure for generating output data of a digital image including a transparent object A method for generating output data for a transparent object in a digital image creates a plurality of image areas. The plurality of image areas covers a total area of the transparent object in the digital image. Each image area covers a different portion of the tra... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7215803 | Method and apparatus for interactive remote viewing and collaboration of dental images A method of dental restoration treatment utilizing the electronic delivery of an electronic model image of the dental restoration treatment. The method includes generating an electronic model image of a proposed dental restoration treatment; storing the electronic m... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206002 | Image processing apparatus and method that avoid generation of moire An image processing apparatus includes a spatial filtering unit which applies spatial filtering to input image data to generate filtered image data such that the spatial filtering provides a broader dynamic range for outputs than for inputs, and a high-resolution co... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7200642 | Method and apparatus for electronic delivery of electronic model images A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide a distributed computing system delivering and manipulating electronic model images to end users. One aspect of the present invention includes a method for providing electronic delivery of electronic model image... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7200280 | Image processing apparatus The image processing apparatus includes a detection device which detects an improper image portion of image information, a correction device which corrects the improper image portion, a display device which displays an image whose improper image portion has been cor... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7194143 | Method of enhancement of the visual display of images and other visual data records An digital image input, possibly being either pre-compressed or decompressed, is enhanced; its edges are preserved while any compression artifacts, like blocking and ringing, are simultaneously reduced. The enhancement method enhances images with luminance and chrom... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7181084 | Device and method for sub-band decomposition of image signals A device that receives and processes an image signal for sub-band decomposition of an image includes a first median filter that receives the image signal and processes signal values of pixel locations (x0, y0), (x0−1, y0... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181086 | Multiresolution method of spatially filtering a digital image A method of processing a digital image to improve tone scale, includes the steps of: generating a multiresolution image representation of the digital image including a plurality of base digital images and a plurality of residual digital images; applying a texture re... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177481 | Multiresolution unsharp image processing apparatus The invention concerns an image-processing apparatus, in which a high-frequency component signal of an original image-signal, representing a plurality of pixels, is added to either the original image-signal or a lowest frequency image-signal of the original image-si... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7151858 | Wavelet edge map based apparatus and method for edge enhancement An apparatus and method for correcting the sharpness of an image signal, using a Haar Wavelet transform and a difference between pixel values adjacent to the edge of the image signal to be corrected while reducing the occurrence of overshoot and undershoot at the ed... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7145607 | Spatio-temporal video noise reduction system A method and system for digital video noise reduction which includes a picture analyser (103) for analysing pictures in a video sequence to determine the amount of moving regions therein, a noise level detector (102) for estimating the noise level (N) ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7139035 | Video noise floor estimator with impulse noise detection A method of detecting both linear and non linear noise in video data. Linear noise is detected on a line-by-line basis, by blocks within each line. Non linear noise is detected during horizontal blanking periods. The method provides a noise floor value for linear no... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7126663 | Variable area film soundtrack renovation A method for reducing sound track sibilance distortion during playback of an analog optical sound track. The method comprises the steps of forming and storing an image of the analog optical sound track. Representing part of the stored image as a spatial image and ap... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7118228 | Image display system A display system includes a single image-projection device, and a reflective surface optically coupled to the image-projection device, wherein the reflective surface is configured to reflect a plurality of images projected by the image-projection device onto a plura... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7120310 | Image noise reduction method and device An image noise reduction method and apparatus to be used to digitize and process an image signal. Level values of peripheral pixels and the level value of a watched pixel are input into eight comparators and the value “1” is output when absolute values of differ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7116837 | Method and apparatus for reducing image noise An image reduction method and apparatus to digitize and process an image signal. Level values a to h of peripheral pixels of a pattern, the level value of a watched pixel, and the value of a reference level Θ are input. The level value o of the watched pixel is a g... | 10/03/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7098957 | Method and apparatus for detecting repetitive motion in an interlaced video sequence apparatus for processing interlaced video signals Interlaced video signals are processed by mixing spatially interpolated video signals with temporally interpolated video signals. The respectively interpolated signals are mixed in dependence on a degree of motion at the given location in the video picture, as defin... | 08/29/2006 |
