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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8094719 | Streaming methods and systems Various embodiments provide methods and systems for streaming data that can facilitate streaming during bandwidth fluctuations in a manner that can enhance the user experience. In one aspect, a forward-shifting technique is utilized to buffer data that is to be stre... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090032 | System and method of filtering noise A system and method of removing noise in a bitstream is disclosed. The system and method are most applicable to removing noise in a bitstream wherein the bitstream is encoded after being segmented into portions based on predefined classifications or models. Based on... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089508 | Capsule type medical system The present invention provides a capsule type medical system capable of displaying different images on a monitor in such a display mode that a diagnosis can be easily made when one capsule type endoscope includes a plurality of image pickup units. A capsule type end... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085851 | Moving image encoding method and apparatus A moving image encoding method of encoding a moving image while switching between variable-length encoding schemes. In this method, a continuous unit to be continuously reproduced is determined (S5201), a stream is generated by encoding the moving image witho... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081678 | Picture coding method and picture decoding method The picture coding method of the present invention is a picture coding method for coding a picture on a block-by-block basis, comprising: a selection step of selecting one of at least two sizes as a size of a block on which orthogonal transformation should be perfor... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8081214 | Method of and system for mobile surveillance and event recording A data-encoding system includes a source of unencoded data, and a first encoder interoperably coupled to the source, wherein the first encoder is adapted to receive the unencoded data, encode the unencoded data, and output encoded data at a first data rate. The data... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077775 | System and method of adaptive rate control for a video encoder A method of adaptively adjusting a QP of a video encoder to control output bit rate including estimating the QP based on a complexity of a previous frame and encoding bit rate information of a current frame to provide an estimated QP, determining a threshold value b... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073057 | Motion vector estimating device, and motion vector estimating method To provide a motion vector estimating device which is capable of calculating the optimum motion vector by a trade-off between the bit rate of a motion vector and a differential amount, and estimating a motion vector in a pipeline structure at high speed, a motion ve... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073059 | Picture encoding method and picture decoding method A picture encoding method of the present invention is a picture encoding method of predictively encoding an input picture with reference to pictures stored in a picture buffer, decoding the encoded input picture, judging whether or not the decoded picture is a pictu... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068542 | Motion picture encoding device and motion picture decoding device When a prediction is made between fields with different parity, the predicative efficiency of a chrominance vector is improved by adaptively switching the generation of a chrominance motion vector depending on a encoding/decoding field parity (top/bottom) and a refe... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8063936 | Modular immersive surveillance processing system and method According to an aspect of the invention, a system for providing immersive surveillance a site has a plurality of cameras each producing a respective raw video of a respective portion of the site. A processing component receives the raw video from the cameras and gen... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8059153 | Three-dimensional object tracking using distributed thin-client cameras An object tracking system which includes a plurality of camera devices, each of which captures image data, a plurality of thin-client processors, each of which is connected to a respective camera device via a local connection, each thin-client processor hosting a th... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054883 | Method for transcoding compressed video signals, related apparatus and computer program product therefor Transcoder apparatus for transcoding an input video bit-stream having a first encoding profile (e.g., MPEG-2) into an output video bit-stream having a second encoding profile (e.g., H.264), the first encoding profile including motion estimation information, the appa... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050323 | Interpolation of video compression frames Coding techniques for a video image compression system involve improving an image quality of a sequence of two or more bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames, where each of the frames includes multiple pixels. One method involves determining a brightness val... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8022989 | Method and apparatus for controlling data delivery with user-maintained modes Communication is carried out using devices with user-maintained modes that enable synchronous content sharing and communication. Each user-maintained mode enables a lightweight interface for positioning content in a conversation by initiating and terminating data tr... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023560 | Apparatus and method for processing 3d video based on MPEG-4 object descriptor information The present invention relates to three-dimensional video processing apparatus and method using MPEG-4 object descriptor information and structures. The three-dimensional video processing apparatus and method that can support a three-dimensional video service smoothl... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019004 | Method and apparatus for converting coded serial video signal into serial IP video signal A method and system for converting coded serial video signal into a serial IP video signal, including steps of receiving the coded serial video signal and detecting the serial video timing, converting the serial video signal to a serial sequence of packets each cons... | 09/13/2011 |
| RE42690 | Abnormality detection and surveillance system A surveillance system having at least one primary video camera for translating real images of a zone into electronic video signals at a first level of resolution. The system includes means for sampling movements of an individual or individuals located within the zon... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8009733 | Moving picture coding method and a moving picture decoding method A moving picture coding apparatus includes a motion estimation unit (101) for performing motion estimation by fixing the one of two reference pictures as a reference picture indicated by an inputted default reference picture number DefRefNo and a variable len... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7502414 | Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program and recording medium Occurrence of mosquito noise of a macro block that contains even a small plain region is suppressed. One macro block is subdivided into sub blocks each of which is composed of four pixels×four lines. The average value of luminance levels of each sub block is calcul... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7463684 | Fading estimation/compensation Techniques and tools for performing fading estimation and compensation in video processing applications are described. For example, a video encoder performs fading compensation on one or more reference images to encode images in which fading is detected. A video dec... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463281 | Smart vehicle video management A method includes selecting a video source view from at least one of a plurality of vehicle-mounted video sources based on detection of a vehicle event. The video source view may be displayed according to a presentation mode. The method may include associating a plu... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7456860 | Surveillance system using pulse-coded rays Five infrared sensors are located in different height positions between respective main bodies 10A to 10H, and all of these infrared sensors transmit and receive 35 infrared rays pulse-coded in conformity with a start-stop system. In addition, these pu... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7456862 | Control apparatus, control system, control method and storage medium of the same Herein provided is a control system capable of efficiently and assuredly performing a remote-control of a plurality of instruments. When the plurality of instruments, which are connected to a network 600 and controllable by a computer, namely a first camera | 11/25/2008 |
| 7450150 | Integrated audio/video sensor An integrated audio/video sensor is provided. The integrated sensor comprises an image-receiving module for sensing a light of an image, a sound-receiving module for sensing a sound and a signal-transforming module for integrating image and sound signals into an aud... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7440004 | 3-D imaging arrangements A viewing system and method for producing at least one image for being perceived as three-dimensional, including at least one of: a provision for compensating the center-of-interest of the at least one image in such a manner as to reduce convergence-accommodation co... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440504 | Method and apparatus for performing deblocking filtering with interlace capability A method and apparatus are disclosed for adaptively selecting a deblocking filter used in video de-blocking. Determinations are made as to whether each of a set of spatially adjacent video blocks is inter-coded or intra-coded and whether each of said adjacent video ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440502 | Signal processing system Methods and systems are disclosed for a video system. In a first exemplary embodiment, the video system comprises a video processing circuit that receives a picture and provides video compression by using an optimal macroblock mode of operation, the optimal macroblo... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436887 | Method and apparatus for video frame sequence-based object tracking An apparatus and method for the analysis of a sequence of captured images covering a scene for detecting and tracking of moving and static objects (86) and for matching (88) the patterns of object behavior in the captured images to object behavior in p... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436885 | Method for presenting streaming media At least one data stream associated with an event is received. Compressing the data stream generates a first signal. A second signal is generated based on a difference between the data stream and the first signal. The second signal is compressed according to a measu... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433407 | Method for hierarchical motion estimation A method for hierarchical motion estimation which can perform motion estimation in various block modes. According to the method, matching criterion values are calculated in units of an upper sub-block using matching criterion values calculated in units of a lowest-o... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7403219 | Driving lane recognizer and driving lane recognizing method A driving lane recognizer 1 is arranged to detect a white line 30 on a driving road 20 on the basis of an image taken of the driving road 20. The driving lane recognizer 1 sets a near region 41 and a far region 42 adj... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397858 | Maintaining a plurality of codebooks related to a video signal A method of enhancing picture quality of a video signal is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving an encoded video signal having a plurality of headers; maintaining a plurality of codebooks based upon the differences between a standard definition pic... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394482 | Microscope system and method for the analysis and evaluation of multiple colorings of a microscopic specimen A microscope system and a method that record spectra (60a, 61a, 62a, 63a, and 66a) of the dyes present in the specimen (15) using an SP module (20) are disclosed. A transformation of... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394853 | Motion vector coding method and motion vector decoding method A motion vector coding method and apparatus that improves efficiency of coding motion vectors when a current block is coded using a plurality of motion vectors. The apparatus includes a motion vector coding unit that codes a motion vector inputted from a motion vect... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394854 | Signal transmission system A signal transmission system: that includes a signal transmission unit (101) that includes a MPEG decoder (102), which receives digital broadcasting and outputs a luminance signal Y and two color difference signals PB/PR, and a tr... | 07/01/2008 |
| RE40415 | Picture signal transmitting method and apparatus A picture type identifier, indicating one of intra-picture coding (an I-picture), forward or backward predictive coding (a P-picture) and bi-directionally predictive coding (a B-picture), is included with a picture signal when the signal is encoded and when the sign... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7389526 | System and method for recording a digital video image A method and system for recording a digital video image is described. An embodiment of the present invention includes a video-capture device, connected to a wireless-communication device. The wireless-communication device transmits images captured by the real-time v... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7379088 | System and method for real-time image control and processing for use in wide area space based surveillance A system and method for providing real-time imaging for use in wide area space based surveillance utilizing an Optical Tera-bps Satellite (OPTSAT) network, including a plurality of OPTSATs, wherein an object is imaged with at least one surveillance aperture operativ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379498 | Reconstructing a compressed still image by transformation to a compressed moving picture image A transcoder (10) and a decoder (80) reconstruct an image from still image compressed data, such as EXIF data. The transcoder transcodes the still image compressed data into a bit stream of moving picture compressed data, such as an MPEG-2 4:2:2P bit s... | 05/27/2008 |
