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| 20080212897 | Image processing method - The invention relates to an image processing method to generate, from a source image, an image of reduced size whose ratio between the width and the height is equal to a predetermined value, called reduced ratio. It comprises the following steps:
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| 20080247670 | GENERATION OF A DEPTH MAP FROM A MONOSCOPIC COLOR IMAGE FOR RENDERING STEREOSCOPIC STILL AND VIDEO IMAGES - The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for generating a depth map from a digital monoscopic color image. The method includes the following general steps: a) obtaining a first color component of the MCI, said first color component corresponding to partial color information of the MCI; and, b) assigning depth values to pixels of the MCI based on values of the first color component of respective pixels for forming the depth map for the MCI. In one embodiment, the depth values are generated by adjusting and/or scaling of pixel values of the Cr chroma component of the monoscopic source color image in the Y′CbCr color system. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080260290 | Changing the Aspect Ratio of Images to be Displayed on a Screen - The present invention relates to a method, image processing device, image display device including an image processing device and computer program product for changing the size of presentation of an image data stream (X) provided in a image data format. The image processing device ( | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080260291 | Image downscaling by binning - The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software product for image binning (downscaling) according to a predetermined procedure for a pre-selected color arrangement (e.g., a Bayer arrangement) by substantially maintaining a phase of channels (represented by selected colors) for reducing/elimination of artifacts in images taken by an electronic device. Several binning or scaling modes where the center points of each binned (e.g., averaged) pixel are arranged in the pre-selected color arrangement and maintain the phase of the channels are described. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080267532 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image enlarging apparatus includes: a luminance data calculation unit configured to set a reference frame from a video image, and to calculate first luminance data for a high resolution video image; a position calculation unit configured to set target pixels in at least one of frames included in the video image except the reference frame, and to calculate corresponding positions to the target pixels in the reference frame with decimal accuracy; a correction amount calculation unit configured to parallelly calculate correction amounts of the first luminance data for the corresponding positions based on the first luminance data, third luminance data of the target pixels, and the corresponding positions; an addition unit configured to calculate sum of correction amounts from the correction amounts; and a luminance data correction unit configured to correct the first luminance data based on the sum of the correction amounts. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080273814 | SCALING OF MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DATA IN A HYBRID DOMAIN - At least a system and data structure for the scaling of data is provided. An exemplary use of the disclosed embodiments involves the scaling up in size or the scaling down in size of computer images. n-dimensional transformed data representing some original n-dimensional real data is received. An m-dimensional inverse transform on the n-dimensional transformed data is performed to produce hybrid data, where 1≦m| 11-06-2008 | |
| 20080279478 | Image processing method and image processing apparatus - An image frame is segmented into a plurality of groups of blocks characterized by movements approximating each other. An image reader receives a source image frame and a destination image frame in image data including consecutive image frames and segments the frames into blocks. A corresponding point information generator computes matching to detect corresponding point information indicating correspondence between the source image frame and the destination image frame and generates a corresponding point information file which describes coordinates of corresponding points in the image frames. An affine parameter calculating unit calculates affine parameters indicating deformation and movement of a block occurring between the source image frame and the destination image frame, on the basis of the corresponding point information. A seed block growth unit examiners a block adjacent to a seed block serving as a starting point for area growth and repeats a determination as to whether the seed block should be combined with the adjacent block so as to segment an image frame into a group of background blocks characterized by movements approximating each other and the other groups of blocks. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20080292215 | SELECTIVE TEXT FLIPPING AND IMAGE MIRRORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Selectively flipping text and mirroring graphical elements of image without disrupting the readability of the overall image can be desirable. A multifunction device can manipulate an image by separating the image into a first object and a second object, processing the first object so as to mirror the first object about an axis, processing the second object so as to mirror a first position of the second object about the axis and arranging the second object at the mirrored position, and combining the first object and the second object to form an output image. The first object can include a graphical image and the second object can include text, and the second object can overlap the first object. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080292216 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING IMAGES USING VARIABLE SIZE TILES - Methods and systems for processing images using variable size tiles are disclosed and may include receiving raw image data for processing and dividing the received raw image data into a plurality of variable size tiles for processing. The variable size tiles may be sequentially processed. Each of the variable size tiles may comprise a plurality of lines. A size of the variable size tiles may be adjusted based on a distortion in a corresponding region of the raw image data. The variable size tiles may be processed in an image sensor pipeline. A current variable size tile may overlap at least one neighboring variable size tile. At least one neighboring variable size tile may include one or more of: above the current variable size tile, below the current variable size tile, left of the current variable size tile, and right of the current variable size tile. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080298720 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RESIZING IMAGES PRIOR TO UPLOAD - There is disclosed a system and method for resizing an image on a handheld mobile communication device prior to uploading to an image repository. In an embodiment, the method comprises: determining the size of an original image; determining any upload size restrictions for uploading the image to the image repository; and in dependence upon the upload size restrictions, resizing the original image to a new resized image to meet the upload size restriction. In another embodiment, the method may further comprise specifying at least one user selectable image size for resizing the original image; receiving a user selection of a desired image size; and resizing the original image to the user selected desired image size. In another embodiment, the image size automatically in dependence upon image upload bandwidth. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080304768 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The maximum number of scaled images formed for one document and the scaling ratio set for each of scaled images are accepted by an operation panel, the basic scaling ratio is read from a table defining the scaled image arrangement information and the like, the scaling ratio of the original image data obtained by an image reading section is changed, and scaled images laid out on one sheet are generated. The generated plurality of scaled images are arranged according to the arrangement information defined by the table, and image formation is performed by an image forming section, thereby obtaining a multi-shot copy in which a plurality of images of different scaling ratio are laid out on one sheet. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090003730 | Method And System For Processing Video Data In A Multipixel Memory To Memory Compositor - A method and system for processing video data using multi-pixel scaling in a memory system are provided. The multi-pixel scaling may include reading pixel data for one or more data streams from the memory system into one or more scalers, wherein each of the plurality of data streams includes a plurality of pixels, scaling the pixel via the one or more scalers and outputting the scaled pixels from the one or more scalers. Pixel data may be sequential or parallel. The plurality of scalers may be in parallel, scaling sequential pixel data with independent phase control, or scaling parallel pixel data in substantially equal phase. Pixel data may be transposed, replicated, distributed and aligned prior to reading by scalers, and may be aligned merged and transposed after scaling. Scaling may include interpolation or sub sampling using pixel phase, position, step size and scaler quantities. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090003731 | Image data providing apparatus, image display apparatus, image display system, method for controlling image data providing apparatus, method for controlling image display apparatus, control program, and recording medium - A display data generating apparatus according to the present invention includes: (i) a specification information specifying section for acquiring specification information of a television which specification information concerns display of an image, (ii) an image size control section for generating a display image by changing the number of pixels of the image in accordance with the specification information such that the image is to be displayed in a predetermined display size on the image display apparatus, and (iii) a display control information generating section for generating, in accordance with the specification information, display control information for defining a position of the display image on the screen of the image display apparatus. This makes it possible to realize an image data providing apparatus, which causes an image display apparatus to display an image in a predetermined display size. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090010567 | Image display apparatus and image display system for vehicle - If a display mode is set to a narrow angle enlargement image mode, an enlargement image area is inputted via a touch panel. A transformation is made to compress an image of a not-enlargement image area other than the enlargement image area, and a narrow angle enlargement image is generated to enable simultaneously displaying, as a narrow angle enlargement image, (i) the enlarged image in the enlargement image area and (ii) the compressed image in the not-enlargement image area. When a warning target is detected, a corresponding image area is enlarged. An audio alarm is outputted via a speaker. Further, a new narrow angle enlargement image is generated so as to merge the initial narrow angle enlargement image with an image of enlarging the image area of the warning target. A display window including the new narrow angle enlargement image is then displayed in a display device. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090016644 | Method and Apparatus for Downscaling a Digital Matrix Image - The invention relates to a method and apparatus for downscaling a digital matrix image, using a selected ratio R, in which the matrix image includes a large number of lines, each line including a large number of pixels, so that the intensity values of the pixels form the matrix, and in which the output matrix pixels formed by scaling correspond to sub-groups of the original matrix, from the intensity values of the pixels of which an average is calculated for each pixel of the output matrix. In the solution, three integers X, Y, and Z are selected in such a way that—the scaling ratio R corresponds approximately to the equation Y/(Z*X), in which Y| 01-15-2009 | |
| 20090016645 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method - Disclosed herein is an image-processing apparatus. The apparatus includes: a taken-image acquisition section configured to acquire a taken image; and a to-be-processed area setting section configured to carry out an analysis on a taken image acquired by the taken-image acquisition section and configured to use the pixel area of a photographed-subject image of a specific type in the taken image as a to-be-processed area of an image conversion process in accordance with the size of the photographed-subject image if a result of the analysis indicates that the photographed-subject image exists in the taken image. The apparatus further includes an image conversion section configured to carry out the image conversion process on the photographed-subject image with the pixel area thereof used as the to-be-processed area in order to generate a post-conversion image obtained as a result of the image conversion process. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090022427 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS - A method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus to enlarge and reproduce an image is provided. The method includes determining whether an instruction is given in an image reproduction mode, dividing the input image into a predetermined number of blocks when it is determined that the instruction is given, enlarging the small image corresponding to a specific block from among the predetermined number of blocks, and displaying the enlarged small image on an entire screen. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090034877 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MODIFYING THE SIZE OF AN IMAGE - The method of reducing the size of an initial image into a final image, each image being formed by a matrix of ordered pixels, each pixel being characterised by a characteristic quantity (Cn), the reduction being effected by a ratio P/Q with P and Q integers and Q not a multiple of P, comprising a pixel decimation step, in which the following steps are implemented: —effecting a partitioning of the initial image into groups of pixels; —allocating, successively to each group of pixels n of the initial image, a coefficient μn the coefficients of the groups of pixels forming an arithmetic sequence of ratio P in Z/QZ defined by the recurrence relationship μn+1≡μn+P(Q); —selecting only the groups of pixels whose coefficient allocated is a number less than P−1; —decimating the groups of pixels not selected: and—forming the final image of reduced size solely from the groups of pixels selected, each pixel in the groups of pixels selected being characterised by the filtered characteristic quantity (C′n). | 02-05-2009 |
| 20090041384 | VIDEO PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a video processing apparatus and a video processing method thereof. The video processing apparatus includes: an input unit which receives a broadcasting signal which may include zoom-in information having regional information on a part of a video image; a video processor which processes the inputted broadcasting signal; and a controller which controls the video processor to zoom in the part of the video image based on the regional information of the zoom-in information if the broadcasting signal includes the zoom-in information. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090041385 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image processing apparatus includes an input unit receiving an encoded image data stream; a decoding processor decoding the stream to obtain image data; a first storage storing the image data; a second storage storing the image data and having a storage area storing at least one picture whose size is the largest of image data to be decoded; a controller analyzing the stream and storing the image data in the first and second storages according to an analysis result; and an output unit reading and outputting the stored pictures in a display order. The controller sets storage areas in the first storage according to image size information, stores the image data in the storage areas, determines whether the image size changes according to the analysis result, and, when the image size changes, stores image data of a picture displayed immediately before the image size changes in the second storage. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090041386 | POSITIONAL DATA ERROR CORRECTION - Systems, apparatuses, and methods for correcting systematic errors in positional data of electronic devices configured to navigate across a surface. An apparatus configured to correct positional errors may comprise one or more navigation sensors, and a position module configured to control the one or more navigation sensors to capture a plurality of navigational measurements and adjust the navigational measurements by one or more scaling factors to determine a translation path of the apparatus over a medium. The one or more scaling factors may be constructed by capturing a plurality of navigational measurements to determine a detected translation path of an apparatus, comparing an actual translation path of the apparatus to the detected translation path of the apparatus, and generating the one or more scaling factors based at least in part on a difference between the actual translation path and the detected translation path. Other embodiments also are described. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090052804 | METHOD PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED DOCUMENT SCANNING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An automated system and method for storing document data in a Web based document management system is provided. The method includes specifying a first identifier, scanning a document to produce an image file and resizing the image file to produce a resized image. The resized image has a width that is less than or equal to a maximum width at which a display unit can display the resized image entirely without resizing the resized image further or at which a printer can print the resized image entirely without further resizing the resized image. The method also includes extracting text data from the image file or the resized image file to produce a text file, uploading the text file and image file to a server, indexing the text file and image file in the server, and making the text file and image file accessible via the Internet by a web browser. Scanning, resizing, extracting, uploading, indexing and making are performed automatically substantially without manual interference between scanning, resizing, extracting, uploading, indexing and making. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090060387 | OPTIMIZATIONS FOR RADIUS OPTICAL BLUR - Optical blur architecture that provides a significant improvement in the computation processes required to create optical blur. The architecture can be applied to efficiently implement optical blur on an image where the radius may vary from pixel to pixel and when the radius does not vary at all. The solution includes a significant improvement in computational efficiency. A wide range of radiuses can be handled and any radius within that range without the need for an infinite number of masks or having to create masks on-the-fly. An infinite number of virtual radius tables can be generated from a small number of tables. A list of tables can be logarithmically generated and utilized for a wide range of radiuses the table sizes can be reduced by storing the weight information for the entire area of the mask and only storing the delta values from the previous radius. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090060388 | Image Processing Device, Image Processing Method, and Image Processing Program - An image processing device, which performs, on image data, image quality adjustment processing and resize processing to adjust an image size to a target size, and which outputs processed image data, including: an adjustment parameter creation unit which creates adjustment parameters for the image quality adjustment processing, on the basis of original image data; a contrast information creation unit which acquires the image size of the original image data and the target size, and creates size contrast information; a resize amount detection unit which determines the resize amount in the resize processing on the basis of the size contrast information; and an adjustment parameter modification unit which modifies the adjustment parameters in accordance with the resize amount. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090067753 | DYNAMIC SIZING AND POSITIONING OF MULTIPLE IMAGES - A method of arranging images provides for automated scaling, positioning and organizing of a plurality of images on an image display, which may be transferred to a printed or electronic product design. A plurality of images are analyzed to produce image data. Display parameters determine permissible arrangement of the images. Based on the image data and the display parameters, an arrangement on the image display for each of the plurality of images is defined. The arrangement may be further defined to maximize at least one dimension of the images. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090080804 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING IMAGE, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND IMAGE STORAGE DEVICE - A technique is provided for reducing the size of each of images included in an image signal and generating a high-resolution image with minimized degradation in the image quality from the reduced images. Alias components and motion information that are included in the image signal having the reduced images are used for conversion of the images included in the image signal into a high-resolution image. Low pass filtering is performed on a frequency component in the direction of a motion included in the image signal and a frequency component in a direction other than the direction of the motion. The cut-off frequency of the low pass filter in the direction other than the direction of the motion is lower than the cut-off frequency of the low pass filter in the direction of the motion. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090103834 | Center Based Image Resizer - A method for resizing image data from a first size image to a second size image is disclosed. In one operation of the method, a scale factor is determined based on a number of gaps between pixels in the first size image and a number of gaps between pixels in the second size image. In another operation, the scale factor is applied to the first size image to generate a representation of the second size image data. In yet another operation a remainder representing an offset from a last pixel of the first size image data and a last pixel from the representation of the second size image data is determined. With the offset determined, another operation offsets each end pixel of a line of the second size image data by a portion of the remainder. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090110330 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VIEWING IMAGES OF A DEVICE - An image viewing system includes a display, a memory, an image viewing unit, a resize unit and a processor. The memory is configured for storing the images. Each image acquires additional metadata about the corresponding image. A thumbnail of the corresponding image is built in the metadata. The image viewing unit includes a retrieving module and an exhibiting module. The retrieving module is configured for retrieving the thumbnails of the images. The exhibiting module is configured for exhibiting the thumbnails of the images through the display for image viewing. The processor is configured for controlling the image viewing unit and the resize unit. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20090154836 | IMAGE DOWNSAMPLING DURING PROCESSING - A method of preparing a document for printing may include determining a preferred image resolution for an image on a document. An electronic file may be received. The electronic file may comprise data representing a first embedded image having a nominal resolution. A job may be received. The job may comprise one or more operations to be performed on the electronic file. A computing device may determine an effective resolution for the first embedded image based on the nominal resolution and the one or more operations. It is determined whether the effective resolution for the first embedded image is greater than the preferred image resolution. The first embedded image may be downsampled based on a scaling factor. A printing device may process the job using the downsampled first embedded image. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090154837 | Image processing apparatus - An image processing apparatus for processing and outputting image data includes a image processing content storage unit for storing contents of an image processing; a thumbnail reduction ratio determining unit for determining a reduction ratio of a thumbnail image according to the contents of the image processing thus stored; a thumbnail image creation unit for creating the thumbnail image from the image data according to the reduction ratio; and an image processing unit for applying the image processing to the thumbnail image thus created according to the contents of the image processing. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090175559 | MODIFYING SPACES IN VIRTUAL UNIVERSES - Methods arid arrangements of modifying spaces in virtual universes are discussed. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to receive data from a software agent in a virtual universe, directly or indirectly. The data may be based upon information automatically gathered from data stores outside the virtual universe, including account data and. user profile data. The embodiment may also involve developing a user profile of the user in the virtual universe, based upon the data received from the software agent. An embodiment may also involve automatically gathering information from data stores external to the virtual universe. The information may include user account data and user profile information. The embodiment may also include aggregating data for generating the user profile in the virtual universe, based upon the information; and transmitting the data directly or indirectly to the virtual universe. | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090175560 | Enlarging A Digital Image - Enlarging a digital image. In one example embodiment, a method for enlarging a digital image includes various acts. First, an enlargement factor λ is selected for an input image. Next, a pixel in the input image is selected. Then, a supporting window is placed over the input image. Next, a λ×λ block of output pixels is produced. Each pixel in the block of output pixels is produced using a set of λ | 07-09-2009 |
| 20090202177 | Non-Uniform Image Resizer - A method for producing a scaled output image by manipulating image data from an input image is disclosed. The scaled output image can have non-uniformly scaled regions and a uniformly scaled region. The method includes an operation that defines pixel locations within the uniformly scaled region of the output image based on uniformly scaling a portion of the input image. There is also an operation that determines a non-uniform scale factor. The non-uniform scale factor is used to define a gap between pixel locations within the non-uniformly scaled regions. Another operation determines error correction values within the non-uniformly scaled regions. The method can also include an operation that defines pixel locations for the non-uniformly scaled region of the output image based on increments of the non-uniform scale factor and error correction values. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090214136 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR SCALING AN INPUT IMAGE ACCORDING TO VARIOUS IMAGE PROCESSING REQUIREMENTS AND METHOD THEREOF - An image processing apparatus and method for scaling an input image are disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a buffer module, a scaling unit, and a determining unit. The buffer module includes at least a line buffer for buffering pixel data of the input image. The scaling unit is coupled to the buffer module and includes a plurality of filters having different filter tap numbers, wherein the scaling unit utilizes a target filter having a specific filter tap number selected from the plurality of filters to scale the input image according to the pixel data retrieved from the line buffer. The determining unit is coupled to the scaling unit and utilized for receiving an image processing requirement and setting a pixel precision of the input image and selecting the target filter having the specific filter tap number from the filters in the scaling unit according to the image processing requirement. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090214137 | IMAGE PROCESSING ENABLING DECODING OF ENCODED INFORMATION EMBEDDED IN SOURCE DOCUMENT - An image processing apparatus that receives an image from a scanner capable of optical scaling is provided by the present invention. It has an image scaling unit for performing digital scaling of a received image, and an information detecting unit for detecting encoded information from the received image. Unless the scaling factor is that suitable for optical scaling, the received image undergoes the digital scaling instead of the optical scaling. Before the received image undergoes the digital scaling, the information detecting unit detects the encoded information from the received image. The scaling using the image reading device capable of optical scaling enables more accurate analysis of the encoded information embedded in a source document. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090238491 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE RECORDING MEDIUM CONTAINING PROGRAM THEREFOR - An image processing device changes a size of original image represented by an original image data to create size-changed image data representing a size-changed image and outputs the size-changed image data to an output device. The image processing device has an image size determination unit determines a target image size based on a ratio of a predetermined standard character size to a character size regarding character data included in the original image data and based on an image size of the original image data. An image data creating unit changes the size of the original image to create the size-changed image data based on the determined target size. An output control unit controls an output of the created size-changed image data to the output device such that the size-changed image is shown within the image formation area in the output image. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090274393 | Automatic image cropping - Upon enabling an automatic cropping feature, a computer-implemented method for cropping a plurality of images retrieves a number of images to process among the plurality of images, and selects an image from the plurality of images to determine a set of crop values for the image until the set of crop values for each image have been determined. Determining a set of crop values for an image includes scanning the image from a first side to an opposing side to determine for each scan line of the image an amount representing a degree of color variation among the pixels for that scan line. The amount determined for each scan line is then compared to a threshold value until a crop value for a first area of the image can be determined. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090310888 | MULTI-PASS IMAGE RESAMPLING - Multi-pass image resampling technique embodiments are presented that employ a series of one-dimensional filtering, resampling, and shearing stages to achieve good efficiency while maintaining high visual fidelity. In one embodiment, high-quality (multi-tap) image filtering is used inside each one-dimensional resampling stage. Because each stage only uses one-dimensional filtering, the overall computation efficiency is very good and amenable to graphics processing unit (GPU) implementation using pixel shaders. This embodiment also upsamples the image before shearing steps in a direction orthogonal to the shearing to prevent aliasing, and then downsamples the image to its final size with high-quality low-pass filtering. This ensures that none of the stages causes excessive blurring or aliasing. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100021083 | STATIC IMAGE PRESENTATION METHOD - A static image presentation method is disclosed. The static image mentioned above has as least one human face pattern. The static image presentation method includes: firstly, identifying the human face pattern on the static image to obtain a human face pattern center and a human face pattern range; and then, presenting the static image by zooming in the static image according to the human face pattern center and the human face pattern range. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100061660 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE RESIZING METHOD THEREOF - A display device includes an image reading module, three processing module, and a pixel generating module. The image reading module reads pixel data of an original image and a predetermined destination image format (hereafter destination format). A first processing module calculates a horizontal shift value and a vertical shift value. A second processing module converts ratios of a length of the original image to a length of the destination format and a height of the original image to a height of the destination format to integer values. A third processing module determines which pixel in the original image to copy to each pixel position in the destination format. A pixel generating module copies pixels in the original image to corresponding pixels positions in the destination format. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100061661 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE PROCESSING, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a managing unit that manages a scale calculated based on descriptions of an operation performed on a predetermined item and a series to which the item belongs in association with each other, a first extracting unit that extracts items belonging to the same series as top N series, obtained by sorting the scales, from among a plurality of items, a taste managing unit that manages taste of a user, a second extracting unit that calculates the degree of similarity between the taste managed by the taste managing unit and each item to extract items with higher degrees of similarity, and a recommending unit that recommends a predetermined number of items among the items extracted by the first extracting unit and the items extracted by the second extracting unit to the user. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100080491 | STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM FOR IMPLEMENTING CONTROLLED IMAGE DISPLAY ACCORDING TO INPUT COORDINATE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING - When a user touches a first input point P | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100111445 | PORTABLE IMAGE-EXTRACTING DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING TINY IMAGES AND METHOD OF THE SAME - A portable image-extracting device for identifying tiny images and a method of the same are used to magnify a tiny image and then identify the truth thereof. The device includes a magnifying lens for magnifying the tiny image to a magnified image; an image-extracting element for extracting the magnified image and converting it into an image signal; an image-identifying element for identifying the image signal to determine the tiny image is true or false; a displaying element for displaying the determination of truth of the tiny image. The magnifying lens is provided therein with more than one auxiliary light source. The auxiliary light source can be a visible light source, an invisible light source or a light source of a specific wavelength, thereby assisting in displaying the tiny image. The image-identifying element determines whether the image is true or false via certified information stored in an internal memory for identification or a remote server connected to the image-identifying element by cable or wirelessly. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100142853 | ITERATIVE SELECTION OF PIXEL PATHS FOR CONTENT AWARE IMAGE RESIZING - What is disclosed is a method for iterative seam selection in an image resizing system utilizing a seam carving technique. In one embodiment, an importance map is generated for a received source image. Seams are carved through the image from one edge to an opposite edge. An energy is computed for each seam based on pixel importance values. A distance is computed from each seam to a previously selected seam. A weighting for each seam is computed using a defined weighting function and the calculated seam distances. The weighting is applied to the energy of each seam produce a revised energy for each seam. A seam is selected based on the produced revised energy. The image is resized at a location of the selected seam. The process repeats until the image has been resized to a desired target output dimension. In such a manner, unnatural image resizing results are avoided. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100142854 | METHOD FOR CHANGING THE DIMENSIONS OF AN ELECTRONICALLY STORED IMAGE - The invention relates to a method for changing the dimensions of an electronically stored image which is composed of individual objects that are arranged below or next to one another or that fully or partially overlap one another, in which the image is changed in at least one horizontal or vertical image dimension and at least some of the individual objects are changed in at least one horizontal or vertical object dimension and the change in the object dimension is sometimes not necessarily proportional to the change in the image dimension. This method is currently carried out manually. | 06-10-2010 |
| 20100172599 | IMAGE SIGNAL SCALER AND IMAGE SIGNAL PROCESSOR INCLUDING THE SAME - An image signal scaler and an image signal processor including the image signal scaler in which the image signal scaler includes a vertical scaler controlling a vertical image size of an input image signal, a horizontal scaler controlling a horizontal image size of the input image signal, an input/output controller controlling the vertical scaler and the horizontal scaler to transmit/receive an image signal to/from a memory, a read buffer reading an image signal stored in the memory through the input/output controller, a first multiplexer controlling a route of the input image signal, and a second multiplexer receiving an image signal from the vertical scaler, the horizontal scaler or the read buffer and outputting an output image signal. The vertical scaler or the horizontal scaler reduces the vertical image size or the horizontal image size of the input image signal and stores the input image signal in the memory through the input/output controller when the vertical image size or the horizontal image size of the input image signal is larger than the vertical image size or the horizontal image size of the output image signal. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100177985 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMAGE SCALING - Methods and systems for scaling an input image. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100183244 | IMAGE-SCALING-DOWN METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image-scaling-down method for scaling down a pixel block of an image component is provided. The pixel block includes a plurality of sub-blocks and each sub-block includes m number of non-processed pixel data where m is a positive integer. The image-scaling-down method comprises: determining a scaling down factor wherein m divided by n is the scaling down factor and n is a positive integer less than m; and calculating n number of processed pixel data in each sub-block by using the scaling down factor and the m number of the non-processed pixel data, wherein the combination of the n number of the processed pixel data of the sub-blocks corresponds to the image component. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100232729 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHIFT-MAP IMAGE EDITING - Natural looking output images are computed from input images based on given user constraints. Pixels in the output images are assigned a shift such that the respective output pixel value is derived from the value of the input pixel whose location is related to that of the output pixel by the shift, at least one shift being non-zero. The shift is determined by an optimization process adapted to minimize a cost function that includes a data term on the shifts of single pixels and a smoothness term on the shifts of pixel pairs. The output image is computed by applying the optimized shift-map between the input and output pixels. The data term can include shift constraints that limit the location in the output images of selected input pixels, and saliency constraints, indicating a preference that selected pixels in the input images will or will not appear in the output image. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100239187 | Method for Up-Sampling Depth Images - A method up-samples images in a reduced resolution video, wherein each image I(x, y) stores depths d at pixel locations (x, y). each depth image is scaled up to produce a corresponding up-scaled image. Then, image dilation, a median filter, image erosion, and a min-max filter are applied in order to produce a corresponding up-sampled image. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100254629 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE FILE SIZE OF IMAGES SUBJECT TO TRANSFORMATION BY SCALING AND A CHANGE OF QUALITY-CONTROLLING PARAMETERS - A system and method for predicting a file size of an image subject to transformation by scaling and a change about at least one quality-controlling parameter, in which an input receives (a) the file size of the image before transformation, (b) information about at least one quality-controlling parameter of the image before transformation, (c) information about at least one quality-controlling parameter for application to the image during transformation, and (d) a scaling factor for application to the image during transformation. A relative size prediction is calculated on the basis of the received quality-controlling parameters information and scaling factor. The file size of the image after transformation is finally calculated as a function of the file size of the image before transformation and the calculated relative size prediction. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100266221 | DIFFERENCE IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE, DIFFERENCE IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA - One exemplary embodiment includes a difference image generation device including a measurement unit and a scaling unit. The measurement unit measures a variation width of pixel values of a difference image signal obtained by performing subtraction processing on first and second input image signals. The scaling unit scales each pixel value of the difference image signal based on a measurement result of the variation width so that the difference image signal can be represented in grayscale using a predetermined bit width, and outputs a difference image signal subjected to scaling. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100303384 | RE-SIZING IMAGE SEQUENCES - To modify the aspect ratio of images in a video sequence, a measure of image energy is provided at or around each pixel, for example by taking differences between adjacent pixels. A minimum energy path of contiguous pixels is then identified which extends across the image from one edge to another, for example vertically if the width of the picture is to be modified. Information concerning the location of a path in one image is used in the identification of a path in the next image, for example by biassing the energy measure of the path. The aspect ratio of each image is then modified by removing or by replicating the minimum energy path of contiguous pixels. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100329588 | AUTOCROPPING AND AUTOLAYOUT METHOD FOR DIGITAL IMAGES - The present invention is a method for manipulating acquired digital images in a computer system, comprising creating a crop cost array for each of a set of input images with a set of associated aspect ratios, wherein the cost crop array operates and is stored on the computer system and wherein each element of the array holds a lowest crop cost of an input image for a predetermined aspect ratio, generating plural possible candidate combinations of aspect ratios for the images, wherein one aspect ratio is generated for each image, creating an arrangement of the images for each candidate combination in which each image is cropped to its associated aspect ratio in the candidate combination, evaluating each possible arrangement using a combination of a crop cost of each of the images at their selected aspect ratio and a measure of an aesthetic quality of the layout arrangement, selecting a layout combination with a lowest combined crop cost and layout evaluation score, cropping each image according to a respective aspect ratio in the selected layout combination and arranging the cropped digital images in the selected layout to produce an automatically formatted output layout page. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110019936 | IMAGING SYSTEM WITH MULTIFRAME SCALER - An electronic device may have a camera module and a host subsystem. The camera module may include a camera sensor and associated image processing and data formatting circuitry. The image processing and data formatting circuitry may include an image processor that produces unscaled images frames using data from the camera sensor. Unscaled image frames may be processed in multiple paths between the image processor and the host subsystem such as a path that includes an image compression circuit block, a parallel path that includes a preview scaler, and a parallel path that includes a multiframe scaler and a frame buffer and multiframe image processor circuitry. The multiframe scaler may scale unscaled frames for buffering and processing by the frame buffer and multiframe image processor circuitry to produce analysis results. The analysis results may be appended to compressed unscaled image frames sent to the host subsystem. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110085745 | SEAM CARVING FOR IMAGE RESIZING - A method for modifying an input digital image having input dimensions defined by a number of input rows and input columns to form an output digital image where the number of rows or columns is reduced by one, comprising an image energy map determined from the input image; determining a seam path responsive to the image energy map; imposing constraints on the seam path; and removing pixels along the seam path to modify the input digital image. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110091132 | COMBINING SEAM CARVING AN IMAGE RESIZING - A method for resizing an input digital image to form an output digital image with an output aspect ratio, comprising: determining a number of rows or columns that need to be reduced from the input digital image; determining an image energy map for the input digital image; repeatedly determining a seam path responsive to the image energy map and removing pixels along the determined seam path to determine the output digital image, wherein the determined seam path satisfies a constraint that a directional image gradient is less than a gradient threshold for each pixel in the seam path, until either the determined number of rows or columns has been reduced or no valid seam path can be found; and cropping or scaling the output digital image to the output aspect ratio if the determined number of rows or columns was not reduced. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110091133 | AUTOMATED IMAGE FRAMING - Cropping and sizing operations are performed on master frame images to create a plurality of component frame images for a content image. The component frame images are positioned relative to the component image so as to form a frame image for the content image. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110150364 | IMAGE TRANSFORM METHOD FOR OBTAINING EXPANDED IMAGE DATA, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE THEREFOR - It is an object of the present invention to output a clear, expanded image wherein step-shapes or chain-shapes of oblique lines are reduced, distortion is eliminated and no constituent lines of fonts or graphics are missing. An image transform method, for transforming original input image data into image data expanded by a ratio represented by a rational number or an integer, comprises: a vertical and horizontal interpolation unit, for reducing correlation in the vertical and horizontal directions of interpolated image data linearly expanded from an original image data input unit, and for generating first expanded image data; an oblique interpolation unit, for performing linear interpolation, based on correlation with a target pixel constituting the original image data and neighboring pixels arranged in oblique directions, using the neighboring pixels to generate second expanded image data; and a final result generator for employing the first expanded image data and the second expanded image data to generate a final image. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110170801 | RESIZING OF DIGITAL IMAGES - Digital images are resized according to a prescribed image scaling factor. An original image is re-sampled according to the scaling factor, resulting in an initial resized image. A probability of text (POT) map is generated for the initial resized image, where the POT map specifies a smoothed POT value for each pixel in the initial resized image. A weighting factor (WF) map is generated which maps each different smoothed POT value to a particular WF value. The WF map is used to calculate an adjusted luminance value for each pixel in the initial resized image, resulting in a final resized image. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110170802 | Image Scaling Method and Apparatus - The present invention relates to image processing technologies, and discloses an image scaling method and apparatus to reduce distortion of a scaled image. The image scaling method includes: determining a distribution direction of main objects in a source image; and scaling the source image to a target image through a nonlinear scaling method according to the distribution direction of the main objects in the source image, where the nonlinear scaling method employs a scaling direction vertical to the distribution direction of the main objects in the source image. The embodiments of the present invention are primarily applicable to the image scaling field. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110206295 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a subject region detection unit detecting regions of subjects included in an input image; a cropped region setting unit setting a region including all of the regions of the detected subjects as a cropped region; an expansion region addition unit adding an expansion region to expand an end of the cropped region only by a predetermined width; a cutting unit cutting a cut image formed from a cut region including the cropped region and the expansion region from the input image; a subject adaptation size change unit changing a size of an image formed from the cut region by deleting a region where an influence on the subjects is small in the cut image; and an entire image size changing unit changing the size of the entire image changed in size by the subject adaptation size change unit at a predetermined ratio. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20110222794 | RESOLUTION ADJUSTMENT OF AN IMAGE THAT INCLUDES TEXT UNDERGOING AN OCR PROCESS - A system and method is provided which rescales a received image to an optimal size to undergo an optical character recognition (OCR) process. The system includes an optimal size determination component that determines an optimum size for the image such that processing time of the received image is minimized without affecting accuracy. The optimal size determination component determines the optimum size of the image based at least in part on a dominant interline spacing of text and a dominant text height. The system also includes a rescaling component that resizes the received image to the determined optimum size. | 09-15-2011 |
| 20110262055 | IMAGE SCALING CURVE GENERATION - The present invention relates to a method of generating an image scaling curve, where local saliency is detected in a received image. The detected local saliency is then accumulated in the first direction. A final scaling curve is derived from the detected local saliency and the image is then possibly rescaled in a second direction by using the derived scaling curve, wherein the second direction is substantially orthogonal to the first direction. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20120057808 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus for applying film grain effects on an image of received image data includes a generating unit configured to generate, on the basis of pixel values randomly read from grain data including a plurality of pixel values, a basic grain image having a certain size larger than the grain data; a resizing unit configured to resize the basic grain image generated by the generating unit to have the same size as the received image data; and a combining unit configured to combine the basic grain image resized by the resizing unit with the received image data. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120063700 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCALING DIGITAL IMAGES - Methods, computer devices, and computer readable media containing instructions for executing such methods are provided for the modification of digital images having a plurality of visual elements. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120076439 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus for scaling an image including: an operation position determining section for determining a pixel operation position, which is either a pixel inserting or deleting position, based on a scaling ratio; an inserting/deleting section for inserting/deleting a pixel to/from the pixel operation position determined by the operation position determining section; an error calculating section for calculating a density difference as an error between densities in a vicinity of the inserted/deleted pixel via the inserting/deleting section, before and after the insertion or deletion; and an error allocating section for allocating the error, calculated by the error calculating section, to the inserted pixel and pixels in a vicinity of the inserted or deleted pixel, so that a pixel value, after allocation, of a pixel of an allocation destination, falls within an allowable range estimated from a pixel value of a pixel near the pixel of allocation destination. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120082400 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR IMAGE REDUCTION PROCESSING AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The present invention has a configuration in which a reduction and interpolation circuit having a variable reduction ratio and at least one reduction circuit having a fixed reduction ratio are sequentially connected. In the case where a set reduction rate cannot be achieved in the reduction and interpolation circuit, a reduction ratio for the reduction and interpolation circuit is determined such that the set reduction ratio can be achieved through a combination of the reduction ratio of the reduction and interpolation circuit and the reduction ratio of the reduction circuit. It is thereby possible to obtain an image processing apparatus capable of generating a reduced image reduced at a high reduction ratio and having high image quality while suppressing the circuit size. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120087598 | Video Processing System and Method Thereof for Compensating Boundary of Image - A method is used for compensating a boundary of an image, in which each scan line in the image is shifted by a corresponding line shift amount. The method determines a boundary region for the image and moves each pixel in a scan line from an original position to a new position within the boundary region, in which the new position is determined according to the width of the boundary region, the original position, and a line shift amount, and the scan line is shifted by the line shift amount. Then, the method interpolates at least one pixel into the scan line according to the moved pixels for generating a compensated image. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120121207 | NAVIGATING DIGITAL IMAGES USING DETAIL-IN-CONTEXT LENSES - In an implementation, an appearance of lens is displayed on a display device for a selected region of an image to magnify the selected region of the image in comparison with a portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens. A zoomed-in view of the image is displayed on the display device by increasing magnification of the portion of the image outside the appearance of the lens successively as an animation until the magnification of the portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens corresponds with the magnification of the selected region of the image within the appearance of the lens, at which point the appearance of the lens is no longer displayed. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120237139 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE FILE SIZE OF IMAGES SUBJECT TO TRANSFORMATION BY SCALING AND A CHANGE OF QUALITY-CONTROLLING PARAMETERS - A system and method for predicting a tile size of an image subject to transformation by scaling and a change about at least one quality-controlling parameter, in which an input receives the file size of the image before transformation, information about at least one quality-controlling parameter of the image before transformation, information about at least one quality- controlling parameter for application to the image during transformation, and a scaling factor for application to the image during transformation. A relative size prediction is calculated on the basis of the received quality-controlling parameters information and scaling factor. The file size of the image after transformation is finally calculated as a function of the file size of the image before transformation and the calculated relative size prediction. Images are partitioned into classes of images, and for each class of images, an array of relative file size predictions is computed, the array having at least two dimensions. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120275724 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes a pre-enlargement image processing unit that processes an image signal, based on one or more flow vectors corresponding to the image signal, and an enlargement processing unit that enlarges an image indicated by an image signal processed by the pre-enlargement image processing unit, based on the one or more flow vectors. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120301053 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - The disclosed method includes: carrying out scale conversion for a first pixel value of each of a plurality of pixels included in an image to generate a second pixel value of the plurality of pixels; applying a reaction-diffusion equation including a diffusion element and a reaction element that is set according to at least the number of types of regions to be extracted, to the second pixel value of each of plural pixels within a certain region of the image a predetermined number of times to generate a third pixel value of each of the plurality of pixels included in the image; and carrying out scale inverse-conversion that is inverse-conversion of the scale conversion, for the third pixel value of each of the plurality of pixels included in the image to generate a fourth pixel value of the plurality of pixels. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20130011081 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing apparatus including a frequency separation unit that reduces an input image, restores the reduced input image to an image size before reduction, calculates a difference from the input image before reduction, and separates the input image into a reduced image and a difference image, an image processing unit that processes at least either one of the reduced image or the difference image, and a synthesizing processing unit that synthesizes the reduced image and the difference image, at least either one of which is image-processed, at a same image size. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130011082 | METHOD, ARRANGEMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SCALING TWO-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES - A method for scaling two-dimensional structures, which is especially usable for resizing digital 2D images with a rational scaling factor, is based on efficient implementation of a diamond-shaped filter. The conventional “1”-diamond matrices of variable size are replaced by a (m×n) coefficient matrix. For any given rational scaling factor, the computational load for calculating an output pixel is reduced to filtering (m×n) input pixels with a corresponding (m×n) filter matrix. The coefficients of this filter matrix depend from the phase of the output pixel to be calculated and the factor of interpolation, but are always integer numbers. The coefficients may be stored in lookup tables (LUT), which leads to a very efficient implementation of the inventive method. In one embodiment, a (3×3) coefficient matrix has been found to be advantageous. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130022293 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention provides an image processing apparatus which can simply and appropriately analyze an image, an image processing method, and a storage medium. The present invention reduces an original image and enlarges a reduced image obtained by the reduction. The present invention enlarges the original image. The present invention analyzes the original image by comparing a first enlarged image obtained by enlargement of the reduced image with a second enlarged image obtained by enlargement of the original image. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130039602 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes: a reading unit, a magnification change processing unit, a wait time acquiring unit, and a signal output unit. The reading unit reads image data from the memory line by line. The magnification change processing unit performs a magnification change process on the image data and outputs. The wait time acquiring unit acquires wait time information on a value corresponding to a wait time from when a synchronous signal, representing a start of read of the image data for each line, falls to when the magnification change process starts. The signal output unit outputs, to the reading unit, a permission signal indicating whether read of image data of a next line is permitted or denied based on the wait time information while the magnification change processing unit is outputting the image data. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130064473 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - Provided is an image processing apparatus, including an enlargement ratio setting section which sets a region of data in an original image, including a designated position designated as an object to be enlarged within the original image, as a region to be enlarged, and sets an enlargement ratio to the region to be enlarged, based on an image feature amount showing complexity of an image of the region to be enlarged, and an enlarged image generation section which generates enlarged image data for the data of the original image, by applying an enlargement process by the enlargement ratio set by the enlargement ratio setting section. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130101235 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING TILE SIZE FOR A MAP VIEW - System and method for determining the tile size for a particular virtualized map view. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130121619 | Seam Carving Using Seam Energy Re-computation in Seam Neighborhood - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for resizing images using seam carving techniques are disclosed. The methods may facilitate efficient re-computation of the energy of an image between seam carving iterations in a resizing operation by re-computing only the energy of pixels and/or seams in the neighborhood of removed and/or replicated seams. The neighborhood and pixels for which energy values are updated may be dependent on the energy function employed by the seam carving techniques. The efficient re-computation of image energy may facilitate the use of seam carving techniques in user-interactive environments. The methods may also be used to pre-compute a retargeting matrix, usable in performing retargeting operations on an input image without re-computing the energy and/or the lowest cost seam(s) of the image between iterations. The methods may be implemented as stand-alone applications or as program instructions implementing components of a graphics application, executable by a CPU and/or GPU. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130129256 | SPECTRAL IMAGE DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Methods for reducing dimensionality of hyperspectral image data having a number of spatial pixels, each associated with a number of spectral dimensions, include receiving sets of coefficients associated with each pixel of the hyperspectral image data, a set of basis vectors utilized to generate the sets of coefficients, and either a maximum error value or a maximum data size. The methods also include calculating, using a processor, a first set of errors for each pixel associated with the set of basis vectors, and one or more additional sets of errors for each pixel associated with one or more subsets of the set of basis vectors. Utilizing such errors calculations, an optimum size of the set of basis vectors may be ascertained, allowing for either a minimum amount of error within the maximum data size, or a minimum data size within the maximum error value. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130129257 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RESAMPLING A SPATIALLY SAMPLED ATTRIBUTE OF AN IMAGE - Resampling a spatially sampled attribute of an image, for example up- or down-conversion, in which contributions to a symmetrical FIR resampling filter from positions outside the image—that is to say where the filter aperture extends beyond an image edge—are obtained by copying values from positions inside the image. This can conveniently be done by modifying filter coefficients. | 05-23-2013 |
| 20130170770 | METHOD OF SYSTEM FOR IMAGE STABILIZATION THROUGH IMAGE PROCESSING, AND ZOOM CAMERA INCLUDING IMAGE STABILIZATION FUNCTION - A method and system for image stabilization through image processing, and a zoom camera including an image stabilization function. The method includes: determining whether an input image comprises a representative feature portion; sampling the representative feature portion to generate a sampled image if it is determined that the input image comprises the representative feature portion; enlarging the sampled image, matching the enlarged sampled image with the sampled image, and obtaining a central coordinate of the matched image; and aligning an optical axis by calculating a difference between the central coordinate of the matched image and a central coordinate of the sampled image. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130195378 | DIMENSIONAL CONVERSION IN PRESENTATIONS - Technologies are described herein for converting presentations between differing slide dimensions and aspect ratios. A scaling factor is calculated from the difference between the original dimensions of the slide and the new dimensions of the converted slide. Next, the content objects on the slide are scaled based on the scaling factor such that the aspect ratio of the content object is maintained. A horizontal position zone and vertical position zone is determined for each content object on the slide, and new coordinates for the position of the content objects are calculated utilizing formulas based on the horizontal position zone and a vertical position zone determined for each. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130195379 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus generates an image appended with additional effective pixels by executing appending processing for appending additional effective pixels by extending input image data in a scanning direction using pixels at terminal ends of the input image data in the scanning direction. The image processing apparatus generates image data of a second hierarchy obtained by reducing the input image data by applying filtering to the generated image appended with the additional effective pixels, and generates image data of a third hierarchy by applying filtering to the image data of the second hierarchy. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130223764 | PARALLEL SCALER PROCESSING - A parallel scaler unit for simultaneously scaling multiple pixels from a source image. The scaler unit includes multiple vertical scalers and multiple horizontal scalers. A column of pixels from the source image is presented to the vertical scalers, and each vertical scaler selects appropriate pixels from the column of pixels for scaling. Each vertical scaler scales the selected pixels in a vertical direction and then conveys the vertically scaled pixels to a corresponding horizontal scaler. Each horizontal scaler scales the received pixels in a horizontal direction. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130251288 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE, AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE - According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a scale down unit, a calculation unit, a scale up unit, and a subtraction unit. The scale down unit generates a scaled down image by scaling down a target image. The scaled down image has a size smaller than the target image. The calculation unit calculates a pixel value of a diffuse reflection component of each pixel in the scaled down image, and generates a first diffuse reflection image having the pixel value and the same size as the scaled down image. The scale up unit generates a second diffuse reflection image by scaling up the first diffuse reflection image. The second diffuse reflection image has the same size as the target image. The subtraction unit generates a specular reflection image by subtracting the second diffuse reflection image from the target image. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130330018 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided a technique of implementing image processing including division with high calculation precision. An image processing apparatus for executing image transformation processing for an input image, comprises: a parameter calculation unit configured to calculate a plurality of transformation parameters each represented by a fixed point number having an n-bit length; and a calculation unit configured to perform calculation for coordinate conversion processing in the image transformation processing using the plurality of transformation parameters calculated by the parameter calculation unit. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130330019 | ARRANGEMENT OF IMAGE THUMBNAILS IN SOCIAL IMAGE GALLERY - A method of organizing images comprises using an electronic device for selecting image space type for displaying images, sorting one or more images in the selected image space type based on a filter, and sizing the one or more images based on the filter and criteria based on the selected image space type. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130343673 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION - A method is provided for iteratively reconstructing an image of an object. The method includes accessing measurement data associated with the image, and using a simultaneous algorithm to reconstruct the image. Using the simultaneous algorithm to reconstruct the image includes determining a scaling factor that is voxel-dependent, and applying the voxel-dependent scaling factor to a gradient of an objective function to reconstruct the image. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20130343674 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SCALING DIGITAL IMAGES - Methods, computer devices, and computer readable media containing instructions for executing such methods are provided for the modification of digital images having a plurality of visual elements. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20140003741 | SCALE CHANGING DETECTION AND SCALING RATIO DETERMINATION BY USING MOTION INFORMATION | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140023293 | METHOD OF CONTENT AWARE IMAGE RESIZING - Audiovisual content presentation to users has evolved from users receiving hardcopy printed materials to their searching and retrieving information by accessing any of hundreds of millions of web sites and billions of web pages. User retrieval being performed on a wide variety of platforms from high performance PCs to low performance cellular telephones. Accordingly substantial limitations exist in initially displaying this audiovisual content as well as when users dynamically manipulate browser dimensions or move through the content. Further additional limitations exist for those authoring both online and traditional content to manipulate sourced content to provide the published content. As such a requirement exists for dynamically resizing images that respects the information content within the audiovisual content. Embodiments of the invention provide for content aware resizing of audiovisual content both within authoring and user environments, and in dependence upon device characteristics such as display, processor, power, etc. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140064637 | SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING A DIGITAL IMAGE USING TWO OR MORE DEFINED REGIONS - System for processing a digital image using multiple regions where each of the multiple regions is defined using a portion of the digital image. In addition, a top margin, a bottom margin, a left margin, and a right margin are defined to include margin pixels for each of the multiple regions of the digital image. Margin pixels are defined as neighboring pixels for a region of the digital image and may contain pixels that are part of the digital image, part of the region of the digital image, and/or newly generated pixels. Various techniques such as on the fly generation or using a predetermined process for video data information generation, such as replication or using a fixed color, may be used to generate the margin pixels. Each of the multiple regions is processed with its margin pixels to create a new quadrilateral digital image that is completely processed and/or scaled. The appropriate portion of the processed quadrilateral digital image is displayed using a display region of an electronic display panel having multiple display regions. The concatenation of the displayed portions of the processed quadrilateral digital images produces the original digital image using the electronic display panel. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140079339 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ZOOMING DIFFERENT REGIONS IN IMAGE AT DIFFERENT SCALES - A system and a method for zooming different regions in an image at different scales are provided. Through a technical means of determining a valid region and an invalid region in an original image, and respectively zooming the valid region and the invalid region at different scales, a technical efficacy of relieving a distortion condition in the valid region in the original image and enabling a user to fully understand a message indicated in the image can be achieved. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140205206 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESIZING AN IMAGE - In some instances, an image may have dimensions that do not correspond to a slot to display the image. For example, an image content item may have dimensions that do not correspond to a content item slot. The image may be resized using seam carving to add or remove pixels of the image. A saliency map for the image may be used having saliency scores for each pixel of the image. Evaluation metrics may be used before, during, and after, seam carving to determine whether salient content is affected by the seam carving. In some instances, a seam cost threshold value may be used for adaptive step size during the seam carving. The resized image may then be outputted, such as for an image content item to be served with a resource. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140301663 | Systems and Methods for Image Processing - Disclosed are various embodiments for systems and methods for image processing. A resizing template may be generated having one or more image sizes of an original image based at least in part on resize settings. A preview may then be generated of preview images of the original image based at least in part on the resizing template and the resize settings. The resize settings may be further adjusted via the preview. Upon approval of the preview and the adjusted resize settings, the original image is processed to generate final resized images according to the template and the modified resize settings. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20150036947 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RESIZING AN IMAGE - In some instances, an image may have dimensions that do not correspond to a slot to display the image. For example, an image content item may have dimensions that do not correspond to a content item slot. The image may be resized using seam carving to add or remove pixels of the image. A saliency map for the image may be used having saliency scores for each pixel of the image. Evaluation metrics may be used before, during, and after, seam carving to determine whether salient content is affected by the seam carving. In some instances, a seam cost threshold value may be used for adaptive step size during the seam carving. The resized image may then be outputted, such as for an image content item to be served with a resource. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150086136 | IMAGE SCALING PROCESSOR AND IMAGE SCALING PROCESSING METHOD - An image scaling processor includes: a coefficient computing circuit that calculates interpolation coefficients to be used in an image scaling process; a multiplier that multiplies input image data by the interpolation coefficients provided from the coefficient computing circuit such that the interpolation coefficients respectively correspond to input pixels constituting the input image data; an adder that iteratively adds pieces of multiplied data output from the multiplier and obtains a total sum of the pieces of multiplied data for a predetermined number of the input pixels; a selector that outputs a total sum of the multiplied data at a timing at which the total sum of the pieces of multiplied data is obtained for the predetermined number of the input pixels; and a shift circuit that shifts an output of the selector to adjust a bit count of the output image data to a bit count of the input image data. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150302553 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SOURCE RESOLUTION OF SCALED IMAGES - A method for determining whether an incoming image constitutes an up-scaled version of a lower resolution source image commences by first selecting a suspected resolution for the source image. The incoming image undergoes de-scaling to the suspected resolution. Thereafter, the incoming image is re-scaled after de-scaling without increasing image detail from the scaled down iteration The image detail of the re-scaled incoming image is compared with the image detail of the source image to determine whether the incoming image (as de-scaled and then re-scaled) has comparable detail to the source image. When the re-scaled image has substantially the same detail as the source image, the source image has the suspected image resolution. If the re-scaled image has inferior detail to the source image, the source image has a higher resolution. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150348231 | DATA COMPRESSION APPARATUS - Provided is a data compression apparatus. The data compression apparatus includes a header information extraction extracting block header information on compressed data from I/Q data block generated by dividing data on a block basis, a block scaling unit generating an I/Q data scaling block by performing block scaling on the I/Q data block based on the block header information, and a compressed data generation unit generating compressed data by using a block header based on the block header information and the I/Q data scaling block. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150363911 | IMAGE RESAMPLING WITH GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed at image resampling with geometric transformation. In embodiments the method may begin by determining a two-dimensional filter for application to an original image to produce a resampled image. This determining may be based on a specified geometric transformation. The method can proceed by computing identifiers for pixel locations in the resampled image that indicate a position of the two-dimensional filter with respect to the original image. Additionally, the method can include applying the two-dimensional filter to the original image in accordance with the computed identifiers to produce the resampled image. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150379722 | INTELLIGENT IMAGE PROCESSING FOR ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS - Techniques are described for processing an electronic image for presentation in a display of an enterprise application according to a format for presenting electronic image in the enterprise application. A format for an enterprise application may indicate display attributes such as an aspect ratio, a frame size, a resolution, or the like. The format for presenting an electronic image may correspond to a type of an enterprise application, a function of an enterprise application, a feature of an enterprise application, one or more subjects of the electronic image, other criteria associated with an enterprise application, or a combination thereof. These techniques may enable an electronic image to be adjusted for presentation in enterprise applications that have different formats. Users may benefit by not having to provide an electronic image adjusted to the different formats, thereby enabling a single electronic image to be used for a variety of enterprise applications. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160104055 | Image Cropping Suggestion Using Multiple Saliency Maps - Image cropping suggestion using multiple saliency maps is described. In one or more implementations, component scores, indicative of visual characteristics established for visually-pleasing croppings, are computed for candidate image croppings using multiple different saliency maps. The visual characteristics on which a candidate image cropping is scored may be indicative of its composition quality, an extent to which it preserves content appearing in the scene, and a simplicity of its boundary. Based on the component scores, the croppings may be ranked with regard to each of the visual characteristics. The rankings may be used to cluster the candidate croppings into groups of similar croppings, such that croppings in a group are different by less than a threshold amount and croppings in different groups are different by at least the threshold amount. Based on the clustering, croppings may then be chosen, e.g., to present them to a user for selection. | 04-14-2016 |
