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| 20080199087 | Scalable Method For Encoding a Series of Original Images, and Associated Image Encoding Method, Encoding Device and Decoding Device - A series of decoded images is generated from a series of original images encoded by a first encoding technique following movement-compensated, predictive encoding, where a starting image of a group of successive original images that are to be encoded is defined by a second encoding technique following movement-compensated, temporally filtered partial band encoding based on a determined encoding property of a decoded image of the group of images that are to be encoded, the decoded image is used for generating an output image having a low resolution level, before the images are encoded. At least one output image is generated on each level of resolution from the successive original images of the group of from at least one decoded image during image encoding. The decoded images are provided only with a reduced quality while the reconstituted images are of great quality. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080199088 | LOSSLESSLY IMPROVING COMPRESSION OF COMPRESSED IMAGE DATA - For data compressed using the first compression method that includes codewords generated by variable length coding sets of quantized transform coefficients using a first variable length coding method, decoding the codewords to create ordered sets of quantized transform coefficients, each created set forming an ordered series of quantized transform coefficients, and re-encoding the created ordered sets of quantized transform coefficients using a second variable length coding method to produce a re-coded set of codewords. The second variable length coding method produces shorter codewords, on average, than the first variable length coding method. The decoding and re-encoding is a lossless process such that no additional quantization or other errors are introduced to the received data by the method. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080205776 | Image processing apparatus and method for histological analysis - An automated method for analyzing whether all cancerous or abnormal tissue has been removed as a result of surgical resection is disclosed. A number of tissue section slides are prepared representing all or a relatively large percentage of the tissue sample, and high-resolution digital microscopic images are formed of the sections. A clustering algorithm forms an image showing the healthy tissue margins, such representation being stored in a file of significantly smaller size than the original photograph. These two-dimensional image files may be formed into a three-dimensional image of the entire resected tissue, thereby improving the accuracy and ease by which a pathologist may determine if further surgery or radiation therapy, for example, are indicated. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080212883 | Processing Method of Data Structure for Real-Time Image Processing - The present invention relates to a method of processing a data structure for real-time image processing of huge-sized data, where the data structure of an original image comprising a plurality of pixels is processed, the method comprising the steps of: rearranging the plurality of pixels according to an index indicating the location of each pixel and determining the data containing the rearranged pixels as a region having a resolution lower than that of the original image; and recursively performing a transforming process of rearranging a part or all of the data containing the rearranged pixels in the aforementioned rearranging method and determining the rearranged data as a region having a resolution lower than that of the previous region, until a predetermined resolution is obtained. In addition, in the present invention, the transformed data is compressed, and transmitted and received through a wired or wireless transmission network, and the receiving side decompresses, inverse transforms and restores, and displays the data. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080212884 | IMAGE CODER AND IMAGE DECODER CAPABLE OF POWER-SAVING CONTROL IN IMAGE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION - An image decoder comprises a code decompression/decoding unit that decodes code data produced through compression and encoding of image data, a power supply state detection unit that detects a current state of a power supply of the image decoder, and a controller that controls the code decompression/decoding unit based on the current state of the power supply so as to reduce power consumption in performing decompression and decoding of the code data. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080219567 | Tomosynthesis imaging data compression system and method - A technique and system are provided for compression of tomosynthesis imaging data. In an embodiment of the present technique, tomosynthesis imaging data may be compressed by processing a stack of tomosynthesis images such that differences between some or all of the images or estimates of the images are encoded. In another embodiment of the present technique, tomosynthesis imaging data may be compressed by differentially compressing two or more regions within the one or more tomosynthesis imaging datasets. In addition, there is provided tangible, machine readable media, with code executable to perform the acts of obtaining one or more tomosynthesis imaging datasets and compressing the one or more tomosynthesis imaging datasets using one or more compression algorithms. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080219568 | Method, apparatus and computer-readable recording medium for obtaining information - A method of obtaining information included in an image, the image including a plurality of codes, each of the codes comprising a plurality of digits, the method comprises dividing the image into a plurality of pairs of blocks, determining a digit value of each of the block pairs on the basis of difference of a degree of characteristic value between adjacent blocks in each of the pairs, weighing each digit value of each of the block pairs, deciding a new digit value of associated pairs of blocks on the basis of the majority of the weighed digit values of the associated pairs of the blocks and repeating the deciding in other associated pairs of the blocks to determine the code. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080226179 | Storage medium having stored thereon image processing program and image processing apparatus - A computer of an information processing apparatus sets an a value of each pixel in accordance with a depth value (Z value) of the pixel of a reference image. The α value is set such that a synthesizing ratio of the reference image is higher for a pixel having a depth value closer to a predetermined reference value. Next, the computer increases the α value which is set for a pixel having a smaller α value among two adjacent pixels which have an a value difference of a predetermined value or greater. Then, the computer synthesizes the reference image and a blurred image corresponding to the reference image based on the α value which is set for each pixel after being processed by the increasing processing. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080226180 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BUFFERING OUTPUT PIXEL DATA OF A JOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPERTS GROUP IMAGE - The invention provides a method for buffering output pixel data of a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) image. First, a storing rule is determined for storing a scaled minimum coded unit (MCU) of the JPEG image in a memory module, wherein the scaled MCU comprises a plurality of pixels. A memory is then selected from the memory module according to the storing rule for storing pixels of the scaled MCU. Finally, the pixels of the scaled MCU are then output from the memory module to a frame buffer. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080226181 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DEPTH PEELING USING STEREOSCOPIC VARIABLES DURING THE RENDERING OF 2-D TO 3-D IMAGES - The present invention is directed to systems and methods for processing 2-D to 3-D image conversion. Rendering of left and right eye images is performed by order independent depth peeling. For each image that is created a number of scene traversals are performed that peel off each depth layer based on a previous traversals depth map. The peeled layers are then blended together and, if desired, unwanted jagged edges can be removed. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080226182 | Method of determining image transmission method, image supplying system, image supplying device, image display device, program and computer-readable recording medium - There is provided a method of determining an optimal image transmission method when image data is transmitted from an image supplying device | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080232699 | Processing of content-based compressed images - A technique for prioritizing portions of compressed multi-resolution medical image data to be processed. More relevant portions of medical image data are compressed at a higher resolution than less relevant portions of medical image data. A mask is created from the image data and used to assign data compression quality factors to corresponding image blocks in the image data. The image data in each region is compressed based on their assigned quality factor. During processing of the compressed image data, the compressed image data and the mask are accessed. The mask is used to direct the processing of the compressed image data. Depending upon the application, the mask can be used to direct that the image data for the regions of most relevance be processed before the image data for the regions of lesser relevance. However, the mask can be used to direct that the image data for the regions of lesser relevance be processed before the image data for the regions of most relevance. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080232700 | Atlas-based image compression - A technique for selecting portions of a medical image data set to be stored and portions of the medical image data set to be discarded in order to reduce the overall amount of image data that is stored for each image data set. The selection is based on the clinical purpose for obtaining the medical image data. The clinical purpose for obtaining the medical image is used to select an atlas. The atlas is labeled with information that establishes the relative relevance of various regions of the atlas. The atlas is aligned to the image and the labeling information is transferred from the atlas to the medical image. Each region of the medical image is then processed based on the labeling information received from the atlas. The regions of greatest relevance are stored at their full resolution. Regions of lesser relevance are stored at less than the full resolution. Finally, regions of no relevance are discarded and not stored at all. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080232701 | Content-based image compression - A technique for selecting portions of a multi-resolution medical image data set to be stored and the portions of the multi-resolution medical image data set to be discarded in order to reduce the overall amount of image data that is stored for each image data set. The selection is based on the clinical purpose for obtaining the medical image data. The clinical purpose for obtaining the medical image is used to select a segmentation algorithm to segment the image data into several regions based on their relevance to the purpose for obtaining the image data. A mask is created from the segmented data. The mask is used to assign data compression quality factors to corresponding regions in the image data. The image data in each region is compressed based on their assigned quality factor. The image data that is highly relevant is compressed with lossless data compression. The image data in regions of lesser relevance are compressed with lossy data compression. The image data that is of no relevance for the purpose that the image data was obtained is discarded. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080232702 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS - An object of the present invention is to be able to output moving image data that enables a desired image group partially included in all intra-subject images to be played as a moving image. An image display apparatus according to the present invention includes an image display function of displaying a series of images obtained by picking up an interior of a digestive canal of a subject at time series, and includes an input unit | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080232703 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An object is to provide a user with various options on a processing method of an original document including a code image. To accomplish the object, the image processing apparatus includes a decoding section for extracting information by decoding the code image contained in the original document image, and a decision section for making a decision according to selection of the user as to whether to output the original document image or the information extracted by the decoding section. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080240583 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE AMOUNT OF COMPRESSED DATA - A method is disclosed for compressing a set of digital images to achieve an average compressed data rate over the entire set. A subset of images are selected from the set of images. A threshold viewing distance and a desired average compressed data rate are specified, and compression parameters are determined from the threshold viewing distance. The subset of images is compressed with the compression parameters to produce compressed data, and an average compressed data rate is calculated for the compressed data from the subset of images. The average compressed data rate for the subset of images is compared to the desired average data rate. If the average compressed data rate for the subset of images is less than or equal to the desired average compressed data rate, remaining images from the image sequence that are not in the subset of images are compressed using the compression parameters that were used for the subset of images. Otherwise, the threshold viewing distance is modified to a larger distance and the compression process is repeated. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080240584 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The image processing device of the present invention includes: an image acquiring section ( | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080240585 | Image processing method, encoder, and decoder - A method of coding (decoding) an image comprised of a pixel block divided into a plurality of sub-blocks, which method autonomously determines an order of optimal coding (decoding) adapted to a correlation between adjacent sub-blocks without providing additional information. This method pays attention to context information accompanying the image information and instructing a correlation direction between pictures and so on, sequentially predicts a reference sub-block serving the best coding (decoding) efficiency among adjacent reference sub-blocks to be referred to for the coding (decoding) based on the correlation direction, and determining the order of coding (decoding) according to this prediction. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080240586 | IMAGE DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An image distribution apparatus divides image data of a single frame into a plurality of blocks, orthogonally transforms the blocks and calculates transformation coefficients, quantizes the calculated transformation coefficients, codes the quantized transformation coefficients, and distributes the coded image data. The image distribution apparatus acquires the quantized transformation coefficients, stores the acquired transformation coefficients in a storage unit, calculates differences between the transformation coefficients of a first frame and the transformation coefficients of a second frame stored in the storage unit in a unit of block, counts blocks whose difference values calculated above are equal to or greater than a predetermined value as changing blocks of the first frame, and determines that the first frame has changed when the counted number of blocks is equal to or greater than a predetermined value. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080247653 | Method and apparatus for parallelization of image compression encoders - A method and apparatus for compressing image data include a plurality of core encoders for receiving a respective plurality of streams of data in parallel and for compressing the received data, a plurality of output buffers for respectively receiving the compressed data from each of the plurality of core encoders, and a recombination circuit for recombining the compressed data. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080247654 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHODS THEREOF - An image capturing apparatus determines an image frame to extract as a reference image frame from a plurality of image frames constituting a moving image, using a histogram, for example, and generates a reference image data file. An encoder unit encodes the plurality of image frames after reducing the resolution thereof, and generates an encoded moving image data file. A list associating the reference image frame with information specifying the corresponding reference image data file is generated with a content information list generating unit. The reference image data file, the encoded moving image data file and the list are then recorded. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080247655 | Image processing apparatus - An image processing apparatus includes an encoder, a decoder, and a display unit. The encoder performs scalable encoding to encode input image data to obtain code data to be stored in a storage unit. The decoder decodes the code data stored in the storage unit to obtain decoded image data. The display unit displays an image based on the decoded image data, and receives an instruction to output the image. The image is output in response to the instruction. The decoder decodes only subcode data which is part of the code data. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080253666 | Conditional Replenishment for Motion Jpeg2000 - The invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting a current image of a sequence of digital images between a server device and a client device which are connected by a communication network. Each image of the sequence is encoded in a multi-resolution format, each resolution comprising a set of non independent elementary entities. The method of the invention comprises detecting motion, carried out on spatial entities defined with respect to said elementary entities, between the current image and a reference image, then determining a first set of elementary entities comprising the elementary entities relating to said at least one moving spatial entity and determining a second set of elementary entities which are necessary for reconstructing said moving spatial entities. Finally, at least part of each of the elementary entities of said first and second sets is sent to the client device. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080253667 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program for the same - There is described information processing method and apparatus, which make it possible not only to suppress the maldistribution of the loads in the network system, but also to suppress the deterioration of the overall system performance. The apparatus that is capable of communicating with a client terminal device and other information processing apparatuses through a network, includes a communicating section to communicate with the client terminal device and the other information processing apparatuses; a control section to conduct processes of receiving apparatus information sent from the other information processing apparatuses, establishing at least a group of information processing apparatuses to be in charge of an information processing requested by the client terminal device, based on the apparatus information received, creating a list in which the information processing apparatuses included in the group are registered, and transmitting the list to at least the information processing apparatuses registered in the list. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080260265 | COMPRESSED DOMAIN IMAGE SUMMATION APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - Apparatus, systems, and methods disclosed herein may transpose image blocks from successively-captured versions of an image according to relative movement between an image capture device and the scene being captured. The transposition may provide for alignment of the successively-captured images notwithstanding the movement. The transposed image blocks from the successive images are composited in the frequency domain by integrating frequency domain coefficients from each into a composite final image. Additional embodiments are disclosed. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080260266 | Encoding apparatus, encoding method, and computer product - An encoding apparatus encodes a picture by inserting an intra-refresh area into a portion of the picture periodically based on an intra-refresh period. An encoding-status monitoring unit monitors an encoding status of the picture. A refresh-area control unit changes at least one of the intra-refresh area and the intra-refresh period based on the encoding status monitored by the encoding-status monitoring unit. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080260267 | System And Method For Generating A Signed Hardcopy Document And Authentication Thereof - A system and method for generating a signed hardcopy document and authentication thereof is provided. A data representation including digital data is recorded from a hardcopy document. The digital data is compressed using a compression scheme including one of low-fidelity compression and symbol-based compression. An authentication token is generated from the compressed digital data. The authentication token is encoded. A signed hardcopy document including both the encoded authentication token and the data representation is printed. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080267513 | Method of CABAC Significance MAP Decoding Suitable for Use on VLIW Data Processors - This invention decodes a next significance symbol using a selected context. The invention operates in a loop for each symbol decode for a whole block until the number of decoded map elements reaches a maximum number of coefficients for the block type or a last significant coefficient marker is decoded updating loop variables accordingly. This invention counts the number of decoded significance symbols indicating a significant coefficient and stores the locations of such significant coefficients in an array. An embodiment of this invention estimates the number of significant coefficients in a block and selects the inventive method or a prior art decode method. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080267514 | Object Authentication Using a Portable Digital Image Acquisition Device - A method is provided for determining whether a test object is an authentic object having an authentication image applied to an authentication image area thereof. The method comprises positioning and orienting a portable image acquisition device for selectively viewing and capturing a magnified image of a target surface area of the test object. The target surface area corresponds to the authentication image area of an authentic object. The method further comprises capturing a magnified digital image of the target surface area using the image capture acquisition device. The captured digital image is then processed to obtain a processed digital image and an authentication result is determined based on whether the processed digital image meets predetermined authentication criteria. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080279461 | PRE-DISTRIBUTION IMAGE SCALING FOR SCREEN SIZE - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to video scaling and compression and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for pre-distribution image scaling for screen size. In one embodiment of the invention, a compressed video delivery method can be provided. The method can include determining a display size for a target computing platform, pre-scaling video imagery to comport with the display size of the target computing platform, compressing the pre-scaled video imagery, and transmitting the compressed, pre-scaled video imagery to the target computing platform over a computer communications network. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080279462 | SELECTIVE COMPRESSION OF SYNCHRONIZED CONTENT BASED ON A CALCULATED COMPRESSION RATIO - The present invention discloses a system and method for synchronizing data between a first data store and a second data store. The system can include a synchronization component, a compression pre-processor, and a compression/decompression component. The synchronization component can automatically synchronize content between the first data store and the second data store. The compression pre-processor can determine a compression ratio for digital content before the digital content is compressed. The compression/decompression component can selectively compress digital content based upon the compression ratio determined by the compression pre-processor. The selectively compressed digital content can he automatically conveyed between the first data store and the second data store during synchronization operations involving the synchronization component. The compression/decompression component can automatically decompress received content that has been compressed. This decompression can occur automatically before adding the digital content to a content receiving data store. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080285863 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING MULTI-VIEW IMAGE - A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a multi-view image for a multi-view display apparatus are provided. The method of encoding a multi-view image includes: compressing a multi-view image based on a reference image relative to multiple views; generating enabled stereo pair information in relation to multi-view images; and generating a bitstream by using the compressed multi-view image and the enabled stereo pair information. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080285864 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS AND DECODING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - This invention maintains pixels as a source of a high frequency component such as a character and generates the encoded data having a fixed length for one block. A block generator reads out image data of one block from image data. An extractor extracts a color of a pixel having high frequency component, and generates information identifying pixels of the extracted color and those of non-extracted color. A first encoder lossless-encodes the identification information. A detector detects the data size of the generated encoded data. A substitution unit calculates the average value of colors of the pixels having the non-extracted color, substitutes the color of the pixels having the extracted color by the average value. A second encoder encodes the pixels after the substitution. An adjustment unit adjusts the data size of the encoded data from the second encoder in accordance with the code size detected by the detector. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080285865 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - In an information processing apparatus, a synthesis filtering process is performed on image data which has been subjected to hierarchical executions of an analysis filtering process, each execution of the analysis filtering process having caused frequency components of the image data to be divided into high-frequency components and low-frequency components, the total hierarchical executions of the analysis filtering process having caused the image data to be divided into a plurality of frequency bands, the synthesis filtering process involving synthesizing frequency components of frequency bands in each division level by performing a lifting calculation. The execution of the synthesis filtering process is controlled for each lifting calculation such that the lifting calculations are performed in an order that allows image data to be produced part by part, each part including a plurality of lines. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080285866 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE DATA COMPRESSION - Storage of JPEG data is speeded up by providing a RAW compression processing section for detecting high frequency components of image data, a JPEG parameter setting section for calculating feature data (entropy) representing distribution of frequency of appearance of the high frequency components, a JPEG parameter setting section for calculating, based on the feature data, predictive coding amount when the image data has been compressed on the basis of a first quantization table, a JPEG parameter setting section, for calculating a second quantization table for obtaining a target code amount that is desired to be finally obtained in the RAW compression processing section | 11-20-2008 |
| 20080298692 | Method of scalable fractional motion estimation for multimedia coding system - A multimedia coding system has different picture qualities with different coding characteristics. It is done through a scaleable fractional motion estimation (FME) in H.264 and a block size trend prediction FME. Three quality levels are thus obtained. The first level processes a complete calculation and obtains a best picture; the second level, fewer calculation with a low power consumption and an acceptable picture quality; and the third level, fewest calculation with a fastest speed. And the present invention is suitable for hardware design to obtain a high efficiency, a low cost and a high performance. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080304756 | Compressing image data - A method of compressing a digital image comprises dividing | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080304757 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UNIFIED START CODE EMULATION PREVENTION BITS PROCESSING FOR AVS - Aspects of a method and system for unified start code emulation prevention bits processing for AVS are provided. A Start code emulation prevention bit string with an arbitrary bit string length, for example 2 bits, may be inserted into AVS encoded data. When decoding, the received AVS encoded data may be parsed to identify the start code emulation prevention bit string and start codes. A bit processor may be signaled with the detection of the start code emulation prevention bit string and/or the start codes. The bit processor may remove the start code emulation prevention bit string in a decoding process and store the detected start codes for applications such as PVR. Constraints may be added to streams such as unbounded PES and/or TS with PUSI bit unset for further bit processing. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080304758 | Image-signal processing apparatus, image-signal processing method and image-signal processing program - Disclosed herein is an image-signal processing apparatus, including: a band pass filter configured to increase the bit count of an input digital image signal in a bit decompression process and pass on an image signal of a high frequency band; an amplitude limiting section configured to limit the amplitude of the image signal passed on by the band pass filter to a level determined in advance; and a subtractor configured to subtract an image signal output by the amplitude limiting section from the input digital image signal. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080310739 | MOVING PICTURE COMPRESSION CODING APPARATUS - A moving picture compression coding apparatus divides a screen into at least three regions and performs compression coding for the at least three regions by encoding units. The moving picture compression coding apparatus includes a coding control unit configured to control the encoding units to encode the data for different regions in parallel and to control the encoding such that the data for an upper region out of two adjacent upper and lower regions in the vicinity of the center of the screen of the at least three regions is encoded prior to the encoding of the data for the lower region or such that the data for a left region of two adjacent left and right regions in the vicinity of the center of the screen of the at least three regions is encoded prior to the encoding of the data for the right region. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20080317360 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image forming apparatus and an image forming method thereof are provided. An image forming apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present general inventive concept comprises a decoder to decode a compressed image to convert the compressed image into image data, a pure black determining unit to determine whether the image data is pure black by using information of the converted image data, a section classifying unit to classify the image data into a text section and an image section by using a result of the pure black determination, and a color coordinate converter to perform color coordinate conversion on the image section of the classified sections. Therefore, it is possible to improve readability of black text. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090003714 | EFFICIENT IMAGE COMPRESSION SCHEME TO MINIMIZE STORAGE AND BUS BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENTS - A method of encoding receives an image and tiles the image into a set of tiles. Each tile includes a set of pixels. The method selects a first tile and determines a first set of values for the pixels in the first tile. The method separates the determined values of each pixel in the first tile into several streams. For a first stream, the method determines a bias value, and subtracts the bias value from each value within the stream, thereby generating a set of subtracted values. Typically, the subtracted values have one or more leading zeros, and the method preferably removes one or more of the leading zeros, thereby reducing the number of bits required to represent the subtracted values within the first stream. Thus, one or more of the values within the first stream is advantageously represented with fewer bits. Additional embodiments include an encoder for encoding data by using a reduced number of bits, and a system, and decoder, for transmission, reception, display, storage and/or retrieval. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090016618 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING SCROLLING TEXT IN MIXED MODE FILM AND VIDEO - Various embodiments of a system are provided for detecting scrolling text in a mixed-mode video sequence. The system of certain embodiments includes a motion estimator that generates a plurality of motion vectors between blocks of two or more extracted frames of a mixed-mode video sequence. An extracted frame motion analyzer analyzes the motion vectors to detect substantially constant motion of at least some of the blocks between the two or more extracted frames, wherein the presence of substantially constant motion is indicative of the presence of scrolling text in the mixed-mode video sequence. A consecutive frame motion analyzer calculates differences in pixel values between blocks of two or more consecutive frames in the mixed-mode video sequence, wherein the differences in pixel values are further indicative of the presence of scrolling text in the mixed-mode video sequence. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090028447 | IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - When a motion image is to be compressed, the present invention divides a high-resolution still image into image segments to perform a motion image encoding process on each image segment. In this instance, the importance of each image segment and the relativity of each image segment with another image segment are computed. The image segments are then aligned in the order of importance to determine a picture type for motion image encoding in accordance with the computed relativity. Encoding is performed in accordance with a determined encoding sequence and picture type. Further, the rate control bit allocation amount for motion image encoding is increased for highly important image segments. Therefore, the present invention makes it possible to exhibit a high overall image compression efficiency while avoiding image quality deterioration in an important portion of a still image by using a motion image compression technology for still image compression. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090028448 | Method of Generating a Sequence of Display Frames For Display on a Display Device - A method of generating a sequence of display frames, for display on a display device, derived from a data string is described. The data string is encoded to include error correction in order to enable recreation of the data string at a receiving device. The method comprises the steps of dividing the data string to be encoded into a plurality of source segments, and encoding the plurality of source segments to generate a plurality of codewords, each codeword comprising a plurality of codeword bits, and codeword bits are positioned in the sequence of frames. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090034852 | Method and System for Identifying the Source of an Image - Described are a method and a system for identifying the source of an image. A first image is generated with an imaging device. The first image is represented by a first plurality of codes. A portion of the first plurality of codes is replaced with a further code providing information about the imaging device to generate a second image including a second plurality of codes. | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090046934 | STORING AND PRESENTING ANCILLARY INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM SCANNED PRINTS - The present invention relates to a system and method for data storage and retrieval, and more particularly, for indicating that ancillary data is stored in a header of a JPEG file and accessible to a user. The system comprises a JPEG file having an EXIF header and associated image data, and at least one other file of digital data, and a computer. The computer is programmed to scan the JPEG image file for a special indicator in the application marker section of the EXIF header. If the marker is present, the value of marker indicates what type of ancillary digital data is present in the header. For instance, if the marker contains the string EKC-JPEG, then the ancillary data is known to be another JPEG file. Other types of data can be indicated as appropriate. The presence of the ancillary data is then used for the appropriate type of presentation to the user. A reveal icon is then used in presenting the data to indicate whether the ancillary data is another JPEG file, video, audio, sound, document, etc. The user would be presented with the data as appropriate. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090060354 | Reducing Compression Artifacts in Multi-Layer Images - Disclosed are embodiments of systems, devices, and methods to reduce compression artifacts in multi-layer images. Pixel dilation operations, such as morphological dilations, are performed to identify unlabeled pixels at boundaries between layers, and the colors of those pixels are adjusted to mitigate formation of artifacts during layer compression. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090060355 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE COMPRESSION - A method and apparatus for controlling image compression is disclosed. A current block of pixels is firstly compressed. The average pixel size of the compressed current block is averaged with an average pixel size of preceding block or blocks to obtain an average value. The compressed current block is passed as output, if the average value is not greater than a target value; otherwise a portion of the current block prior to compression is truncated and then passed as the output. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090060356 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGES - Methods and apparatus for generating images, compressing image data, decompressing image data, and processing the decompressed image data so that it can be used by a rendering circuit of a device, e.g., a set top box, are described. Images are generated in the native format used by the rendering circuit of the device which will ultimately control the display of the image avoiding the need to perform processing associated with converting color component information from one format to another. Uncompressed image data is arranged in a file with color component values being grouped separately from alpha values to facilitate compression by a standard file compression technique. The file is compressed using a conventional file compression operation. The compressed image file is decompressed when needed and the alpha data and color component data is reorganized so that the color component values and alpha value(s) corresponding to individual pixels are grouped together. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090067731 | COMPENSATED VIRTUAL SCAN LINES - Disclosed are embodiments of methods, systems, and apparatus for providing virtual scan lines in an imaging system that compensate for the optical distortion associated with the system. In some embodiments, the virtual scan lines may be curved or angled according to their position in the Field of View (FOV) of the imaging system to compensate for the distortion. Some embodiments may provide for virtual scan lines that are preconfigured to compensate for a typical or pre-selected level and type of optical distortion. Other embodiments may be configured to measure or otherwise ascertain the actual distortion of the optical lens and/or other components of the system and generate a virtual scan line pattern that compensates for the measured distortion. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090074307 | Textual Image Coding - Textual image coding involves coding textual portions of an image. In an example embodiment, a textual block of an image is decomposed into multiple base colors and an index map, with the index map having index values that each reference a base color so as to represent the textual block. A set of neighbor index values are ascertained for a particular index of the index map. A context that matches the neighbor index values is generated from among multiple contexts. The matching context includes a set of symbols. At least one symbol-to-value mapping is determined based on the matching context and a symbol to which the particular index corresponds. The particular index is remapped to a particular value in accordance with the symbol-to-value mapping and the symbol to which the particular index corresponds. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090074308 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method - An image compressor device includes a memory controller to store a plurality of compressed unit items in the continuous address range, and a pointer generator to generate pointer data including address information of the plurality of compressed unit data items. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090087106 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE, AND METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A management device, configured to be connectable with a storage device configured to store therein image data, includes a determining unit configured to determine whether the image data stored in the storage device satisfies a predetermined condition, and a size reducing unit configured to reduce a size of the image data in accordance with a rule depending on the determination by the determining unit. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090092324 | Apparatus, method, and medium encoding/decoding images through application of psycho-visual characteristics - A method, medium, and apparatus encoding and/or decoding an image according to human psycho-visual characteristics. According to a method, medium, and apparatus, error values corresponding to a range in which error values can be recognized because of the human psycho-visual characteristic are selectively encoded. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090092325 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTIVE HANDLING OF OUT-OF-GAMUT COLOR CONVERSIONS - Displays systems and methods for selectively reducing or compressing image data values within an image are recited. Display systems transform input image data from one input gamut hull or space to another target gamut hull or space that is substantially defined by different subpixel repeating groups comprising the display. Display systems described herein comprise a selective compression unit, said unit surveying said input image data to produce intermediate image data based upon a segmentation of the input image according to a parameter. Suitable parameters for segmenting the image include one or more of the following: spatial segments, chromatic segments or temporal segments. A selective compression amount may be determined so as to substantially maintain local contrast of the image data within a given segment. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090097759 | Image processing device and method for compressing and decompressing images - The disclosed image processing device receiving image data comprises a first encoder, a second encoder and an encoding switch. The first encoder generates first data by encoding the image data according to a predetermined method. The second encoder generates second data by encoding the image data according to an encoding pattern table. The encoding pattern table is set up in accordance with the first data. The encoding switch determines to output either the first data or the second data as an encoded result and generates a mark value for indicating the encoded result. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090097760 | REPRESENTATION AND QUANTIZATION OF DIGITAL IMAGES AND EVALUATION OF COLOR DIFFERENCES - Digital image data are coded in a color coordinate system bef where b=0.3·ln B and B, e, and f are Bef coordinates. This coding has high perceptual uniformity with respect to coding errors. A color difference formula is provided, with the color difference defined as 100 √{square root over (Δb | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090103816 | Method and Device of Image Encoding and Image Processing Apparatus - Provided is an image encoding method and device capable of encoding moving image random allowing access with low delay and high compression. The image encoding method which inputs image data and encodes the image data using a reference picture about the image data and a difference between the reference picture and the image data, and performs the steps of: setting an image output availability parameter indicating that it is possible to decode the image data to output the same if past pictures fall within a fixed range have been decoded, when decoding the image data which has been encoded; calculating influenced range information indicating a range where pictures encoded in the past influence a target picture to be encoded when encoding the image data; and controlling a range of the reference picture upon encoding such that the influenced range information calculated does not exceed the image output availability parameter. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090103817 | Digital image processing apparatus, a method of controlling the same, and a digital image compression method - A digital image processing apparatus for significantly reducing an image file size in order to store a large number of image files, a method of controlling the same, a recording medium storing a program for executing the method, and a digital image compressing method. The digital image processing apparatus comprises a sub-image generator for generating a plurality of sub-images from a still image, and a moving image compressor for considering the still image as a moving image by using each of the sub-images as a frame image and compressing the moving image having the frame images. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090110304 | Method and System for Video Compression with Integrated Picture Rate Up-Conversion - Certain aspects of a method and system for video compression with integrated picture rate up-conversion (PRUC) may include generating picture rate up-conversion (PRUC) data from received video data while the received video data is being encoded. The generated PRUC data may be encoded and communicated to a decoder in order to enable generation of a plurality of interpolated pictures. The generated encoded PRUC data may be communicated via a sideband to the decoder by embedding the generated encoded PRUC data within the encoded received video data prior to the communication to the decoder. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090110305 | Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing data - The invention provides a method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing electronic image data, and in particular texture data. The compressed data comprises at least two sets of reduced size data, modulation data and modulation and discontinuity flags. The modulation and discontinuity flags determine how the modulation data is used, in combination with the reduced size data sets, in a decompression process. The invention allows for data decompression of textures including large colour discontinuities. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090110306 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM - A software architecture based on a concept called “pipes and filters” is applied to an image processing apparatus, thereby simplifying the customization, expansion, etc., of functions. In addition, filters are combined together using a description table in which the combination of the filters is described so as to construct a job, thereby further simplifying the customization, expansion, etc., of functions. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090110307 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT TRANSMISSION OF RICH THREE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY AND ANIMATION CONTENT OVER NARROW BAND COMMUNICATION NETWORKS - A method and system for compacting and distributing graphic data by representing three-dimensional models by primitive objects that are predefined in the system and instructions, which may include solid modeling operations for constructing at least one model from the identified primitive objects. The method and system enable creating compacted representation files that can be distributed via one or more communication network, where a client application enables reconstruction of the models represented by the data in the representation files by combining the primitive objects constructing the model according to the set of instructions that enable the actual construction. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090123078 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes an input processing unit which generates image data and attribute data indicating an attribute of each pixel of the image data from inputted data, a first data compression unit which compresses the image data generated by the input processing unit, a second compression unit as a lossy data compression unit to compress the attribute data generated by the input processing unit, a first expansion unit which expands the image data compressed by the first data compression unit, a second expansion unit which expands the attribute data compressed by the second data compression unit, and an output image processing unit which processes the image data expanded by the first expansion unit with a process condition for the attribute data expanded by the second expansion unit to output the image data expanded by the first expansion unit as image data with predetermined data characteristics. | 05-14-2009 |
| 20090129684 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING TEXT AND IMAGE - Provided is a method and apparatus for compressing a text and an image. When compressing the text and image, it is possible to group valid lines with data into each line having a common element, and compress and encode the data of the valid lines. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce a data loss that may occur in a tactical communication environment with a poor channel state due to a bit sleep or a burst error. In the case of the text, it is possible to perform lossless compression on only a valid line with data and thereby improve compression efficiency. In the case of the image, it is possible to perform loss compression on valid lines, and then restore the partially damaged data using an ECC even when data is partially damaged. Accordingly, it is possible to improve compression efficiency and the entire data transmission success rate. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090129685 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE TRANSMITTING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND PROGRAM OF THE SAME AND DISPLAY DEVICE - In an image processing/transmitting apparatus and method, graininess is suppressed while remarkably the appearance in the image area with a smooth gradation and the flat image area, the number of bit planes is reduced and then increased. The second image processing module includes a bit adding module executing bit adding based on the two-dimensional dither matrix for compressed data read from memory and obtaining decompressed data, an LPF processing threshold value generator obtaining a threshold value from decompressed data, and an LPF processing module attaining a difference between decompressed data of a pixel and decompressed data of a peripheral pixel, which sets a result of weighted mean processing for decompressed data of the pertinent and peripheral pixels to the output image data if the difference is within the threshold, and which sets the decompressed data of an arbitrary pixel to the output image data if the difference value>threshold. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090129686 | SCAN LINE TO BLOCK RE-ORDERING BUFFER FOR IMAGE COMPRESSION - A re-order buffer memory in a real-time application such as e.g., an imager. Initially, input data is written into the re-order buffer using a first addressing mode, which causes the data to be stored in a line-by-line manner. Prior to receiving the last line of input data, the stored data is read-out in blocks of data that spans multiples lines in the buffer. This frees up space in the re-order buffer. Subsequently received input data is written into the re-order buffer using a second addressing mode, which stores the newly received data in vertical segments of the re-order buffer whose stored data has already been read-out. Writing/reading of the re-order buffer alternates between the first and second addressing modes. Using this technique, a single buffer may be used to input new data while existing data is being read-out. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090136142 | MEMORY OPTIMIZED CACHE GENERATION FOR IMAGE TILING IN GIS/CAD BROWSER APPLICATIONS - The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating tile sizes associated with an image presented by a web based image system. An optimal threshold memory size for tiles associated with the image is identified. The image is then divided into tiles of equal physical dimensions and placed into a set of subdivided tiles. The memory size of each tile within the set of subdivided tiles is compared to the threshold memory size. Tiles having a memory size less than or equal to the threshold memory size are deleted from the set of subdivided tiles and stored. Tiles having a memory size greater than the threshold memory size are subdivided into tiles of smaller physical dimensions. The smaller tiles are placed back in the set of subdivided tiles. The process repeats until no tiles exist within the set of subdivided tiles. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090136143 | TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE FRAMES, AND DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - An image frame input unit receives the input of image frames. An insertion unit inserts a plurality of markers into the image frame thus inputted. Each of the plurality of markers is defined as a pattern that is not scheduled to appear in data of the image frame. At this time, the insertion unit divides the image frame into a plurality of parts based on a data size storable in a radio packet, and inserts the markers among the divided parts of the image frame. An RF unit outputs the image frame into which the plurality of markers have been inserted. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090136144 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A COMPRESSION RATE FOR A FILE - Provided are a method and apparatus for determining a target compression rate for a file, which may be calculated using a predetermined algorithm based on a target file size. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090141989 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - In this image processing device, an image processing portion | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090148053 | Method for transmitting image bit stream and image encoder - The invention discloses a method for transmitting image bit stream and an image encoder utilizing the method. The image format comprises a start of image (SOI) marker, a start of scan (SOS) marker and a primary compressed data. First, the invention generates redundant data according to a first start address of the SOI marker, a data size between the SOI marker and the SOS marker, and a second start address of the primary compressed data. Afterward, the redundant data is selectively padded into the image bit stream between the SOI marker and the SOS marker. Accordingly, the required time for transmitting image data to a storage medium will be reduced, and the transmission performance will be improved apparently by utilizing the method. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090148054 | Method, medium and apparatus encoding/decoding image hierarchically - A method, medium, and apparatus hierarchically encoding or decoding an image format. In this method, a basic image is generated by down-sampling an original image. A basic layer bitstream is generated by encoding the basic image. A restoration image of the basic image is generated and up-sampled. Enhancement layer bitstreams are generated by encoding a residue image corresponding to a difference between the original image and the up-sampled restoration image by using different quantization parameters. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090154816 | ADAPTIVE GROUP OF PICTURES (AGOP) STRUCTURE DETERMINATION - This disclosure is directed to techniques for determining a picture type for each of a plurality of frames included in a video sequence based on cross-correlations between the frames. The cross-correlations include first order cross-correlations between image information within pairs of frames included in the video sequence and second order cross-correlations between pairs of the first order cross-correlations. The first order cross-correlations may be analyzed to detect video transitional effects between the frames. The first and second order cross-correlations may be comparatively analyzed to determine temporal similarities between the frames. Therefore, the correlation-based determination techniques determine picture types for the frames based on the video transitional effects and the temporal similarities. The correlation-based determination techniques may calculate the first order cross-correlations between images within pairs of frames, or between sets of subimages within pairs of frames that are then averaged over the subimages for each of the pairs of frames. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090161969 | Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image, computer-readable program therefore, and information recording medium storing same program - An image encoding apparatus reduces the discontinuation or elimination of thin lines during a transform process including rounding of coefficient data generated by a frequency transform, thereby enabling the ready acquisition of a high-quality reduced image. The image encoding apparatus includes a frequency transform unit configured to frequency-transform an image to generate coefficient data having a low-frequency component and a high-frequency component; a dynamic range control unit configured to add a bit on a least significant bit end of a portion of pixel data of the image that is used for generating the coefficient data of the low-frequency component on a pixel by pixel basis, thereby increasing a dynamic range of the pixel data; and an encoding unit configured to encode the coefficient data generated by the frequency transform unit. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090161970 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE READING DEVICE - An image processing device includes an input portion for selecting encoding processing for an image to be filed as a monochrome image from first encoding processing according to a first compression method for compressing multilevel image data and second encoding processing according to a second compression method for compressing binary image data. An encoding processing portion performs encoding processing on the image to be filed as the monochrome image. The input portion includes a display and first and second input portions. The display displays a list of images to be filed as the monochrome image. The first input portion is used to specify an image shown on the display and to select encoding processing to be performed on the specified image. The second input portion is used to select the first or second encoding processing to be performed on the specified image. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090161971 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed is an image forming apparatus to form an image based on an XPS file including, a storage section; and a control section to refer to information concerning usage frequency of each individual file stored in the XPS file to judge whether or not a data decompression on the individual file needs to be performed and to perform or not to perform the data decompression on the individual file according to a judgment result to store the individual file in the storage section. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090169119 | COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION OF COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY DATA - A compression method and subsystem for a CT scanner compresses projection data from the data acquisition system. The projection data are classified into subsets of more significant samples and subsets of less significant samples. The subsets are compressed in accordance with compression control parameters so that the less significant samples are compressed to a greater degree than the more significant samples. The bit rate of the compressed projection data can be monitored and the compression control parameters can be adjusted to provide a desired bit rate. The compressed data are decompressed in accordance with the compression control parameters for reconstruction of an image from the decompressed projection data. This abstract does not limit the scope of the invention as described in the claims. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090169120 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO DATA, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO DATA, AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - A method and apparatus for encoding video data, a method and apparatus for decoding video data, and a program recording medium are provided. The apparatus for encoding video data includes an encoding processor generating encoded raw image data by encoding raw image data that is output from an image pickup device in frame units; an encoding information generator generating encoding information that is required to decode the encoded raw image data; an image pickup device information generator generating information about an image pickup device and which is required to develop the encoded raw image data; and a data generator generating video data including the encoded raw image data, the encoding information, and the image pickup device information. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090169121 | STATIC IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE DATA STRUCTURE AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A static image compression method, a computer readable data structure, and a computer readable storage medium are described. Firstly, an image is segmented into a plurality of sub-images. Then, each sub-image is sequentially compressed into a sub-data frame having a start character, so as to generate a compressed data with the sub-data frames interconnected according to a sequence of the sub-images. Finally, the addresses of the start characters are recorded to generate an index data. Thereby, the start character of a particular block can be obtained from the index data, and the sub-image of the particular block is preferentially decoded and displayed. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090175546 | Method and Apparatus for Dynamic Compression in Images or Signal Series - In a method and apparatus for dynamics compression in images or signal series represented by individual amplitude values, input amplitude values EA of the images or signal series are subjected to a local spatial amplitude averaging, to generate locally spatially averaged input amplitude values . Differential function values are then formed based on differences between the input amplitude values EA and the locally spatially averaged input amplitude values , and output amplitude values AA of the images or signal series are generated from the formed differential function values. In forming the differential function, additional differential values are superimposed on the differences formed from the input amplitude values EA and the locally spatially averaged input amplitude values , which additional differential values are formed from the input amplitude values EA and a predefined reference value GA. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090185748 | Multi-Resolution Foveation for Bandwidth Reduction of Moving Images - A scene of an image sequence is compressed using a number of foveation zones, each foveation zone being weighted based on a probability of a viewer looking at a corresponding portion of the first scene. Another scene of the image sequence is compressed using a different number of foveation zones, each foveation zone being weighted based on a probability of a viewer looking at a corresponding portion of the second scene. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090190842 | DATA COMPRESSION USING MATCHING PURSUITS - A method and apparatus for data compression comprises applying a decorrelating transform to multi-dimensional data to be compressed, then using a sequence of one or more one-dimensional matching pursuits algorithms to code the output of the transform. The invention finds particular application in video and still image coders, particularly real-time coders, those intended for use at very low bit rates, and those for which scalable bit rates are of importance. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090196513 | Compressive Sampling for Multimedia Coding - An apparatus comprising a decorrelator, a compressive sampler coupled to the decorrelator, and an encoder coupled to the compressive sampler, wherein the compressive sampler is configured to receive sparse data and compress the sparse data using compressive sampling. Also included is a network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising decorrelating sparse data or data including sparse data, compressing the sparse data using compressive sampling, and encoding the data. Also included is a method comprising receiving a data stream comprising a sparse data portion, compressing the sparse data portion using compressive sampling, and compressing the remaining data portion without using compressive sampling. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090196514 | Display of Reconstructed Pictures from Encoder During Video Transcoding - Video processing systems and methods are disclosed. One system embodiment, among others, includes a video compression engine configured to provide reconstructed pictures corresponding to a real-time presentation of a video program and a compressed version of the real-time presentation, a display buffer of the video compression engine, the display buffer configured to store the reconstructed pictures, and a persistent storage device, wherein the video compression engine is further configured to store the compressed version of the real-time presentation to the persistent storage device while simultaneously providing the real-time presentation of the video program. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090202158 | ROTATIONAL TRANSCODING FOR JPEG OR OTHER CODING STANDARDS - This disclosure describes techniques for rotating an encoded image, such as an image encoded according to a JPEG standard. In one example, a method for rotating an encoded image comprising reordering minimum coded units (MCUs) of the encoded image according to a specified rotation of the encoded image, rotating image data within the MCUs according to the specified rotation, and generating a rotated version of the encoded image comprising the reordered MCUs and the rotated image data within the MCUs. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090202159 | Image Processing - An image block ( | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090208119 | METHOD FOR GENERATING AND PLAYING IMAGE FILES FOR SLIDESHOWS - A system for generating and playing image files for slideshows is provided. The system includes an image file generator that generates image files. Each image file has an image track including at least two images for slideshow images and information for the slideshow images enabling at least two images to be sequentially displayed at specified time intervals. The system also includes an image file player that extracts the information for the slideshow images from the image files inputted from the image file generator, and provides the at least two images of the image track for a slideshow service. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090208120 | ZERO-SEARCH, ZERO-MEMORY VECTOR QUANTIZATION - The invention comprises a method for lossy data compression, akin to vector quantization, in which there is no explicit codebook and no search, i.e. the codebook memory and associated search computation are eliminated. Some memory and computation are still required, but these are dramatically reduced, compared to systems that do not exploit this method. For this reason, both the memory and computation requirements of the method are exponentially smaller than comparable methods that do not exploit the invention. Because there is no explicit codebook to be stored or searched, no such codebook need be generated either. This makes the method well suited to adaptive coding schemes, where the compression system adapts to the statistics of the data presented for processing: both the complexity of the algorithm executed for adaptation, and the amount of data transmitted to synchronize the sender and receiver, are exponentially smaller than comparable existing methods. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090214126 | Gray code encoding and decoding method applied to holographic storage devices - A gray code encoding and decoding method applied to holographic storage devices is proposed. The encoding method uses gray levels of a 2D detector to encode a certain amount of original bits of the original data, and then sends them to a spatial light modulator (SLM) for encryption. The decoding method corrects the received gray levels to the original gray levels, and then compares the maximum gray level with the original gray levels to decode the original gray level into binary data. The proposed encoding and decoding method can better make use of storage locations of the 2D detector and get a code rate close to 1. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090214127 | Image Compression Apparatus and Image Compression Method - An image compression apparatus includes: a dividing section for dividing an image to be compressed into blocks; a discrimination section for determining whether the divided block is a first kind block, in which an outline portion of the image is not included and a difference between the maximum gradation value and the minimum gradation value of the block is equal to or greater than a reference value; and a normalization output section which divides a distribution range of gradation values depending on the discrimination result with respect to the block and outputs compressed data containing code data for showing to which area in the divided distribution rage, each pixel in each block belongs, the maximum value and the minimum value; wherein the normalization output section arranges the maximum value and the minimum value related to the block in a different order depending on whether the first kind block or not. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090238475 | DISTRIBUTING LIMITED STORAGE AMONG A COLLECTION OF MEDIA OBJECTS - A quality level determining the extent to which each image file is compressed is automatically computed for each image file in a set to ensure that the total size of the compressed image files does not exceed a predefined limit. The compressed size of each image file is initially determined when compressed at a predefined minimum acceptable level and at a nominal level. The relative complexity of the image files is determined based upon their high frequency energy content. As a function of the image file complexity, and starting with the compressed sizes initially determined, the appropriate quality level is determined for compressing each of the image files in an iterative process that ensures the total size of the compressed image files does not exceed the predefined limit, while retaining acceptable quality. Thus, a set of image files can be compressed optimally to fit within a limited storage. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090252425 | SCALABLE PICTURE ENCODING - An encoding device ( | 10-08-2009 |
| 20090257664 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IN -LOOP DE-ARTIFACT FILTERING - There are provided methods and apparatus for in-loop artifact filtering. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding an image region. The encoder has at least two filters for successively performing in-loop filtering to respectively reduce at least a first and a second type of quantization artifact. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090263029 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING 3D MESH INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding three-dimensional mesh information are provided. The method and apparatus separately encode/decode order information of elements, such as vertices and faces, of a three-dimensional mesh model (original model) in consideration of a change in an element order during encoding three-dimensional mesh information for the original model. The method for encoding three-dimensional mesh information includes the steps of: encoding the three-dimensional mesh information and outputting an encoded bit-stream; calculating order information of at least one element in an original model contained in the three-dimensional mesh information; encoding the element order information; and generating packets of the encoded bit-stream, wherein the encoded element order information is inserted into the packet. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090263030 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR COMPRESSING DIGITAL IMAGE DATA - Methods and apparatuses for compressing digital image data are described herein. In one embodiment, a wavelet transform is performed on each pixel of a frame to generate multiple wavelet coefficients representing each pixel in a frequency domain. The wavelet coefficients of a sub-band of the frame are iteratively encoded into a bit stream based on a target transmission rate, where the sub-band of the frame is obtained from a parent sub-band of a previous iteration. The encoded wavelet coefficients satisfy a predetermined threshold based on a predetermined algorithm while the wavelet coefficients that do not satisfy the predetermined threshold are ignored in the respective iteration. Other methods and apparatuses are also described. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090263031 | PIXEL INPUT-OUTPUT METHOD, IMAGE COMPRESSING METHOD, PIXEL INPUT-OUTPUT APPARATUS, IMAGE COMPRESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - When inputted pixels from an input DMA unit, a packing unit outputs data package. One data package consists of a inputted pixels. A memory control unit writes, on a write line memory at a write interval, the data package that is outputted by the packing unit. The write interval is a times longer than an input interval at which the pixels are inputted into the packing unit. During the writing process, the memory control unit reads out another data package from a read line memory at a read interval that is the same as the input interval. In addition, the memory control unit treats the write line memory as the read line memory, after completing the writing process. Alternatively, the memory control unit treats the read line memory as the write line memory, after completing the reading process. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20090268970 | Method and Apparatus for Block-Based Compression of Light-field Images - A method and apparatus for the block-based compression of light-field images. Light-field images may be preprocessed by a preprocessing module into a format that is compatible with the blocking scheme of a block-based compression technique, for example JPEG. The compression technique is then used to compress the preprocessed light-field images. The light-field preprocessing module reshapes the angular data in a captured light-field image into shapes compatible with the blocking scheme of the compression technique so that blocking artifacts of block-based compression are not introduced in the final compressed image. Embodiments may produce compressed 2D images for which no specific light-field image viewer is needed to preview the full light-field image. Full light-field information is contained in one compressed 2D image. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090268971 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING THE CONTROL METHOD OF THE IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a production unit that can produce data by putting original image data into a first region and copy-forgery-inhibited-pattern image data into a second region, and a processing unit that can perform predetermined processing to the original image data put in the first region. The image processing apparatus further includes a composite image data producing unit that can produce composite image data based on both of the original image data to which the predetermined processing is performed and the copy-forgery-inhibited-pattern image data put in the second region of the data. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090274378 | ENCODING DEVICE AND METHOD, DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an encoding device and method, a decoding device and method, and a transmission system, wherein image data which is subjected to compression encoding and sent out can be output as decoded images at the receiving side in a short time. At the time of wavelet transformation, filtering processing is performed in increments of lines, with a number of lines, whereby coefficient data for one line worth of lowest band component is generated, as an increment. At the first time, processing of line No. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090279795 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product - An image processing apparatus generates code data by connecting a plurality of first compressed codes output from one or more threads. The image processing apparatus includes a compressing unit that compresses image data by using the threads corresponding to divided compression processes; an identification-information attaching unit that attaches identification information to the first compressed codes thereby generating second compressed codes; and a code-data generating unit that generates code data including the second compressed codes. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090285495 | GENERATING SUBIMAGES OF AN IMAGE TO USE TO REPRESENT THE IMAGE - Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for generating subimages of an image to use to represent the image. A determination is made of a pixel location on one axis of an image comprising a plurality of pixels. The image is divided into multiple subimages at the determined pixel location on the axis. A determination is made as to whether each subimage can be cropped to remove regions of white pixels from the subimage. Each subimage is cropped to remove a region of white pixels in response to determining that the subimage can be cropped. An image file is generated defining the image including the subimages. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090285496 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCED IMAGE ENCODING - An encoder executing on a first computing machine can receive image data generated by applications executing on the first computing machine. This encoder can divide at least a first image into at least two overlapping image sections according to a grid size and an overlap margin. The encoder computes an index for one overlapping image section, and compares the index with indexes associated with stored image blocks. The results of the comparison can then be used by the encoder to identify at least one stored image that has an index which is substantially the same as the index computed for the at least one overlapping image section. The location of that stored image is associated with a pointer that is further associated with the overlapping image section. The resultant pointer is then transferred to a second computing machine in lieu of the overlapping image section. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090297051 | Image Processing Apparatus - An image processing apparatus is configured to have units for compressing and expanding image data and an arbitrating unit for arbitrating control units for executing image processing so that the compressing and expanding units are located between the arbitrating unit and the control units respectively. The apparatus further includes the circuits for compressing and expanding the image data in a reversible manner and a nonreversible manner so that the compressing and expanding manner may be switched according to the image processing condition. When treating a large amount of image data, this configuration makes it possible to reduce the number of accesses to memory and make effective use of a bandwidth, thereby being able to reduce the power consumption. Since the bandwidth is reduced and the random access to memory is made possible, more image processing capabilities may be provided so that the operability of this apparatus is enhanced. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090310871 | DECODING METHOD FOR A TWO DIMENSIONAL DOT CODE - A decoding method for a two dimensional dot code includes the steps of defining coordinates of boundary dots in the two dimensional dot code, performing extrapolation and interpolation according to the coordinates of the boundary dots to create coordinates of a plurality of virtual code dots, and comparing a code dot in the two dimensional dot code with the virtual code dots to extract information intended to be reproduced from the two dimensional dot code. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090310872 | SPARSE INTEGRAL IMAGE DESCRIPTORS WITH APPLICATION TO MOTION ANALYSIS - A method of representing an image comprises deriving at least one 1-dimensional representation of the image by projecting the image onto an axis, wherein the projection involves summing values of selected pixels in a respective line of the image perpendicular to said axis, characterised in that the number of selected pixels is less than the number of pixels in the line. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090310873 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF EFFICIENTLY COMPRESSING AN ORIGINAL IMAGE - An image processing apparatus successively counts numbers of continuous blocks starting from a left end in view of a number of color(s) forming each block and the color of a preceding block. In this counting, when a first block formed of two colors is input, then second block formed of one of the two colors of the first block is input and then blocks formed of the same one color as the second block are continuously input (second to fourth), the image processing apparatus handles the second to fourth blocks as one-color blocks continuing after the two-color block, and encodes the first to fourth blocks into a code indicating identification information to the effect, a continuation number of the two-color block, color information of each color, information specifying the color of the one-color block being one of the two colors, and the continuation number of the one-color blocks. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090317004 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PRINTING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - This invention is directed to efficiently compressing data used in an image process for an unprocessed line adjacent to a process line in an image data process for each line, and reducing the memory band. To accomplish this, processed image data is compressed, and it is determined whether the process direction of image data of the next line is the first direction or the second direction opposite to the first direction. The data organization of the compressed image data is changed in accordance with the determination result. A memory stores the compressed image data whose data organization has been changed. The compressed image data stored in the memory is read out and decompressed. An image process is performed using the decompressed image data and image data of a line adjacent to the line of the processed image data. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090324108 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOAD BALANCING A VIDEO SIGNAL IN A MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR - Sequential video data frames are encoded using cores including a first core and a second core. A first beginning frame is divided into slices. The first core is assigned to process a first slice. The second core is assigned to process a second slice. The first beginning frame is processed using the cores which results in a first ending frame in which the first slice was partitioned into a third slice and a fourth slice. The third slice was processed by the first core. The fourth slice and the second slice were processed by the second core. A second beginning frame, which immediately follows the first ending frame, is divided into a second plurality of slices. The first core is assigned to the third slice. The second core is assigned to a fifth slice which has a size equal to a sum of the second and fourth slices. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090324109 | Systems and Methods for Color Data Compression - Systems and methods are provided for reducing data size of at least one bitmap image, wherein the bitmap image comprises a plurality of color blocks, wherein each color block is associated with a distinct color plane. In some embodiments, the bitmap image may be compressed. At least one compressed color block that is contained in a transfer frame may be determined, based on information pertaining to a physical offset between successive color planes when they are rendered on a print medium. Further, at least one compressed color block in the transfer frame may be tagged, if the size of the transfer frame exceeds a threshold, and the resolution of the at least one compressed color block that is tagged may be reduced. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090324110 | SCREEN TRANSFER APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus that communicates with a screen display apparatus: a generation unit configured to generate image data to be displayed on a screen; an identification unit configured to identify an overlapping area that overlaps with the image data for each of a plurality of divided areas into which the screen is divided, respectively; a division unit configured to divide respective partial image data belonging to the respective overlapping areas in a vertical direction or a horizontal direction of the screen; a data compression processor configured to compress respective divided image data belonging to the respective divided areas by using dictionary data obtained based on a predetermined amount of divided image data compressed in the past belonging to the respective divided areas; and a data transmission unit configured to transmit respective compressed image data belonging to the respective divided areas in an order defined according to a rule given in advance. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090324111 | Lithographic Apparatus and Device Manufacturing Method Utilizing a Multiple Dictionary Compression Method for FPD - A system is provided that includes a device having an emissive portion, a memory, and a dictionary decompressor. The device having an emissive portion is configured to produce a patterned beam. The memory is configured to store a compressed representation of a requested dose pattern, comprising two groups of repeating pattern features, to be formed on a surface by the patterned beam. The dictionary decompressor at least partially decompresses the compressed representation. The dictionary decompressor comprises a first dictionary memory configured to store pattern data corresponding to a first group of the two groups of repeating pattern features and a second dictionary memory configured to store pattern data corresponding to a second group of the two groups of repeating pattern features. The repeating pattern features in the first group have one or more differing characteristics than the repeating pattern features in the second group. Related methods are also provided. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100008591 | Methods and Systems for Display Correction - Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for compression of display non-uniformity correction data and use of compressed display non-uniformity correction data. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100021071 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an image coding apparatus and an image decoding apparatus capable of enhancing the image quality of decoded image data. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100027897 | Method and apparatus for detecting image blocking artifacts - A method and apparatus are provided for detecting image blocking artifacts. The apparatus includes a full-reference blocking artifact detector for detecting blocking artifacts in a processed version of a picture based on a blockiness metric. The blockiness metric is determined based on respective local variations in the processed version of the picture and in an original version of the picture. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100034472 | PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR IMAGE QUALITY - An image quality processing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes an image module, a bandwidth detection module, an image control module, an image compression module and an image-outputting module. The image module receives an image. The bandwidth detection module detects a bandwidth of the internet. The image control module is coupled to the image module and the bandwidth detection module, determines the range of the bandwidth and issues a result according to the determined range. The image compression module compresses the image according to the result and generates a compressed image. The image-outputting module outputs the compressed image to the internet. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100034473 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - In an image processing apparatus, an encoding unit encodes a processed image; a determining unit determines whether a reference pixel has been subjected to the image processing; and a decoding unit decodes, when the determining unit determines that the reference pixel has been subjected to the image processing, a piece of rectangular block code data of a rectangular block thereby acquiring a second decoded image. The encoding unit refers to, when the determining unit determines that the reference pixel has been subjected to the image processing, the processed image and encodes the second decoded image. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100040297 | Image Processing Device - A compression format identifying unit identifies the compression format of image data stored in a main memory. A transfer function determining unit determines a transfer function in accordance with the compression format of a tile image thus identified. A convolution operation unit subjects a modification request signal and the transfer function thus determined to convolution operation so as to generate a modification direction signal. A read ahead processor reads a tile image from the main memory using the modification request signal, decodes the image, and writes the decoded image in a buffer memory. A display image processor generates a display image using the modification direction signal. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20100046844 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME SERVICE OF HUGE AND HIGH QUALITY DIGITAL IMAGE ON INTERNET - A method for providing real time service of huge and high quality digital image on internet is disclosed, wherein data relevant to a general life such as a general photo, an advertising leaflet, and a pamphlet and professional image data exhibited in an art gallery, exhibition grounds, a pavilion are made into huge and high quality digital image or scanned and photographed to be digital, thereby processing real time service as an interactive browsing form. In the present invention, data are directly made, edited, constructed, and uploaded on internet, thereby providing various additional information with image through hyperlink and processing high quality digital image service on network without speed delay for huge image. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100061643 | ENCODING DEVICE AND ENCODING METHOD, AND DECODING DEVICE AND DECODING METHOD - The present invention relates to an encoding device and an encoding method, and a decoding device and a decoding method which make it possible to obtain a decoded image with low delay upon transferring an encoded image. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100067810 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - This invention enables the suppression of block noise even at an intermediate resolution equal to or lower than the original resolution and further increases the number of directly decodable resolutions for higher convenience. For this purpose, a memory stores original image data photographed by an image sensing unit. A resizing unit generates resized image data by reducing the numbers of horizontal and vertical pixels of the original image data stored in the memory to ½ and stores the image data in the memory again. An image compression unit encodes the original image data and the resized image data by HD Photo®. A CPU puts the two encoded data into one file and stores it in a nonvolatile memory card connected to an output unit. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100086222 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND DECODING METHOD, APPARATUSES THEREFOR, PROGRAMS THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIA FOR STORING THE PROGRAMS - An image encoding method includes determining and encoding global parallax data which is probably correct parallax data in consideration of the Epipolar geometry constraint between a camera of a standard viewpoint, which is selected from the entire multi-viewpoint images, and images obtained by all the other viewpoints; generating base parallax data for each camera as a viewpoint other than the standard viewpoint, where the base parallax data is probably correct parallax data in consideration of the Epipolar geometry constraint between the image of the relevant camera and the images of all the other cameras based on the global parallax data and the camera parameters; determining and encoding correction parallax data used for correcting the base parallax data, so as to indicate parallax data between the image of the relevant camera and an already-encoded reference viewpoint image used for parallax compensation; and encoding the image of the relevant camera by using parallax data obtained by correcting the base parallax data by means of the correction parallax data. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100142834 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE DATA - The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for encoding images, more particularly to an encoding unit in conjunction with a library of pictorial entities and image qualifiers. The method and apparatus provide encoding an image by using a code factor table in conjunction with a set of element codes. The resulting image code allows the set pictorial elements of an image and their associated image qualifiers to be represented by a compact code uniquely representing a given configuration of pictorial elements. The use of the resulting image code facilitates the transmission and storage of images requiring only the code to be sent or stored. The invention further provides a computer readable medium comprising a program element that direct a computer to implement the encoding process. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100150459 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOW COMPLEXITY TRANSCODING OF IMAGES WITH NEAR OPTIMAL QUALITY - Method and system for low complexity transcoding of images with near optimal quality for display on a terminal are presented. Generating effective transcoding parameters prior to transcoding and retrieving the transcoding parameters based on the features of the input image and the characteristics of the terminal, an output image quality close to that produced by optimal quality transcoding is achieved. The processing time is much smaller in comparison to that required for optimal quality transcoding. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100150460 | OCR-GUIDED TEXT TOKENIZATION OF DIGITAL IMAGES - An image processing method in which OCR is used to guide the text tokenization. More particularly, OCR is first performed on each symbol in the scanned image. For example, a symbol may be a number, letter, or other character. During the tokenization process, the OCR results are used to select appropriate matching criteria for each symbol. The symbols that are recognized as different characters are not allowed to be clustered into the same group. The symbols with the same OCR results are clustered according to the recognition confidence levels. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100158398 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Provided is an image processing apparatus, including a characteristic region detecting section that detects a characteristic region from an input image; an image generating section that generates, from the input image, a low-quality image, which is of lower quality than the input image, and a characteristic region image, which is of higher quality than the low-quality image at least the characteristic region; a difference processing section that generates a characteristic region difference image indicating a difference between an image of the characteristic region in the characteristic region image and an image of the characteristic region in the low-quality image; and an encoding section that encodes the characteristic region difference image and the low-quality image. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100177971 | Method of Encoding Chinese Type Characters (CJK Characters) Based on Their Structure - The invention relates to a method of encoding a Chinese type character. The method comprises subdividing the whole said character into N elements in a given order, said order being specific to said character; associating with each of the N elements, in said given order, an elementary descriptor, each of these elementary descriptors being based on the structure of said element with which it is associated; defining a base reference constituted by the elementary descriptors defined at the previous step, these elementary descriptors being placed in said given order. By using this invention, it becomes straightforward to find back a character using its code, to encode, in a logical manner, a new character and add it to the set of characters already encoded, and to classify characters based on their structure. In this way, the “external character problem” is solved. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100177972 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSED SENSING - Method and apparatus for compressed sensing yields acceptable quality reconstructions of an object from reduced numbers of measurements. A component x of a signal or image is represented as a vector having m entries. Measurements y, comprising a vector with n entries, where n is less than m, are made. An approximate reconstruction of the m-vector x is made from y. Special measurement matrices allow measurements y=Ax+z, where y is the measured m-vector, x the desired n-vector and z an m-vector representing noise. “A” is an n by m matrix, i.e. an array with fewer rows than columns. “A” enables delivery of an approximate reconstruction, x | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100195920 | RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING DEVICE, REPRODUCING METHOD, EDITING DEVICE, AND EDITING METHOD - A recording device includes: an encoding unit configured to perform compression encoding on single image data obtained by imaging a subject from a predetermined viewpoint to generate first compression-encoded data, and perform compression encoding on composite image data in which a plurality of image data obtained by imaging the subject from mutually different viewpoints have been composited, to generate second compression-encoded data; a file generating unit configured to generate a first image file including the first compression-encoded data generated at the encoding unit, and generate a second image file including the second compression-encoded data generated at the encoding unit; and a file writing unit configured to write the first image file and the second image file generated at the file generating unit, to a recording medium in a correlated manner. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100195921 | Universal Lossy Compression Methods - The present invention provides methods for universal lossy compression that provide performance at or near the rate-distortion limit and that are based on universal, implementable lossy source coding algorithms. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100220934 | Hiding Codes in Input Data - The present invention relates to hiding codes in input data, e.g., such as still imagery and motion pictures. One claim recites: embedding an N-bit code with a source signal, N being at least one. The embedding proceeds, for each bit of the N-bit code, according to the following: mapping the bit to a portion of the source signal; changing values of at least two data values associated with the portion in accordance with the bit. The act of changing embeds the N-bit code in a manner that is generally imperceptible to a human observer of the source signal. A related claim recites that the portion includes a data value, and the above method further includes changing the value of the data value in accordance with said bit of the code, an amount of the changing being adjusted based on the value. Of course, other claims and combinations are provided as well. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100220935 | TRANSFERRING SYSTEM FOR HUGE AND HIGH QUALITY IMAGES ON NETWORK AND METHOD THEREOF - A transferring system for huge and high quality images on network and a method thereof are disclosed, wherein various individual image data are converted into high quality image data to be converted into layered image data, and classified into a plurality of sub cells, then stored in database as a compressed form. A client system connected to a server requires information, immediately downloads the required information, releases the compression, and then displays on a screen real time. In the present invention, a user can fast see only his wanted part since images of a newspaper and a magazine are converted as they were. Also, various additional information is provided with image, thereby providing multimedia digital publication services on wire or wireless network. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100239177 | Image data transmission - A method for transmitting image data sets via a communication network is provided. Image data are processed for dividing the image into a plurality of image sub regions and for determining for each of the plurality of the image sub regions a hash code in dependence upon pixel data of pixels located in the respective image sub region. The hash codes are transmitted together with location data of the respective image sub regions if the hash code exists in an associative dataset and the pixel data are transmitted together with location data of the respective image sub regions if the hash code does not exist in the associative dataset. Upon receipt of at least one of the hash codes and the pixel data together with the location data, image data are generated by performing at least one of: retrieving the pixel data from the associative dataset in dependence upon the received hash codes and placing the retrieved pixel data in the image in dependence upon the location data; and, placing the received pixel data in the image in dependence upon the location data. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100246981 | PACS Optimization Techniques - Some embodiments provide a method and system for efficiently transferring medical images. Some embodiments receive a medical image in a first platform dependent format of a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). The first platform dependent format is one that is accessible by a first format compliant device that includes a library that specifies how to decode the first format. Some embodiments transform the medical image from the first format to a second format. The second format includes decoded content of the first format that is viewable on a first format non-compliant device. The transformed image is then passed to the device for viewing. Additionally, some embodiments efficiently transfer medical images by identifying image settings for one or more devices and by passing requested images that are optimized by resizing the images according to the image settings of the requesting device. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100246982 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR APPROXIMATING PROGRESSIVE IMAGE ENCODING USING IMAGE PARTITIONING - An image partitioner that executes on a local computer to vertically partition pixels of an original image into one or more non-overlapping vertical rows of image pixels, and horizontally partition the original image pixels into one or more non-overlapping horizontal rows of image pixels. The image partitioner can then separate the original image into a first sub-image that includes pixels of a first horizontal row and pixels of a first vertical row. The image partitioner can then separate the original image into a second sub-image that includes pixels of either the first horizontal row and a second vertical row, or a second horizontal row and the first vertical row. The first sub-image and second sub-image are then transmitted to a remote computer that interlaces the first sub-image with the second sub-image to create a first combined image which approximates the original image on the local computer. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100246983 | DATA COMPRESSION METHOD - A data stream of a code string is divided into a series of a group of blocks. The first block of the group of blocks is compressed by a sliding dictionary method with codes of the first block as a reference dictionary. Blocks subsequent to the first block are recognized in succession as a target block to be compressed. Each time the target block is recognized, the target block is compressed by the sliding dictionary method with codes of the target block and results of compression of a group of blocks prior to the target block as a reference dictionary, and a result of compression of the target block is arranged at an end of the results of compression of the group of prior blocks. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100254616 | IMAGE COMPRESSION ACCELERATION USING MULTIPLE PROCESSORS - Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for accelerating the compression of images on a multi-processor computer. In an embodiment, an image is divided into a plurality of slices, each slice having the same width as the image. These slices are provided to a work manager that maintains a thread for each processor. The work manager assigns each slice to a thread for processing in an efficient manner (such as the thread corresponding to the first available processor), and when an indication that the slice has been compressed for each slice is received, the work manager assembles the compressed image. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100254617 | APPARATUS AND METHOD TO ROTATE AN IMAGE - Image processing systems and methods are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving image data of an image. The image data includes a plurality of image blocks. The method further includes calculating a first differential DC value during a rotation operation of the image by comparing a first DC coefficient value of a first block of a first row of the image to a second DC coefficient value of a first block of a second row of the image. The method further includes storing the first differential DC value in a memory prior to completing the rotation operation. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100254618 | Method for Accessing Image Data and Related Apparatus - A method for accessing image data is disclosed. The image data includes a plurality of pixel data arranged in rows and columns, and every specific amount of pixel data rows forms a pixel group. The method includes writing the image data into an N-line image data register row-by-row successively, and reading the pixel data of each pixel group in a block-row form for image compression. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100260428 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes image processors and a margin storing buffer. The image processors read an input image data from a frame memory for each image data of a plurality of block lines each having a first number of pixels along the columns and a second number of pixels along the rows. The margin storing buffer stores the image data of the margin portion used also in the image processing of the image data of the next block line, among the image data of the present block line input to each of the image processors. Each of the image processors performs the image processing on an image data including the image data of the present block line and the image data of the margin portion, at the time of image processing on the image data of the next block line. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100260429 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a compression processing unit that performs compression processing on n-bit data; a bit-number conversion unit that converts m-bit input image data into n-bit data (where n| 10-14-2010 | |
| 20100278442 | EFFICIENT ENCODING OF ALTERNATIVE GRAPHIC SETS - Embodiments provide for efficient encoding and rendering of remote graphic displays by applying one or more of the following: (1) field encoding for identifying fields of a graphics set such that commonalities of various fields across different graphics languages are identified; (2) resource caching, which treats heterogeneous resources in a homogeneous way when it comes to storing them; (3) determining the type of encoding for remoting items within a graphics set based upon the types of compression mechanisms supported by a remote device; (4) improving responsiveness by rendering with partially sent resources; (5) a mechanism for determining what portions (if any) of a graphics set should be sent to a remote device and in what order; and (6) use of dedicated resources already on a remote device in order to eliminate the transfer of a resource between a local device and the remote device when rendering such resource. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100290711 | Determination of Unicode Points from Glyph Elements - Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) for determining Unicode points from glyph elements are provided. The tools may receive indications of commands that relate to text containing glyphs. Responding to the commands, the tools may convert the glyphs to corresponding Unicode representations. The tools may also provide glyph substitution tables that include Unicode fields for storing Unicode representations of characters, along with first and second glyph fields for storing glyphs of the characters. The glyph substitution tables may include links pointing from the second glyph fields to the first glyph fields, and may also include links pointing from the first glyph fields to the Unicode fields. The tools may provide character mapping tables that include Unicode fields for storing Unicode representations of characters. The character mapping tables may also include glyph fields for storing glyphs of the characters, and may include links pointing from the glyph fields to the Unicode fields. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100322526 | METHOD OF FILTERING RESTORED IMAGE USING PLURALITY OF FILTERS AND ENCODING/DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD USING FILTERING METHOD - A method of filtering a restored image selectively using a plurality of filters, and an encoding and decoding apparatus using the method are provided. The filtering method may filter a restored image using each of a plurality of filter structures to obtain a plurality of filtered restored images, and determine a filter structure of a restored image with a high coding efficiency from among the obtained filtered restored images as a final filter structure. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100322527 | METHOD OF ENCODING AND DECODING A GRAPHICS PATH SEQUENCE INTO A LAYERED SCHEME - This invention relates to a method of encoding a path ( | 12-23-2010 |
| 20100322528 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ROTATING IMAGE WITHOUT USING MEMORY - An image rotation method without using a memory includes the steps of: reading, by a JPEG encoder, an input image having m×n macroblocks (wherein “m” and “n” are natural numbers); rotating image data of the respective macroblocks by a predetermined angle in a predetermined direction when encoding in the JPEG encoder; assigning and inputting a sequence of each rotated image data when encoding in the JPEG encoder; instructing the macroblocks to be output in a sequence changed from an initial input sequence of the macroblocks through use of a program when decoding in a JPEG decoder; and outputting an image rotated by the predetermined angle in the predetermined direction. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110002551 | COMPRESSIVE CODING DEVICE AND VISUAL DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE - A compressive coding device converts three color components of pixel data from the RGB presentation to the YCbCr presentation according to a mapping rule. Converted pixel data are subsequently subjected to irreversible compressive coding, thus producing compressive coded data. Pixel data ascribed to transparency control are converted to a prescribed value out of a mapping range according to the mapping rule. Compressive coded data are supplied to a visual display control device, in which they are decoded and reproduced into original pixel data of the first color presentation. Compressive coded data corresponding to pixel data ascribed to transparency control are rendered with a prescribed color in the RGB presentation which is designated as transparency in advance or not rendered on screen. Thus, it is possible to precisely perform the transparency control without causing a reduction of the compression factor regardless of the irreversible compressive coding and decoding. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20110007976 | IMAGE DATA COMPRESSION APPARATUS AND IMAGE DATA COMPRESSION PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM - The image data compression apparatus includes a reversible compression section that applies reversible compression processing to to-be-compressed data made of a series of numeric values; an irreversible compression section that applies irreversible compression processing to to-be-compressed data made of a series of numeric values; and a compression control section that causes, if a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value in plural pixel values representing plural pixels forming an image is within a range from a predetermined upper limit to a predetermined lower limit, the irreversible compression section to execute the irreversible compression processing for the plural pixel values as the to-be-compressed data, and that causes, if the difference is out of the range, the reversible compression section to execute the reversible compression processing for the plural pixel values as the to-be-compressed data. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110013848 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image processing apparatus that generates image data having a high dynamic range by combining a plurality of image data having different exposure amounts includes: an input unit configured to input a plurality of M-bit image data; a determining unit configured to determine reference image data serving as an exposure reference from among the plurality of input M-bit image data; a composition unit configured to combine the plurality of M-bit image data, and generate one N-bit composite image data (N>M); a characteristic parameter setting unit configured to set a characteristic parameter of tone compression on the N-bit composite image data such that a predetermined reference luminance in the reference image data does not change; and a generating unit configured to generate M-bit composite image data by compressing a luminance tone of an image component based on the set characteristic parameter. | 01-20-2011 |
| 20110026842 | DISPERSED STORAGE NETWORK DATA MANIPULATION - A method begins by a processing module receiving data for dispersed storage, wherein the data has an associated user identification (ID), and obtaining a codec flag based on the associated user ID. The codec flag may indicate one or more codec types and a codec execution order. The codec types may include two or more of: a null data manipulation, one or more versions of a data integrity function, one or more versions of a compression function, and/or one or more versions of an encryption function. The method continues with the processing module manipulating the data to produce manipulated data utilizing the one or more codec types in the codec execution order, encoding the manipulated data using an error coding dispersal storage function to produce a plurality of encoded data slices, and sending the slices and codec flag to a plurality of DS storage units for storage. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110033123 | Electric Greeting Card - The present invention discloses an electronic greeting card, comprising a back cover and a front cover folded onto the back cover, wherein, the back cover has an IC block, a power supply module a pull switch connected to the IC block respectively, and a LCD connected to the IC block; the IC block comprises a memory module that stores digital images and a main control chip module that decodes the images and transmits the decoded data to the LCD for display; the main control chip module comprises: a decoding module that decodes the digital images, an image processing module that processes the decoded image data, and an encoding module that encodes the processed image data so as to store the image data in the memory module; the IC block is powered by an Li-Mn cell. The greeting card can display the digital images stored in the memory module on the LCD, to meet the consumer's demand for transmitting dynamic digital images. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110038551 | METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGES - A method for encoding an image includes identifying first and second sets of pixels from multiple pixels in a current row of the image, where the first set of pixels includes one or more pixels that are equal to one or more corresponding pixels in a reference row, and the second set of pixels are not equal to one or more corresponding pixels in the reference row. A third set of pixels that includes at least one of a first group of pixels selected from the first set of pixels and a second group of pixels selected from at least one of the first set and the second set of pixels is identified and encoded in an encoded data set. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110038552 | GRAPHICALLY ENCODED DATA COPY AND PASTE - In accordance with one or more aspects, at a first device both an indication of data to be copied and a request to perform graphical copying of the data is received. The data is graphically encoded to generate an image that is displayed by the first device. In a second device, a request to perform graphical pasting of data is received. The second device captures the image displayed by the first device and decodes data graphically encoded in the image. The decoded data is pasted to a location of the first device. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110038553 | PICTURE IMAGE FILE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF - A method for transferring a picture image file from a transfer end to a receive end, comprising the following steps of: providing a first set of blocks at the transfer end; dividing the picture image file into a plurality of blocks at the transfer end; comparing the plurality of blocks with a first set of blocks to generate a correlation parameter for each block; determining whether the correlation parameter for each block is not less than a correlation threshold, and removing each of the blocks with the correlation parameter not less than the correlation threshold; generating a reconstruction information which records the linkage relationship between each of the plurality of blocks; transferring the plurality of blocks those are not removed and the reconstruction information to the receive end; and reconstructing the plurality of blocks into the picture image file based on the reconstruction information and a second set of blocks. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110064320 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises: a resolution compression unit that performs resolution compression by thinning out pixels of a unit block image that has a second size that is larger than a first size; a registration unit that registers the block image generated by the resolution compression unit in a block management table; and an encoding compression unit that performs an encoding compression process on each block image registered by the registration unit; wherein the resolution compression unit determines a compression level for unit block images having the second size and compresses each unit block image having the second size with a compression rate according to the determined compression level, and the registration unit divides the block image compressed according to the determined compression level into block images having the first size and registers the divided block images in the block management table in units of the second size. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110064321 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION RECORDING DEVICE AND INFORMATION RECORDING METHOD, INFORMATION REPRODUCING DEVICE AND INFORMATION REPRODUCING METHOD, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - The present invention allows usable information to be selected by comparing information regarding encoding with conditions regarding encoding processing. When delay modes, picture structures, and pulldown modes do not match each other between previous encoding time and re-encoding time, parameters are not reused. When they match and image frames do not match, a picture type is reused. When a bit rate in the previous encoding is smaller than that in the current encoding and a chroma format is larger than the current chroma format, a picture type and a motion vector are reused. When the conditions are not satisfied, parameters are supplied and received and a determination is made as to whether or not chroma formats match each other. When the chroma formats do not match each other, picture-type information, motion-vector information, and quantization-value information are reused. When the chroma formats match each other, stream data input to a decoding unit is output. The present invention can be applied to an encoding unit, an encoding device, or a transcoder. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110064322 | IMAGE SIGNAL DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE SIGNAL DECODING METHOD, IMAGE SIGNAL ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE SIGNAL ENCODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to an image signal decoding apparatus, an image signal decoding method, an image signal encoding apparatus, an image signal encoding method, and a program that allow easy detection of picture boundaries of a Dependent stream on a bit stream. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110075942 | METHODS FOR DIGITAL IMAGE COMPRESSION - Methods, systems, and compositions of matter are disclosed herein for the compression of digital image(s) and for the expansion of digital images so compressed. In various aspects, the digital images may be compressed and the compressed images expanded substantially without loss of information. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110081092 | METHOD OF STORING DATA ON A PHOTOGRAPH - A method of storing data on a photograph containing an image includes the steps of: delimiting a plurality of data block regions on the photograph; compressing data representing the image contained in the photograph with a compression technique; redundantly encoding the compressed data using Reed-Solomon encoding techniques; shuffling the redundantly encoded compressed data in a deterministic manner to reduce potential effects of localized encoded data damage to the image of said photograph; and printing the shuffled data as dots within the data block regions on the photograph. The printing of the shuffled data is performed simultaneously with a printing out of the image of the photograph. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110091118 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CODING A THREE DIMENSIONAL MESH - Disclosed is a three-dimensional (3D) mesh compression apparatus and method. The 3D mesh compression apparatus may generate a base mesh through a mesh simplification, may separately compress the base mesh and peaks eliminated by the simplification, may construct a covariance matrix based on a topological distance between the eliminated peaks, and may compress 3D mesh data based on the covariance matrix. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110091119 | Coding apparatus and coding method - A coding apparatus includes: a bit modeling section which performs bit modeling for coding for coefficient data of every sub-band obtained by wavelet-transforming image data; an expanding section which expands a plurality of data sets including a symbol, a context and control information obtained by the bit modeling section in a register as input data; a storing section which stores the input data expanded by the expanding section as buffer data; a integrating section which integrates the data set in which the control information is valid in the input data expanded by the expanding section and the data set in which the control information is valid in the buffer data stored in the storing section; and a coding section which codes the data sets in which the control information is valid, which are integrated by the integrating section. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110123125 | Digital Anti-Counterfeiting Software Method and Apparatus - This invention relates generally to a method and apparatus, as implemented by a software program on a computer system, for digitally producing counterfeit-deterring scrambled or encoded indicia images. This method and system are capable of combining a source image with a latent image so the scrambled latent image is visible only when viewed through a special decoder lens. The digital processing allows different latent images to be encoded according to different parameters. Additionally, latent images might be encoded into single component colors of an original visible image, at various angles from each other. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110158549 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - If reusable data is included in a record of VDP data, a compression level used in compressing page data including the reusable data is associated with the reusable data and stored together with the reusable data. If, after that, a record of VDP data including reusable data similar to the stored reusable data is generated, the page data is compressed according to the record based on the compression ratio associated with the stored reusable data. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110170789 | METHOD FOR ENCODING A SEQUENCE OF DIGITIZED IMAGES - Pixels with associated pixel values form a sequence of digitized images that are encoded by predicting pixels of the images and encoding the prediction errors. At least a part of the pixels are encoded by determining trajectories, each running through a pixel to be encoded and through other previously encoded pixels from the image of the pixel being encoded and/or from one or more images that are temporally proximate to that image. For each of the trajectories determined, a valuation parameter is in inverse proportion to the deviations in the uncoded associated pixel values of the other pixels along a trajectory. A predicted pixel value of the pixel to be encoded is determined based on the other pixels of the trajectory with the highest valuation. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110188763 | Image Header Compression Mechanism - A computer system is disclosed. The computer system includes a database to store image files and a compression unit to compress the image files. The compression unit includes a cache controller to control caching of header components of an image file common to two or more image files stored in the database. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110188764 | ENCODING METHOD, ENCODING DEVICE, AND ENCODING PROGRAM FOR ENCODING INTERLACED IMAGE - It is an object of the present invention to provide an encoding method, an encoding device, and an encoding program for encoding an interlaced image in a simple and effective manner. The encoding method includes: a frequency conversion step (s | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110194781 | Method for processing a digital image - An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit being represented as a Huffman-coded stream of coefficients of basis functions, wherein a zeroth order coefficient is represented as a difference to the previous zeroth order coefficient of the corresponding component, and a block information table, which comprises: indicators to the first coefficient of a specified order of each image block in said bitstream, information indicating the number of bits in the bitstream between adjacent coefficients of said specified order of the image block, and the zeroth order coefficient of at least the first data unit of each component, said zeroth order coefficient being represented in a non-differential form. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110200262 | SPATIAL DATA ENCODING AND DECODING - Methods and systems for spatial data encoding and decoding are described. A tile may be designated within a source frame. The tile may be divided into at least one bit area. A particular message bit value of a message may be accessed. A statistical property calculation may be performed on a pixel variable value of available pixels within the tile. A pixel variable value of pixels in the particular bit area of a target frame may be shifted to encode a particular message bit. A particular pixel variable value of a particular pixel of the plurality of pixels may be shifted by a shift value. The shift value may be in accordance with the statistical property calculation, the particular message bit value, and a particular modulation pattern value of the plurality of modulation pattern values for the particular pixel within the particular bit area. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110206286 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A wavelet transform unit performs a wavelet transform on original images and a quantization unit quantizes wavelet transform coefficients. A ROI selector selects a region of interest or regions of interest in the original image, and a ROI mask generator generates ROI masks with which the wavelet transform coefficients (which are also called ROI transform coefficients) corresponding to the regions of interest are specified. By referring to the ROI masks, a lower-bit zero substitution unit substitutes low-order bits of non-ROI transform coefficients with zeros. An entropy coding unit entropy-codes the wavelet transform coefficients sequentially from high-order bit-planes, after the substitution. A coded data generator turns coded data into streams together with parameters and then outputs coded images. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110216980 | IMAGE TRANSMITTER AND IMAGE RECEIVER - A system LSI serving as an image transmitter is a device for transmitting image data to a display device LCD connected by a data signal line. The system LSI comprises: an output image memory for storing the image data to be transmitted; a subtraction processing unit for reading the image data from the output image memory and obtaining the data of the difference between mutually adjacent pixels of the image data; and a data transmission unit for sequentially outputting a data signal, which expresses the difference data corresponding to the pixels as a binary number, to the data signal line in accordance with the arrangement of the pixels; wherein the data signal of the difference data in which the number of signal changes is reduced more than the case of outputting the pixel data to the data signal line is output. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110235927 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The image processing apparatus of the present invention comprises: an rendering unit for, when image data that includes two or more objects is inputted, rendering the two or more objects as bitmap data; a generation unit for generating attribute information for the image data based on the rendered bitmap data and attributes of the objects; a storing unit for storing the rendered bitmap data or bitmap data by operating logical rendering for the bitmap data based on the attribute information that was generated by the generation unit in a storage having two or more layers; and a compression unit for, using a different compression method for each of the two layers or more, compressing each of the rendered bitmap data. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110243464 | IMAGE PROCESSING CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD - An image processing control device includes an adjacent pixel difference absolute value phase-based total value calculation unit configured to calculate adjacent pixel difference absolute value phase-based total values obtained by summing adjacent pixel difference absolute values, which are absolute values of differences in pixel value between adjacent pixels of an image subjected to predetermined image processing, with respect to all pixels of the image, every phase representing a location between the pixels of an encoding block when the image is encoded, a maximum boundary phase specifying unit configured to specify a maximum boundary phase which is a phase of a maximum value among the adjacent pixel difference absolute value phase-based total values calculated every phase, and a control unit configured to control the image processing so as to reduce encoding block distortion generated between pixels of the specified maximum boundary phase. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110255796 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE - An image signal encoding unit | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110262047 | DOT PATTERN ENCODING STRUCTURE, ITS DECODING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A dot pattern encoding structure includes at least a pattern unit including a unit recognition portion containing a plurality of first dot patterns part or all of which are co-linear and equally distanced, and a plurality of first and second virtual grid lines passing through the first dot patterns; and a content portion containing a plurality of encoding areas and a starting position each formed by crossing of two of the virtual grid lines, wherein each encoding area contains a second dot pattern disposed in one of four quadrants, the first virtual grid line or the second virtual grid line, and a pattern configuration at the starting position is different from that of any encoding area. A decoding method for the dot pattern encoding structure and an electronic device for decoding the dot pattern encoding structure are also herein provided. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110268366 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE CONVERSION APPARATUS - It is an object of the present invention to provide a technique for eliminating the unnaturalness in a generated moving image while achieving high speed processing in an image processing apparatus comprising a deblocking filter. A transcoder ( | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110274365 | ELECTRICAL-DEVICE-IMPLEMENTED IMAGE CODING METHOD - An electrical-device-implemented image coding method includes: a raw block is obtained from an image. There are a max pixel value and a min pixel value among the raw pixel values of the image. A first difference sum, which is sum of differences between the raw pixel values and the max pixel value respectively, are calculated. A second difference sum, which is sum of differences between the raw pixel values and the min pixel value respectively, are calculated. If the first difference sum is not smaller than the second difference sum, each of the residue values is calculated by subtracting the min pixel value from the corresponding raw pixel value. Otherwise, each of the residue values is calculated by subtracting the corresponding raw pixel value from the max pixel value. Each of the residue values is encoded into a compressed codeword. A bit stream is generated according to the compressed codewords. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110317929 | 2 DIMENSIONAL SIGNAL ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE - An image is divided into subbands by wavelet transform using the Haar function as the base, and the lowest-frequency LL subband is entirely encoded. LH, HL, and HH subband coefficients which belong to the wavelet decomposition level of each hierarchy are then encoded such that coefficients at the same spatial position are encoded at once. The decoding side first decompresses the lowest-frequency LL subband, and then decodes sets of the LH, HL, and HH coefficients at the same spatial position in the subband of each wavelet decomposition level one by one. The decoding side immediately performs inverse wavelet transform by using the coefficient values, thereby obtaining the LL coefficient value of the next wavelet decomposition level. This makes it possible to sufficiently increase the processing speed even when the wavelet encoding/decoding is performed using a sequential CPU. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120002890 | ALIGNMENT OF DIGITAL IMAGES AND LOCAL MOTION DETECTION FOR HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (HDR) IMAGING - Disclosed embodiments relate to the alignment of images, particularly in HDR imaging applications. In one embodiment, image pyramids may be generated using a reference image and a source image. A difference bitmap is generated for each level of the image pyramids and is evaluated over nine possible one-pixel shift combinations in the x and y directions {−1, 0, 1 }. The difference bitmap is divided into tiles and analyzed and, for each pyramid level beginning from the top level, an optimal shift direction is determined as the shift exhibiting the fewest pixel difference counts across all tiles. The tiles are then pruned using a threshold such that only the tiles contributing up to the threshold are projected to the subsequent pyramid level. The alignment vector for each level is aggregated, and a final alignment vector is determined and used to shift the source image. This process may be repeated for another source image, and the two source images and reference image, once aligned, may be merged to generate an HDR image. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002891 | Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding graphic data - A graphic data encoding method and apparatus generating a bitstream by encoding a header having at least one piece of first information determined in consideration of a predetermined graphic profile from among multiple pieces of encodable first information; and encoding a payload having at least one piece of second information determined in consideration of the predetermined graphic profile from among multiple pieces of encodable second information. A graphic data decoding method and apparatus decode the generated bitstream. Irrespective of the functions that can be performed by the graphic data encoding apparatus and the functions that can be performed by the graphic data decoding apparatus, the graphic data decoding apparatus, which is in accordance with a graphic profile, can completely restore a 3D mesh model described in the bitstream generated by the graphic data encoding apparatus that is satisfactory to the graphic profile. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002892 | Viewing Digital Slides - Virtual slide image data and corresponding information are stored in a data storage area on a virtual slide image server. A client viewer requests image data at a particular resolution. The image server obtains corresponding image data from the data storage area at a resolution nearest to the requested resolution. The image data is then sent to the client viewer. The client viewer receives the image data and scales the image data to the requested resolution prior to displaying the image data. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120002893 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME SERVICE OF HUGE AND HIGH QUALITY DIGITAL IMAGE ON INTERNET - A method for providing real time service of huge and high quality digital image on internet is disclosed, wherein data relevant to a general life such as a general photo, an advertising leaflet, and a pamphlet and professional image data exhibited in an art gallery, exhibition grounds, a pavilion are made into huge and high quality digital image or scanned and photographed to be digital, thereby processing real time service as an interactive browsing form. In the present invention, data are directly made, edited, constructed, and uploaded on internet, thereby providing various additional information with image through hyperlink and processing high quality digital image service on network without speed delay for huge image. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120033893 | IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE REPRODUCTION METHOD - An image reproduction apparatus decompresses and outputs compressed data, and includes: a reproduction unit which reads, per predetermined unit of processing, the compressed data as unit compressed data from a recording medium; a decompression unit which decompresses the unit compressed data, so as to generate unit decompressed data; a display processing unit which outputs decompressed data including the unit decompressed data; an error management unit which detects, per unit compressed data, an error caused in either the reproduction unit or the decompression unit; and a control unit which determines whether or not to output the decompressed data when the error is detected, and when it is determined to output the decompressed data, the control unit complements, with implement image data, unit decompressed data corresponding to the unit compressed data in which the error has been detected, and the display processing unit outputs decompressed data including the complement image data. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120045138 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE DATA - The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for encoding images, more particularly to an encoding unit in conjunction with a library of pictorial entities and image qualifiers. The method and apparatus provide encoding an image by using a code factor table in conjunction with a set of element codes. The resulting image code allows the set pictorial elements of an image and their associated image qualifiers to be represented by a compact code uniquely representing a given configuration of pictorial elements. The use of the resulting image code facilitates the transmission and storage of images requiring only the code to be sent or stored. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120057799 | RUN LENGTH CODING WITH CONTEXT MODEL FOR IMAGE COMPRESSION USING SPARSE DICTIONARIES - Apparatus and methods for coding images geometric vector quantization (GVQ) having an over-complete dictionary which produces a sparse vector of coefficients as it contains large runs of zeros. The sparse encoding is particularly well suited for use with run-length entropy coding techniques. Image blocks are sparse coded using GVQ, with the vector of coefficients converted to RUN-LENGTH symbols, and binarized into a set of binary symbols. At least a portion of the binary symbols are used as contexts which can be selected when performing binary arithmetic coding of the binary coded RUN and LENGTH data to generate a bit stream containing the encoded image that provides enhanced compression. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120076429 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ESTIMATION OF COMPRESSION NOISE - Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for determining the compression noise present in an image or frame in a video sequence. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120082390 | IMAGE TRANSMISSION TERMINAL - The present invention is an image transmission terminal including: an image capture unit ( | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120106860 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing method applied to an image processing device is capable of implementing bitstream stitching technique after interrupting image processing process. The image processing method includes steps of processing the i-th slice of N slices in an image to generate a plurality of first processed data; storing the first processed data in a memory unit; once an interrupting request is generated according to a requested process, storing stitching information associated with the last first processed data after processing the i-th slice; stopping processing the image and executing the requested process according to the interrupting request; continuing to process the (i+1)-th slice of the N slices to generate a plurality of second processed data after the requested process is finished; and storing the second processed data after the last first processed data in the memory unit according to the stitching information. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106861 | IMAGE COMPRESSION METHOD - A compressing method is applicable to compress of an image at a fixed compression ratio, in which the image has a raw data. The compression method includes the steps of receiving the raw data with a predetermined length as a compression unit; compressing the compression unit into a compressed bit stream, wherein a total length of the compressed bit stream being not larger than a target bit stream length; when the total length of the compressed bit stream is smaller than the target bit stream length, appending a dummy code to the compressed bit stream, so that a bit stream length of the compressed bit stream with the dummy code is equal to the target bit stream length; and repeating steps until the raw data is compressed into an image bit stream. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120128259 | TRANSFERRING SYSTEM FOR HUGE AND HIGH QUALITY IMAGES ON NETWORK AND METHOD THEREOF - A transferring system for huge and high quality images on network and a method thereof are disclosed, wherein various individual image data are converted into high quality image data to be converted into layered image data, and classified into a plurality of sub cells, then stored in database as a compressed form. A client system connected to a server requires information, immediately downloads the required information, releases the compression, and then displays on a screen real time. In the present invention, a user can fast see only his wanted part since images of a newspaper and a magazine are converted as they were. Also, various additional information is provided with image, thereby providing multimedia digital publication services on wire or wireless network. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120134599 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TILE MAP SERVICE USING SOLID COMPRESSION - The system according to the present invention includes a server including a map data storage device, which stores digital map data, a plurality of tile map data generated from the digital map data, and solid-compressed map data compressed by solid compression from the plurality of tile map data, a solid-compressed map data generation device, which generates the plurality of tile map data from the digital map data stored in the map data storage device, generates the solid-compressed map data by compressing the plurality of tile map data by solid compression, and stores the generated solid-compressed map data in the map data storage device, and a solid-compressed map data providing device, which transmits the solid-compressed map data to a client through a network in response to a request from the client. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the frequency of network access and the amount of data transmitted. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120134600 | DISTRIBUTING LIMITED STORAGE AMONG A COLLECTION OF MEDIA OBJECTS - A quality level determining the extent to which each image file is compressed is automatically computed for each image file in a set to ensure that the total size of the compressed image files does not exceed a predefined limit. The compressed size of each image file is initially determined when compressed at a predefined minimum acceptable level and at a nominal level. The relative complexity of the image files is determined based upon their high frequency energy content. As a function of the image file complexity, and starting with the compressed sizes initially determined, the appropriate quality level is determined for compressing each of the image files in an iterative process that ensures the total size of the compressed image files does not exceed the predefined limit, while retaining acceptable quality. Thus, a set of image files can be compressed optimally to fit within a limited storage. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120141038 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a storage storing information indicating a first region subjected to moving-image compression and transmission; an identification unit identifying a second region where the update amount of an image is greater than or equal to a threshold value; a determination unit determining whether the image of the second region being associated with the moving image of the first region is to be transmitted, based on an overlapping relationship between the first region and the second region; and a transmission unit transmitting an image of a region including a portion of the second region, following the transmission of the image of the first region, with the image of the region being subjected to moving-image compression, and transmitting information indicating a display position of the image subjected to moving-image compression, when the second region is to be transmitted with being associated with the first region is determined. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120163724 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPRESSING AND EFFICIENTLY TRANSPORTING SCALABALE VECTOR GRAPHICS BASED IMAGES AND ANIMATION OVER LOW BANDWIDTH NETWORKS - Methods and systems for transferring vector data over a plurality of networks is disclosed. A system includes one or more encoding device(s), the device having a processor configured to convert a vector data in a first standard format into a compressed vector data in a micro format. A plurality of message centres are coupled with said encoding device(s) and comprise a processor configured to receive and temporarily store said compressed vector data in the micro format. One or more decoding device(s) residing at a plurality of handheld units are coupled with said message centres and are configured to receive said compressed vector data in said micro format, said decoding device(s) comprising a processor and configured to convert said compressed vector data in said micro format into the vector data in said first standard format and to render the vector data in said first standard format over said handheld units. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120163725 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method configured to make it possible to improve the convenience of codestreams in which multiview images are encoded. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120177298 | SCAN CONVERSION APPARATUS, IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - This invention enables parallelly sorting data in substantially M blocks though statistical information is updated. In the first scan conversion, ( | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120183231 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing device including a frame image generation unit for generating a frame image in which a first image and a second image are arranged next to each other, and a compression processing unit for compressing the frame image in units of macroblocks. The frame image generation unit arranges the first image and the second image such that a boundary between the first image and the second image coincides with boundaries of the macroblocks. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120183232 | Method and Apparatus for Block-Based Compression of Light-field Images - A method and apparatus for the block-based compression of light-field images. Light-field images may be preprocessed by a preprocessing module into a format that is compatible with the blocking scheme of a block-based compression technique, for example JPEG. The compression technique is then used to compress the preprocessed light-field images. The light-field preprocessing module reshapes the angular data in a captured light-field image into shapes compatible with the blocking scheme of the compression technique so that blocking artifacts of block-based compression are not introduced in the final compressed image. Embodiments may produce compressed 2D images for which no specific light-field image viewer is needed to preview the full light-field image. Full light-field information is contained in one compressed 2D image. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120189215 | IMAGE DATA PROCESSING FOR MORE EFFICIENT COMPRESSION - The present disclosure is directed to methods, systems, and apparatus for improved data compression. In one embodiment, a method is provided that separates image data by color channels and ordered bit planes. The method includes arranging bytes representing pixel values from a source image into corresponding color channels. Bits in each color channel are separated into a plurality of bit planes that are ordered based on significance. Then, the method may combine bits associated with adjacent pixel locations from common bit planes into new bytes. Once the image data is separated in this way, different compression processes are applied to data sets represented in the ordered bit planes. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120189216 | Methods and Systems for Image Enhancement and Estimation of Compression Noise - Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for determining the compression noise present in an image or frame in a video sequence and for enhancing an image or frame in a video sequence. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120195510 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, a separating unit, a first encoding unit, and a second encoding unit. The receiving unit receives information to be encoded. The separating unit separates the information received by the receiving unit into first information and second information on the basis of a predetermined condition. The first encoding unit encodes the first information using a first coding scheme. The second encoding unit encodes the second information using a second coding scheme that is different from the first coding scheme used by the first encoding unit. The first encoding unit encodes the first information using the first coding scheme that is more efficient than the second coding scheme used by the second encoding unit. The second encoding unit encodes the second information using the second coding scheme that is less efficient than the first coding scheme used by the first encoding unit. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120213447 | ADAPTIVE TRANSFORMS - In one embodiment, an image is broken up into multiple regions or segments, where each segment may be of arbitrary shape, and a transform (multi-scale or otherwise) is applied on the set of segments. In another embodiment, pattern adaptive prediction is used when predicting the next finer level of the transform pyramid. The pattern adaptive prediction uses the parent grid to determine what geometry of a filter is to be used when predicting the child grid. At the boundaries of the domain, the pattern adaptive prediction can coupled with the domain adaptive prediction technique. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120230594 | ADAPTIVE PICTURE ROTATION - A method for decoding a picture embedded in a coded video sequence using a reference picture, includes: receiving at least a part of the coded video sequence; decoding the at least a part of the coded video sequence to determine a rotation of the embedded picture; rotating at least a part of the reference picture according to the determined rotation; and using the at least a part of a rotated reference picture to construct a reconstructed picture corresponding to the embedded picture. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120230595 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing device includes a first output unit that performs predetermined image processing for image data, and outputs image data having m bits per pixel; a second output unit that performs pseudo gradation-increase processing by a dither method or a multilevel error diffusion method for the output image data, and outputs image data having n bits per pixel, where n| 09-13-2012 | |
| 20120230596 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - To provide a technology with which it is possible to protect the privacy of a person whose image is captured by a camera and to easily check whether or not the camera is operating properly. An image processing apparatus includes: an image compressing unit that acquires compressed image information by compressing image information that is outputted by a camera and outputs the acquired compressed image information; an image analyzing unit that acquires analyzed information by analyzing the image information that is outputted by the camera and outputs the acquired analyzed information; an output switching unit that outputs, as output information, either one of the compressed image information that is outputted by the image compressing unit and the analyzed information that is outputted by the image analyzing unit; and an output unit that outputs, to another apparatus, the output information that is outputted by the output switching unit. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120237132 | IMAGE-ENCODING METHOD, IMAGE-ENCODING DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING IMAGE-ENCODING PROGRAM - A method for encoding an image having a resolution that is not a multiple of a size of a block to be encoded, includes adding, by a processor, an extension image to the image to generate an image to be encoded, the extension image being an image to be added to the image and being an image in which a boundary pixel that is present at a boundary between the extension image and the image, and an adjacent pixel that is adjacent to the boundary pixel have a difference in pixel value therebetween that has an absolute value that is equal to or greater than a certain value; and disabling a deblocking filter process at the boundary between the extension image and the image in a locally decoded image that corresponds to the image to be encoded. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120251012 | IMAGE FILTER, ENCODING DEVICE, DECODING DEVICE, AND DATA STRUCTURE - An image filter ( | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120257836 | METHOD FOR STORING AND PROCESSING IMAGE SEQUENCE AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSING, STORING AND PROCESSING IMAGE SEQUENCE - The present invention relates to a method for storing an image sequence and a method for compressing, storing an image sequence. The method for storing an image sequence comprises the following steps: within the image sequence, forming a pixel-bit sequence according to known positions and order of each pixel in each of image frames formed by pixels; within the image sequence, setting a pixel value of a first pixel-bit position of a preceding image frame as a “preceding pixel value”, while setting the pixel value of the same pixel-bit position of the succeeding image frame adjacent to the said preceding image frame as a “succeeding pixel value”, comparing the said “preceding pixel value” with the said “succeeding pixel value”; creating a recording program to record a number of times of consecutively repeated presence of the “preceding pixel value” in the pixel-bit position. The present invention can decrease the data storage amount of the image when the image is processed and stored by statistically recording the repeated data content. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120275715 | IMAGE DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An image data processing apparatus includes a configuration selecting unit, a loading unit, and a controller. The configuration selecting unit determines types of image characteristics of individual processing units in image data and selects plural pieces of circuit configuration data for individual processing units. The loading unit predicts a predetermined number of pieces of circuit configuration data in descending order of the likelihood of being selected for the processing unit currently being processed, and loads, before selection of the circuit configuration data for the processing unit, the predetermined number of pieces of configuration data into a circuit configuration memory for a reconfigurable circuit. If the selected circuit configuration data has already been loaded, the controller causes the circuit configuration to be reconfigured. If the selected circuit configuration data has not been loaded, the controller causes the selected circuit configuration data to be loaded and the circuit configuration to be reconfigured. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120281925 | Method Of And Apparatus For Encoding And Decoding Data - Each block of texture data elements is encoded as a block of texture data. The encoding process includes determining for each block of texture data elements whether the set of texture data elements of the block all have sufficiently similar data values. If they do, the extent of a region within the texture including the block in which every texture data element has sufficiently similar data values is then determined, and an encoded texture data block to represent the block of texture data elements that indicates that the block specifies a region within the texture in which every texture data element is to be allocated the same data value when decoded, and that includes data indicating the constant data value for the block and data indicating the extent of the region within the texture that the block relates to, is generated. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120288208 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - To provide a configuration where it is possible to confirm three-dimensional image information such as whether or not three-dimensional image data is included in an MP4 file by referencing management information of the MP4 file. There is a configuration where three-dimensional image management information such as three-dimensional image identification information which relates to whether or not three-dimensional image data is included in the MP4 file and three-dimensional image details information which is able to identify a recording method and the like of three-dimensional images is recorded in a profile box or an AV codec box of the MP4 file as management information. Accordingly, a device which acquires the MP4 file and attempts to carry out reproduction is able to confirm whether or not three-dimensional images are included in the image data which is stored in the MP4 file and further the method thereof by referencing the three-dimensional image management information which is recorded in the management information of the MP4 file, is able to determine the possibility of reproduction, and is able to smoothly execute decoding and reproduction processes which are appropriate for each three-dimensional image method. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120308146 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: a noise reduction processing amount calculator configured to calculate a noise reduction processing amount based on input image data and previous-frame output image data subjected to data compression/decompression processing; a feedback ratio correction unit configured, based on compression error information, to output the uncorrected noise reduction processing amount calculated by the noise reduction processing amount calculator with regard to a pixel having a noise reduction feedback ratio less than | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120314965 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - An image coding apparatus to reduce data involved in coding a picture having a bit-depth higher than a bit-depth supported by an encoder, includes a down-converter which generates a base layer picture by down-converting a target picture to reduce the bit-depth of the target picture by a first value, a first encoder codes the base layer picture to generate a reconstructed picture by decoding the coded base layer picture, a subtractor performs shift amount adjustment on the reconstructed picture to increase the bit-depth of the reconstructed picture by a second value, and generates, based on the reconstructed picture on which the adjustment has been performed and the target picture, an enhancement layer picture for enhancing the quality of the base layer picture, a second encoder codes the enhancement layer picture; and an output unit outputs the coded base layer picture and the coded enhancement layer picture. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20130004090 | IMAGE PROCESSING TO PREVENT ACCESS TO PRIVATE INFORMATION - A processing resource receives original image data by a surveillance system. The original image data captures at least private information and occurrence of activity in a monitored region. The processing resource applies one or more transforms to the original image data to produce transformed image data. Application of the one or more transforms sufficiently distorts portions of the original image data to remove the private information. The transformed image data includes the distorted portions to prevent access to the private information. However, the distorted portions of the video include sufficient image detail to discern occurrence of the activity in the retail environment. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130011073 | METHOD FOR ESTIMATING IMAGE SIZE AFTER COMPRESSION - A method for estimating an image size after compression suitable for an electronic apparatus is provided. In the invention, a raw image is received, and the raw image is sampled for obtaining a sampling image. The sampling image is compressed at a plurality of testing parameters of compression respectively for obtaining a plurality of testing sizes after compression. An estimated math model is established according to the testing parameters of compression and the testing sizes after compression. A target parameter of compression corresponding to a target size after compression is calculated through the estimated math model. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130016917 | Image CompressionAANM Rodriguez; Adrian X.AACI DurhamAAST NCAACO USAAGP Rodriguez; Adrian X. Durham NC USAANM Woods; EricAACI DurhamAAST NCAACO USAAGP Woods; Eric Durham NC US - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for image compression are provided. Embodiments include: examining, by an image controller, contextual data of a plurality of uncompressed images; selecting from the plurality of uncompressed images, by the image controller, a group of uncompressed images that have related contextual data; designating, by the image controller, one of the selected images to be a reference image; creating, by the image controller, delta images, each delta image representing differences between the reference image and one of the uncompressed images; and compressing and storing, by the image controller, the reference image and each of the delta images. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130028527 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus, including: a band information acquisition unit configured to acquire band information of each of a plurality of blocks acquired by dividing a screen on the basis of input image data; and a domain separation unit configured to separate a screen into a plurality of types of domains on the basis of the band information of each of the plurality of blocks acquired by the band information acquisition unit. The apparatus further includes a processing force computation block configured to obtain a processing force for each of the plurality of types of screen domains obtained by the domain separation unit; and an image processing block configured to execute predetermined image processing on the input image data for each of the plurality of types of screen domains separated by the domain separation unit with a processing force separated by the processing force computation block. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130034307 | Local Area Contrast Enhancement - A method includes receiving image data, generating a low-pass image and a high-pass image from the image data, applying dynamic range compression to the low-pass image and not the high-pass image, and adding the high-pass image to the low-pass image after dynamic range compression to create an output image. | 02-07-2013 |
| 20130039592 | METHODS FOR THE COMPENSATION OF IMAGING TECHNIQUE IN THE PROCESSING OF RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGES - The present invention relates to methods and devices for analyzing x-ray images. In particular, devices, methods and algorithms are provided that allow for the accurate and reliable evaluation of bone structure and macro-anatomical parameters from x-ray images. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130044960 | COIL COMPRESSION FOR THREE DIMENSIONAL AUTOCALIBRATING PARALLEL IMAGING WITH CARTESIAN SAMPLING - A three dimensional image, in a phased array magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is provided. Three dimensional k-space data within an auto calibration signal (ACS) region and outside the ACS region are acquired. The k-space data within the ACS region are converted into hybrid space ACS data. Compression matrices and alignment matrices of the compression matrices for the hybrid space ACS data are found along a readout direction. Alignment matrices are multiplied to the compression matrices to achieve the properly-aligned compression matrices along the readout direction. All k-space data are converted into hybrid space. The properly-aligned compression matrices are applied to the hybrid space data to provide compressed data with fewer channels. The compressed data are used to form a three dimensional image. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130051689 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image encoding apparatus including an encoding part performing encoding processing on each image processing unit including a plurality of encoding units and generating encoded data, and a sorting/marker-inserting part sorting the encoding units in the encoded data in encoding processing order for one screen and inserting a marker as a delimiter for encoding processing using a correlation with an immediately preceding encoding unit. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130051690 | System and Method of Compressing Data in Font Files - A compressed font file including compressed data is received. The compressed data is decompressed to generate decompressed data. An attempt to validate the decompressed data is made. Within the decompressed data, a predetermined pattern of invalid data corresponding to an element of a font file is detected. The font file is reconstructed by replacing at least some of the invalid data with the element. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130064461 | IRREVERSIBLE COMPRESSION APPARATUS, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - A compressed image, for which a desired SSIM value is obtained, is acquired when irreversible compression is performed. Specifically, a quadratic curve G | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130071037 | GRAPHICAL MENU BUILDER FOR ENCODING APPLICATIONS IN AN IMAGE - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for encoding applications in an image. One embodiment of the method includes forming a first image that encodes information indicative of a map relating one or more pixel patterns to functionality implemented by a processor-based device. The first image is formed so that the processor-based device can decode the information to generate the map. The method also includes forming a second image that includes the pixel pattern(s). The second image is formed so that the processor-based device can detect the pixel pattern(s) and implement the functionality using the map. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130077877 | IMAGE ENCODER AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - According to one embodiment, an image encoder configured to write coded image data in a memory includes an encoding module, a write address determining module, and a memory controller. The encoding module divides original image data including a plurality of pixels into a plurality of block lines, divides each block line into a plurality of sub-block lines, encodes the original image data in each sub-block line, and generates a plurality of coded sub-block lines. The write address determining module determines a write address of the memory in each coded sub-block line based on a number of the sub-block lines, an original image data size of the original image data, and image coding rate. The memory controller writes the coded sub-block line in the write address corresponding to the coded sub-block line. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130077878 | IMAGE RELAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE RELAY METHOD - According to one embodiment, an image relay apparatus includes a reception unit, a determination unit and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives compressed image data from a relay source apparatus. The determination unit determines whether or not the compressed image data is processable through a first path not involving decompression of the compressed image data, based on data on a relay destination apparatus. The transmission unit transfers, to the relay destination apparatus, either the compressed image data processed through the first path or recompressed image data obtained by processing the compressed image data through a second path involving decompression, drawing, and recompression of the compressed image data. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130077879 | PROGRAMMABLE WAVELET TREE - An apparatus is provided. In the apparatus, a demultiplexer is configured to receive an input signal, and each of a plurality of sample buffers are coupled to the demultiplexer. A first multiplexer is coupled to each of the sample buffers. A filter is coupled to the first multiplexer. A bypass delay circuit is coupled to the first multiplexer, and a second multiplexer is coupled to the filter and the bypass delay circuit. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130077880 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCODING LIGHT FIELD IMAGE FILES - Systems and methods configured to store images synthesized from light field image data and metadata describing the images in electronic files and render images using the stored image and the metadata in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment includes a processor and memory containing an encoding application and light field image data, where the light field image data comprises a plurality of low resolution images of a scene captured from different viewpoints. In addition, the encoding application configures the processor to: synthesize a higher resolution image of the scene from a reference viewpoint using the low resolution images, where synthesizing the higher resolution image involves creating a depth map that specifies depths from the reference viewpoint for pixels in the higher resolution image; encode the higher resolution image; and create a light field image file including the encoded image and metadata including the depth map. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130084018 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING DATA - A graphics texture data encoding arrangement in which the texels in a texel block | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130089263 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL IMAGE SIGNAL COMPRESSION USING INTRINSIC IMAGES - In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. According to a feature of the present invention, the method comprises the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, generating an intrinsic image corresponding to the image, and compressing the intrinsic image to provide a compressed intrinsic image. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130129235 | Image Coding Method - An image coding method. The method includes encoding a first image, the first image having a reduced spatial resolution relative to an input image, wherein values of the first image depend on energy of corresponding areas of the input image, and encoding a first shape information of the shape of a spatial spectrum of the input image. The method further includes reconstructing a second image from the encoded first image, reconstructing a second shape information from the encoded first shape information, and generating a noise image having an intensity described by the second image and having a spectrum shape described by the second shape information. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130129236 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An image processing apparatus includes a filter unit which filters image signals; a sampling unit which generates first digital image signals having a first resolution by sampling the filtered image signals at a predetermined sampling frequency; and a super-resolution unit which reconstructs a second digital image signal having a second resolution which is higher than the first resolution by performing super-resolution on the first digital image signals generated by the sampling unit, wherein the filter unit passes frequency components corresponding to or lower than the Nyquist frequency which is half the sampling frequency, and passes a part of frequency components within a range from the Nyquist frequency to the highest frequency which can be represented by the second resolution. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130142444 | HAND HELD BAR CODE READERS OR MOBILE COMPUTERS WITH CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES - A data decoding system that includes a server-side proxy component and at least two back-end computers, where the server-side proxy component is configured, when it receives a decoding request from a client, to select a back-end computer to forward the decoding request to, based on either a pre-defined rule, load estimates for said at least two computers, estimated network throughputs across network paths to the two computers. In response to receiving this request, the back-end computer that is selected is configured to decode the request, which is an image of decodable indicia, by locating the decodable indicia within the image and decoding it into a decoded message. The decodable indicia was provided by a raw image byte stream, a compressed image byte stream, or a partial compressed image byte stream. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130142445 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - An image encoding device includes a first compression unit, a second compression unit, a third compression unit and an output unit. The first compression unit generates first compressed data by compressing first data associated with a reference block in an input image. The second compression unit generates second compressed data by compressing second data associated with a current compressing block in the input image when the current compressing block corresponds to a first pattern. The current compressing block is included in the reference block. The third compression unit generates third compressed data by compressing the second data when the current compressing block corresponds to one of a plurality of second patterns. The output unit outputs compressed data based on the first compressed data, the second compressed data and the third compressed data. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130156332 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEPTH-GUIDED IMAGE FILTERING IN A VIDEO CONFERENCE ENVIRONMENT - A method is provided in one example embodiment that includes receiving a plurality of depth values corresponding to pixels of an image; and filtering the image as a function of a plurality of variations in the depth values between adjacent pixels of a window associated with the image. In more detailed embodiments, the method may include encoding the image into a bit stream for transmission over a network. The filtering can account for a bit rate associated with the encoding of the image. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130156333 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing device which includes an encoding processing unit which generates a data stream in which markers denoting segmentation of image encoding processing are inserted, and a marker information generation unit which generates marker information which is provided with position information denoting a position in the data stream of a selected marker with a predetermined marker thinning-out interval from the markers which are inserted. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130170762 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZED DELTA ENCODING - A method and system are described for preparing a batch of data sets for a batch processing using a predetermined correlation encoding operation. The batch of data sets may be analyzed to determine a plurality of correlation parameters representing degrees of correlation between member data sets of said batch of data sets. The correlation parameters may be used to generate an optimized correlation dependency graph of the member sets. The optimized correlation dependency graph may be used for performing the predetermined correlation encoding operation. By optimizing the correlation dependencies between data sets for subsequent processing, e.g. data compression, of the data sets, the advantages of correlation encoding may be used, even for data sets which appear a priori to be unordered and only weakly correlated. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130182964 | IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION - A method for transmitting image data sets via a communication network is provided. Image data are processed for dividing the image into a plurality of the image sub regions and for determining for each of the plurality of the image sub regions a hash code in dependence upon pixel data of pixels located in the respective image sub region. The hash codes are transmitted together with location data of the respective image sub regions if the hash code exists in an associative dataset and the pixel data are transmitted together with location data of the respective image sub regions if the hash code does not exist in the associative dataset. Upon receipt of at least one of the hash codes and the pixel data together with the location data, image data are generated. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130188881 | REDUCING REFERENCE PICTURE SET SIGNAL OVERHEAD ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for reducing signal overhead on an electronic device is described. The method includes obtaining a picture. The method also includes encoding the picture. The method further includes indicating a reference picture set (RPS) corresponding to the picture based on an initialized index value. The method additionally includes sending a bitstream. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130202218 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CODING IMAGE - According to one embodiment, an apparatus codes each line of an image. The apparatus includes a segmentation unit and a coding unit. The segmentation unit is configured to segment the image into a first group including at least a head line and a second group including lines except for the first group. The coding unit is configured to code the first group so that a coding amount of the first group is smaller than a first target coding amount, and to code the second group so that a coding amount of each line of the second group is smaller than a second target coding amount smaller than the first target coding amount. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130236112 | SIGNATURE REPRESENTATION OF DATA HAVING HIGH DIMENSIONALITY - A system and method for generating an m-dimensional signature vector in a computing device is provided. The signature vector may be generated from a plurality of key-value pairs, each comprising a unique identifier and an associated non-zero value. Each element of the m-dimensional signature vector is calculated based on a summation of a plurality of terms. Each of the terms is calculated from a respective key-value pair by generating a seed based on the key of the respective key-value pair and an element identifier associated with the vector element being calculated; generating a pseudo-random number from the generated seed; and multiplying the pseudo-random number by the value of the respective key-value pair, wherein m<| 09-12-2013 | |
| 20130251276 | USING RESOLUTION NUMBERS TO DETERMINE ADDITIONAL COMPONENT VALUES - First and second codewords are determined, based on first feature vector components of the image elements in an image block, as representations of a first and second component value. Third and fourth codewords are determined, based on second vector components, as representations of a third and fourth component value. First N | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130259392 | IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF CADENCE PATTERN IN VIDEO - A system and method for the identification and analysis of cadence pattern is disclosed. The method uses previous and current fields to generate the difference between the field values. The difference of these values along with the field relations is passed to the state machine to generate the state of the top and bottom fields. Based on the top and bottom state the cadence signature is generated and by using the Fourier analysis the principle frequency of repeated cadence pattern signature sequence is identified. Each of the cadence signatures present in the cadence pattern signature sequence is decoded to calculate the pull-down value of the cadence pattern. The pull down value then gives the actual cadence pattern. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130259393 | INTER REFERENCE PICTURE SET SIGNALING AND PREDICTION ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A previously signaled reference picture set (RPS) corresponding to a current picture is indicated. A first flag for a picture in the previously signaled RPS is set if the picture is to be used as a reference picture for the current picture. A bitstream is sent. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130266231 | SERIAL IMAGE DATA FORMAT AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERING IMAGE DATA FROM SERIAL TO PARALLEL - A method for converting image data from serial to parallel is provided. The method has steps of: receiving serial data of an image into a line buffer according to a serial clock signal of the image, wherein the serial data at least comprises a frame start code, and a row start code; detecting the frame start code of the serial data in the line buffer to trigger a vertical synchronous signal of the image; and detecting the row start code of the serial data in the line buffer to trigger a horizontal synchronous signal of the image. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130272618 | DEVICES FOR IDENTIFYING A LEADING PICTURE - An electronic device for indicating a leading picture is described. The electronic device includes memory in communication with a processor and instructions stored in the memory. The electronic device encodes a first picture. The electronic device further determines whether a leading picture is present. The electronic device further generates an explicit leading picture indicator if a leading picture is present. The electronic device further sends the explicit leading picture indicator if a leading picture is present. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130272619 | DEVICES FOR IDENTIFYING A LEADING PICTURE - An electronic device for indicating a leading picture is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The electronic device encodes a Clean Random Access (CRA) picture. The electronic device determines whether a leading picture is present. If a leading picture is present, then the electronic device determines whether the leading picture is a dependent leading picture or an independent leading picture. The electronic device generates an explicit dependent leading picture indicator if the leading picture is a dependent leading picture and sends the explicit dependent leading picture indicator if the leading picture is a dependent leading picture. The electronic device generates an explicit independent leading picture indicator if the leading picture is an independent leading picture and sends the explicit independent leading picture indicator if the leading picture is an independent leading picture. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130272620 | Analytics Assisted Encoding - Video analytics may be used to assist video encoding by selectively encoding only portions of a frame and using, instead, previously encoded portions. Previously encoded portions may be used when succeeding frames have a level of motion less than a threshold. In such case, all or part of succeeding frames may not be encoded, increasing bandwidth and speed in some embodiments. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130287308 | Multi-Compatible Low and High Dynamic Range and High Bit-Depth Texture and Video Encoding System - A method of processing image data includes generating image data including luminance and chrominance data representing a selected object, separating the luminance and chrominance data, storing the separated luminance and chrominance data in corresponding separate spaces in memory, and separately compressing the stored luminance and chrominance data. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130287309 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present technology includes a setting unit that sets the position of a boundary of image data in an upper hierarchy unit to be in a lower hierarchy unit that is lower than the upper hierarchy unit when the image data is encoded in a unit of encoding with a hierarchical structure; an encoding unit that generates encoded data by encoding the image data according to the position of the boundary set by the setting unit; and an addition unit that adds information on the image data in the upper hierarchy unit before encoded data in an intermediate hierarchy unit that includes the boundary set by the setting unit, is lower than the upper hierarchy unit, and is higher than the lower hierarchy unit. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an image processing device. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130294704 | INHERITANCE IN A TIERED SIGNAL QUALITY HIERARCHY - A first set of reconstruction data includes a symbol specifying an attribute setting of a parent element in a rendition of the signal at a first level of quality. The attribute setting can be one of multiple attribute settings of the parent element indicating how to configure the parent element for the rendition of the signal at a first level of quality. A signal processor divides the parent element into multiple sub-elements to reconstruct the signal at a second, higher level of quality. The signal processor utilizes the rendition of the signal at the first level of quality and the attribute setting of the parent element as specified by the symbol (at the first level of quality) to produce a default attribute setting for one or more respective sub-elements (into which the parent element is divided) unless reconstruction data to reconstruct the signal at a higher level of quality specifies a different attribute setting for the respective sub-elements. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130301940 | METHOD FOR IMAGE DATA COMPRESSION OF IMAGE BLOCK - A method for image data compression of a to-be-encoded image block includes: determining one of a plurality of preset encoding modes as an encoding mode based upon attributes of pixels of the to-be-encoded image block; and compressing image data of the to-be-encoded image block according to the encoding mode thus determined so as to obtain encoded data. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130315492 | PREDICTING AND GENERATING A QUANTITY OF IMAGE CLONES - For predicting and generating a quantity of image clones, a provision module provisions a specified number of a specified image clone to an image pool. The specified number N1 is calculated as N1=N0+CEIL(SE). N0 is a number of the specified image clones provisioned during a previous provisioning operation. SE is a storage estimate. CEIL rounds SE up to a nearest integer. A deployment module deploys a first image clone from the image pool in a subsequent deployment in response to a request. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130315493 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method that are capable of enhancing encoding efficiency while suppressing a decrease in the efficiency of encoding processing. The image processing apparatus includes an encoding mode setter that sets, in units of coding units having a hierarchical structure, whether a non-compression mode is to be selected as an encoding mode for encoding image data, the non-compression mode being an encoding mode in which the image data is output as encoded data, and an encoder that encodes the image data in units of the coding units in accordance with a mode set by the encoding mode setter. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130343660 | PIXEL DATA COMPRESSION DEVICE - A pixel data compression device is provided. The device includes: a first judgment unit for comparing a number of bits of a value of first pixel data and a number of bits of a value of second pixel data with a number of reference bits; a format determination unit for determining a format of compressed data, the format corresponding to the number of bits of the value of the first pixel data and the number of bits of the value of the second pixel data; and a compression unit for generating the compressed data, which corresponds to the format of the compressed data, from the first pixel data and the second pixel data. The compressed data includes a flag region, a first data region, and a second data region. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130343661 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMAGE STORAGE AND ANALYSIS - An image storage and retrieval system is provided with means for matching and retrieving images based on image content, rather than image file names. In one embodiment, an image storing tool is configured to store an image in a relational database table. The image storing tool converts a compressed image back to the original image with the actual pixel values block-by-block until the entire image line as derived by the width has been decoded for one component or all interleaved components. In another embodiment, an image matching tool is configured to retrieve a stored image in a relational database table and return data values associated with the image. The image matching tool matches image content of an input image against each retrieved image in the relational database table on a line-by-line basis from top to bottom within the same image number and component number. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140010468 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME SERVICE OF HUGE AND HIGH QUALITY DIGITAL IMAGE ON INTERNET - A method for providing real time service of huge and high quality digital image on internet is disclosed, wherein data relevant to a general life such as a general photo, an advertising leaflet, and a pamphlet and professional image data exhibited in an art gallery, exhibition grounds, a pavilion are made into huge and high quality digital image or scanned and photographed to be digital, thereby processing real time service as an interactive browsing form. In the present invention, data are directly made, edited, constructed, and uploaded on internet, thereby providing various additional information with image through hyperlink and processing high quality digital image service on network without speed delay for huge image. | 01-09-2014 |
| 20140023283 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSING Z-STACK MICROSCOPY IMAGES - A method and apparatus for compressing Z-stack microscopy images comprising compressing an all-focus image and depth map representation of an original Z-stack of images, computing a prediction residual as a difference between a simulated Z-stack, generated from the all-focus image and the depth-map, and the original Z-stack and concatenating the prediction residual to the compressed all-focus image and the depth map to produce a final compressed file. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140037220 | IMAGE REPOSITORY SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A service card image repository and directory is described. A process includes receiving a request to store at least one service image and related data, determining that the service image has been approved, and then uploading the service image and related data. The method also includes assigning a unique identifier to the service image and related data, and storing the service image and related data in an image repository. Some embodiments include receiving a request to download a service image and related data, locating the requested service image, determining that the requested service image requires transcoding and/or scaling, and then transcoding and/or scaling the requested service image to form a modified service image. The modified service image is then transmitted to an entity. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140037221 | CODING ARTIFACTS REMOVING METHOD, CODING METHOD, DECODING METHOD, CODING ARTIFACTS REMOVING APPARATUS, CODING APPARATUS, AND DECODING APPARATUS - A method of removing coding artifacts in first and second processed edges that are processed edges in an image signal and in different directions includes: determining, based on at least pixel values of first adjacent pixels adjacent to the first processed edge, a first target pixel from which coding artifacts are to be removed for the first processed edge (S | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140044366 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an imaging device including a recorded image signal exposure information corrector that, on the basis of information related to different exposure times, corrects a recorded image signal recorded with the different exposure times, a mixing coefficient calculator that calculates a mixing coefficient used for mixing the corrected recorded image signal with a mixed image signal, in which recorded image signals recorded with the different exposure times are mixed, retrieved from a storage unit that saves the mixed image signal, and a mixer that outputs the mixed image signal in which the mixed image signal retrieved from the storage unit and the corrected recorded image signal are mixed on the basis of the mixing coefficients, and writes the mixed image signal to the storage unit. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140086499 | DYNAMIC CREATION OF TREND GRAPH - A method of generating a trend graph comprises storing a stream of data elements in a buffer having a storage capacity corresponding to a first number of data elements, compressing the stored data elements to fit within a display having a size corresponding to a second number of data elements smaller than the first number of data elements, detecting an event, and as a consequence detecting the event, compressing the stored data elements to occupy a reduced portion of the buffer. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140099039 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an image processing device including a converter configured to obtain, prior to performing an encoding process, image drawing information of an image capable of using upon encoding and to convert the obtained image drawing information into a parameter for encoding, and an encoding processor configured to perform the encoding process by changing contents of the encoding process according to the parameter for encoding converted by the converter. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140099040 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided an image processing device including a renderer configured to generate a frame image in real time, an encoder configured to encode the frame image to generate an encoded data, a sender configured to transmit the encoded data to a client device over a network, the client device being configured to decode the encoded data and output the frame image, and a controller configured to predict an increase of delay incurred in receiving the encoded data in the client device and control a generation interval of the frame image by the renderer based on the prediction. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140105511 | MATCHED REPRESENTATION SPACE METHOD FOR NUMERICALLY ENCODING DATA - According to one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for numerically encoding and representing data that includes providing a representation of data and separating the representation into a scale header and an additional precision packet. Separating the representation includes identifying the location of the highest-order non-zero bit and encoding the location of the highest-order non-zero bit to form the scale header. The balance of the bits following the highest-order non-zero bit, or a truncated set of these bits, is encoded to form the additional precision packet, and a matched representation space (MRS) representation is composed of the paired data structures of a scale header and a corresponding additional precision packet, if any. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140112587 | System and Method for Encoding Standard-Formatted Images with Information - System and method for encoding standard-formatted images with information including, but not limited to, geospatial information. This information, possibly in mark-up language format, can be quickly accessed and used to modify the image to which it is appended, or it can be ignored because the image itself remains unchanged. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140112588 | Real-Time Image Reconstruction - An apparatus is provided that includes a processor (e.g., FPGA) configured to cause the apparatus to perform a number of operations. The apparatus may be caused to receive input data for a digital image represented by point samples at respective sample locations, reconstruct the digital image from the input data for presentation by a display including display pixels, and output the reconstructed digital image. The reconstruction may include a number of operations for each of at least some of the display pixels. In this regard, the apparatus may be caused to perform a convolution-based, point-sample encoding of a selected display pixel to generate an encoding that identifies point samples of the digital image nearby the selected display pixel. And the apparatus may be caused to interpolate a value of the selected display pixel from at least some of the identified point samples using the generated encoding. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140119668 | MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SYNTHESIZING AND DISPLAYING MEDICAL IMAGE GENERATED USING MULTI-ENERGY X-RAY - A medical image processing apparatus may include an image data generator to generate image data corresponding to at least two different energy bands by using an X-ray, an ROI processor to highlight a tissue of interest classified based on a predetermined characteristic to be distinguished from a normal tissue, in the generated image data, and a display to alternately display first image data in which the tissue of interest is not highlighted, and second image data in which the tissue of interest is highlighted to be distinguished from the normal tissue. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140119669 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSION OF IMAGE DATA - A data compression apparatus | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140133768 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SPLITTING IMAGE - In a method for splitting an image for encoding purposes, a largest coding unit (LCU) of the image is obtained, the LCU is divided into a plurality of coding unit (CU) blocks, the CU blocks examined sequentially, and a determination made as to whether or not a current CU block needs to be split according to a pixel variance of the current CU block. The current CU block is split into four sub-blocks if the current CU block needs to be split. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140133769 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE BLOCK MERGING METHOD - In a method for merging image blocks for encoding purposes, a largest coding unit (LCU) of an image is obtained, the LCU divided into a plurality of N×N blocks, the N×N blocks examined sequentially, and a determination made as to whether a block merging operation needs to be executed for the LCU according to an average value of pixels of each of the N×N blocks. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140133770 | MANAGING RAW AND PROCESSED IMAGE FILE PAIRS - Among other things, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for managing image files. In one aspect, a method includes displaying, at a data processing device, a preview of images available for import from a storage device, wherein each image is associated with a pair of corresponding image files comprising a compressed image file and a raw image file obtained from a single image capture. At the data processing device, both the raw image file and the compressed image file of the pair associated with at least one of the images are imported. At the data processing device, at least one of the pair of corresponding image files is identified as a master image file for the associated image. At the data processing device, the identified master image file for the associated captured image is displayed. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140147054 | TOPOLOGY-PRESERVING DOWNSAMPLING OF BINARY IMAGES - A binary image downsampling method, including the steps of generating a gray-scale image from a binary image having a background and one or more foreground portions, locating skeleton pixels in the one or more foreground portions, manipulating values of certain foreground pixels in the gray-scale image such that the differences between the values of the skeleton pixels and the background pixels become more significant, downsampling the gray-scale image with the manipulated values of the certain foreground pixels, and generating a downsampled binary image from the downsampled gray-scale image. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140177971 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STORING A COMPRESSION RATIO INDICATION IN A PIXEL VALUE BUFFER IN TILE ENCODING - A tile of pixels is encoded by variable length encoding blocks of pixels constituting different subsets of the tile to form sequences of symbols as encoded representations of the pixel values. A respective size indication is determined for each set of at least block. A size indication is representative of a compression ratio of a combined sequence corresponding to the at least one sequence of symbols obtained for the at least one block of the set. The combined sequences are arranged in in a pixel value buffer in a buffer memory. The size indication determined for a given set is also stored in the pixel value buffer in the buffer memory to precede, according to a reading order of the pixel value buffer, the combined sequence of the given set. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140185944 | Gradient Search For 2D/3D Map Compression - This disclosure is generally drawn to methods, systems, devices and/or apparatus related to compressing the size of engineering development maps. Specifically, some of the disclosed example methods, systems, devices and/or apparatus relate to compression of an engineering development map (e.g., kinematic map) based on a given fixed size and/or based on a given target error tolerance value using gradient search techniques. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140185945 | MODIFIED DP SEARCH FOR 2D/3D MAP COMPRESSION - This disclosure is generally drawn to methods, systems, devices and/or apparatus related to compressing the size of engineering development maps. Specifically, some of the disclosed example methods, systems, devices and/or apparatus relate to compression of an engineering development map (e.g., kinematic map) based on a given fixed size and/or based on a given target error tolerance value using modified Douglas-Peucker search techniques. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140185946 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - The present invention relates to an image processing device and method, which realize improvement in encoding efficiency for color difference signals and reduction in address calculations for memory access. In a case where a block size of orthogonal transform is 4×4, and a macroblock of luminance signals is configured of four 4×4 pixel blocks appended with 0 through 1, the four luminance signal blocks are corresponded with one color difference signal 4×4 block appended with C. At this time, there exist four motion vector information of mv | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140205198 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS - An image encoding apparatus is provided which realizes an encoding process at a high bit rate without degradation in image quality at boundary parts within a picture. The image encoding apparatus | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140212057 | METHODS FOR VISUAL CONTENT PROCESSING , AND SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM CODES THERETO - Computer implemented methods, systems and computer program codes for creating visual content to be output. The methods and systems are applicable in content visualizations wherein the content to be output is to be formed in a layered manner. According to the method image content item or items are received and are categorized on a basis of content type to one or more categories. The image content item or items in the category or categories are rendered into one or more raster canvases, which represent image content data in the category. The image content data from the raster canvases are compressed, wherein the compression method for image content data in each of the raster canvases is selected on a basis of the categorization of image content items rendered in the raster canvas. The compressed image content data from the raster canvas is stored in a memory for further actions. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140219572 | ENHANCED VIDEO ENCODING USING DEPTH INFORMATION - The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for enhancing video encoding using depth information. An exemplary method comprises: determining, using a computing device, depth information associated with a first object in an image; determining, based on the depth information, that the first object is an object in focus; determining, based on the object in focus, a more important segment of an image; determining a first bit rate for encoding the more important segment of the image; and encoding the more important segment using the first bit rate. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140219573 | PATTERN MODE FOR FRAME BUFFER COMPRESSION - Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for compressing image data using pattern mode compression schemes. A pattern mode compression scheme can reduce the amount of data stored in a frame buffer to reduce power costs of an image display system. In some implementations, pattern mode compression can be suitable for compression of pixel blocks having a limited color palette with one or more pixels of a different foreground color, and a slope-enabled pattern compression can be suitable for compression of pixel blocks having a gradient. Input pixel values can be compared against a dynamically-populated, fixed size pattern entry database to determine whether pattern mode compression or slope-enabled pattern mode compression should be used to compress the image block. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140241640 | Bitmap Processing Mechanism - A method is disclosed. The method includes retrieving one or more compressed objects and inserting the compressed objects directly into a compressed bitmap during compression of a sheetside image. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140247999 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAY STREAM COMPRESSION - A method and a device compress a display stream wherein coefficients are grouped, for each group, the greatest coded line index (GCLI) is determined and only the GCLI lowest weight bits of the coefficients are copied into the output stream together with the value of the GCLI. The method and device provide a good compression efficiency together with a simple hardware. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140270552 | DATA BACKUP USING COLOR SPACE ENCODED IMAGE - Embodiments of the present disclosure can include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer program products for using color space encoded images to publish an entire book including text and images onto a single piece of paper, or onto few pieces of paper. In certain aspects, the present systems and methods allow users to perform data backup using color space encoded images. In other aspects, the present systems and methods allow users to self-publish desired content significantly cheaper by encoding the desired content using color space encoded images. In certain aspects, publishers or booksellers can include traditional books in combination with digital or electronic books distributed using color space encoded images. In other aspects, the present systems and methods allow users or administrators to compress and/or copy massive documents using color space encoded images. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140286582 | SIGNATURE REPRESENTATION OF DATA HAVING HIGH DIMENSIONALITY - A system and method for generating an m-dimensional signature vector in a computing device is provided. The signature vector may be generated from a plurality of key-value pairs, each comprising a unique identifier and an associated non-zero value. Each element of the m-dimensional signature vector is calculated based on a summation of a plurality of terms. Each of the terms is calculated from a respective key-value pair by generating a seed based on the key of the respective key-value pair and an element identifier associated with the vector element being calculated; generating a pseudo-random number from the generated seed; and multiplying the pseudo-random number by the value of the respective key-value pair, wherein m<| 09-25-2014 | |
| 20140341477 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMPRESSING A DATA ARRAY WITH PROJECTIONS - A projective compression scheme for an n-dimensional data array makes use of at least n+1 compression maps in order to maximize the ability to resolve ambiguities. The invention also relates to hardware implementations of the projective compression scheme, and in particular to front end circuits that allow for a compressive readout. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140348435 | IMAGE PROCESSOR - In a high-speed mode, a software processing unit notifies a hardware processing unit of settings information about output pictures before the hardware processing unit starts to encode an input picture, and the hardware processing unit performs continuous encoding for the output pictures, based on the settings information notified of by the software processing unit, without a notification signifying a completion for every picture, and upon completion of encoding for all of a specified number of the output pictures, sends an interrupt notification signifying a completion of encoding to the software processing unit. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140369612 | Systems and Methods for Encoding Structured Light Field Image Files - Systems and methods configured to store images synthesized from light field image data and metadata describing the images in electronic files and render images using the stored image and the metadata in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment includes a processor and memory containing an encoding application and light field image data, where the light field image data comprises a plurality of low resolution images of a scene captured from different viewpoints. In addition, the encoding application configures the processor to: synthesize a higher resolution image of the scene from a reference viewpoint using the low resolution images, where synthesizing the higher resolution image involves creating a depth map that specifies depths from the reference viewpoint for pixels in the higher resolution image; encode the higher resolution image; and create a light field image file including the encoded image and metadata including the depth map. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140376825 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCODING LIGHT FIELD IMAGE FILES HAVING DEPTH AND CONFIDENCE MAPS - Systems and methods configured to store images synthesized from light field image data and metadata describing the images in electronic files and render images using the stored image and the metadata in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment includes a processor and memory containing an encoding application and light field image data, where the light field image data comprises a plurality of low resolution images of a scene captured from different viewpoints. In addition, the encoding application configures the processor to: synthesize a higher resolution image of the scene from a reference viewpoint using the low resolution images, where synthesizing the higher resolution image involves creating a depth map that specifies depths from the reference viewpoint for pixels in the higher resolution image; encode the higher resolution image; and create a light field image file including the encoded image and metadata including the depth map. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150016734 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a reconfigurable circuit, a compression unit, an image processing unit, and a controller. The reconfigurable circuit has a reconfigurable circuit configuration. The compression unit is configured as a circuit in the reconfigurable circuit to compress image data. The image processing unit is configured as a circuit in the reconfigurable circuit to perform image processing on the compressed image data. The controller changes the circuit configuration of the reconfigurable circuit so as to vary a compression rate of the compression unit in accordance with a processing capacity of the image processing unit. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150016735 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - This invention makes it possible to detect only a relatively large mismatch while allowing a mismatch to some extent between an LDR image and HDR information, which are stored in a single file, caused by editing of the LDR image. An apparatus of this invention generates, from an input HDR image, an LDR image and difference information representing a difference between the LDR image and the HDR image. The generated LDR image is encoded. Information formed from data representing a local feature of the LDR image is calculated as LDR meta-data. The apparatus generates a file by storing the encoded data in a main encoded data storage region and storing the difference information and the LDR meta-data in a marker defined as a non-reference region for an LDR image decoding apparatus in the file structure. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150016736 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING REAL-TIME SERVICE OF HUGE AND HIGH QUALITY DIGITAL IMAGE ON INTERNET - A method for providing real time service of huge and high quality digital image on internet is disclosed, wherein data relevant to a general life such as a general photo, an advertising leaflet, and a pamphlet and professional image data exhibited in an art gallery, exhibition grounds, a pavilion are made into huge and high quality digital image or scanned and photographed to be digital, thereby processing real time service as an interactive browsing form. In the present invention, data are directly made, edited, constructed, and uploaded on internet, thereby providing various additional information with image through hyperlink and processing high quality digital image service on network without speed delay for huge image. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150023608 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPRESSED SENSING - Method and apparatus for compressed sensing yields acceptable quality reconstructions of an object from reduced numbers of measurements. A component x of a signal or image is represented as a vector having m entries. Measurements y, comprising a vector with n entries, where n is less than m, are made. An approximate reconstruction of the m-vector x is made from y. Special measurement matrices allow measurements y=Ax+z, where y is the measured m-vector, x the desired n-vector and z an m-vector representing noise. “A” is an n by m matrix, i.e. an array with fewer rows than columns. “A” enables delivery of an approximate reconstruction, x | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150043833 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The embodiments of the present invention provide an image processing method and an electronic device. The method comprises: obtaining all image characteristics contained in each of N captured images and determining at least one image characteristic from the all image characteristics; searching the N images for at least two images each containing the at least one image characteristic based on the at least one image characteristic; determining a reference image from the at least two images and obtaining image residue information characterizing an image difference parameter between the reference image and each of the at least two images; and applying data compression to the reference image and the image residue information. In this way, it is possible to solve the problem associated with limited image compression scheme and large space occupation by pictures. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150304674 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING VISUAL QUALITY BY USING NEIGHBORING PIXEL INFORMATION IN FLATNESS CHECK AND/OR APPLYING SMOOTH FUNCTION TO QUANTIZATION PARAMETERS/PIXEL VALUES - An image processing method includes at least following steps: partitioning a picture into a plurality of picture regions, wherein each picture region comprises at least one pixel group row, each pixel group row comprises at least one pixel group, and the picture regions comprise a first picture region and a second picture region horizontally adjacent to each other; and performing flatness check upon a specific pixel group in a pixel group row of the first picture region through using at least one pixel borrowed from the second picture region. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150312576 | METHOD FOR LIMITING THE MEMORY REQUIRED FOR RECORDING AN AUDIO, IMAGE OR VIDEO FILE CREATED BY VIRTUE OF AN APPARATUS IN SAID APPARATUS - Method and apparatus for the digital encoding of a first raw file, the method includes: | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150341647 | ACCELERATED IMAGE PROCESSING - An illustrative example method of processing image data includes dividing a block of data into a plurality of sub-blocks, the block of data corresponding to at least one image; selecting at least one of the sub-blocks according to a predetermined sequence; identifying a plurality of features of interest in the selected sub-block; and processing the selected sub-block to provide information regarding at least one of the features of interest. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150371406 | CONTROLLING REAL-TIME COMPRESSION DETECTION - A detection learning module is used for enabling and/or disabling real-time compression detection by maintaining a history of real-time compression detection success for sampled data. The enabling or disabling of the real-time compression detection is based on a detection benefit function derived from a set of calculated heuristics indicating the real-time compression detection success on input streams. The detection benefit function is calculated based on at least one heuristic score. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20160014424 | STORAGE OF DEPTH INFORMATION IN A DIGITAL IMAGE FILE | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160044322 | Portable Device for Personal Electronic Health Records - This invention relates to a portable device for storing and transporting personal electronic health records (PeHR). The device comprises a memory storage device such as a USB flash drive or SD card, an ultra low loss compression means capable of compressing and decompressing medical images and retaining their diagnostic level quality, and a security system for protecting the confidentiality of the patient information such as password protected access software or a physically lockable flash drive. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160073083 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS - An image encoding method for an encoding system includes receiving a first image captured by a main camera and a second image captured by a sub camera provided in the same plane; comparing pixel values of pixels at first coordinates of each of the first and second images to obtain a first difference value; determining the first coordinates are in surface or back region in case of the first difference value is not more than or more than a first threshold value; pixel-shifting the second image by a first shift amount; and comparing the pixel value at the first coordinates of the first image with that of the second image after the pixel shift to obtain a second difference value, determining whether the first coordinates are in the surface or back region based on the second difference value, and recording into a second frame different from the first frame. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160086354 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING IMAGE DATA - The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for encoding images, more particularly to an encoding unit in conjunction with a library of pictorial entities and image qualifiers. The method and apparatus provide encoding an image by using a code factor table in conjunction with a set of element codes. The resulting image code allows the set pictorial elements of an image and their associated image, qualifiers to be represented by a compact code uniquely representing a given configuration of pictorial elements. The use of the resulting image code facilitates the transmission and storage of images requiring only the code to be sent or stored. The invention further provides a computer readable medium comprising a program element that direct a computer to implement the encoding process. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160112703 | REMOTE VIEWING OF LARGE IMAGE FILES - In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for sending image data to a client device. The computing system sends first image data from which a computing device is able to generate an initial display of an image. The initial display is a reduced-resolution version of the image that is reduced in resolution in comparison to a full resolution of the image. The computing system sends second image data from which the computing device is able to generate a subsequent display of the image. The subsequent display of the image is an intermediate-resolution version of the image that has a resolution that is higher than a resolution of the reduced-resolution version of the image and that is lower than the full resolution of the image. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160127746 | LIMITED ERROR RASTER COMPRESSION - Embodiments of the invention relate to an image or raster compression method for a multi-dimensional array of pixels. A user specifies a maximum error allowable per pixel for the compression algorithm. The raster is divided into a number of pixel blocks where each pixel is quantized and bit stuffed based on a number of block statistics including the maximum error allowable. The size of the pixel blocks is limited to two (e.g., 8×8 and 16×16) to save processing time with little difference in compression. A Look-Up Table (LUT) is used instead for certain types of data where it is more efficient. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160182912 | OPTIMIZING IMAGE COMPRESSION | 06-23-2016 |
| 20190147626 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENCODING FEATURES OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL OBJECT USING ONE FILE FORMAT | 05-16-2019 |
| 20220138904 | APPARATUSES AND METHODS FOR PERFORMING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENCODING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DECODING ON IMAGE - An artificial intelligence (AI) decoding apparatus includes a memory storing one or more instructions, and a processor configured to execute the stored one or more instructions, to obtain image data corresponding to a first image that is encoded, obtain a second image corresponding to the first image by decoding the obtained image data, determine whether to perform AI up-scaling of the obtained second image, based on the AI up-scaling of the obtained second image being determined to be performed, obtain a third image by performing the AI up-scaling of the obtained second image through an up-scaling deep neural network (DNN), and output the obtained third image, and based on the AI up-scaling of the obtained second image being determined to be not performed, output the obtained second image. | 05-05-2022 |
| 20220138992 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON WAVELET TRANSFORM - The present disclosure provides an image decoding method based on a wavelet transform. The method includes: performing entropy decoding on the compressed bitstream to obtain a reconstructed wavelet coefficient; dequantizing the reconstructed wavelet coefficient to obtain a dequantized wavelet coefficient; and performing N inverse wavelet transforms on the dequantized wavelet coefficient based on the wavelet transform model to obtain a reconstructed image, where the wavelet transform model is implemented based on a convolutional neural network (CNN). | 05-05-2022 |
