Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120039525 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING THREE DIMENSIONAL MEDIA CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the exemplary embodiments may include, for example, means for generating a disparity map based on a depth map, means for determining accuracy of pixels in the depth map where the determining means identifies the pixels as either accurate or inaccurate based on a confidence map and the disparity map, and means for providing an adjusted depth map where the providing means adjusts inaccurate pixels of the depth map using a cost function associated with the inaccurate pixels. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 02-16-2012 |
20130107979 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING TRANSMISSION ON A BANDWIDTH MISMATCHED CHANNEL | 05-02-2013 |
20130107986 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING TRANSMISSION OF DATA ON A BANDWIDTH EXPANDED CHANNEL | 05-02-2013 |
20130208094 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING THREE DIMENSIONAL MEDIA CONTENT - A system that incorporates teachings of the exemplary embodiments may include, for example, means for generating a disparity map based on a depth map, means for determining accuracy of pixels in the depth map where the determining means identifies the pixels as either accurate or inaccurate based on a confidence map and the disparity map, and means for providing an adjusted depth map where the providing means adjusts inaccurate pixels of the depth map using a cost function associated with the inaccurate pixels. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 08-15-2013 |
20130336585 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF BILATERAL IMAGE FILTERING - A method includes generating a first principle bilateral filtered image component from a source image. The first principle bilateral filtered image component corresponds to a second pixel value of a set, the second pixel value greater than or equal to a first pixel value. The method includes selectively updating a result pixel of a result image based on the first principle bilateral filtered image component and deallocating the first principle bilateral filtered image component. After deallocating the first principle bilateral filtered image component, a second principle bilateral filtered image component is generated from the source image. The second principle bilateral filtered image component corresponds to a third pixel value. The third pixel value is greater than the second pixel value. The third pixel value is less than or equal to a fourth pixel value. The result pixel is selectively updated based on the second principle bilateral filtered image component. | 12-19-2013 |
20140298145 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING TRANSMISSION OF DATA ON A BANDWIDTH MISMATCHED CHANNEL - A method and apparatus for providing transmission on a channel in a network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a plurality of source samples, divides the plurality of source samples into a plurality of subbands in accordance with a ratio of the plurality of source samples to a number of channel uses of the channel, wherein each subband comprises a first number of source samples, determines a channel input from the plurality of source samples in accordance with a hybrid coding scheme, and transmits the channel input over the network. | 10-02-2014 |
20140328432 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING TRANSMISSION OF DATA ON A BANDWIDTH EXPANDED CHANNEL - A method and apparatus for providing transmission of data on a channel in a network. For example, the method determines a ratio of a number of channel uses of the channel to a number of source samples, divides a channel bandwidth into a plurality of subbands of equal bandwidth in accordance with the ratio, receives a source sample block, determines a channel input for each of the plurality of subbands from the source sample block in accordance with a hybrid coding scheme, and transmits, for each of the plurality of subbands, the channel input that is determined over the network. | 11-06-2014 |
20150078670 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING QUALITY ESTIMATORS - A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, sampling a variable effect distribution of viewing preference data to determine a first set of effects comprising a plurality of first distortion type effects associated with a first distortion type of a first image and to determine a second set of effects comprising a plurality of second distortion type effects associated with the second distortion type of a second image, calculating a preference estimate from a logistic regression model of the viewing preference data according to the first set of effects and the second set of effects, wherein the preference estimate comprises a probability that the first image is preferred over the second image, and selecting one of the first distortion type or the second distortion type according to the preference estimate. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 03-19-2015 |
20150078675 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE FILTERING - A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, partitioning the image into a group of blocks, calculating principle bilateral filtered image components for a first subset of the group of blocks where the principle bilateral filtered image components are not calculated for a second subset of the group of blocks, and applying an infinite impulse response filter to the image using the principle bilateral filtered image components. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 03-19-2015 |