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| 8116594 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program An image processing apparatus includes: a detecting unit configured to detect a motion vector from an input image signal acting as the image signal for each of chronologically input pixels; a determining unit configured to determine whether the input image signal in... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8107774 | Image data processing method and image display apparatus An image data processing method is provided. In this method, a plurality of original pixel values of an image is input. An interpolation position of a target pixel in the image is determined. Whether the interpolation position is in a central region of an object or ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107775 | Image processing apparatus and method, and electronic camera An image processing apparatus obtains color image data by performing an interpolation processing for an image signal output from a color image pickup element having color filters arranged like a mosaic, by using a filter. The apparatus includes an interpolation proc... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107773 | Video signal processing apparatus and video signal processing method A video-signal processor includes: a first correlation detector obtaining a correlation value of every symmetric pair of pixels positioned in point-symmetry around an interpolation pixel on an interpolation line interpolated between two real lines; a second correlat... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098964 | Raw image processing A system, a method and computer-readable media for processing raw image data with a graphics processing unit (GPU). Raw image data generated by an imaging sensor is received. A set of instructions for demosaicing the raw image data is communicated to the GPU. The GP... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090221 | Method and apparatus for detecting displacement with sub-pixel accuracy A method for detecting displacement with sub-pixel accuracy includes the steps of: capturing a first array image and a second array image; interpolating the first array image to form a reference image; interpolating the second array image to form a comparison image;... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086075 | Motion adaptive image processing An image processing method for image conversion by combining two or more source values based on a mixing parameter to generate an output pixel value. A metric is calculated for a selected pixel at a given image field based on the directly preceding image field and a... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8073292 | Directional hole filling in images When transforming a 2.5D video format to a plurality of images viewed from different virtual positions, it can occur that for certain output pixels, no input data is available. Therefore, these output pixels do not have any definite values assigned in their pixel lo... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064734 | Image processing device image processing method, and computer program An image processing device for enlarging an image includes an attribute determining unit, a pattern matching determining unit, and a data selecting unit. The attribute determining unit determines an attribute of each pixel constituting an input image. The pattern ma... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059920 | Method and apparatus for pixel interpolation A pixel interpolation method for interpolating pixel values of a plurality of target positions of a target picture is disclosed. The pixel interpolation method includes: dynamically setting a plurality of edge detection ranges corresponding to the plurality of targe... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055102 | Local edge count heuristic for vector interpolator A vector interpolator optimizes the conversion of an interlaced signal to a non-interlaced signal. The vector interpolator improves the visual clarity of slanted features in a displayed image by adjusting the luminance value of each pixel such that the appearance of... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8031977 | Image interpolation method, medium and system An image interpolation method interpolating image information of a point in a space constructed by a plurality of planes. According to the method, a reliable interpolated value can be rapidly obtained by searching for the nearest plane to the point, obtaining inform... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8009935 | Pixel interpolation circuit, pixel interpolation method, and recording medium A correlation along a horizontal direction and a correlation along a vertical direction are calculated with respect to a neighboring region around an interpolation target pixel by using respective pixel values of R pixels, G pixels, and B pixels in Bayer data. The p... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000563 | Interpolation device An interpolation process for scaling is performed directly on raw data from an image pickup apparatus. Raw data, constituted by inputted Bayer pattern array are as a set of pixels positioned on respective lattice points on a square lattice. A position of an interpol... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991246 | Image deinterlacing Method and devices are provided for processing an image in which a row of pixels with associated light intensity values successively alternates with a row of pixels to which values are to be associated. In each current row of pixels with associated values, pixels ar... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986859 | Converting bayer pattern RGB images to full resolution RGB images via intermediate hue, saturation and intensity (HSI) conversion In one embodiment, R and B values for each G pixel element are interpolated and the RGB values are converted to HSI values. The converted HSI values are interpolated to determine interpolated HSI values for the R and B pixel elements and then the interpolated HSI va... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7957611 | Image scaler with controllable sharpness A method and system for scaling an original image into a scaled image is disclosed. Rather than using the corresponding position in the original image to generate the pixels values of a current pixel in the scaled image, image scalers in accordance with the present ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953298 | Image magnification device, image magnification method and computer readable medium storing an image magnification program A high-definition magnified image is obtained by simple computation. A magnified image is obtained by obtaining a deteriorated image on the basis of an input original image, determining enhancement filters used for individual small areas of the original image using ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949205 | Image processing unit with fall-back An image processing unit for computing a sequence of output images on basis of a sequence of input images, comprises: a motion estimation unit for computing a motion vector field on basis of the input images; a quality measurement unit for computing a value of a qua... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945121 | Method and apparatus for interpolating image information A method and apparatus for interpolating image information obtains pixel information for a plurality of pixels surrounding a location of a pixel to be interpolated, whether the pixel is a missing pixel or an existing pixel whose color or intensity information is to ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941007 | Low level video detail tracking by intuitionistic fuzzy relationship calculus To interpolate a value for a pixel, multiple patterns are selected. Each pattern is used to determine a pixel angle. One of the determined pixel angles is then selected based on the reliability of the pixel angles. The selected pixel angle can be selected based on i... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941006 | Pixel interpolating method and device The n-tap filtering for generating interpolated pixels is converted into calculation of terms consisting of the difference and sum of the pixel values of adjoining pixels. When the difference is equal to or less than a predetermined value, the calculation related to... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7936950 | Apparatus for creating interpolation frame An area detecting unit detects a first matching area in a first reference block in the first reference frame, a second matching area in a second reference block in the second reference frame. A settling unit settles a secondary motion vector to be assigned to a mism... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7912323 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image display apparatus A first edge width correction process (2) is carried out in which edge widths are corrected by an interpolation process using zoom ratio control values (RZC) generated according to the edge widths in image data; an enlargement processing process (3) th... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7899273 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program An image processing apparatus that generates an output image according to interpolation performed by using an input image includes a pixel-value calculating unit that calculates a pixel value of a pixel of the output image according to interpolation performed by usi... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7889950 | Kernel regression for image processing and reconstruction A method of image processing using kernel regression is provided. An image gradient is estimated from original data that is analyzed for local structures by computing a scaling parameter, a rotation parameter and an elongation parameter using singular value decompos... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885488 | Image processing apparatus, method and medium Provided are an image processing apparatus, method and medium, more particularly, an image processing apparatus, method and medium which perform interpolation such that a pixel value in each pixel region included in a digital image and an average value of interpolat... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885487 | Method and apparatus for efficiently enlarging image by using edge signal component A method and an apparatus for efficiently enlarging an image, where the outermost Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) components from a DC value are regarded as high frequency components in DCT components expressed in one two-dimensional coordinate system, the edge sign... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881563 | Distortion correction of images using hybrid interpolation technique The specification and drawings present a new method system, apparatus and software product for correcting a geometrical distortion of an image using a hybrid interpolation technique by a digital image processor. After calculating corrected coordinates of the pixels ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7876979 | Resolution-converting apparatus and method The resolution-converting method comprises steps of applying an edge-directed interpolation to an input image and producing an intermediate image; converting a sampling rate with respect to the intermediate image and producing an output image having a predetermined ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7869665 | Composite method and apparatus for adjusting image resolution A composite method and apparatus for adjusting an image resolution are provided, which are applied for adjusting a digital image or de-interlace scanning, especially for achieving an edge enhancing effect. The composite method may include: obtaining an original imag... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865041 | Artifacts measurement on video decomposable properties by dynamic fuzzy reasoning To determine if a pixel exhibits artifacts, statistics are generated for the pixel and its neighbors. These statistics are compared with thresholds. If the comparison of the statistics and the thresholds suggests that the pixel exhibits a pixel artifact, then recour... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7840096 | Directional interpolation method and video encoding/decoding apparatus and method using the directional interpolation method A directional interpolation method and a video encoding/decoding apparatus and method using the directional interpolation method. The directional interpolation method includes selecting one of a plurality of directional interpolation modes for a predetermined-size b... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7831110 | Resolution converting method The invention discloses a resolution converting method. Particularly, it discloses a resolution converting method having the steps of: inputting reference pixel data as pixel data which can be used for calculation of the pixel data of an interpolation pixel; and cal... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7826686 | Pixel interpolation apparatus and pixel interpolation program product To generate the pixel value of one interpolation point from the pixel values of the four original pixels in the surroundings of the interpolation point, when the pixel values of the four involve a predetermined density difference, a printer uses the corrected invers... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822293 | Imaging systems and method for generating video data using edge-aware interpolation with soft-thresholding Embodiments of an imaging system and method for generating video data with edge-aware interpolation are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, an edge-aware demosaicing process is performed on image sensor da... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7783134 | Edge-oriented interpolation method and system for a digital image An edge-oriented interpolation method is used for enlarging a source image. The region in which each destination pixel in an enlarged image is located is identified as a smooth region, a text region or an edge region, and Sobel edge detection for two adjacent pixels... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7778494 | FIR-based interpolation in advanced video codecs on VLIW processor A half sample and quarter sample pixel value interpolation calculation classifies a set of all possible half sample and quarter sample pixel value interpolation calculations into a plurality of interpolation types. A function kernel for each interpolation type inclu... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7756361 | Image interpolation apparatus An image interpolation apparatus to interpolate an input image signal having a first resolution into an output image signal having a second resolution according to a predetermined resolution conversion ratio includes a frequency determiner to detect a variation in a... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7738738 | Mean preserving interpolation calculation circuit, pixel interpolation circuit, mean preserving interpolation method, and pixel interpolation method Missing-pixel interpolation data are obtained such that the mean value of a plurality of pixels constituting a group of pixels including a missing pixel is equal to the mean value of a plurality of pixels constituting a group of pixels not including the missing pixe... | 06/15/2010 |
