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Pulse Or Digital Communications > Bandwidth Reduction Or Expansion > Television Or Motion Video Signal > Associated Signal Processing Associated Signal ProcessingAssociated Signal Processing patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.11/22/07 - 20070268971 - Data recording device, method, and program, data reproduction device, method, and program, recording medium, and data structure A video stream is encoded with a prediction mode of which a picture later than an I picture in the display order is predicted from a picture earlier than the I picture in the display order and recorded on a record medium so that the video stream reproduced from the ... 11/15/07 - 20070263731 - Moving picture re-encoding apparatus, moving picture editing apparatus, program, and recording medium It is provided with: a decoding means 12 that decodes frames of a moving picture from an encoded bit stream; a frame selecting means 15 that selects a frame to be re-encoded from the decoded frames; an encoding means 14 that re-encodes only the selected frame; and an interval notifying ... 11/15/07 - 20070263730 - Instruction for producing two independent sums of absolute differences Method and apparatus for performing two independent sum-of-absolute-difference (SAD) operations when receiving a single instruction (505, 705) is provided. The two operations may be performed in parallel. The operations process values stored in two source registers (405, 410) and the results are stored to a destination register (425). The source ... 11/08/07 - 20070258523 - Digital lighting control system A digital lighting control system for controlling a plurality of lighting elements is provided, including a PC, a signal control unit, a signal conversion unit, and a signal dispatching unit. The signal control unit has a video signal input decoder for receiving video signal input and a PC display interface ... 10/18/07 - 20070242754 - Apparatus for processing data stream for digital broadcasting system and method thereof An apparatus for processing data for a digital broadcasting system, the digital broadcasting system including an interleaver, includes a data extractor that receives a data stream from the interleaver and extracts specified data from the data stream to obtain extracted data, a data processor that processes the extracted data according ... 10/04/07 - 20070230585 - Method, medium, and system encoding and/or decoding an image An encoding method, medium, and system encoding an image, with an image being encoded by generating a plurality of image slices as images of each color component of the image and encoding the image slices in parallel with each other and independently of each other. Accordingly, although an image to ... 10/04/07 - 20070230584 - Image buffering techniques A system, apparatus, method and article to perform buffering techniques are described. The apparatus may include a buffer having a fixed number of storage slots that store reconstructed picture representations received from an image processing module. Also, the apparatus may include a buffer status unit to store a multiple information ... 09/27/07 - 20070223595 - Picture delimiter in scalable video coding The use of a picture delimiter that is contained in a NAL unit type value that is reserved in the current AVC or SVC specification. The present invention provides the scalability information for the H.264/AVC base layer in such a manner that bitstreams remain decodable with H.264/AVC decoders. In addition, ... 09/27/07 - 20070223594 - Menu generation for mpeg compliant devices An on-screen display is generated for an MPEG compliant receiver. Externally of the MPEG compliant receiver, an MPEG transport stream is accessed, first data in the accessed MPEG transport stream is replaced with second data that relates to the data to be provided in the on-screen display, and the MPEG ... 09/27/07 - 20070223593 - Determination of data groups suitable for parallel processing A system and method for identifying groups of data suitable for parallel processing. In one example embodiment, an algorithm traces boundaries around nodes in a two-dimensional data set by following dependencies between nodes. Groups within different boundaries are independent of one another and can be processed concurrently. ... 08/30/07 - 20070201563 - Method and apparatus for processing a data series including processing priority data A reception control section 11 for receiving the information including data and its transmission format information from a memory or communication channel, a separating section 12 for analyzing and separating received information, a transmitting section 13 for transmitting information to a memory or transmission channel, a video extending section 14 ... 08/16/07 - 20070189396 - Video encoding method and apparatus, video decoding method and apparatus, programs therefor, and storage media for storing the programs A video encoding method for encoding a plurality of images as a video image. The method includes a reference parallax data setting step of setting reference parallax data which indicates a viewing difference between a first image and an already-encoded second image, in order to encode target encoding data assigned ... 08/09/07 - 20070183511 - Image coding method and apparatus and image decoding method and apparatus An image coding and decoding technology for compressing motion pictures which makes use of critical point filter technology and that includes detection of scene changes to provide more accurate decoding. An image input unit acquires key frames. A scene change detector detects when there is a scene change between key ... 08/02/07 - 20070177677 - Systems and methods for transcoding bit streams A data processing system including a buffer configured to temporarily maintain a portion of a plurality of compressed data streams and a switch. Each portion of the plurality of compressed data streams comprise one or more units of an encoded media signal. The switch is for providing selective connectivity between ... 08/02/07 - 20070177676 - System and method for controlling the long term generation rate of compressed data The present invention comprises a system and method for controlling the rate a data encoder generates compressed data. The system and method are preferably implemented as program code stored and executed by a processor or computer that is interfaced to standard variable or constant bit rate encoders known in the ... 07/26/07 - 20070171986 - Video coding A method of video encoding including receiving a video signal to be coded; coding data representing a frame of said video signal; and repeating part, but not all, of the data. The repeated part including the picture header for the frame. A method of decoding an encoded video signal including ... 07/26/07 - 20070171985 - Method, medium, and system encoding/decoding video data using bitrate adaptive binary arithmetic coding A method, medium, and system encoding/decoding video data using a binary arithmetic coding adaptive to a compression bit rate of the video data. The system may include a bitrate adaptation unit determining a maximum length of a prefix using a compression bitrate of the video data, a binarization unit dividing ... 07/26/07 - 20070171984 - Method and related apparatus for indexing video data The present invention provides for a method of indexing video data (18) by the creation of a plurality of scaled-down reference pictures (24) and including the steps of creating an index file (26) comprising a plurality of compression-encoded reference frames (28), and adding the plurality of reference pictures (24) created ... 07/19/07 - 20070165725 - Independently adjusting the quality levels for luminance and chrominance channels in a digital image A system that compresses a digital image. During operation, the system obtains a digital image in which the image components are de-correlated into separate channels containing luminance information and chrominance information. Next, the system receives a quality number for the luminance channel and a quality number for the chrominance channels, ... 07/12/07 - 20070160152 - System for encoding/decoding motion picture and method for encoding/decoding motion picture [Means of solution] The system and the method are severally provided with a processor 1, a means of calculating necessary operation volume 2 for calculating the volume of operation necessary for encoding/decoding the present frame, and a means of calculating power-supply voltage, substrate bias voltage and operating frequency 3 for ... 07/05/07 - 20070153917 - Remote surveillance system An audio/visual surveillance system for use in mobile vehicles such as patrol cars includes two video cameras producing video signals and four audio sources producing audio signals. The signals are MPEG-2 compressed and streamed in real time with geographic and time data to a digital cartridge-type tape recorder located in ... 07/05/07 - 20070153916 - Wireless video transmission system A transmission systems suitable for video. ... 07/05/07 - 20070153915 - Digital media mixer and method thereof The present invention provides a digital media mixer including a plurality of analog-to-digital converters for transforming analog audio/video signals to digital audio/video signals, a plurality of encoders for encoding the digital audio/video signals, a multiplexer for mixing the encoded digital audio/video signals using an MPEG-2 TS format, and a network ... 07/05/07 - 20070153914 - Tune in time reduction The time until a media decoder is refreshed to produce correct output samples is minimized if an IDR picture is the first picture in a decoding order in each MPE-FEC frame. A system enabling minimization of tune-in delay is described. Aspects of the system include a content encoder for receiving ... 06/21/07 - 20070140358 - Video encoding for seamless splicing between encoded video streams A method of splicing video content from a secondary encoded video stream into a primary encoded video stream, the method including the steps of identifying a splice out-time tout and a splice in-time tin, at least T time after tout, in the primary stream; causing the fullness of primary encoder's ... 06/21/07 - 20070140356 - Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing system An embodiment of the present invention is an image processing device which determines a reference frame for moving image compressing by inter-frame prediction, for each frame of a moving image, includes: a comparing section configured to compare, between frames of the moving image, sums of brightnesses of pixels in the ... 06/14/07 - 20070133693 - Method and system for extracting/storing specific program from mpeg multpile program tranport stream This invention provides an improved method for storing/replaying a specific program from a MPEG-2 multiple program transport stream. When storing, the method discards a related transport packet of the non-user-selected program and inserts a null packet at the corresponding discarding position, and the effective load of this null packet contains ... 05/24/07 - 20070116130 - Moving picture signal encoding apparatus, moving picture signal encoding method,and computer-readable recording medium An apparatus is provided for encoding input moving picture signals using a 2-pass variable bit rate system. The apparatus includes a stream analyzing section that analyzes the input moving picture signals to create information required to calculate a degree of difficulty of encoding per unit time; an encoding degree-of-difficulty calculating ... 05/17/07 - 20070110169 - Method and device for creating a video sequence representative of a digital video sequence and associated methods and devices for transmitting and receiving video data A method of creating a video sequence representative of a digital video sequence, characterized in that it comprises the following steps: dividing the digital image video sequence into a plurality video sections, for at least one of said video sections of the digital video sequence: selecting at least one video ... 05/17/07 - 20070110168 - Method for generating high quality, low delay video streaming A method for generating low delay video streaming is provided. In an embodiment, the bit rate desired for outputting the received video stream is input into a buffer (32 of FIG. 1), determining the size of the buffer according to the bit rate, outputting the video frame (36 of FIG. ... 05/03/07 - 20070098085 - Audio/video signal processor with storage function An audio/video signal processor with storage function is disclosed. According to an aspect of the present invention, a signal receiver is provided to receive and transmit a external TV signal to a signal processor for demodulation thereof. Next, an encoder/decoder is adopted for encoding/decoding the demodulated TV signal and then ... 05/03/07 - 20070098084 - Moving picture encoder In encoding of moving pictures, I-frame is inserted when a scene change occurs. If scene changes frequently occur in the range of a predetermined amount-of-information allocation, the amount of information allocated to an encoding process on I-frame becomes enlarged. Therefore, the amount of information cannot be sufficiently reserved for another ... 05/03/07 - 20070098083 - Supporting fidelity range extensions in advanced video codec file format A parameter set is created to specify chroma format, luma bit depth, and chroma bit depth for a portion of multimedia data. The parameter set is encoded into a metadata file that is associated with the multimedia data. The parameter set is extracted from the metadata file if a decoder ... 05/03/07 - 20070098082 - Transmitting apparatus, image processing system, image processing method, program, and storage medium In an image processing method of sequentially loading, compressing, and transmitting images to thereby display the images, there is provided the image processing method capable of preventing the images from degradation while keeping the respondibility until the image is displayed. When a changed region is determined to be present, the ... 04/12/07 - 20070081595 - Digital television transmitter/receiver and method of processing data in digital television transmitter/receiver A digital television (DTV) transmitter and a method of coding data in the DTV transmitter method are disclosed. A pre-processor pre-processes the enhanced data by coding the enhanced data for forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-coded enhanced data. A data formatter generates one or more groups of enhanced ... 04/12/07 - 20070081594 - Radio video transmission device, radio video reception device, radio video transmission/reception system, signal generation device, signal decoding device, and signal generation/decoding device By generating a transmission signal containing information on a video signal containing information on a video signal encoded in units of a video signal of a predetermined number of vertical periods and adding a flag indicating the header of the transmission signal to the header of the transmission signal, it ... 04/05/07 - 20070076802 - Video presentation at fractional speed factor using time domain interpolation This invention involves time domain interpolation of video signals. In order to adjust the presentation speed of a video data stream, a plurality of video frames is temporarily stored in a frame buffer, and the video frame to be displayed is generated by time domain interpolation between a plurality of ... 03/22/07 - 20070064811 - Method and system for rapid and smooth selection of digitally compressed video programs A system and method for rapid selection and viewing of video programs in digital video broadcasting are disclosed. In one example of the invention, a parser sorts the data stream from different video programs and the sorted data are then stored in a fast cache memory. There are at least ... 03/08/07 - 20070053444 - Image processing device and image processing method, information processing device and information processing method, information recording device and information recording method, information reproducing device and information reproducing method, storage The present invention allows usable information to be selected by comparing information regarding encoding with conditions regarding encoding processing. When delay modes, picture structures, and pulldown modes do not match each other between previous encoding time and re-encoding time, parameters are not reused. When they match and image frames do ... 02/22/07 - 20070041452 - Moving picture coding method, and moving picture decoding method According to the present invention, a moving picture coding apparatus (70) for performing inter-picture predictive coding for pictures constituting a moving picture is provided with a coding unit (103) for performing predictive error coding for image data; a decoding unit (105) for performing predictive error decoding for an output from ... 02/22/07 - 20070041451 - Moving picture coding method, and moving picture decoding method According to the present invention, a moving picture coding apparatus (70) for performing inter-picture predictive coding for pictures constituting a moving picture is provided with a coding unit (103) for performing predictive error coding for image data; a decoding unit (105) for performing predictive error decoding for an output from ... 02/15/07 - 20070036227 - Video encoding system and method for providing content adaptive rate control A video encoding system (200) provides content adaptive rate control that includes a visual analyzer (208) utilizing at least one visual analysis tool for processing a video frame to provide visual information describing the video frame. An encoder (204) generates encoding status information relating to the video frame being processed. ... 02/01/07 - 20070025449 - Video quality testing by encoding aggregated clips A variable-bit-rate (VBR)-encoding of a plurality of clips from a plurality of video content items is performed to produce a VBR-encoded aggregated video content item. The VBR-encoding of each of the clips is based on an encoding complexity of at least one other one of the clips. This can be ... 01/25/07 - 20070019743 - Video compression encoder A video compression encoder which does not require a video frame buffer is disclosed. Without a frame buffer, incoming pixels can not be compared to pixels previously sent to the decoder. Instead, the disclosed encoder only stores check values for groups of pixels sent. If a group's check value has ... 01/25/07 - 20070019742 - Method of transmitting pre-encoded video A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing transmittal of pre-encoded video is presented. A video sequence is encoded with a first set of parameters to produce a first pre-encoded video. The video sequence is then encoded with a second set of parameters to produce a second pre-encoded video, ... 01/11/07 - 20070009048 - Methods and systems for signaling chroma information in video Embodiments of systems and methods for signaling chroma information for a picture in a compressed video stream are provided. One system embodiment, among others, comprises a memory with logic, and a processor configured with the logic to provide a compressed video stream that includes a picture having chroma samples and ... 01/11/07 - 20070009047 - Method and apparatus for hybrid entropy encoding and decoding An apparatus and method for entropy encoding and decoding of video data. The method for entropy encoding video data includes dividing the video data into at least one partial video data portion and determining an entropy encoding mode to be used for each of the partial video data portion between ... 11/30/06 - 20060268994 - Digital broadcasting reception terminal and method for processing digital broadcasting data using the same A digital broadcasting reception terminal and a digital broadcasting data processing method using the same can reduce the overhead increase of the operation system as well as the use of resources. The digital broadcasting reception terminal includes a digital broadcasting receiver for receiving digital broadcasting data; a demodulator for demodulating ... 11/23/06 - 20060262863 - Method for formatting digital broadcast transport stream packet for improved receiving performance, digital broadcast transmitter, and signal processing method thereof A method of formatting a digital broadcast transport stream packet, a digital broadcast transmitter, and a signal processing method thereof, includes constructing a transport stream packet that includes a stuffing region for an insertion of a known supplementary reference signal (SRS) data therein, randomizing the packet that includes the stuffing ... 09/14/06 - 20060203919 - Method and apparatus for inserting digital media advertisements into statistical multiplexed streams A method and system for the insertion of local signals, including digital media advertisements, into statistically multiplexed streams is presented. The rate control and timing information is computed and is used to specify the insertion time and rate parameters for digital advertisements. In one embodiment, a maximum bit rate over ... 07/20/06 - 20060159184 - System and method of decoding dual video signals A video decoding system capable of decoding compressed high definition (HD) MPEG video signals incoming from different channels includes a first channel video decoder, a second channel video decoder, a video signal processor and an arbiter, where the first and second channel video decoders decode video streams incoming from different ... 07/20/06 - 20060159183 - Receiver and packet formatter for decoding an atsc dtv signal A packet formatter for use in a television receiver capable of receiving a dual bitstream signal comprising a standard stream compatible with the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standard and a robust stream. The packet formatter comprises: 1) a first processing block capable of receiving the dual bitstream signal and ... 07/13/06 - 20060153305 - Device for the trans-compression of a digital audiovisual stream in order to adapt same to existing television equipment The invention relates to a device which can be used for on-the-fly conversion, using a new, unknown method involving the receiver already in place at the user's premises, of a low-bandwidth digital audiovisual stream which is highly compressed (for transport reasons) into another digital audiovisual stream which is less compressed ... 06/22/06 - 20060133513 - Method for processing multimedia streams A method, machine readable medium, system, and device are disclosed. In one embodiment the method comprises determining whether one or more components that comprise a multimedia stream require real-time processing, if at least one of the one or more components require real-time processing, assigning the one or more components that ... 06/15/06 - 20060126744 - Two pass architecture for h.264 cabac decoding process An architecture capable of stream parsing of the H.264 Content Based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) format is disclosed. The architecture employs a two pass dataflow approach to implement the functions of CABAC bit parsing and decoding processes (based on the H.264 CABAC algorithm). The architecture can be implemented, for ... 03/09/06 - 20060050794 - Method and apparatus for delivering programme-associated data to generate relevant visual displays for audio contents An MPEG audio stream is transmitted together with an MPEG video stream. The audio stream contains an audio signal together with associated audio description data as ancillary data. The video stream contains a video signal together with video description data (e.g. video clips, stills, graphics, text etc) as private data, ... 03/02/06 - 20060045189 - Method for reducing channel switching delay in digital broadcast receiver and digital broadcast receiver using the same A method and an apparatus for reducing channel switching delay in a digital broadcast receiver are provided. The digital broadcast receiver includes a signal reception unit, which receives a broadcast signal and converts the received broadcast signal into an intermediate frequency (IF) signal, a digital demodulation unit, which retrieves a ... 03/02/06 - 20060045188 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method, recording medium, and program An information processing apparatus and method is disclosed by which an encoder having no reference picture inputting function can be used to edit compressed image data of the Open GOP structure. First and second non-compressed image signals each obtained by decoding a predetermined section including an editing point set to ... 02/23/06 - 20060039482 - Digital broadcasting system for storing broadcast data and method for transmitting and receiving broadcast data Disclosed are a system for storing broadcast data in DMB (digital multimedia broadcasting) and a method for transmitting and receiving broadcast data. A TS multiplexer included in a transmitter of the digital broadcasting system has a flag inserter that inserts an identification flag indicating the start or end of a ... 01/19/06 - 20060013319 - Image decoding device, image encoding device, and method thereof The picture decoding apparatus (1100) decodes a coded stream including a moving picture stream that has pictures of different sizes with reference to decoded pictures. The picture memory (203) includes a memory area for holding the decoded pictures. The picture memory dividing method specification unit (210) divides the memory area ... 12/29/05 - 20050286641 - Finite impulse response de-emphasis with inductive shunt peaking for near-end and far-end signal integrity A finite impulse response (FIR) de-emphasis data driver for a data transmitter or a receiver. The FIR de-emphasis data driver has a first tap having at least one shunt peaking inductor, a second tap and a mixer. The first tap receives a data input, and generates a first output. A ... 12/22/05 - 20050281342 - Slow motion and high speed for digital video Presented herein are systems and methods for slow motion and high speed for digital video. In one embodiment, there is presented a method for displaying pictures. The method comprises displaying a top field from a particular picture, for a predetermined number of consecutive vertical synchronization pulses; and displaying a bottom ... 11/24/05 - 20050259753 - System and method for automatic filter generation using sampled sinc function with windowed smoothing Methods and systems for processing a plurality of pixels, in a video system, are disclosed. Aspects of the method may comprise acquiring scaling factors associated with a plurality of output pixels and generating filter coefficients during the generation of the output pixels. The filter coefficients may be utilized to filter ... 11/24/05 - 20050259752 - Apparatus for and method of image processing and output, and computer product An image processing apparatus includes a first image converter that performs a first image conversion on an original image and that obtains a converted image, a conversion information generator that generates conversion information determined based on a relationship between the original image and the converted image obtained by the first ... 11/24/05 - 20050259751 - System and a method for controlling audio/video presentation on a sink device A method for encoding an audio/video (AV) program for muting on a sink device includes generating or recovering at least one digital transport stream having the AV program, augmenting the at least one digital transport stream with control information, the control information being configured to invoke a muting of at ... 11/24/05 - 20050259750 - Method and encoder for encoding a digital video signal The present invention relates to a method and an encoder for processing a digital video signal, said digital video signal comprising at least a scene cut (CUT) followed by a set of images. It is characterized in that it comprises the steps of:—Localizing said scene cut (CUT),—Defining a sub set ... 10/27/05 - 20050238106 - Video apparatus A video apparatus has a digital decoder generating a first digital stream, a video source of a first analogue signal, a video encoder and a first video decoder connectable to the video source for generating a second digital stream based on the first analogue signal. A switch is coupled to ... 10/06/05 - 20050220193 - Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus and transmission/reception system The present invention relates to a technique of multiplexing a DSD signal with a video signal according to the clock signal generated on the basis of the attributes of the video signal. The present invention provides a transmission apparatus for transmitting audio data and video data to a reception apparatus, ... 09/29/05 - 20050213667 - Adaptive early exit techniques in image correlation Images are obtained for image compression. The images are compared using sum of absolute difference devices, which have arithmetic parts, and accumulators. The sign bits of the accumulators are determined at a time of minimum distortion between two images. These sign bits are associated with sets of probabilistically-similar parts. When ... 09/29/05 - 20050213666 - Meta data for moving picture Meta data can efficiently use a buffer, allow random access, and reduce influence of a data loss when a process that combines a moving picture at a viewer and meta data at the viewer or on a network is to be executed. The meta data is formed by including one ... 09/22/05 - 20050207501 - Method of and system for video bit allocation for scene cuts and scene changes A method of and system for encoding a sequence of pictures without overflowing or underflowing a decoder buffer is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method uses a single-pass algorithm to store picture data that has been encoded using an MPEG standard. The method is used to monitor a characteristic of ... 08/18/05 - 20050180510 - Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes an inputting unit for inputting moving image data that is composed of frames each including first and second fields and that is encoded by intra-frame and inter-frame encoding; an instructing unit for submitting a request for outputting a still image; a still image generating unit ... 08/18/05 - 20050180509 - Robust signal coding The present invention concerns methods and devices for coding and decoding a coded data stream as well as a signal format for a coded data stream. The coded data stream includes at least one high-level data packet having partitions of data (56, 62, 68) requiring different protection rates. Partition detectors ... 08/11/05 - 20050175108 - Apparatus and method for playing audio packet stored in a video cd-rom separatedly Disclosed is a method for playing an audio packet separately in a video CD and apparatus thereof enabling to play the audio packet stored in the video CD selectively as well an MPEG2-formated audio file. In a video CD storing video and audio packets simultaneously, the present invention includes the ... 07/28/05 - 20050163227 - Dynamically adaptive multimedia application program interface and related methods A method of interfacing non-integrated media processing system elements is presented, the method comprising identifying one or more characteristics of one or more media processing system elements, and dynamically negotiating which system elements will perform certain media processing tasks based, at least in part, on the identified one or more ... 07/21/05 - 20050157798 - Image processing apparatus and its control method, and computer program and computer-readable storage medium An image processing apparatus enables smooth joint recording between 2 video coded streams without re-encoding by generating and inserting a dummy stream to maintain periodicity of phase information therebetween. A 2-3 pulldown unit 110 converts moving image data having a frame rate of 24 frames per 1 second, by periodically ... 06/30/05 - 20050141621 - Apparatus and method for converting a codec of image data A system and method is disclosed for converting a codec of image data. The system comprises a syntax converter for selectively converting first image data having a first syntax into second image data having a second syntax in response to a comparison of the first image data and the second ... 06/02/05 - 20050117654 - High-definition dual video decoder and decoding method, and digital broadcasting receiver using the same A dual video decoder of a digital broadcasting receiver is provided. The decoder includes: a first PES decoder for decoding a first video PES outputted from a first system decoder, into a first video ES; a second PES decoder for decoding a second video PES outputted from a second system ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |