Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090016607 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - When an original image in which an object to be concealed is mosaicked is so reduced as to have a low resolution, the mosaic block size at the lowered resolution is computed. It is judged whether or not the concealed object can be perceived by the eye of a human even though the object is mosaicked with the reduced mosaic block size. If so, the concealed object is re-mosaicked with an adequate re-mosaic block size. With this, even for a reduced image reduced by lowering the resolution of the original image in which the object to be concealed is mosaicked, the privacy of the concealed object can be protected. | 01-15-2009 |
20090034632 | INTRA-FORECAST MODE SELECTING, MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD, AND DEVICE AND PROGRAM USING THE SAME - An intra-forecast mode selecting method is provided to select an intra-forecast mode suitable for intra-forecast coding of a coding subject block from intra-forecast modes including a DC intra-forecasting mode based on a difference in forecast between a coding amount of the intra-forecast mode and an intra-forecast. The intra-forecast mode selecting method is comprised of intra-forecast mode selecting means for correcting the coding amount of the DC intra-forecast mode to be equal to that of the other intra-forecast or less to select an intra-forecast mode based on a difference in forecast between the coding amount of the corrected DC intra-forecast and the intra-forecast. | 02-05-2009 |
20090279604 | IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, DEVICE USING THE SAME, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - When entropy-encoding a converted quantized amount obtained by converting an image into a frequency region and quantizing it, if the output code bit quantity of the entropy encoding exceeds a predetermined amount, an image obtained by rebuilding the converted quantized value is outputted from an image encoding device. This guarantees an encoding delay caused by re-encoding to be a constant time without increasing the circuit size of the encoding device and provides an image encoding device of a subjectively high quality. | 11-12-2009 |
20090310682 | DYNAMIC IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND DEVICE AND PROGRAM USING THE SAME - It is possible to provide a dynamic image encoding technique capable of performing high image quality encoding while eliminating formation of a vector field subjectively not desired. A dynamic image encoding device includes: inter-frame prediction means for inter-frame predicting an image in a block unit; motion vector calculation means for calculating a reference frame and a motion vector used for the inter-frame prediction of the block; prediction motion vector calculation means for calculating a prediction motion vector for prediction-encoding the motion vector of the block; skip mode motion vector calculation means for calculating a skip mode motion vector of a skip mode by using a context of a block spatially adjacent to the block; and skip mode validity judging means for judging whether the skip mode is valid as the encoding mode of the block. The skip mode validity judging means calculates a code amount of a differential motion vector of the motion vector estimated by considering the motion vector of the skip mode and the subjective image quality and uses a value of the code amount of the differential motion vector weighted by a block quantization parameter for the skip mode validity judgment. | 12-17-2009 |
20100172593 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, AND IMAGE ENCODING PROGRAM - An image encoding apparatus, an image encoding method, and an image encoding program capable of minimizing image degradation, controlling a code amount in units smaller than a picture, and ensuring that encoding of the picture is completed within a certain time period is provided. A symbol number estimating device estimates the total bin number of a plurality of macro blocks constituting a picture. An entropy encoding selector outputs the entropy encoding mode selecting signal to an entropy encoder using the inputted bin number, in order to select one of a CABAC device or a VLC device. A CPU performs image encoding by executing a control program stored in a program storing portion. | 07-08-2010 |
20100177820 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, VIDEO ENCODING OR DECODING PROGRAM - Intended is to obtain a video encoding device, a video encoding method, and a video encoding program which enable to prevent reduction in compression efficiency caused by drastic changes in symbol occurrence probabilities in context adaptive coding, and a video decoding device, a video decoding method and a decoding program corresponding thereto. | 07-15-2010 |
20100214400 | IMAGE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND IMAGE PROVIDING METHOD - A terminal, information generating servers and a positional information server are provided. The information generating servers are installed in respectively corresponding to a plurality of objects. Each object may be divided into small blocks as one or more spatial regions and a case is included in which the block is the small block. One or more image acquisition cameras are provided which acquire an internal image of each object or an external image in which surroundings of each object are seen from the object. A display image to be transmitted to the terminal is generated from the internal image or the external image of each object based on at least one of terminal positional information indicating a position of the terminal and terminal directional information indicating a direction of the terminal. While pointing a to-be-identified target object among the objects, the terminal detects, detects the terminal positional information and the terminal directional information. The positional information server records object positional information indicating a position of each object and access information for accessing the information generating server corresponding to each object such that the object positional information and the access information are correlated to each object. Candidate objects as candidates of the target object are identified from the respective objects based on the terminal positional information and the terminal directional information and object positional information of the candidate objects are extracted. The terminal identifies the target object from the candidate objects based on the object positional information of the candidate objects, the terminal positional information, and the terminal directional information; acquires access information of an information generating server corresponding to the target object from the positional information server; accesses the information generating server corresponding to the target object; acquires a display image from the information generating server; and displays the display image. | 08-26-2010 |
20100238998 | VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, AND VIDEO ENCODING PROGRAM - A video encoding method comprises the steps of converting syntax data of an image block into a binary sequence; encoding each symbol of the binary sequence subject to its corresponding context; estimating the number of bits required for the binary arithmetic encoding of the syntax data of the image block; deciding whether to encode the syntax data of the image block to output it responding to the estimated bit number; and updating the context corresponding the syntax data decided to be encoded and to be outputted and not updating the context corresponding to the syntax data decided not to be encoded and not to be outputted. The estimating step uses the maximum value of the number of arithmetic encoding output bits for its input symbols as the aforementioned number of bits. | 09-23-2010 |
20130121408 | VIDEO IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE AND VIDEO IMAGE DECODING DEVICE - When injecting pseudo random noise to an area centered on a block boundary, a video encoding device and a video decoding device prevent injection of pseudo random noise to an area including a reference image for subsequent planar mode filtering, in order to suppress linear artifacts. The video encoding device includes: an inverse quantization unit for inverse-quantizing a quantization index to obtain a quantization representative value; an inverse frequency transform unit for inverse-transforming the quantization representative value obtained by the inverse quantization unit, to obtain a reconstructed image block; and an adaptive distortion removal filter unit for injecting pseudo random noise to an area centered on a boundary of the reconstructed image block, wherein the adaptive distortion removal filter unit does not inject pseudo random noise to an area including a reference image for planar mode filtering. | 05-16-2013 |
20130136177 | VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS, VIDEO CODING APPARATUS, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, VIDEO CODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In the present invention, reconstructed images for prediction are stored in uncompressed reference picture memory and compressed reference picture memory. A video decoder stores in uncompressed reference picture memory a reconstructed image of a frame to be decoded which has been generated on the basis of a prediction, and among reconstructed images which have been stored in the uncompressed reference picture memory, compresses a reconstructed image that will not be used for prediction of the frame to be decoded and stores the image in the compressed reference picture memory. Using the reconstructed images which are stored in the uncompressed reference picture memory and the compressed reference picture memory, the video bitstream is decoded into a video. | 05-30-2013 |
20130170548 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD AND PROGRAM - The present invention is a video encoding device having: video encoder for encoding an inputted video on the basis of a prediction; reference picture compressor for compressing a reference picture used for the prediction; storage for storing the compressed reference picture; reference picture decompressor for decompressing the compressed reference picture stored in the storage; compression and decompression controller for controlling the reference picture compressor and the reference picture decompressor on the basis of predetermined control information; quantized information encoder for encoding a portion of the control information of the compression and decompression control means by means of a predetermined method and for generating a quantized information bitstream; and multiplexer for multiplexing the video bitstream from the video encoder, at least a portion of the control information excluding the portion that was encoded by means of the quantized information encoder, and the quantized information bitstream. | 07-04-2013 |
20130322526 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, AND VIDEO DECODING METHOD - In order to increase the encoding efficiency of a quantization step size, this video encoding device comprises a quantization step size encoding unit for encoding a quantization step size that controls the granularity of quantization. The quantization step size encoding unit includes a step size prediction unit for predicting the quantization step size using quantization step size information assigned to an already-encoded nearby image block, and using in-frame prediction direction information about an image block that is to be encoded. | 12-05-2013 |
20140307779 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A video encoding device includes: a transformer for transforming an image block; an entropy encoder for entropy-encoding transformed data of the image block transformed by the transformer; a PCM encoder for PCM-encoding an image block; a multiplexed data selector for selecting output data of the entropy encoder or output data of the PCM encoder, for each block of an externally set block size; and a multiplexer for embedding a PCM header into a bitstream, in a block of the externally set block size, wherein the number of successive PCM-encoded blocks is embedded into the PCM header, and PCM data for the number of successive PCM-encoded blocks is multiplexed into the bitstream. | 10-16-2014 |
20140307790 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO DECODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A video encoding device includes a down-sampler with sampling position shifter | 10-16-2014 |
20140314154 | VIDEO ENCODING DEVICE, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A video encoding device uses fractional pixel accuracy motion compensation prediction based on a DCT interpolation filter, and includes: a fractional pixel accuracy motion vector search unit 10 for estimating a fractional pixel accuracy motion vector using an interpolation filter 11 different from a DCT interpolation filter 21; and a fractional pixel accuracy motion compensation prediction signal updating unit 20 for updating a prediction signal of a position of the fractional pixel accuracy motion vector estimated by the fractional pixel accuracy motion vector search unit 10, with a prediction signal based on the DCT interpolation filter 21. | 10-23-2014 |
20150086126 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, AND IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE - Disclosed is an image processing method including: generating an initial denoised image with a reduced noise while preserving an edge in an input image; controlling an iterative operation performed based on energy defined in advance based on an initial residual component calculated from the input image and the initial denoised image; and separating the initial denoised image to a skeleton component and a residual component by the controlled iterative operation to generate the skeleton component as an output image. | 03-26-2015 |