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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6434195 | Splicing of video data in progressively refreshed video streams A method is provided for replacing compressed video from a first source with video from a second source at a predefined insertion point in a video data stream. If the video from the second source is progressively refreshed video, it is decompressed suffic... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6434196 | Method and apparatus for encoding video information A method and apparatus for encoding, illustratively, a video information stream to produce an encoded information stream according to a group of frames (GOF) information structure where the GOF structure and, optionally, a bit budget are modified in respo... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6430224 | Stereo video data coding apparatus A corresponding MB2 for the left sequence is determined from the parallax vector of a coding-object MB1 of the frame Bi for the right sequence. The motion vector 2 of the corresponding MB2 is used as an origin of the search area for finding the motion vec... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6424370 | Motion based event detection system and method A method to provide automatic content-based video indexing from object motion is described. Moving objects in video from a surveillance camera 11 detected in the video sequence using motion segmentation methods by motion segmentor 21. Objects are tracked ... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6421080 | Digital surveillance system with pre-event recording An image recording system and method for use with a surveillance system having at least two cameras provides true pre-event recording for multiple input sources to improve video on demand storage control. More specifically, an image recording subsystem is... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6417894 | Adjustable magnifying apparatus and method for viewing video or computer screens The present invention is directed to an optical device and method for adjustably magnifying the visual displays on the screen of a computer monitor or the like, the invention comprising an adjustable arm for supporting at least one magnifying lens in fron... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6418166 | Motion estimation and block matching pattern A motion estimation process improves coding efficiency by using a modified search criteria. The modified search criteria takes into account the error signal needed to encode a block of pixels as well as the the motion data when selecting a matching block ... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6418168 | Motion vector detection apparatus, method of the same, and image processing apparatus A control circuit specifies a first search area by using a motion vector found in units of macroblocks between a plurality of frames located previous to first frame, specifies a second search area by using a simplified motion vector indicating the motion ... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6414995 | Motion vector detection system The present invention relates to a motion vector detection method and system for detecting a motion vector for motion compensation in moving picture compression. The motion vector detection system reduces the amount of operations without degrading the qua... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6414998 | Method and apparatus for inserting an image material A method and an apparatus for supplying an image material are provided for compressing and coding the image material, generating a coded bit stream meeting a condition requested by a virtual buffer verifier, and adding information of a splice point when s... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6411651 | Method and system for distributed video compression in personal computer architecture A method and system for compressing video data in a computer has video processing that is distributed between preprocessing hardware in a video capture/controller card and a central processing unit of the computer. Frames of video data are passed to a mot... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6408027 | Apparatus and method for coding moving picture The present invention provides an apparatus and method for coding moving pictures, which reduces a delay time generated by buffering of a decoding apparatus in compressive coding of the moving pictures. In this invention, the target number of bits of one ... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6408024 | Telecine video signal detecting device As to a telecine video signal (Sv), in a telecine video signal detector (Dtp) for detecting a scene-change part (SC) and deciding whether successive telecine conversion has been carried out, a motion detector (3) detects a motion between video signals (Sv... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6404818 | Video transmission device and its method In a video transmission device, a plurality of video data associated with one program can be transmitted without a complicated processing at the time of reception. In the case of transmitting a plurality of associated video data, first program information... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6400765 | Method and apparatus for decoding compressed video A method and apparatus for video decoding of compressed video data begins by generating a plurality of coefficients based on run level data of two-dimensional frequency components corresponding to the compressed video data. As the coefficients are generat... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6400763 | Compression system which re-uses prior motion vectors This disclosure provides a reverse play system that may be used with newer digital television and image standards. In particular, a compressed input including motion vectors is received, and the motion vectors are used to calculate closest match positions... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6400399 | Process for viewing a motion picture film with concurrently displayed subtitle text A process for viewing a motion picture film scene image with concurrently displayed subtitle text comprising: providing a motion picture print film comprising a support bearing at least one light sensitive image recording layer and a transparent magnetic ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6392690 | Three-dimensional image display device In a 3-D image display device, a parallax barrier having a plurality of apertures is provided in front of an LCD element. Each aperture is equipped with a color filter of any one of red, green, and blue colors. The LCD element conducts monochromatic displ... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6393060 | Video coding and decoding method and its apparatus An apparatus and method for video coding is disclosed wherein one frame is divided into a plurality of blocks. The present invention divides an input frame into a plurality of blocks and transforming the blocks to a frequency domain; rearranges the transf... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6393061 | Method for reducing blocking artifacts in digital images A method for reducing blocking artifacts in digital images is disclosed. An original image is segmented into pixel blocks and mapped into a set of images associated with a predetermined compression format to produce a second image. Pixel block border pixe... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6392688 | High accuracy stereo vision camera system A stereo camera system suitable for use in high performance computer vision systems has two or more electronic cameras. Each camera has an assembly comprising a light sensing array and a lens assembly which are each directly mounted to a rigid mounting me... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6389075 | MPEG encoding technique for encoding web pages A method and apparatus for digitally encoding video image data, which is particularly suited for encoding Internet Web pages, eliminates the need for performing time consuming, computationally intensive motion vector searches by taking advantage of prior ... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6385241 | Method and apparatus for video rate control using a radial basis function rate estimator Video rate control and buffering based on a rate estimator and scene change features has been investigated for constant bit rate channels. A scene change-based, predictive technique has been applied so that the buffer occupancy may be controlled effective... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6385242 | Method and apparatus for inverse quantization of MPEG-4 video Inverse quantization (36, 44, 60) of a two-dimensional array of video coefficients QF[v][u] is provided. A first weighting matrix W[0][v][u]=2*W[0][v][u] for intra-coded macroblocks and a second weighting matrix W[1][v][u]=2*W[1][v][u] for non-intra-coded... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6385243 | Encoding an information stream organized as a sequence of pictures An audio and/or video information stream organized as a sequence of pictures is encoded through an at least partly software-based procedure. The sequence includes Intrapictures, Predictive pictures, and Bidirectional predictive pictures. In particular, fo... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6385249 | Data converting apparatus, method thereof, and recording medium A picture reducing circuit 1 reduces a supplied original picture. A higher picture memory 2 stores an input higher picture. A predictive tap extracting circuit 3 extracts predictive taps from the higher picture stored in the higher picture memory 2 and ou... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6385244 | Video encoding device Video encoding device including a video input processor, for receiving said video signal, a global controller, for controlling the global operation of the video encoding device, a motion estimation processor, a digital signal processor and a bit-stream pr... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6384859 | Methods for creating an image for a three-dimensional display, for calculating depth information and for image processing using the depth information A method is proposed for automatically obtaining depth. information from a 2-D motion image, so as to create an image for a 3-D display. Further, methods are proposed for selecting appropriate frames for the calculation of the depth information, or discon... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6381280 | Single chip motion wavelet zero tree codec for image and video compression A motion wavelet transform zero tree codec achieves high compression and is implemented in hardware of modest size and at very low cost. A wavelet transform is combined with a tree walk technique for encoding the resulting wavelet coefficients. A 2-6 wave... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6381276 | Video encoding and decoding method The invention relates to a method for encoding a sequence of frames by means of a three-dimensional (3D) subband decomposition involving a spatial and temporal filtering step. The decomposition is applied to successive groups of frames only after the impl... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6380970 | Method and apparatus for producing three-dimensional image In a case of obtaining a line-shaped image through image processing using a computer, an amount of data to be processed is reduced and a final stereoscopic image is formed by using a usual image. A plurality of two-dimensional images having different para... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6373897 | Moving quantity detection apparatus and method A plurality of images are inputted in time series at a predetermined interval. An image processing section divides one image into a plurality of blocks and calculates each evaluation value between a particular block on the one image and each neighboring b... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6373896 | Device and method for coding audio/video signal Device and method for coding an audio/video signal, in which a sampling rate is shifted according to a variance of a received data during data sampling operation for improving a coding efficiency, the device including a first sample/hold unit for sampling... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6373521 | Aircraft incident surveillance system The invention is of an aviation incident surveillance system which is to be carried on-board aircraft and stand ready at any time for deployment to visually record the final seconds of the downed aircraft. The system of the present invention centers on a ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6373518 | Image correction apparatus for stereo camera An image correction apparatus for a stereo camera which corrects optical positional deviations in images taken by the stereo camera, comprising: means for performing interpolation on mutual referencing positions in stereo matching of a pair of images taken by ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370194 | Motion vector estimation circuit and method A motion vector estimation circuit includes an assigning element having a grouping part for dividing candidates in a search range into a plurality of groups, and a part for determining the order for accumulation being carried out preferentially from a gro... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6366614 | Adaptive rate control for digital video compression A system and method for adaptively controlling the encoded data rate in a data compression system. The system and method sets up alternative encoded bit streams for each segment of data and selects the alternative that would produce the bit rate closest t... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6366311 | Record and playback system for aircraft Multiple data and images are multiplexed and sequenced utilizing split screen technology in order to minimize the recording and monitoring hardware required to process the images, providing a detailed record of the time of an event, the altitude and geogr... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6366616 | Motion vector estimating apparatus with high speed and method of estimating motion vector In a motion vector estimating apparatus, a current picture storage unit stores image data of a current picture, and a reference-picture storage unit stores image data of a reference picture. A search window determining unit determines estimation history f... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6359927 | Method and apparatus for allocating a bandwidth of a video signal having variable bit rates A method and apparatus for allocating a bandwidth to bit streams of a video signal having variable bit rates, wherein the bit streams are transmitted to an ATM(asynchronous transfer mode) network, encodes the video signal to thereby generate the bit strea... | 03/19/2002 |
