Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100246673 | DYNAMIC IMAGE RECEIVING APPARATUS, DYNAMIC IMAGE RECEIVING METHOD AND PROGRAM - To provide a dynamic image receiving apparatus which receives dynamic image streams coded with inter-frame prediction such as MPEG from a plurality of channels, and collects the dynamic image streams containing intra-frame coded pictures from each channel in a short time. The dynamic image receiving apparatus includes: a time information accumulative processing device which accumulates code receiving time of the intra-frame coded picture of the dynamic image stream, and periodicity time information containing one of or both of presentation time information and decoding time information contained in the dynamic image stream for each dynamic image stream of the plurality of channels; code receiving time predicting devices which predict the code receiving time of the intra-frame coded pictures based on the periodicity time information; and a channel selection control device which controls channel selection of the dynamic image stream to be received based on the predicted code receiving time information. | 09-30-2010 |
20110149169 | HIGH-QUALITY CONTENT GENERATING SYSTEM, METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM - A high-quality content generating system provided with a feature amount extracting means for extracting the feature amounts of a plurality of pieces of content therefrom, a content grouping means for performing matching between the feature amounts of the plurality of pieces of content extracted by the feature amount extracting means, grouping the same content included in the plurality of pieces of content and the derived content produced by using the same content, and calculating same/derived content grouping information, and a high-quality content generating means for selecting pieces of content to be grouped by the same/derived content grouping information from the plurality of pieces of content and generating content with higher quality by using the selected content. | 06-23-2011 |
20110150419 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION ORDER DETERMINATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A system comprising: a extraction unit that extracts from each content a signal feature series, being a series of signal features caused to correspond to positions on a time axis of the content; a generator for detects mutual similarity sections, being sections in which the signal features for different contents are similar to each other, from said signal feature series for each content, and generates the content to which each mutual similarity section belongs, information for specifying the position of the above mutual similarity section on the time axis of the content, and a link indicative of a correspondence relation of the mutual similarity section as mutual similarity section link information; and a determination unit that determines a reproduction order of the content based upon a relationship of the position of the mutual similarity section on the time axis of the content that said mutual similarity section link information indicates. | 06-23-2011 |
20120275515 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, AND VIDEO ENCODING PROGRAM - A video encoding device includes a re-encoding picture type judgment unit which judges whether a picture is to be taken as a reference picture or not in a subsequent re-encoding process. A prediction error generation unit generates a prediction error signal so that only a picture to be a reference picture is formed when an encoded picture is formed. The video encoding device includes a quantization control unit for, when the re-encoding picture type judgment unit judges that the picture is to be taken as a reference picture in the subsequent re-encoding process, controlling so that a quantization step for quantization by a quantization unit is smaller than a case where the picture is judged to be taken as a non-reference picture. | 11-01-2012 |
20120307898 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE AND VIDEO DECODING DEVICE - To efficiently reduce contour and stair-step artifacts. | 12-06-2012 |
20130039411 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, AND VIDEO ENCODING PROGRAM - A video encoding device includes a re-encoding picture type judgment unit which judges whether a picture is to be taken as a reference picture or not in a subsequent re-encoding process, and a refresh unit sets no refreshed unit area in the picture when the picture is judged by the re-encoding picture type judgment unit to be taken as a non-reference picture in the subsequent re-encoding process, but sets, when the picture is judged to be taken as a reference picture, a refreshed unit area in the picture to be taken as a reference picture so as to include an area corresponding to a refreshed unit area which should have been set in a picture to be taken as a non-reference picture. | 02-14-2013 |
20130101037 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A video encoding device includes: pixel bit length increasing means for increasing a pixel bit length of an input image based on pixel bit length increase information; transform means for transforming output data of the pixel bit length increasing means; entropy encoding means for entropy-encoding output data of the transform means; non-compression encoding means for non-compression-encoding input data; multiplexed data selection means for selecting output data of the entropy encoding means or output data of the non-compression encoding means; and multiplexing means for multiplexing the pixel bit length increase information in a bitstream, wherein a pixel bit length of an image corresponding to the output data of the entropy encoding means and a pixel bit length of an image corresponding to the output data of the non-compression encoding means are different from each other. | 04-25-2013 |
20130114690 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE AND VIDEO DECODING DEVICE - To efficiently reduce contour and stair-step artifacts. | 05-09-2013 |
20130121407 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE AND VIDEO DECODING DEVICE - A video encoding device and a video decoding device prevent an increase in the number of lines of a reference line buffer in a pseudo random noise injection process. The video encoding device includes: an inverse quantization unit for inverse-quantizing a quantization index to obtain a quantization representative value; an inverse frequency transform unit for inverse-transforming the quantization representative value obtained by the inverse quantization unit, to obtain a reconstructed image block; and an asymmetrical distortion removal filter unit for injecting pseudo random noise to an area asymmetrical about a boundary of the reconstructed image block. | 05-16-2013 |
20130188835 | FEELING-EXPRESSING-WORD PROCESSING DEVICE, FEELING-EXPRESSING-WORD PROCESSING METHOD, AND FEELING-EXPRESSING-WORD PROCESSING PROGRAM - The present approach enables an impression of the atmosphere of a scene or an object present in the scene at the time of photography to be pictured in a person's mind as though the person were actually at the photographed scene. A feeling-expressing-word processing device has: a feeling information calculating unit | 07-25-2013 |
20130223514 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A video encoding device includes: transform means | 08-29-2013 |
20130279747 | FEELING-EXPRESSING-WORD PROCESSING DEVICE, FEELING-EXPRESSING-WORD PROCESSING METHOD, AND FEELING-EXPRESSING-WORD PROCESSING PROGRAM - The present approach enables an impression of the atmosphere of a scene or an object present being photographed to be pictured in a person's mind as if the person were actually at the photographed scene. A feeling-expressing-word processing device has: a feeling information calculating unit for analyzing a photographed image, and calculating feeling information which indicates a situation of a scene portrayed in the photographed image, a condition of an object present in the scene, a temporal change in the scene, or a movement of the object; a feeling-expressing-word extracting unit for extracting, from among feeling-expressing words which express feelings and are stored in a feeling-expressing-word database in association with the feeling information, a feeling-expressing word which corresponds to the feeling information calculated by the feeling information calculating unit; and a superimposing unit for superimposing the feeling-expressing word extracted by the feeling-expressing-word extracting unit on the photographed image. | 10-24-2013 |
20130294510 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A video encoding device includes a planar prediction unit using planar prediction, and a noise injecting unit for injecting pseudo-random noise into a prediction image of a planar prediction block when a reconstructed prediction error value for planar prediction is less than a threshold determined by the size of the planar prediction block. The video encoding device then uses the pseudo-random noise in linear interpolation for calculating the prediction image, based on the conditions under which a gradient distortion occurs, to suppress the gradient distortion. | 11-07-2013 |
20130322542 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A video encoding device includes encoding control means | 12-05-2013 |
20130336397 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A video encoding device for encoding video using inter prediction includes encoding control means | 12-19-2013 |
20140056349 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE AND IMAGE DECODING DEVICE - A video encoding device includes: a quantization step size encoding unit | 02-27-2014 |
20140105282 | METHOD FOR CODING VIDEO QUANTIZATION PARAMETER AND METHOD FOR DECODING VIDEO QUANTIZATION PARAMETER - A video quantization parameter encoder includes: a prediction unit | 04-17-2014 |