11th week of 2016 patent applcation highlights part 72 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160080687 | IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICE, IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an image output device includes a buffer into which video information input in stream data is written per block, a determination unit configured to determine whether the buffer is in an overflow state due to slow reproduction, and a buffering control unit configured to switch a buffering pattern of the video information based on a determination result of the determination unit. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080688 | VIDEO PLAYER AND VIDEO SYSTEM - There are provided a video player for outputting a video signal which enables a monitor to easily, reliably detect that a signal is in a letterbox format and a video system having the video player. When the aspect ratio of video data is 16:9, the video player converts the video data into an NTSC signal in a letterbox format, outputting the thus-converted NTSC signal. In addition, the video player adds a closed caption signal to specific lines in a vertical blanking period, and each piece of 2-byte data is set to space. A 16:9 aspect ratio monitor receives an NTSC signal distributed by a distributor; detects that the closed caption signal is added to the NTSC signal and that data about the closed caption signal is space; and displays a main video in an zooming-in manner. A 4:3 aspect ratio monitor displays the main video as is. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080689 | Video Picker - There is provided a method comprising: receiving at a first device a first video; receiving at the first device an indication that the first video was selected by a user of a second device from a set of pre-recorded videos; and causing the first video to be displayed, via a display, in conjunction with an indication that the first video was selected by the user of the second device from a set of pre-recorded videos. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080690 | DIGITALLY-GENERATED LIGHTING FOR VIDEO CONFERENCING APPLICATIONS - A method of improving the lighting conditions of a real scene or video sequence. Digitally generated light is added to a scene for video conferencing over telecommunication networks. A virtual illumination equation takes into account light attenuation, lambertian and specular reflection. An image of an object is captured, a virtual light source illuminates the object within the image. In addition, the object can be the head of the user. The position of the head of the user is dynamically tracked so that an three-dimensional model is generated which is representative of the head of the user. Synthetic light is applied to a position on the model to form an illuminated model. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080691 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SEPARATE COMMUNICATION ZONES IN A LARGE FORMAT VIDEOCONFERENCE - A system that incorporates the subject disclosure performs, for example, displaying a video image of a remote scene at a display surface, wherein the remote scene is remote from the display surface. Overlapping video images are obtained from different vantage points of a local scene observable from the display surface. A composite video image is generated of the local scene from the video images and forwarded to the remote location. A first audio signal is generated representing first sounds associated with a first region of the local scene without representing other sounds associated with a second region of the local scene. The first audio signal is forwarded to audio processing equipment at the remote location to present the first sounds at a first region of the remote scene at the remote location without presenting the first sounds at a second region of the remote scene. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080692 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING BANDWIDTH OF VIDEO CONFERENCE - In a method for managing video conference bandwidth, original video images with a predetermined quantity are acquired from a video sent from a client device. The video sent from the client device is compressed according to a default video compression parameter. The compressed video images corresponding to the original video images are acquired. A current network bandwidth is detected and compared with the data bandwidth of the compressed video. A video quality assessed value of the compressed video is calculated in event the current network bandwidth is larger than the data bandwidth of the compressed video. The default video compression parameter will be regulated and the video will be recompressed until the video quality assessed value of the compressed video is within the scope of predetermined quality requirement while the video quality assessed value of the compressed video is beyond the scope of a predetermined quality requirement. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080693 | Method and Apparatus for Playing Conference Signal, Video Conference Terminal, and Mobile Device - A method for playing a conference signal, a video conference terminal, and a mobile device, related to the field of communications technologies, are provided to improve effects of displaying a main stream signal and a presentation stream signal. The method includes establishing a connection channel between a mobile device held by a conference participant and a video conference terminal that are at a site; sending, through the established connection channel, a first type signal in to-be-played signals to the mobile device for play, where the to-be-played signals are signals that are received by the video conference terminal and are to be played; and sending a second type signal in the to-be-played signals to a primary playing device of the site for play. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080694 | VIDEOCONFERENCING SYSTEMS WITH RECOGNITION ABILITY - A videoconferencing system which encodes different streams of information. The information may include video, audio, speech recognized versions of the audio, and language translated versions of the audio. Text may be sent as part of the videoconference. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080695 | Video Session Manager and Method for Enabling a Video Communication Session across Geographically Disparate Domains - A video session manager and method for enabling, optimizing, and managing inter-domain video communication sessions, including telepresence and videoconferencing sessions. The video session manager is configured to receive and analyze a video communication session request from one or more endpoints; to determine the viability of a communication session based on one or more attributes of the session; and to connect the one or more requesting endpoints to start the session. The video session manager is further configured to connect the one or more requesting endpoints via a bridging resource, such as a multipoint control unit, based on one or more considerations such as geography and transmission channel utilization. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080696 | Contact Area Diffusion Factor for Quantifying Fat Contents of Liquid - A method for determining the presence of fats in the body fluid by photographing a body fluid droplet and calculating the change of the contact area of the body fluid droplet and the contact area diffusion factor. In addition, fats may be easily detected by using a simple filming equipment where it is required to detect fats such as liposuctions, various orthopedic operations, obesity managements, etc. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080697 | Contact Area Diffusion Factor for Quantifying Fat Contents of Liquid - A method for determining the presence of fats in the body fluid by photographing a body fluid droplet and calculating the change of the contact area of the body fluid droplet and the contact area diffusion factor. In addition, fats may be easily detected by using a simple filming equipment where it is required to detect fats such as liposuctions, various orthopedic operations, obesity managements, etc. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080698 | NETWORK BASED VIDEO ANALYTICS THROUGH AN APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE (API) WITH METRIC TRIGGERED NOTIFICATIONS - A system for performs video analytics by receiving a video stream from a video capture device over a network to a server remotely located from a video capture device. The server extracts the one or more metrics by analyzing the video stream. The server compares the extracted one or more metrics from the video stream from the video stream against at least one previously established value defined at the server as part of assessing a previously established condition, defined at the server, to generate either a TRUE or a FALSE result. Responsive to a TRUE result, the server automatically performs a notification action that conveys a notification to a remotely located device of a previously designated user when the previously established condition is automatically detected by the analytics engine. Responsive to a FALSE comparison result, the server does not performing the notification action to the remotely located device. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080699 | OBJECT VISUALIZATION IN BOWL-SHAPED IMAGING SYSTEMS - Technologies for visualizing moving objects on a bowl-shaped image include a computing device to receive a first fisheye image generated by a first fisheye camera and capturing a first scene and a second fisheye image generated by a second fisheye camera and capturing a second scene overlapping with the first scene at an overlapping region. The computing device identifies a moving object in the overlapping region and modifies a projected overlapping image region to visualize the identified moving object on a virtual bowl-shaped projection surface. The projected overlapping image region is projected on the virtual bowl-shaped projection surface and corresponds with the overlapping region captured in the first and second fisheye images. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080700 | VIDEO MONITORING APPARATUS, CONTROL APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY READABLE STRAGE MEDIUM - A control apparatus of the present invention includes a first detection circuit which detects a first event which satisfies a first condition from a video, a second detection circuit which detects a second event which satisfies a second condition from the video, and a determination circuit which determines whether the first event and the second event satisfy some logical relationship or not, on based on a detected result of the first event and the second event. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080701 | ROTATION MODULE FOR AN INSPECTION SYSTEM - The invention relates to a device for an inspection system, in particular, to a sewer and pipe, respectively, inspection system comprising a rotation module, which is coupled to a pivoting housing, wherein the rotation module is rotatable about its longitudinal axis relatively to the pivoting housing, and wherein the rotation module comprises a slip ring for signal and energy transmission, respectively, between the rotation module and the pivoting housing. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080702 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING MULTIPLE AERIAL UNITS - A system that includes a ground unit, an aerial unit and a connecting element that is arranged to connect the ground unit to the aerial unit; wherein the ground unit comprises a connecting element manipulator that is arranged to alter an effective length of the connecting element; wherein the effective length of the connecting element defines a distance between the ground unit and the aerial unit; wherein at least one out of the ground unit and the aerial unit comprises a controller; wherein the controller is configured to determine the manner in which the aerial unit operates and is further configured to assist in a controlling of an aerial monitoring device that differs from the aerial unit. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080703 | Video Surveillance Method, Apparatus, and System - Related to the field of security protection, a video surveillance method, apparatus, and system, which can implement local magnification of a moving object in a surveillance scene. The method includes obtaining, by a client, an intelligent analysis alarm and moving track information of at least one alarm triggering object, and adjusting a window layout of a user interface according to the intelligent analysis alarm, where the intelligent analysis alarm is triggered by the client, a surveillance platform, or a camera when determining that there is an intrusion object in a surveillance scene according to an intelligent analysis strategy; and performing, by the client, local magnification on the at least one alarm triggering object according to moving track information of the at least one alarm triggering object. The present disclosure is applicable to video surveillance of important places. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080704 | ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RELEASING HEAT GENERATED BY IMAGING ELEMENT OF THE ENDOSCOPE APPARATUS - An endoscope apparatus includes an imaging element, a flexible substrate, and a flexible heat release sheet. The imaging element is built in an endoscope front end portion so as to receive incident light from a subject. The imaging element and components of a circuit for driving the imaging element are mounted on the flexible substrate and the flexible substrate is built in the endoscope front end portion. The flexible heat release sheet includes a first region attached to a given region of the imaging element other than a light receiving surface of the imaging element and a second region thermally contacted to a heat release member disposed in the endoscope front end portion. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080705 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INTEGRATED AUTO-TRIGGERING IMAGE CAPTURE OF ENCLOSURE INTERIORS - The present invention provides an enclosure having an entry barrier with an integrated auto-triggering image capture system. The enclosure includes an enclosure body, an entry barrier coupled to the enclosure body, and an integrated image capture system with an activator and an image sensor. The activator is coupled to the entry barrier and generates a trigger upon detecting a positional change of the entry barrier relative to the enclosure body. The image sensor is coupled to both the entry barrier and the activator, and is triggered by the activator to capture images of the enclosure interior. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080706 | DEVICE FOR ACQUIRING BIMODAL IMAGES - The invention relates to an image acquisition device comprising a sensor composed of an array of photosensitive pixels, and an array of elementary filters covering the sensor. Pixels may be of three different types: panchromatic pixels, primary colour pixels and infrared pixels. Under low illumination conditions, the device displays a monochrome image using panchromatic pixels, and under high illumination conditions, a colour image with a high signal to noise ratio, by combining primary colour images and subtracting the infrared image. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080707 | IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD THEREOF - An image photographing apparatus and an image photographing method thereof are provided. The image photographing method includes determining an illuminance of a photograph environment during image photographing; and controlling a resolution of a captured image according to the determined illuminance. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080708 | PROJECTION-TYPE VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE - A projection-type video display device which is easily radio-connected to a portable terminal and can freely switchably display video images sent from a plurality of portable terminals is provided. The projection-type video display device is directly connected to a portable terminal ( | 2016-03-17 |
20160080709 | Scanning Laser Planarity Detection - A scanning laser projector includes a proximity sensor and a planarity detector. When the proximity sensor detects an object closer than a proximity threshold, laser power is turned down. The scanning laser projector can measure distance at a plurality of projection points in the projector's field of view. If the projection points lie substantially in a plane, laser power may be turned back up. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080710 | TRI-SURFACE IMAGE PROJECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Digitally acquiring digital media content using a computer model simulation of a real venue in which the digital content is to be shown. Frontally projecting content from a virtual center of the simulated venue, the real venue having a frontal screen and two side screens. Digitally capturing the frontally projected digital media content from a view that a real frontal projector and two real side projectors would have in real life in order to “bake in” a warped transformation of the frontally projected digital media content. Projecting the warped, transformed frontally projected content through a frontal digital projector and two side digital projectors in the real venue, thus completing an illusion of a “cinematic window” of the digital media content in the real venue. Controlling the digital projectors using a digital server to feed the three digitally captured, warped media streams synchronously to the front, left and right digital projectors. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080711 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE-PICKUP APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS USING THE METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM USING THE METHOD - A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an image processing program that causes a computer to execute an image processing method comprising acquiring step of acquiring an input image generated by image pickup through an optical system, generating step of generating a point spread function by using coefficient data of a function approximating a point spread function corresponding to an image-pickup condition of the optical system, and providing step of providing unsharp mask processing to the input image using a filter generated based on information of the point spread function generated by using the coefficient data. The filter is a filter having two-dimensional data. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080712 | Dithering for Chromatically Subsampled Image Formats - Dithering techniques for images are described herein. An input image of a first bit depth is separated into a luma and one or more chroma components. A model of the optical transfer function (OTF) of the human visual system (HVS) is used to generate dither noise which is added to the chroma components of the input image. The model of the OTF is adapted in response to viewing distances determined based on the spatial resolution of the chroma components. An image based on the original input luma component and the noise-modified chroma components is quantized to a second bit depth, which is lower than the first bit depth, to generate an output dithered image. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080713 | PIXEL MIXING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME - It is determined whether an image before pixel mixture has a high frequency. In a partial image obtained by an imaging device having a Bayer array, a Gr pixel which indicates a green component and is arranged in the same row as an R pixel indicating a red component is distinguished from a Gb pixel which indicates a green component and is arranged in the same row as a B pixel indicating a blue component. The Gr pixels and the Gb pixels which are distinguished from each other are separately mixed. When an image before pixel mixture has a high-frequency component, the level of the Gr pixel and the level of the Gb pixel are different from each other after pixel mixture. It is determined whether the image before pixel mixture has a high-frequency component on the basis of the level of the Gr pixel and the level of the Gb pixel after pixel mixture. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080714 | TRANSMITTING DEVICE, TRANSMITTING METHOD, RECEIVING DEVICE, AND RECEIVING METHOD - Display with an appropriate luminance dynamic range is realizable on a receiving side. A gamma curve is applied to input video data having a level range from 0% to 100%*N (N: a number larger than 1) to obtain transmission video data. This transmission video data is transmitted together with auxiliary information used for converting a high-luminance level on the receiving side. A high-level side level range of the transmission video data is converted on the receiving side such that a maximum level becomes a predetermined level based on the auxiliary information received together with the transmission video data. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080715 | PIXEL INTERPOLATION DEVICE AND OPERATION CONTROL METHOD - The generation of a false color is prevented. In a pixel mixture block, pixels of the same color are mixed. For example, red pixels are mixed to obtain a red mixed pixel and blue pixels are mixed to obtain a blue mixed pixel. Green pixels in an odd-numbered row and pixels in an even-numbered row are separately mixed to obtain a green mixed pixel and a green mixed pixel. A correlation direction in a partial color image | 2016-03-17 |
20160080716 | Graphics Blending for High Dynamic Range Video - A method and system for merging graphics and high dynamic range video data is disclosed. In a video receiver, if needed, video and graphics are translated first into the IPT-PQ color space. A display management process uses metadata to map the input video data and the graphics from their own color volume space into a target blending color volume space by taking into consideration the color volume space of the target display. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080717 | METHODS CIRCUITS DEVICES SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTER EXECUTABLE CODE FOR RENDERING A HYBRID IMAGE FRAME - The present application discloses methods, circuits, devices, systems and associated computer executable code for rendering one or more hybrid images including both two dimensional and three dimensional image information from an object or person. According to some embodiments, data from 2D image frame may be combined with a corresponding 3D image dataset to generate a hybrid image frame. Display parameters and/or relative coordinates of the 2D and/or 3D image data may be adjusted or altered across hybrid image frames. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080718 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image display device includes region of interest extraction unit, parallax image generation unit and 3D image display unit. Region of interest extraction unit generates depth image signal by depth image conversion employing depth threshold, depth image signal including information on distance in three-dimensional space between viewpoint and each pixel of two-dimensional image including region of interest desired to be noted by observer, depth image conversion being such that depth value indicating distance between viewpoint and each pixel of two-dimensional image is converted to depth value for 2D display when depth value is equal to or larger than depth threshold. Parallax image generation unit generates both-eye parallax image having parallax in region of interest alone, from two-dimensional image and image obtained by conversion of region of interest image representing region of interest at each of both-eye viewpoints, based on two-dimensional image and depth image signal. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080719 | MEDICAL-IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - A medical-image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a reconstructing circuitry and a display control circuitry. The reconstructing circuitry performs a volume rendering operation on volume data while moving the viewpoint position by a predetermined parallactic angle, and generates a parallax image group that includes a plurality of parallax images with different viewpoint positions. The display control circuitry causes a stereoscopic display monitor to display the parallax image group as a stereoscopic image. With regard to the volume data that is acquired by each of the multiple types of medical-image diagnostic apparatus, the reconstructing circuitry adjusts each parallactic angle during generation of the parallax image group and, in accordance with each of the adjusted parallactic angles, generates each parallax image group on the basis of the volume data that is acquired by each of the multiple types of medical-image diagnostic apparatus. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080720 | DISPLAY WITH EYE-DISCOMFORT REDUCTION - A display system includes a display arranged in sight of a viewer, a sensory subsystem configured to sense an ocular condition of the viewer, and a controller. Operatively coupled to the display and to the sensory subsystem, the controller is configured to adjust an operating parameter of the display system in response to the ocular condition, in order to prevent or relieve eye discomfort experienced by the viewer. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080721 | TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, STEREO IMAGE DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD, RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND STEREO IMAGE DATA RECEIVING METHOD - Transmission of stereo image data may be performed between devices, where a source device receives E-EDID from a sink device via DDC of an HDMI cable. This E-EDID contains information on 3D image data transmission modes supportable by the sink device. Based on information on 3D image data transmission modes from the sink device, the source device selects a predetermined transmission mode from among the 3D image data transmission modes supportable by the sink device. The source device transmits 3D image data in the selected transmission mode to the sink device. The source device transmits information on the transmission mode for the 3D image data, to the sink device by using an AVI InfoFrame packet or the like. The sink device processes the 3D image data received from the source device in accordance with its transmission mode, thereby obtaining left and right eye image data. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080722 | 3D VIDEO TRANSMISSION ON A LEGACY TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE - The present disclosure relates to a method for transmitting two consecutive pairs of images. The method may include decimating each image with a ratio of 2, assembling the two decimated images of each pair in a composite image, transmitting the composite images, and reconstructing complete images from the composite images. In decimation, the information removed from the images of the first pair may be kept in the images of the second pair, from the spatial point of view, and the complete images may be reconstructed by de-interlacing processing from the composite images. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080723 | RECEIVING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROCESSING DATA - A receiving system that can receive and process 3D images and a data processing method of the same are disclosed. The receiving system includes an image receiving unit and a display unit. The image receiving unit receives a 3-dimensions (3D) image and system information including additional information of the 3D image (i.e., additional 3D image information), generates 3D signaling information based upon the additional 3D image information included in the system information, and transmits the generated 3D signaling information along with the 3D image through a digital interface. And, the display unit receives the 3D signaling information along with the 3D image through the digital interface, formats the 3D image based upon the receiving 3D signaling information, and displays the formatted 3D image. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080724 | Methods for Interfacing With an Interactive Application Using a Controller With an Integrated Camera - A computer implemented method for using a controller with at least one integrated camera is provided. The method includes identifying fixed points associated with objects disposed in a three-dimensional space using a depth camera that is part of with a controller. The method includes analyzing the identified fixed points captured by the depth camera and determining changes in position of the controller based on changes in position of the fixed points as determined from depth data captured by the depth camera. The method further includes triggering an input command when the controller is determined to in a particular positon based on the determined changes in position. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080725 | Stereo Panoramic Images - In one embodiment, range data is combined with an image in order to create a stereo image from the single collected image. An apparatus receives image data associated with a geographic location and range data associated with the geographic location. The range data may be a point cloud. At least one perspective image is formed based on the image data and the range data. The perspective image has a viewpoint different than single collected image. The apparatus generates a stereo image from the at least one perspective image. The stereo image appears to have depth. The at least one perspective image may include two images, each offset by a distance to estimate eye separation. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080726 | ENHANCING IMAGING PERFORMANCE THROUGH THE USE OF ACTIVE ILLUMINATION - A system includes a camera and a projector for capturing spatial detail having resolution exceeding that afforded by the imaging optics, and recovering topographic information lost to the projective nature of imaging. The projector projects a spatial pattern onto the scene to be captured. The spatial patterns may include any pattern or combination of patterns that result in complex sinusoidal modulation. Spatial detail such as texture on the objects in the scene modulate the amplitude of the spatial pattern, and produce Moiré fringes that shifts previously unresolved spatial frequencies into the camera's optical passband. The images may be demodulated, and the demodulated components may be combined with the un-modulated components. The resulting image has spatial detail previously inaccessible to the camera owing to the band-limited nature of the camera optics. A spatial pattern may also be projected and received by the camera to estimate topographic information about the scene. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080727 | DEPTH MEASUREMENT APPARATUS, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND DEPTH MEASUREMENT METHOD - A depth measurement apparatus for calculating depth information on an object, using one color image, including: a selection unit adapted to select, from a plurality of color planes of the color image, at least two color planes with different image formation positions; an adjusting unit adapted to adjust a luminance difference between the selected color planes; and a calculation unit adapted to calculate the depth information using a difference in blur between the adjusted color planes. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080728 | STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE PROCESSING METHODS AND APPARATUS - Stereoscopic image processing methods and apparatus are described. Left and right eye images of a stereoscopic frame are examined to determine if one or more difference reduction operations designed to reduce the luminance and/or chrominance differences between the left and right frames is within a range used to trigger a difference reduction operation. A difference reduction operation may involve assigning portions of the left and right frames to different depth regions and/or other region categories. A decision on whether or not to perform a difference reduction operation is then performed on a per regions basis with at the difference between the left and right eye portions of at least one region being reduced when a difference reduction operation is to be performed. The difference reduction process may, and in some embodiments is, performed in a precoder which processes left and right eye images of stereoscopic frames prior to stereoscopic encoding. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080729 | VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD AND VIDEO DISPLAY APPARATUS - A video display method using a display apparatus for displaying a glasses free 3D video, the display apparatus including a display unit in which sub-pixels constituting pixels are arranged in a matrix, the video display method including: (a) displaying, in a row of sub-pixels of the display unit, a video in which a left-eye video and a right-eye video are disposed alternately in units of display each unit made up of n sub-pixels, where n is an integer equal to or greater than 2; and (b) detecting a distance from the display unit to a viewer, wherein in step (a), if the detected distance is different from a predetermined distance, the number of sub-pixels of at least one unit of display, among a plurality of units of display included in the row of sub-pixels, is varied as a function of the detected distance. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080730 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device comprises a display panel, a driving module coupled to the display device, a parallax baffle arranged at a light-entering side or a light-exiting side of the display panel, and at least one reflective plate arranged outside at least one edge of the display panel. The display panel comprises a plurality of display units, the driving module is configured to drive the plurality of display units of the display panel to display a plurality of images, the parallax baffle is configured to display the plurality of images displayed by the plurality of display units at a plurality of predetermined visual areas, respectively, and the at least one reflective plate is configured to reflect the image displayed at the visual area adjacent to the reflective plate to other predetermined visual area. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080731 | DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A display panel and a display device are disclosed. Each of pixels in the display panel includes a pixel area; a switch element located near an intersection of a data line and a scan line; a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switch element; and a common electrode located on the first substrate. The common electrode comprises first common electrodes superposing data lines or scan lines and having the same first width; and second common electrodes overlapping with respective pixel areas and having the same second width, the first width is the same as the second width. Alternatively, the common electrode comprises first slits, which have the same first slit width, located above data lines and scan lines, and second slits, which have the same second slit width and are located in respective pixel areas. The first slit width is the same as the second slit width. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080732 | OPTICAL SEE-THROUGH DISPLAY CALIBRATION - Disclosed are a system, apparatus, and method for calibrating an optical see-through display (OSD). The OSD virtual display size is estimated as a starting point for determining an eye to camera distance. In response to determining the eye to camera distance and comparing the result with a measured eye to camera distance an updated display size may be determined. A user's head movement may be tracked in order to determine when a visual alignment based calibration routine is complete. When a user is not viewing a calibration target a request is sent to prompt the user to realign the OSD. When a user is still after a period of alignment with the OSD, the alignment and calibration procedure may be assumed as complete. A buffer may receive calibration values from before and after the calibration procedure is complete and the values may be averaged or filtered for accuracy. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080733 | SHUTTER GLASSES, METHOD FOR DRIVING THE SHUTTER GLASSES, AND DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - Shutter glasses in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention include a shutter lens configured to transmit an image of a display unit and a controller configured to control shutoff of the shutter lens. The shutter lens includes a first shutter block and a second shutter block, and the controller controls shutoff of the first shutter block in response to an image of the first display block of the display unit and controls shutoff of the second shutter block in response to an image of the second display block of the display unit. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080734 | Graphical System with Enhanced Stereopsis - A computer system that provides stereoscopic images is described. During operation, the computer system generates the stereoscopic images at a location corresponding to a viewing plane based on data having a discrete spatial resolution, where the stereoscopic images include image parallax. Then, the computer system scales objects depicted in the stereoscopic images so that depth acuity associated with the image parallax is increased, where the scaling is based on the spatial resolution and a viewing geometry associated with a display. For example, the viewing geometry may include a distance from an individual that views the stereoscopic images on the display and the display. Alternatively, the viewing geometry may include a focal point of the individual. Next, the computer system provides the resulting stereoscopic images to the display. In this way, the computer system may optimize the depth acuity for data having discrete sampling. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080735 | BACKLIGHT AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - Provided is an image display device having a display panel and a light source that may include a light path conversion sheet on the display panel; and a reflecting plate on the light path conversion sheet, the reflecting plate reflecting a light emitted from the light source, wherein the light path conversion sheet directs the light reflected from the reflecting plate toward the display panel. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080736 | OPTIMIZATION OF A MULTI-VIEW DISPLAY - Described herein is a multi-view display (based on spatial and/or temporal multiplexing) having an optimization mechanism that dynamically adjust views based upon detected state changes with respect to one or more views. The optimization mechanism determines viewing parameters (e.g., brightness and/or colors) for a view based upon a current position of the view, and/or on the multi-view display's capabilities. The state change may correspond to the view (a viewer's eye) moving towards another viewing zone, in which event new viewing parameters are determined, which may be in anticipation of entering the zone. Another state change corresponds to more views being needed than the display is capable of outputting, whereby one or more existing views are degraded, e.g., from 3D to 2D and/or from a personal video to a non-personal view. Conversely, a state change corresponding to excess capacity becoming available can result in enhancing a view to 3D and/or personal. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080737 | POINT SPREAD FUNCTION ESTIMATION OF OPTICS BLUR - A method for estimating an optics point spread function ( | 2016-03-17 |
20160080738 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO BY CONSIDERING SKIP AND SPLIT ORDER - A method of encoding a video includes: splitting a picture into a maximum coding unit; for the maximum coding unit, determining coding units having a tree structure including coding units of coded depths and determining encoding modes for the coding units of the coded depths by performing encoding based on coding units according to depths, the coding units according to depths obtained by hierarchically splitting the maximum coding unit as a depth deepens; and outputting information about a maximum coding unit size and, for the maximum coding unit, information indicating an order of split information and skip mode information which is selectively determined for the coding units according to depths, information about the encoding modes for the coding units of the coded depths including the split information and the skip mode information which are arranged according to the order, and encoded video data. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080739 | System and Method for Compressing Video Based on Latency Measurements and Other Feedback - A system and method of playing a video game in a streaming mode includes executing a selected video game on an assigned game server, receiving execution control signals corresponding to user inputs to a client device to generate multiple video frames. Encoding the video frames in a shared hardware compression. Some of the encoded video frames depend on a preceding frame. A first and a second encoded video frame are transmitted to the client device. A first feedback signal from a decoder in the client device identifies that the second encoded video frame was not received the decoder. A third encoded video frame dependency is adjusted to produce an adjusted third encoded video frame that depends from the first encoded video frame and the adjusted third encoded video frame is transmitted to the client device. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080740 | SIGNALING SIGNED BAND OFFSET VALUES FOR SAMPLE ADAPTIVE OFFSET (SAO) FILTERING IN VIDEO CODING - A method for signaling sample adaptive offset (SAO) band offset syntax elements in a video encoder is provided that includes receiving a plurality of band offset syntax elements, entropy encoding an absolute value of a magnitude of each band offset syntax element in a compressed video bit stream, and entropy encoding a sign of each non-zero band offset syntax element in the compressed video bit stream following the absolute values of the magnitudes. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080741 | IMAGE CODING METHOD, IMAGE DECODING METHOD, IMAGE CODING APPARATUS, IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE CODING AND DECODING APPARATUS - An image coding method comprising: obtaining current signals to be coded of each of the processing units of the image; generating a binary signal by performing binarization on each of the current signals to be coded; selecting a context for each of the current signals to be coded from among a plurality of contexts; performing arithmetic coding of the binary signal by using coded probability information associated with the context selected in the selecting; and updating the coded probability information based on the binary signal, wherein, in the selecting, the context for the current signal to be coded is selected, as a shared context, for a signal which is included in one of a plurality of processing units and has a size different from a size of the processing unit including the current signal to be coded. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080742 | CODING OF SIGNIFICANCE MAPS AND TRANSFORM COEFFICIENT BLOCKS - A higher coding efficiency for coding a significance map indicating positions of significant transform coefficients within a transform coefficient block is achieved by the scan order by which the sequentially extracted syntax elements indicating, for associated positions within the transform coefficient block, as to whether at the respective position a significant or insignificant transform coefficient is situated, are sequentially associated to the positions of the transform coefficient block, among the positions of the transform coefficient block depends on the positions of the significant transform coefficients indicated by previously associated syntax elements. Alternatively, the first-type elements may be context-adaptively entropy decoded using contexts which are individually selected for each of the syntax elements dependent on a number of significant transform coefficients in a neighborhood of the respective syntax element, indicated as being significant by any of the preceding syntax elements. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080743 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUBJECT-ORIENTED COMPRESSION - Examples of the present disclosure relate to performing subject oriented compression. A content file, such as a video file, may be received. One or more subjects of interest may be identified in the content file. The identified subjects of interest may be associated with a quantization value that is less than a quantization value associated with the rest of the content. When the content is compressed/encoded, the subjects of interest are compressed/encoded using their associated quantization value while the rest of the content is compressed/encoded using a larger quantization value. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080744 | VIDEO QUALITY OF SERVICE MANAGEMENT AND CONSTRAINED FIDELITY CONSTANT BIT RATE VIDEO ENCODING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A constrained variable rate coding technique limits the number of bits used in an encoding process. A quality setting indicates a maximum level of quality to be used in the encoding process which limits the number of bits used in the encoding process. A bandwidth reclamation factor which indicates an amount of bandwidth to conserve may also be used with the quality setting. The constrained variable rate coding technique using a lower quality encoding process for less complex video data and a higher quality encoding technique for higher quality video data. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080745 | INTRA PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method for performing an intra prediction according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: generating predicted pixels by performing interpolation using N reference pixels including two adjacent reference pixels according to an intra prediction direction; and generating a residual signal by using the generated predicted pixels. Accordingly, when a prediction for generating the residual signal is performed according to each prediction direction (mode), an optimal filtering method is determined and a predicted value is acquired, so that a size of the residual signal can be minimized and compression performance can be improved. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080746 | CODEC AND DEVICES INCLUDING THE SAME - A method, codec device, and system on chip (SoC) are provided for coding a region of interest (ROI) object of a frame. A current frame, which includes the ROI object is received, and a type of the current frame is determined. A complexity of the current frame is estimated. An ROI control signal is generated for controlling ROI coding of the ROI object based on the complexity. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080747 | MULTI-LAYER VIDEO CODING METHOD FOR RANDOM ACCESS AND DEVICE THEREFOR, AND MULTI-LAYER VIDEO DECODING METHOD FOR RANDOM ACCESS AND DEVICE THEREFOR - Provided is a video decoding method including determining whether a random access point (RAP) picture is positioned in an enhancement layer; determining whether a random access skipped leading (RASL) picture related to the RAP picture is output; and if the RAP picture is positioned in the enhancement layer and the RASL picture is determined not to be output, activating a SPS corresponding to the RAP picture when the RAP picture that is not at a start point of a CVS is decoded. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080748 | IMAGE CODING METHOD FOR CODING INFORMATION INDICATING CODING SCHEME - An image coding method includes a first flag coding step (S | 2016-03-17 |
20160080749 | TRANSFORM COEFFICIENT CODING FOR CONTEXT-ADAPTIVE BINARY ENTROPY CODING OF VIDEO - Methods and devices for encoding and decoding video are described that partition transform blocks into coefficient groups. The coefficients within non-zero coefficients are run-length coded in a reverse scan order within the group. Prior to coefficient coding, data is encoded indicating which coefficient group in group scan order is the last to contain a non-zero coefficient. Then data is encoded indicating the position within that last non-zero coefficient group of the last non-zero coefficient in scan order inside the coefficient group. Thus the decoder is able to decode run-length data knowing the positions of the coefficients and eliminating the need for end-of-block flags. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080750 | ENCODING METHOD AND ENCODING DEVICE - Reduction in power consumption is not considered in the prior art documents. Provided is an encoding method for encoding image information and having: a step in which image information is input; an analysis step in which the characteristics of the input image information are analyzed; a bit depth output step in which the bit depth for video encoding is determined and output; and an encoding step in which the bit depth output in the bit depth output step is used and the input image information is encoded. The encoding method is characterized by the output bit depth being switched in the bit depth output step, on the basis of the analysis results from the analysis step. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080751 | INTER-COMPONENT DE-CORRELATION FOR VIDEO CODING - Cross-component prediction (CCP) and adaptive color transform (ACT) may be performed concurrently in a video coding system. CCP and ACT may be enabled/disabled at the same level (e.g. at the transform unit level) via an indicator signaled in the bitstream such as the ACT enable indicator for the CU. Inverse CCP and ACT may be operated at the same level (e.g. at the transform unit level). Prediction residuals may be converted to original color space without waiting for reconstruction of luma and chroma residuals of an entire prediction unit or coding unit. CCP and ACT transforms may be combined into one process to reduce encoding/decoding latency. Differences in dynamic ranges of color components may be compensated by variable dynamic range adjustments. Differences in bit depths between luma and chroma components may be compensated by selectively disabling the ACT coding tool, scaling a component output of the CCP, adjusting a quantization parameters (QPs) and/or shifting a component output of an inverse transform of the video coding system. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080752 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL - The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for processing a video signal, and more particularly, a method and an apparatus for processing a video signal, which encode and decode the video signal. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080753 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL - The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for processing a video signal, and more particularly, a method and an apparatus for processing a video signal, which encode and decode the video signal. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080754 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOW BANDWIDTH DISPLAY INFORMATION TRANSPORT - A digital video transmission system that operates with three different video rendering paths. A first rendering path operates by receiving display requests and rendering bit-mapped graphics in a local screen buffer. The display information in that local screen buffer is then encoded and transmitted to a remote display system that recreates the content of that local screen buffer in a video buffer of remote display system. A second rendering path operates by receiving encoded video stream requests that can be decoded by the remote display system. Such encoded video streams are sent to the remote display system with minimal addition transport encoding. The third rendering path handles encoded video streams that cannot be handled natively by the remote display system. Such video streams may be either transcoded before transmission or decoded and stored within the local screen buffer. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080755 | METHOD FOR DECODING DATA, DATA DECODING DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA - A method for decoding data of the present disclosure includes: a receiving step of receiving a plurality of encoded streams on a packet basis, the encoded streams being included in encoded data and having been transmitted using a plurality of respective transmission channels; a storing step of storing a plurality of packets of the received plurality of encoded streams, in a first buffer; a rearranging step of rearranging the plurality of packets stored in the first buffer, in a decoding order; and a decoding step of decoding the plurality of packets rearranged in the decoding order. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080756 | MEMORY MANAGEMENT FOR VIDEO DECODING - Techniques and tools described herein help manage memory efficiently during video decoding, especially when multiple video clips are concurrently decoded. For example, with clip-adaptive memory usage, a decoder determines first memory usage settings expected to be sufficient for decoding of a video clip. The decoder also determines second memory usage settings known to be sufficient for decoding of the clip. During decoding, memory usage is initially set according to the first settings. Memory usage is adaptively increased during decoding, subject to theoretical limits in the second settings. With adaptive early release of side information, the decoder can release side information memory for a picture earlier than the decoder releases image plane memory for the picture. The decoder can also adapt memory usage for decoded transform coefficients depending on whether the coefficients are for intra-coded blocks or inter-coded blocks, and also exploit the relative sparseness of non-zero coefficient values. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080757 | TILING IN VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING - Implementations are provided that relate, for example, to view tiling in video encoding and decoding. A particular method includes accessing a video picture that includes multiple pictures combined into a single picture ( | 2016-03-17 |
20160080758 | MOVING PICTURE PREDICTION METHOD, MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - An image decoding method is provided which includes a time information determination step of determining time information of a current picture, a first reference picture referred to by the current picture and a second reference picture referred to by the current picture; a scaling parameter calculation step of calculating a scaling parameter based on a time distance between the first reference picture and a second reference picture; a weighting coefficient determination step of determining two weighting coefficients based on the scaling parameter; a predictive pixel value generation step of generating a predictive pixel value of the current picture by scaling a pixel value of the first reference picture and a pixel value of the second reference picture using the two weighting coefficients determined in the weighting coefficient determination step; and a decoding step of decoding the current picture using the predictive pixel value. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080759 | PICTURE CODING DEVICE, PICTURE CODING METHOD, PICTURE CODING PROGRAM, PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, PICTURE DECODING METHOD, AND PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM - In a first inter-image prediction mode in which information on a motion vector is used, a first mode detection unit constructs a first candidate list from a plurality of reference block candidates based on a first predetermined order, assigns indices for designating reference block candidates added in the first candidate list, and outputs the indices of the plurality of reference candidate blocks. In a second inter-image prediction mode in which is used a motion vector difference between a motion vector predictor based on information on a motion vector, and a motion vector of a coding target block, a second mode detection unit constructs a second candidate list from a plurality of reference block candidates based on a second predetermined order, assigns indices for designating reference block candidates added in the second candidate list, and outputs the indices of the plurality of reference block candidates and motion vector differences. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080760 | ENCODER CIRCUIT AND ENCODING METHOD - An encoder circuit includes a statistical processing circuit and a motion search circuit. The statistical processing circuit performs statistical processing on motion vectors detected with respect to each of macroblocks that are units of processing. Each of frame images included in video is divided into the macroblocks. The motion search circuit sets a first search range in a reference frame image temporally different from a first frame image among the frame images, sets a search start position and a search direction within the first search range based on the result of the statistical processing, searches the first search range from the search start position in accordance with the search direction, and generates the motion vector of a current macroblock included in the first frame image based on the result of searching the first search range. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080761 | ENCODING SYSTEM USING MOTION ESTIMATION AND ENCODING METHOD USING MOTION ESTIMATION - Provided are an encoding system using motion estimation and an encoding method using motion estimation for achieving high-speed motion estimation according to a multi-processing unit. The encoding system using motion estimation, comprises a multi-processing unit calculating motion estimation on many macroblocks of an input image, a motion estimator estimating motion vectors of the macroblocks of the input image using the motion estimation on the plurality of macroblocks, previously N calculated by the multi-processing unit, and an encoder encoding the image based on the motion vectors of the macroblocks, estimated by the motion estimator. According to the present invention, motion estimation to be used for motion estimation can be calculated in advance according to the multi-processing unit capable of processing high-speed parallel processing to reduce an image encoding time and improve an encoding speed. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080762 | ENCODING SYSTEM USING MOTION ESTIMATION AND ENCODING METHOD USING MOTION ESTIMATION - Provided are an encoding system using motion estimation and an encoding method using motion estimation for achieving high-speed motion estimation according to a multi-processing unit. The encoding system using motion estimation, comprises a multi-processing unit calculating motion estimation on many macroblocks of an input image, a motion estimator estimating motion vectors of the macroblocks of the input image using the motion estimation on the plurality of macroblocks, previously calculated by the multi-processing unit, and an encoder encoding the image based on the motion vectors of the macroblocks, estimated by the motion estimator. According to the present invention, motion estimation to be used for motion estimation can be calculated in advance according to the multi-processing unit capable of processing high-speed parallel processing to reduce an image encoding time and improve an encoding speed. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080763 | ENCODING SYSTEM USING MOTION ESTIMATION AND ENCODING METHOD USING MOTION ESTIMATION - Provided are an encoding system using motion estimation and an encoding method using motion estimation for achieving high-speed motion estimation according to a multi-processing unit. The encoding system using motion estimation, comprises a multi-processing unit calculating motion estimation on many macroblocks of an input image, a motion estimator estimating motion vectors of the macroblocks of the input image using the motion estimation on the plurality of macroblocks, previously calculated by the multi-processing unit, and an encoder encoding the image based on the motion vectors of the macroblocks, estimated by the motion estimator. According to the present invention, motion estimation to be used for motion estimation can be calculated in advance according to the multi-processing unit capable of processing high-speed parallel processing to reduce an image encoding time and improve an encoding speed. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080764 | ENCODING SYSTEM USING MOTION ESTIMATION AND ENCODING METHOD USING MOTION ESTIMATION - Provided are an encoding system using motion estimation and an encoding method using motion estimation for achieving high-speed motion estimation according to a multi-processing unit. The encoding system using motion estimation, comprises a multi-processing unit calculating motion estimation on many macroblocks of an input image, a motion estimator estimating motion vectors of the macroblocks of the input image using the motion estimation on the plurality of macroblocks, previously calculated by the multi-processing unit, and an encoder encoding the image based on the motion vectors of the macroblocks, estimated by the motion estimator. According to the present invention, motion estimation to be used for motion estimation can be calculated in advance according to the multi-processing unit capable of processing high-speed parallel processing to reduce an image encoding time and improve an encoding speed. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080765 | ENCODING SYSTEM USING MOTION ESTIMATION AND ENCODING METHOD USING MOTION ESTIMATION - Provided are an encoding system using motion estimation and an encoding method using motion estimation for achieving high-speed motion estimation according to a multi-processing unit. The encoding system using motion estimation, comprises a multi-processing unit calculating motion estimation on many macroblocks of an input image, a motion estimator estimating motion vectors of the macroblocks of the input image using the motion estimation on the plurality of macroblocks, previously calculated by the multi-processing unit, and an encoder encoding the image based on the motion vectors of the macroblocks, estimated by the motion estimator. According to the present invention, motion estimation to be used for motion estimation can be calculated in advance according to the multi-processing unit capable of processing high-speed parallel processing to reduce an image encoding time and improve an encoding speed. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080766 | ENCODING SYSTEM USING MOTION ESTIMATION AND ENCODING METHOD USING MOTION ESTIMATION - Provided are an encoding system using motion estimation and an encoding method using motion estimation for achieving high-speed motion estimation according to a multi-processing unit. The encoding system using motion estimation, comprises a multi-processing unit calculating motion estimation on many macroblocks of an input image, a motion estimator estimating motion vectors of the macroblocks of the input image using the motion estimation on the plurality of macroblocks, previously calculated by the multi-processing unit, and an encoder encoding the image based on the motion vectors of the macroblocks, estimated by the motion estimator. According to the present invention, motion estimation to be used for motion estimation can be calculated in advance according to the multi-processing unit capable of processing high-speed parallel processing to reduce an image encoding time and improve an encoding speed. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080767 | ENCODING SYSTEM USING MOTION ESTIMATION AND ENCODING METHOD USING MOTION ESTIMATION - Provided are an encoding system using motion estimation and an encoding method using motion estimation for achieving high-speed motion estimation according to a multi-processing unit. The encoding system using motion estimation, comprises a multi-processing unit calculating motion estimation on many macroblocks of an input image, a motion estimator estimating motion vectors of the macroblocks of the input image using the motion estimation on the plurality of macroblocks, previously calculated by the multi-processing unit, and an encoder encoding the image based on the motion vectors of the macroblocks, estimated by the motion estimator. According to the present invention, motion estimation to be used for motion estimation can be calculated in advance according to the multi-processing unit capable of processing high-speed parallel processing to reduce an image encoding time and improve an encoding speed. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080768 | ENCODING SYSTEM USING MOTION ESTIMATION AND ENCODING METHOD USING MOTION ESTIMATION - Provided are an encoding system using motion estimation and an encoding method using motion estimation for achieving high-speed motion estimation according to a multi-processing unit. The encoding system using motion estimation, comprises a multi-processing unit calculating motion estimation on many macroblocks of an input image, a motion estimator estimating motion vectors of the macroblocks of the input image using the motion estimation on the plurality of macroblocks, previously calculated by the multi-processing unit, and an encoder encoding the image based on the motion vectors of the macroblocks, estimated by the motion estimator. According to the present invention, motion estimation to be used for motion estimation can be calculated in advance according to the multi-processing unit capable of processing high-speed parallel processing to reduce an image encoding time and improve an encoding speed. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080769 | ENCODING SYSTEM USING MOTION ESTIMATION AND ENCODING METHOD USING MOTION ESTIMATION - Provided are an encoding system using motion estimation and an encoding method using motion estimation for achieving high-speed motion estimation according to a multi-processing unit. The encoding system using motion estimation, comprises a multi-processing unit calculating motion estimation on many macroblocks of an input image, a motion estimator estimating motion vectors of the macroblocks of the input image using the motion estimation on the plurality of macroblocks, previously calculated by the multi-processing unit, and an encoder encoding the image based on the motion vectors of the macroblocks, estimated by the motion estimator. According to the present invention, motion estimation to be used for motion estimation can be calculated in advance according to the multi-processing unit capable of processing high-speed parallel processing to reduce an image encoding time and improve an encoding speed. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080770 | ENCODING SYSTEM USING MOTION ESTIMATION AND ENCODING METHOD USING MOTION ESTIMATION - Provided are an encoding system using motion estimation and an encoding method using motion estimation for achieving high-speed motion estimation according to a multi-processing unit. The encoding system using motion estimation, comprises a multi-processing unit calculating motion estimation on many macroblocks of an input image, a motion estimator estimating motion vectors of the macroblocks of the input image using the motion estimation on the plurality of macroblocks, previously calculated by the multi-processing unit, and an encoder encoding the image based on the motion vectors of the macroblocks, estimated by the motion estimator. According to the present invention, motion estimation to be used for motion estimation can be calculated in advance according to the multi-processing unit capable of processing high-speed parallel processing to reduce an image encoding time and improve an encoding speed. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080771 | MOTION COMPENSATION APPARATUS HAVING AT LEAST ONE PROCESSING CIRCUIT SHARED BY NORMAL MODE AND RESIZED REFERENCE FRAME MODE AND RELATED MOTION COMPENSATION METHOD - A motion compensation apparatus includes an interpolation filter device, a pixel fetching circuit, and a pixel dispatching circuit. The interpolation filter device generates interpolated pixels by performing interpolation according to reference pixels. The pixel fetching circuit fetches the reference pixels from a reference frame. The pixel dispatching circuit dispatches pixels to the interpolation filter device, wherein the pixels comprise the reference pixels. At least one of the interpolation filter device, the pixel fetching circuit and the pixel dispatching circuit is shared by a normal mode and a resized reference frame (RRF) mode of motion compensation. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080772 | Encoding and Decoding Architecture of Checkerboard Multiplexed Image Data - A device includes a coder or a codec configured for interleaved image data utilizing diamond shaped blocks for motion estimation and/or motion compensation and utilizing square or orthogonal transforms of residual data. In various embodiments, the decoder may be configured, among others, to perform de-blocking on edges of the diamond shaped blocks and/or data padding at boundaries of the image data. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080773 | PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, PICTURE DECODING METHOD AND PICTURE DECODING PROGRAM - In a picture coding device for coding picture signals including a brightness signal and a color-difference signal in a block unit using intra-prediction and coding information regarding an intra-prediction mode, when aspect ratios of pixels of the brightness signal and the color-difference signal are different from each other, a bitstream generator converts a mode number of a first intra-color-difference prediction mode used when the aspect ratios are equal to each other into a scaled mode number and derives a second intra-color-difference prediction mode used when the aspect ratios are different from each other. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080774 | Method of Reference View Selection for 3D Video Coding - A method of deriving VSP (View Synthesis Prediction) Merge candidates with aligned inter-view reference pictures is disclosed. The method generates a second Disparity Vector (DV) using a scaled DV derived from Neighboring Block Disparity Vector (NBDV) of the current block. A method of deriving one or more inter-view DV Merge candidates with aligned DV and associated inter-view reference pictures is also disclosed. The inter-view reference picture pointed by the DV derived from Depth oriented NBDV (DoNBDV) is used as the reference picture and the DV derived from DoNBDV is used as the DV for inter-view DV Merge candidate. Furthermore, a method of deriving temporal DV for NBDV is disclosed, where if the temporal neighboring block has a DV existing, the DV is used as an available DV for the current CU only if the associated inter-view reference picture exists in the reference lists of the current CU. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080775 | REFERENCE FRAME SELECTION TECHNIQUE FOR ERROR RESILIENCE OF VIDEO CODEC USING MULTIPLE REFERENCE FRAMES - The present invention relates to a reference frame selection technique for an error resilience of video codec using multiple reference frames. The reference frame selection technique for an error resilience of video codec using multiple reference frames according to the present invention comprises the steps of: performing a motion estimation individually in each of the multiple reference frames so as to search a reference macroblock of the macroblock to be coded; checking the degree of match between the reference macroblock region found by the motion estimation and the intra-coded macroblock of the reference frame; and selecting the motion vector (MV) of the reference macroblock which is relatively best matched to the intra-coded macroblock of the reference frame from among the reference macroblocks found in each of the multiple reference frames. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080776 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVELY PROCESSING VIDEO SAMPLES IN A VIDEO SIGNAL FRAME - A method and apparatus for adaptively processing video samples in a video signal frame, the video samples being arranged in a Largest Coding Unit. The method comprises extracting a plurality of video samples from the Largest Coding Unit, calculating a correction offset for a first video sample of the extracted plurality of video samples upon the basis of a first value of the first video sample and a second value of a second video sample of the extracted plurality of video samples, and weighting the first video sample with the correction offset. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080777 | APPARATUS FOR ADAPTING A PRESENTATION OF MEDIA CONTENT TO A REQUESTING DEVICE - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media processor having a controller to record stereoscopic media content supplied by a multimedia system, receive from a communication device a request for the recorded stereoscopic media content, determine rendering capabilities of the communication device, generate transcoded content by transcoding the recorded stereoscopic media content according to the rendering capabilities of the communication device, and transmit to the communication device the transcoded content. Other embodiments are disclosed and contemplated. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080778 | HYBRID MODULATOR UTILIZING DIGITAL DOMAIN MULTIPLEXING - Systems and methods are provided for generating a hybrid signal. A first signal source is configured to provide a first digital signal having a first sample rate, and a second signal source is configured to provide a second digital signal having a second sample rate. A resampling component is configured to resample the second digital signal into a resampled signal having the first sample rate. A multiplexing component is configured to combine the first digital signal and the resampled signal into a multiplexed signal. A digital-to-analog converter is configured to convert the multiplexed signal into an analog signal. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080779 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING BROADCAST SERVICE, METHOD FOR RECEIVING THE BROADCASTING SERVICE, AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING THE BROADCASTING SERVICE - Provided is a method for receiving a broadcast service. The method includes: receiving a first packetized stream; extracting presentation time information from a header of the first packetized stream; extracting trigger information comprising a target service identifier and a trigger action from a payload of the first packetized stream; and performing the trigger action to an object corresponding to the target service identifier at a time indicated by presentation time information. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080780 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EARLY MEDIA BUFFERING USING DETECTION OF USER BEHAVIOR - A system and method for early media buffering using prediction of user behavior. In accordance with an embodiment, a client device user interface displays a plurality of media options, each of which is associated with a corresponding media content, for example a media channel or video stream, that can be received from a media server system for playing at the device, or at a controlled device. While the user interacts with the user interface, media content associated with regions of the interface can be buffered in preparation for selection and subsequent playing. The client device can include a user interaction sensor, for example a motion, hand/proximity, or heat sensor, which detects when a user is about to interact with the device. The media server system can be triggered to buffer media content associated with one or more neighboring media options on the user interface, in preparation for selection and playing. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080781 | IDENTIFICATION OF CAPTURED VIDEOS - An identification system receives a request from a user device to identify a video captured in a video stream. The identification system identifies a display area captured in the video stream in which the video is displayed. The identification system identifies content include in the display area throughout the stream. Based on the identified content, the identification system creates a fingerprint for the video. The identification system identifies from a plurality of stored fingerprints at least one fingerprint similar to the created fingerprint. The identification system identifies video information associated with the similar fingerprint. The video information is transmitted to the user device and displayed as being video information about the video captured in the stream. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080782 | Employing Helper Transport Streams for Re-Multiplexing - In one system embodiment, a master re-multiplexer may be configured to receive an indexed transport stream, re-multiplex the indexed transport stream by performing a set of re-multiplexing operations, generate a helper transport stream, the helper transport stream comprising a description of the set of operations, wherein the set of operations comprises both program clock reference (PCR) re-stamping and inserting packets, and providing the helper transport stream over a communications network to plural remote re-multiplexers capable of identically re-multiplexing the indexed transport stream based on the helper transport stream. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080783 | CONTENT SUPPLY DEVICE, CONTENT SUPPLY METHOD, PROGRAM, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND CONTENT SUPPLY SYSTEM - The present disclosure relates to a content supply device, a content supply method, a program, a terminal device, and a content supply system, which are capable of performing rapid zapping between channels. A content supply device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a first supply unit configured to generate a zapping stream by delimiting streaming data according to a timing and a duration in common with another channel and to supply the zapping stream to a reception side via a network, a second supply unit configured to generate a viewing stream by delimiting the streaming data according to a duration of an integer multiple of the duration of the zapping stream and to supply the viewing stream to the reception side via the network, and a metafile generating unit configured to generate a metafile that is for the reception side to receive the zapping stream and the viewing stream. The present disclosure can be applied to a system in which content is delivered in a streaming manner. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080784 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AVB NETWORKS - Embodiments are disclosed for a system for detecting and recovering from missing samples in an audio/video stream. In some embodiments, a system comprises a processor and a storage device storing instructions executable by the processor to determine that a first sample, of a plurality of samples in an audio/video data stream, was not received by a listener device in an audio video bridging system and allocate a first entry in a time slotted buffer for the first sample, wherein the first entry corresponds to a timestamp associated with the first sample. The instructions are further executable to fill the first entry in the time slotted buffer with a second sample immediately preceding the first sample in the audio/video data stream. | 2016-03-17 |
20160080785 | Method For Determining Availability Time Period For A Media Episode - The invention relates to a method for determining the availability time period (AT) of a media episode, comprising the steps of broadcasting a media episode for a playing time period (L), making available the media episode for playback for an availability time period (AT) after the playing time period (L) has elapsed, and determining the availability time period (AT) based on at least one extension time period (E | 2016-03-17 |
20160080786 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUDIO-VISUAL CONTENT VIEWING USING ADVERTISEMENT CREDIT - An alternative system and method for charging to provide audio visual services typically made available by providers, namely DVR services, rDVR services, on-demand services, broadcast and switch video television services, and pay-per-view services, for example. A customer/user may be enabled to access certain services from a provider in exchange for viewing one or more commercials, advertisements, overlays, watermarks, logos, or the like, preferably in real time, before, during, or following viewing an audio visual work provided in accordance with the services. | 2016-03-17 |