Image Compression Or Coding

Image Compression Or Coding 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 - 20070269118 - Image processing circuit and liquid crystal display apparatus
An image processing circuit has a color information converter configured to convert image data including a plurality of color information into luminance data and color difference data, an activity detector whether amount of activity predetermined according to differences between the luminance data in a plurality of pixels in each of ...

11/15/07 - 20070263937 - Method and apparatus for serving audiovisual content
An apparatus for serving audiovisual content comprises a parser, a decompression module, a packaging module, and a transmission module. The parser is adapted to receive an image data file and separate the image data file into a first compressed image component and a second compressed image component. The decompression module ...

11/08/07 - 20070258650 - Visibility data compression/decompression method, compression system and decoder
Non-adjacent rows (i) in the visibility matrix (Msr) that have a large number of common elements are automatically detected (E7) and any such detected rows are permutated to put the lines detected as having a large number of common elements into sequence to form a modified visibility matrix (M′sr), and ...

11/01/07 - 20070253628 - Method of and apparatus for image serving
A method of transmitting images from a server to a client along a communications link, comprises the steps of: dividing a relatively high resolution image into a plurality of lower resolution tiles; transmitting a first image tile to a client terminal for editing; predicting at least one further image tile ...

11/01/07 - 20070253626 - Resizing raw image data before storing the data
The invention is directed, in one embodiment, to a method of: (a) receiving raw image data representing an image, (b) transforming the raw image data to change at least one dimension of the image, and (c) storing the raw image data in a memory subsequent to the step (b) of ...

10/25/07 - 20070248270 - System and method for compression of mixed graphic and video sources
A system and method for compressing a mixed graphic and video signal. A system is provided that comprises: an encoder (14) for compressing mixed graphic and video pixel blocks (56), including: a classification system (22) for classifying each inputted pixel block as one of a plurality of unique types of ...

10/18/07 - 20070242888 - Compression of bi-level images with explicit representation of ink clusters
A system and method facilitating compression of bi-level images with explicit representation of ink clusters is provided. The present invention includes a cluster shape estimator that analyzes connected component information, extracts clusters and stores the cluster in a global dictionary, a page dictionary or a store of unclustered shapes. A ...

10/11/07 - 20070237404 - High quality image processing
In a high quality image-encoding scheme an input image is decomposed into several image blocks comprising multiple image elements. The image blocks are encoded into encoded block representations. Such a block representation comprises two color codewords, a color modifying codeword and optionally a sequence of color indices and color modifier ...

10/11/07 - 20070237403 - Enhanced image compression using scene prediction
A method of communicating an image file is provided. The method comprises generating at least one scene map based on knowledge of the composition of a targeted area, and reordering data in an image file using the at least one generated scene map such that data corresponding to image segments ...

10/11/07 - 20070237402 - Adaptive selection of image streaming mode
A Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) transmits medical image information from a server to a viewing workstation. The mode of transmission that the system uses depends on a performance metric of the network. If the network is fast and stable, the entire DICOM image file is transmitted. If the ...

10/11/07 - 20070237401 - Converting digital images containing text to token-based files for rendering
A computer-implemented method is provided for converting a scanned-in electronic image into a token-based file. The method includes generally five steps. First, various tokens (i.e., graphical units) are identified in the electronic image. Second, the identified tokens having similar shapes are classified together to form a token group, to thereby ...

09/27/07 - 20070223824 - Image capturing apparatus, imaging circuit, and image capturing method
An image capturing apparatus for capturing an image with solid state imaging devices may include a compressing section, a memory, a decompressing section, and a signal processing section. The compressing section may compress digitalized data of an image captured with the solid state imaging devices. The memory may temporarily store ...

09/27/07 - 20070223822 - Data compression method used in downhole applications
A method for compressing borehole image data is disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes acquiring image data downhole, selecting a block of the image data to compress, applying at least one filter to the block, selecting a subset of pixels from the block, and quantizing each of the ...

09/20/07 - 20070217698 - Image compressing apparatus, image compressing method and program
An image compressing apparatus carrying out code amount control upon JPEG2000 coding, in which the number of coding passes and a code amount for each code block generated by a MQ (arithmetic) coder are input, and the number of coding passes and the code amount are determined based on a ...

09/20/07 - 20070217694 - Waveform compression and display
A waveform compression and display technique saves both a peak detected version (background version) and a decimated/lowpass filtered version (foreground version) of a sampled electrical signal. The two versions are displayed simultaneously overlaid together in a contrasting manner so as not to obscure information contained in either of them. The ...

09/13/07 - 20070211948 - Method for providing real-time service of huge and high quality digital image on internet
A method for providing real time service of huge and high quality digital image on internet is disclosed, wherein data relevant to a general life such as a general photo, an advertising leaflet, and a pamphlet and professional image data exhibited in an art gallery, exhibition grounds, a pavilion are ...

09/13/07 - 20070211947 - System for seeing using auditory feedback
The invention is a system whereby a video image can be converted into an audio signal. A portable apparatus is described which allows a visually blind person to hear the images and thus ‘see’. This does not require expensive equipment nor does it require surgery. It has applications for non-blind ...

09/06/07 - 20070206869 - Apparatus for detecting a varied area and method of detecting a varied area
A first variation detecting unit, a second variation detecting unit and a varied area integrating unit that integrates results of variation detection of these units are provided. The first variation detecting unit judges a variation in an input image using brightness difference code of the brightness difference between respective pixels ...

09/06/07 - 20070206866 - Method of adding specific image information and image forming apparatus
Provided are a specific image information adding method with enhanced detection accuracy enabling multiple pieces of information to be added, and an image forming apparatus using the method. In the method of adding specific image information about a recorded image onto the recorded image, the specific image information consists of ...

08/30/07 - 20070201752 - Compressed data image object feature extraction, ordering, and delivery
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for processing document images. In one embodiment, the method comprises extracting one or more features corresponding to one or more objects from a JPM compressed file, including extracting at least one of the one or more features without decoding, ranking document objects based ...

08/30/07 - 20070201751 - Block-based fast image compression
Systems and methods for block-based fast image compression are described. In one aspect, a digital image is segmented into multiple blocks. A respective set of statistical characteristics is identified for each of the segmented blocks. Each of the blocks is encoded with a particular encoding algorithm of multiple encoding algorithms. ...

08/23/07 - 20070196023 - Image processing device
On the basis of luminance information extracted by a luminance extraction block 110, a compression conversion rule setting block 120 sets a compression conversion rule to a compression conversion table 130. In accordance with this compression conversion rule, an image compression block 140 compresses original image data and holds the ...

08/23/07 - 20070196022 - Device and method for processing at least two input values
For the reduction of the rounding error, a first and a second non-integer input value are provided and combined, for example by addition, in non-integer state to obtain a non-integer result value which is rounded and added to a third input value. Thus, the rounding error may be reduced at ...

08/16/07 - 20070189615 - Systems and methods for generating background and foreground images for document compression
Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods to generate background and foreground images for a document, which enables high-quality and high-ratio document compression. In embodiments, high-accuracy layer processing enables text enhancement, paper color removal, and many other advanced image analysis and processing. Embodiments of the systems support several operation modes ...

08/16/07 - 20070189614 - Method and system for pipelined processing in an integrated embedded image and video accelerator
A method and system for pipelined processing in an integrated embedded image and video accelerator is described. Aspects of a system for pipelined processing in an integrated embedded image and video accelerator may include circuitry that enables pipeline processing of video data within a single chip, wherein the pipeline processing ...

08/09/07 - 20070183671 - Method for compressing data, method for decompressing compressed data, and devices for implementing these operations
A sequence of data (b) entered into a compression device is selectively either compressed or not compressed, then supplied by the compression device as compressed or uncompressed data (b°, s°). A status information item (S) in a sequence of supplied data (b° , s°) is overwritten by the compression device ...

07/26/07 - 20070172135 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for image processing, sensor processing, and other signal processing using general parametric families of distributions
Methods and systems are disclosed for signal processing. A method includes receiving a plurality of digitized coefficients determining a best-fit distribution of a general family of distributions for the plurality of digitized coefficients, and providing a characterization of the digitized coefficients based upon the determined best-fit distribution. The system includes ...

07/26/07 - 20070172133 - System and method for encoding and decoding an image using bitstream map and recording medium thereof
Disclosed are a system and method for encoding and decoding an image. The image compression system includes an image segmentation unit (110) for segmenting a first image into a plurality of sub-images; a first encoding unit (120) for encoding the sub-images to output sub-image bitstreams; a BMAP construction unit (130) ...

07/19/07 - 20070165956 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for compression, digital watermarking, and other digital signal processing for audio and/or video applications
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for performing digital signal processing. According to one embodiment, the digital signal processing may include obtaining a first set of digitized coefficients from source data and determining a best-fit distribution of a generalized Gaussian distribution for the set of digitized coefficients. The ...

07/19/07 - 20070165955 - Processing of images in imaging systems
The imaging system converts raw data for an image to formatted data concurrently with compressing the formatted data for the image. The exemplary imaging system includes an image processor for generating blocks of formatted data from raw image data. The exemplary imaging system also includes an image compressor for compressing ...

07/19/07 - 20070165954 - Hybrid image and movie imaging system and method
The present application relates to a method and system for storing higher resolution images during capture and storage of a movie comprising lower resolution images. ...

07/12/07 - 20070160297 - Modifying data
Embodiments of modifying data are disclosed. ...

07/05/07 - 20070154102 - Image decompression system, method and program
Encoded data obtained by high-efficiency sequential encoding after an orthogonal transformation of image blocks each having a specified number of pixels are used. Preceding image decompression processing is performed on DC encoded data among the encoded data in a DC decompression processing section constituted by a DC decoding section 11A, ...

07/05/07 - 20070154101 - Method and device for processing video data by using specific border coding
Response fidelity problems appear for some specific video levels at PDP borders. The reason is that some cells at the border of the PDP panel are not completely closed and pollute when switched ON neighbouring cells being OFF. Therefore, it is suggested to encode the video levels in the border ...

06/28/07 - 20070147690 - Video coding device, video decoding device and video encoding method
A video coding device includes: a detecting unit configured to detect a foreground region, a background image and a shadow region reflected on the background image by the foreground region in an input picture; a shadow information compressing unit configured to perform a compression process to compress the information quantity ...

06/28/07 - 20070147688 - System and method for power reduction when decompressing video streams for interferometric modulator displays
A system and method for processing image data to be displayed on a display device, where the display device requires more power to be driven to display image data comprising particular spatial frequencies in one dimension than to be driven to display image data comprising the particular spatial frequencies in ...

06/28/07 - 20070147687 - Image data processing system and method
The image data processing system and method disclosed, processes intermediate compressed binary data representing images scanned for copy or exporting, thereby enabling storage of the copy or export file to a common memory storage device. According to an exemplary embodiment, the image data processing system comprises a binary lossless decompress ...

06/28/07 - 20070147686 - System and method for rendering an oblique slice through volumetric data accessed via a client-server architecture
A system renders oblique slices through volumetric data accessed via a network using a client-server architecture. The system includes a server for processing and storing volumetric data comprising axial slices obtained from a diagnostic scanning system, a client for processing user requests related to specific views of the volumetric data, ...

06/21/07 - 20070140571 - Method for image segmentation from proved detection of background and text image portions
A method is provided for segmenting scanned image data in accordance with mixed raster content processing, further including windowing for purposes of extracting particularly classifiable objects, i.e., text, graphics or pictures. Application of predetermined parameter sets selected for more precise identification of the extracted objects are applied to the data ...

06/21/07 - 20070140570 - Compressed image data enhancement
An image background remover is disclosed that performs background removal of JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) compressed image data without first performing a complete decompression of the compressed image data. ...

06/21/07 - 20070140569 - Image compression apparatus
[PROBLEMS] To improve the data compression ratio in the data compression/decompression method utilizing the down-sampling process. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] Image data in a DS area division unit (130) is divided into a plenty of DS areas and DS areas which are not important are converted into contracted data of ...

06/14/07 - 20070133889 - Image encoding method, image decoding method, moving-image compression method, moving-image expansion method, image encoding program, image decoding device, image encoding device, image encoding/decoding system, and extended image compression/expansion sy
The present image encoding method and the like represents a pixel block prior to performing spatial frequency transformation in processing such as JPEG or the like as a matrix, calculates sum data sc (i) of pixel values in a column i in the matrix and sum data sr (j) of ...

06/14/07 - 20070133888 - Statistical representation and coding of light field data
A method of representing light field data by capturing a set of images of at least one object in a passive manner at a virtual surface where a center of projection of an acquisition device that captures the set of images lies and generating a representation of the captured set ...

06/14/07 - 20070133887 - R/t display compression preserving intensity information
A realtime display compression for a waveform image uses a priority basis for combining groups of pixels when producing a compressed waveform image in order to preserve intensity information. As an example successive lines of data for the waveform image are demultiplexed into line buffers in a circulating manner, the ...

06/14/07 - 20070133886 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an image
A digital image coding apparatus, generates a representation of spatially filtered images that are obtainable from a common source image by application of spatial filter operations with respective filter bandwidths. The dependence of image information in the filtered images on position in the filtered image and filter bandwidth is represented ...

06/07/07 - 20070127826 - Image processing apparatus and control method therefor
This invention switches the number of bits per pixel between object types when converting code information into image data, thereby rendering one entire page at high speed while minimizing the influence on print quality. For this purpose, an apparatus analyzes received PDL data, and generates a DL (Display List) serving ...

05/31/07 - 20070122043 - Image processing device that produces high-quality reduced image at fast processing speed
A reduction-ratio acquiring section acquires a reduction ratio for reducing a source image into an output image. A division-number determining section determines a division number nDev for dividing each pixel constituting the source image into (nDev×nDev) division blocks, where nDev is an integer that is greater than or equal to ...

05/24/07 - 20070116367 - Method and device for compressing image data
A method for compressing image data on which a pseudo gradation process has been performed by using a dither pattern is provided. The method includes the steps of dividing the image data into predetermined blocks, calculating a typical value if an arrangement pattern of image data in each block can ...

05/17/07 - 20070110323 - Image processing apparatus and processing method thereof
An image processing apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus comprises an image input device, an external memory, and an encoder. The image input device captures pictures, and the external memory stores the captured pictures. The encoder further comprises a moving picture compression unit, a still picture compression unit, and ...

05/10/07 - 20070104378 - Method for encoding and serving geospatial or other vector data as images
A system and method are disclosed which include providing a first layer of an image, the first layer including features of the image having locations within the first layer; and providing a second layer of the image, the second layer including data blocks corresponding to respective ones of the features; ...

05/10/07 - 20070104377 - Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method mmmmm
There is provided an image processing apparatus capable of providing multiple services for users who issue various requests on a network, while maintaining the real-time nature. The image processing apparatus includes a developing unit 230 for developing image data to time-varying image data; an image processing unit 1 for performing ...

05/03/07 - 20070098273 - Image processing apparatus and apparatus connected to image processing apparatus
When a compression part outputs JPEG data which is discrete in the time direction, the valid data is accumulated in an FIFO. When the valid data of predetermined size is accumulated in the FIFO, an encapsulation part adds markers before and after the valid data and transmits JPEG stream data ...

05/03/07 - 20070098272 - Reduced buffer size for jpeg encoding
A method of compressing an image according to an image compression algorithm includes sequentially receiving pixel values into a buffers bank in line-by-line order. The image includes a plurality of pixels arranged into lines and columns. Each pixel has a pixel value associated therewith. Each line has L pixels. The ...

05/03/07 - 20070098271 - Apparatus and method for image coding
Provided is an image coding technique capable of realizing a high speed coding processing for a mixed image with less of a visual distortion. The image coding apparatus includes: plural scan units 3 each having scan means 7 scanning an original image to be encoded according to a prescribed scan ...

05/03/07 - 20070098270 - Device storing vector image with handles identifying portions of the device, and methods and computer programs to aid in mapping or correlating portions of an image retrieved from a device with portions of the device
In one embodiment, a device is provided with a non-volatile memory in which a vector image illustrating the device is stored, and an interface to provide a remote management tool with access to the vector image, to assist the tool in managing the device. The vector image has a plurality ...

04/26/07 - 20070092144 - Random data resampling for medical imaging
Medical imaging information is randomly resampled into the new resampled form. The random resampling can maintain the random nature of the information, and can avoid count loss. ...

04/19/07 - 20070086661 - Image processing apparatus, image recording apparatus, image reproducing apparatus, camera system, computer program, and storage medium
An image processing apparatus includes an image compression device which performs a discrete wavelet transform of pixel values for each rectangular portion to produce wavelet coefficients, and performs a hierarchical compression coding of the wavelet coefficients for each rectangular portion so that a codestream is produced. A codestream transform device ...

04/12/07 - 20070081730 - Image encoding apparatus and image decoding apparatus
An image encoding apparatus according to the present invention comprises a conversion table for recording therein a rearrangement rule for the encoded data where the encoded data is divided into a plurality of data and a restart marker is intervened between the adjacent divided data, an encoder for generating the ...

04/05/07 - 20070076962 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method
A disclosed image processing apparatus for compressing image data through multiple operations includes multiple processing units corresponding to the operations. Each of two or more of the processing units includes a regular processing subunit perform regular processing and a simplified processing subunit to perform simplified version of the regular processing; ...

04/05/07 - 20070076961 - Image compression data processing method, and image compression data processing apparatus
There is provided an image compression data processing method, including: dividing compressed image data into plurality of compressed partial image data and describing the plurality of compressed partial image data in an arbitrary order; and describing, in any of the compressed image data and additional data associated with the compressed ...

03/29/07 - 20070071331 - Image compression by economical quaternary reaching method
In wavelet-based image compression schemes, a very sparse representation of the image signal may be obtained after quantization to transform coefficients. In addition, the nonzero coefficients 2-dimensionally cluster around the edge or texture areas. In existing systems, for example JPEG2000, in the bit-plane coding process, coefficients are repeatedly scanned and ...

03/22/07 - 20070065023 - Image display encoding and/or decoding system, medium, and method
A display image encoding and/or displaying apparatus, medium, and method. The image encoding apparatus may include a transform unit, a quantizer, a clipper, and an entropy encoder. The transform unit converts image data to generate a transform block and the quantizer quantizes the transform block from the transform unit. The ...

03/22/07 - 20070065022 - Image signal processing apparatus and method
To provide an image signal processing apparatus and method capable of reducing a memory capacity necessary for temporarily storing image data and suppressing an image processing delay. An image signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes: a filter that executes an image processing on captured image ...

03/22/07 - 20070065021 - System for encoding signatures for compressed storage using a signature encoding algorithm
A method of encoding markings, such as handwritten signatures includes the steps of mapping the markings for each line by creating a line profile for each line, sorting the line profiles into at least two arrays distinguished from each other by at least one characteristic contained in each line profile, ...

03/22/07 - 20070065020 - Image procession method and device
An image compression/decompression method is provided for compressing/decompressing image data. First, each pixel of the raw image data is received. Then, each pixel of the raw image data is compared with a default transparent code to recognize whether the pixel in the raw image data is a transparent code pixel. ...

03/22/07 - 20070065019 - Two-dimensional coding method
A two-dimensional coding method includes: using a two-dimensional image containing plural reference pixels each having a different brightness and data pixels representing data in accordance with brightness; and coding a binary sequence of plural bits to be recorded as a hologram by matching the brightness level of the data pixel ...

03/22/07 - 20070065018 - Compressing image data
A method for compressing image data of an image, comprising: transforming the image data into a bit plane of first and second values; comparing each image element with a previous image element and if they are equal, recording a first value into a bit plane; and if they are not ...

03/08/07 - 20070053594 - Process for the acquisition of images from a probe with a light scanning electron microscope
Process for the acquisition of images from a probe with a light scanning electron microscope, wherein detected image data that correspond to three dimensional probe regions are detected and stored to memory, wherein data compression ensues in that the data of images lying next to one another and over one ...

03/01/07 - 20070047828 - Image data processing device
An image data processing device for scaling up or down input image data and outputting output image data includes a first image processing section for converting the input image data with a first resolution into intermediate image data with a second resolution, and a second image processing section for converting ...

03/01/07 - 20070047827 - Data compression apparatus and data compression program storage medium
A data compression apparatus includes a thinning section that thins numerical values from a succession of values constituting compressed data to create first and second compressed data; a reversible compression section for the first compressed data; a detecting section that detects an edge portion of the image; and a non-reversible ...

03/01/07 - 20070047826 - Information processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, control method, and computer readable storage medium
An image processing apparatus includes a decision unit configured to determine whether or not print image data includes copy-forgery-inhibited-pattern image data. Based on a decision result of the decision unit regarding whether or not the print image data includes the copy-forgery-inhibited-pattern image data, a processing unit of the image processing ...

03/01/07 - 20070047825 - Image processing apparatus, control method for the image processing apparatus, and storage medium storing computer program for executing the control method of the image processing apparatus
An image processing apparatus includes a production unit that can produce data by putting original image data into a first region and copy-forgery-inhibited-pattern image data into a second region, and a processing unit that can perform predetermined processing to the original image data put in the first region. The image ...

02/22/07 - 20070041646 - Picture coding method and picture decoding method
An image coding method and an image decoding method is provided by which an image can be restored correctly even if part of memory management information is lost by a transmission channel error, a candidate of a reference image that can be referred to is selected more appropriately, and coding ...

02/15/07 - 20070036444 - Image processing apparatus, image processing and editing apparatus, image file reproducing apparatus, image processing method, image processing and editing method and image file reproducing method
In generating stereo image data based on a plurality of monocular images of the same subject with a predetermined parallax, a metadata generating section generates collateral data, related to stereo image data, and an image file generating section generates information related to a date and time at which collateral data ...

02/15/07 - 20070036443 - Adaptive coding and decoding of wide-range coefficients
A block transform-based digital media codec more efficiently encodes wide dynamic range transform coefficients in two parts: a normalized coefficient and bin address. The normalized coefficient relates to a grouping of coefficient values of the wide dynamic range into bins, whereas the bin address is an index of the coefficient ...

02/15/07 - 20070036442 - Adaptive subtraction image compression
The present invention provides methods and systems for compressing digital images by arranging the images in a series, subtracting the pixel of each of the images from its corresponding pixel in its adjacent image, adjusting the pixel value to zero for pixels having an absolute value less than a predetermined ...

02/08/07 - 20070031047 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method
An image processing apparatus for compressing and decompressing image data is disclosed that is capable of image processing with a small memory area. The image processing apparatus includes a compression unit to compress the image data to a predetermined compression format; an omission secondary compression unit to omit a portion ...

02/08/07 - 20070031046 - Document processing method, document processing apparatus and program
A document processing apparatus processes an encoded document, which is a medium on which a machine readable code comprising a code of an encoded electronic document is formed. The document processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit, an editing-information managing unit and a decoding process unit. The acquiring unit acquires the ...

02/08/07 - 20070031045 - Graphics controller providing a motion monitoring mode and a capture mode
A preferred embodiment is directed to an image processing device for receiving pixel data provided to the device as follows: it is grouped into frames, each pixel datum has an associated value, and first, second, and third pixel data correspond respectively to first, second, and third frames. The image processing ...

02/08/07 - 20070031044 - Scan line to block re-ordering buffer for image compression
A re-order buffer memory in a real-time application such as e.g., an imager. Initially, input data is written into the re-order buffer using a first addressing mode, which causes the data to be stored in a line-by-line manner. Prior to receiving the last line of input data, the stored data ...

02/01/07 - 20070025624 - Image generation method and apparatus
An image processing apparatus is disclosed in which input images are processed to generate texture map data for texture rendering a generated three-dimensional computer model of object(s) appearing in the images. In order to select the portions of the images utilised, confidence data is generated indicative of the extent portions ...

02/01/07 - 20070025623 - Image distribution apparatus, communication terminal apparatus, and control method thereof
An image distribution apparatus divides image data of a single frame into a plurality of blocks, orthogonally transforms the blocks and calculates transformation coefficients, quantizes the calculated transformation coefficients, codes the quantized transformation coefficients, and distributes the coded image data. The image distribution apparatus acquires the quantized transformation coefficients, stores ...

02/01/07 - 20070025622 - Segmented layered image system
Systems and methods for encoding and decoding document images are disclosed. Document images are segmented into multiple layers according to a mask. The multiple layers are non-binary. The respective layers can then be processed and compressed separately in order to achieve better compression of the document image overall. A mask ...

02/01/07 - 20070025621 - Coding device, coding method, decoding device, decoding method, and programs of same
A coding device having a specifying unit for specifying image region data to be processed for refreshing countermeasures in image data being coded based on that image data and a refreshing countermeasure unit for applying processing for refreshing countermeasures to image region data specified by the specifying unit when coding ...

01/25/07 - 20070019868 - Next process-determining method, inspecting method and inspecting apparatus
There are provided a next process-determining method capable of determining a next process to be carried out next objectively and at the same time in a short time period, as well as an inspecting method and apparatus which are capable of carrying out a predetermined inspection as to an object ...

01/25/07 - 20070019867 - High-speed binary image compression method
A high-speed binary image compression method, the method including calculating an estimation value of a current pixel based on a context value derived from neighboring pixels of the current pixel, determining whether a pixel value of the current pixel, the context value of the current pixel, and the estimation value ...

01/25/07 - 20070019866 - Systems, methods, and media for transitioning compression levels in a streaming image system
Systems, methods and media for transitioning compression levels of a streaming image system are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method for transitioning compression levels between image frames in a streaming image system. Embodiments may include receiving by a smoothing module a request for a new compression level associated with an ...

01/18/07 - 20070014476 - Digital intermediate (di) processing and distribution with scalable compression in the post-production of motion pictures
Scalable image compression is exploited to facilitate the creative process in the post-production of motion pictures. Specifically, digital intermediate (DI) processing of motion pictures is enabled by dynamically rendering proxies 126 (steps 122, 124, 128) in response to client requests (steps 116, 118). A DI application is designed to enhance ...

01/11/07 - 20070009162 - Image-taking apparatus
A digital camera is provided with an emission section which emits independently controlled light to each of multiple emission areas and a light measurement/distance measurement CPU which calculates the amount of light to be emitted at actual emission based on the amount of reflected light of pre-emission and causes the ...

01/04/07 - 20070003148 - Image processing apparatus and image pickup device
Information of light from a subject is converted into information of the electric charges to generate image data for one screen in an image pickup device, the image data is outputted to an image processing LSI, only the image data belonging to a plurality of areas is selected by a ...

12/28/06 - 20060291729 - Methods and apparatus for transform coefficient filtering
According to the present invention, methods and apparatus for filtering transform coefficients are provided. Transform coefficients associated with an input bit sequence can be zeroed to provide modified transform coefficients associated with an output bit sequence. The transform coefficients may represent information in a portion of data such as a ...

12/21/06 - 20060285756 - Data compression apparatus and data compression program storage medium
There are provided a data compression apparatus and a data compression program capable of performing new and preferable compression processing applicable to compression of CT data. They are provided with: a thinning processing section which creates, by cyclically thinning out a numeric value from the sequence of numeric values constituting ...

12/07/06 - 20060274953 - Signal processing method, signal processing apparatus, computer-readable medium and a data recording medium
A signal processing method comprises: generating thinned data by thinning, in a checkerboard like manner, image data comprising a plurality of pixels that are arranged, as a square, in a row direction and in a column direction perpendicular to the row direction; generating a first square array by extracting odd-numbered ...

12/07/06 - 20060274952 - Multicolored two-dimensional barcode, image display apparatus thereof, information terminal apparatus, display method, decoding method, information communication system, and information communication method
A means of referring to a reference signal embedded in multi-color two-dimensional bar code (302) received from the Internet and optimizing the adjustment of colors of an output picture image. Furthermore, when the recognition fails, the tint is readjusted by a feedback means and the recognition rate in portable terminal ...

12/07/06 - 20060274951 - Method for the compressed transmission of image data for three-dimensional representation of scenes and objects
The invention relates to a method for the compressed transmission of image data for a three-dimensional representation of scenes and objects. A known method for transmitting video data between an emitter and a receiver according to the method for prioritised pixel transmission, can be advantageously used for transmitting and processing ...

11/30/06 - 20060269152 - Method and apparatus for compressing data and decompressing compressed data
A method and apparatus are provided for compressing data representing a plurality of elements of an array. This data is compressed by generating at least two sets of reduced size data from a filtered version of the original data. The elements of each set of reduced size data are representative ...

11/30/06 - 20060269151 - Encoding method and encoding apparatus
An encoding method includes acquiring background data, and at least one pair of foreground data and mask data, that are obtained by decomposing original image data, and encoding the background data, the foreground data and the mask data acquired by the data acquiring step, including performing a JPEG2000 encoding using ...

11/30/06 - 20060269150 - Multi-matrix depth of field image sensor
A technique for imaging involves wavefront coded optics and multiple filters. In a non-limiting embodiment, a system developed according to the technique includes wavefront coded optics and a multi-filter image processor. In alternative embodiments, imaging optics may come before wavefront coded optics or vice versa. In another non-limiting embodiment, a ...

11/30/06 - 20060269149 - Encoding and decoding apparatus and method for reducing blocking phenomenon and computer-readable recording medium storing program for executing the method
Provided is an encoding method capable of reducing a blocking phenomenon that occurs when moving-images are encoded and decoded. The method includes: performing a first encoding operation on an input image using a first quantization coefficient; generating a reconstructed image of the encoded image; calculating a difference between corresponding partial ...

11/30/06 - 20060269148 - Systems and methods for data coding, transmission, storage and decoding
Systems and methods are provided for the provision of data for transmission and/or storage, the transmission and storage of data, and, more particularly, to data coding for transmission and/or storage and to decoding of received and/or accessed or retrieved coded data. In an embodiment of the invention, data is assembled ...

11/30/06 - 20060269147 - Accelerated image rendering
Systems and methods are presented for accelerated image rendering. In one implementation, the systems and methods receive digital image data and derive intermediate data associated with the digital image data to accelerate image rendering. ...

11/23/06 - 20060262979 - Skip macroblock coding
Various techniques and tools for encoding and decoding (e.g., in a video encoder/decoder) binary information (e.g., skipped macroblock information) are described. In some embodiments, the binary information is arranged in a bit plane, and the bit plane is coded at the picture/frame layer. The encoder and decoder process the binary ...

11/23/06 - 20060262978 - Frequency coefficient scanning paths for coding digital video content
A method and system of transform-based encoding, decoding, and bitstream generation of digital video content. The digital video content comprises a stream of pictures, slices, or macroblocks which can each be intra, predicted or bi-predicted pictures. The pictures, slices, or macroblocks comprise blocks of pixels. The method comprises scanning frequency ...

11/16/06 - 20060257033 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for improving display of compressed video data
Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for improving the display of compressed video data. In one embodiment, there is presented a method for encoding video data. The method comprises estimating a displayed intensity of a video source displayed on a predetermined display device; estimating a displayed intensity of the ...

11/16/06 - 20060257032 - Data encoding device and data encoding method and computer program
Data mapped on a spherical surface is encoded with a format enabling partial resolution and partial distribution. When data mapped on a spherical surface such as an entire circumference image is subjected to the spherical surface wavelet conversion, scaling coefficients and values of wavelet functions are arrayed for each level ...

11/02/06 - 20060245655 - Structured document code transferring method, image processing system, server apparatus and computer readable information recording medium
A method of transferring a code of a structured document including background and at least one set of foreground and mask, to an image reproducing unit which reproduces the structured document code into a document image, includes, for each set of the foreground and mask, performing control to give priority ...

10/26/06 - 20060239567 - Adaptive generation of q-table2 for improved image quality
Brightness correction and image enhancement are derived to compensate for changes in captured image data by hardware scanners and the like by statistically measuring the captured data and generating or selecting a compensation quantization table to be substituted in image data encoded for compression. Three techniques of compensation usable singly ...

10/26/06 - 20060239566 - Encoded data conversion method
The present invention intends to provide an encoded data conversion method for speeding up conversion processing by eliminating re-encoding processing when predetermined data is inserted into encoded data. The encoded data conversion method is a conversion method for converting encoded image data comprising: a step of decoding encoded image data; ...

10/26/06 - 20060239565 - Apparatus and method for encoding an image for a mobile telecommunication handset
There are provided an apparatus and a method for encoding an image for a mobile telecommunication handset. The image is divided into the stripe blocks and the number of the phase of wavelet transform is determined depending on the size of the image. The divided image stripe block is wavelet-transformed ...

10/26/06 - 20060239564 - Device and method for generating jpeg file including voice and audio data and medium for storing the same
A device and method for generating a Joint Picture Experts Group (JPEG) file is capable of effectively combining image data with voice/audio data using a JPEG file format, recording and storing the combined data, easily and reproducing the image data and the voice/audio data without separate synchronization information. The device ...

10/26/06 - 20060239563 - Method and device for compressed domain video editing
When a video stream is edited in compressed domain to achieve video editing effects, the edited bitstream may violate the receiver buffer fullness requirement. In order to comply with the buffer fullness requirement, buffer parameters in the bitstream and the file format are adjusted to ensure that the buffer will ...

10/19/06 - 20060233446 - Image signal processing apparatus, camera system and image signal processing method
An image signal processing apparatus, the method and a camera system are provided, by which highly efficient processing close to 1-path processing can be performed without deteriorating a picture quality or taking too much time for the processing, a capacity required for a compression rate, band and memory in the ...

10/19/06 - 20060233445 - Image encoding method and image encoding apparatus
In order to implement image encoding appropriately, an image encoding method includes: a detection step of detecting that data having a predetermined value exists within a data group (an encoded image) configured of a series of data strings; a transformation step of transforming the predetermined value that exists within the ...

10/19/06 - 20060233444 - Jbig coding apparatus and method with low cost, high-performance ping-pong buffer arrangement
The present invention provides an image coding apparatus and method, which can achieve a low-cost, real time, and high-performance coding process by utilizing a line buffer and an auxiliary buffer to execute a typical prediction process in JBIG encoding, a ping-pong buffer and a window template, and an adaptive encoder/decoder. ...

10/12/06 - 20060228031 - Fast adaptive lifting lossless wavelet transform
An adaptive lifting transform provides lossless image data compression on an improved edge prediction process. The adaptive predictor works on pixel-by-pixel basis that does not need bookkeeping overhead, especially for integer-to-integer wavelet transform for reducing the number of lifting steps for use in JPEG2000 image compression. ...

10/12/06 - 20060228030 - Method and system for image compression for use with scanners
A method and system for compressing scan lines of image data in a first orientation as an image in a second orientation that includes receiving the one or more scan lines of image data in the first orientation, organizing the scan lines into blocks of image data and compressing one ...

10/12/06 - 20060228029 - Method and system for video clip compression
In a method for compressing a video clip containing audio content and image content, an image and/or an audio portion of individual video frames of the video clip are analyzed. Next frame scores are calculated for the video frames. Each frame score is based on at least one image attribute ...

10/12/06 - 20060228028 - Image compression device and method
An image compression device is disclosed that is capable of quickly compressing image data to a target value by a simple configuration while maintaining quality of a reproduced image as much as possible. The image compression device includes an encoding part, a code reduction part, and a processing part. The ...

10/05/06 - 20060222246 - Screen data transmitting device
A screen data transmitting device for transmitting screen data to a screen display terminal through a network. A generation device generates a display image data. A storage device stores compression properties information associating a plurality of compression schemes with a plurality of classes of graphical user interface (GUI) components. A ...

10/05/06 - 20060222245 - Image encoding apparatus
An image encoding apparatus includes an extracting unit and a replacing unit. An image is subjected to quantized orthogonal transformation and quantization, and quantized orthogonal transform coefficients are grouped and encoded group-wise. The extracting unit extracts, from among a group of quantized orthogonal transform coefficients, those quantized orthogonal transform coefficients ...

09/28/06 - 20060215915 - Device and method for generating thumbnail jpeg image and medium for storing thumbnail jpeg image
Disclosed herein is a device and method for generating a thumbnail Joint Picture Experts group (JPEG) image and a medium for storing the thumbnail JPEG. The device includes a scaler, first frame memory, a JPEG signal processing unit, second frame memory and a memory control unit. The scaler scales an ...

09/28/06 - 20060215914 - Block-based image compression method and apparatus
A block-based image compression method and encoder/decoder circuit compresses a plurality of pixels having corresponding original color values and luminance values in a block according to different modes of operation. The encoding circuit includes a luminance-level-based representative color generator to generate representative color values for each of a plurality of ...

09/28/06 - 20060215913 - Maze pattern analysis with image matching
Processes and apparatuses analyze an image of a maze pattern in order to extract bits encoded in the maze pattern by iteratively obtaining a perspective transform from the captured image plane to the paper plane. The embedded interactive data is recognized by obtaining a perspective transform between the captured image ...

09/28/06 - 20060215912 - Dynamically scaled file encoding
A dynamically scaled file encoding method and apparatus are disclosed. A file encoding system using JPEG encoding can be configured to produce relatively constant compressed file sizes irrespective of the initial file size and file contents. The system retrieves an initial file or image that is to be compressed and ...

09/21/06 - 20060210181 - Digital image coding system having self-adjusting selection criteria for selecting a transform function
In a digital signal processing system, a method for selecting a transform function to apply to an input signal based on characteristics of the signal, and for self-adjusting criteria which are used in selecting a transform function to apply to a subsequent signal. Characteristics are obtained from the signal. The ...

09/21/06 - 20060210180 - Device and method for processing a signal having a sequence of discrete values
When processing a signal having a sequence of discrete values, wherein there is a first frequency range, in which the signal has a high energy, and wherein there is a second frequency range, in which the signal has a low energy, the sequence of discrete values is first manipulated to ...

09/21/06 - 20060210179 - Methods and apparatus for data compression
A plurality of compression schemes are provided that achieve improved compression ratios. A first embodiment provides for compression of each pixel by one of a plurality of different entropy-based compression schemes based upon a probability cost analysis. A second embodiment provides for compression of each pixel based on a hybrid ...

09/21/06 - 20060210178 - Image codec engine
An image processing system including an image encoder and image decoding system is provided. The image encoder system includes an image decomposer, a block encoder, and an encoded image composer. The image decomposer decomposes the image into blocks. The block encoder, which includes a selection module, a codeword generation module ...

09/21/06 - 20060210177 - Image transmission apparatus, image transmission method and image transmission program
In an image transmission apparatus an image data generator generates image data that represents an image. An updated image data generator generates updated image data that represents an updated image of an updated region of the image. A compressor compresses the updated image data. A transmitter stores the updated image ...

09/21/06 - 20060210176 - Image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, control method therefor, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium
According to this invention, while the encoding efficiency of image data (e.g., a natural image) substantially maintains the conventional one, an image (e.g., a CG image or text document) having a small number of appearance colors is losslessly encoded at higher compression ratio. For this purpose, pixel data are input ...

09/21/06 - 20060210175 - Method and apparatus for detecting motion in mpeg video streams
A method of detecting motion in a video image comprising the steps of connecting an MPEG compliant encoder to a video source that provides video images, compressing the video data in the video images and generating a compressed video image bit stream having a motion compensation component, receiving the generated ...

09/21/06 - 20060210174 - System and method for transforming graphics data
A system 10 for transforming graphics data comprising graphics data 12; and a transformation processor 14 for creating transformed graphics data 24, where the graphics data 12 and transformed graphics data 24 each comprise a set of frames 16, 26, each frame 18, 26 in the set of frames comprising ...

09/14/06 - 20060204112 - Video coding and video decoding apparatus
A video encoding apparatus is provided with a resolution converting section, an encoding section, and a transmitting section. The resolution converting section enlarges or reduces a binary picture which represents the shape of an object. The encoding section encodes a binary picture reduced by the resolution converting section. The reduction ...

08/31/06 - 20060193525 - Extracting embedded information from a document
An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of extracting embedded information from a document. A location of the embedded information is detected by obtaining a plurality of regression lines from an embedded area of the document. ...

08/31/06 - 20060193524 - Image display method, image coding apparatus, and image decoding apparatus
An image coding apparatus is provided which satisfies various levels of demands on image distribution, both from image providers and from users. The image coding apparatus includes a coding block which codes predetermined image data. A separation unit separates the coded image data into basic data for reproducing contents of ...

08/31/06 - 20060193523 - Repetition coded compression for highly correlated image data
A process and a system for compressing highly correlated image data is provided. The system comprises means for capturing the image, means for converting to digital form, means for reshaping the data, means for encoding the repetitions, means for storing the compressed data and means for retrieving the data. The ...

08/31/06 - 20060193522 - Printed material having location identification function, two-dimensional coordinate identification apparatus, image-forming apparatus and the method thereof
A printed material having a location identification function includes multiple encode units provided on an area to be encoded. Each of the multiple encode units records first code information of coordinate values identifying a location on the printed material and second code information of an identification number identifying the printed ...

08/24/06 - 20060188163 - Method and apparatus for anti-aliasing using floating point subpixel color values and compression of same
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for data compression that includes representing each sub-pixel of each pixel with a pointer corresponding to an attribute of the sub-pixel, the attribute being a floating point binary number. An overall attribute of each pixel is then determined. The determining of the ...

08/17/06 - 20060182354 - Graphic codec for network transmission
Various embodiments of the invention provide a method, system, and apparatus for transmitting screen display information from a remote server to a client. One embodiment features a video decoder that comprises (i) an input port to receive data that includes a data identifier to distinguish between a first data type ...

08/17/06 - 20060182353 - Image processing method and image processing apparatus
An image processing method includes inputting image data for one block line having pixels of N times of a minimum unit (MCU) of image compression in the direction of column, and the length in the direction of row equivalent to one length of a scanning line, and outputting sequentially the ...

08/17/06 - 20060182352 - Encoding apparatus and method, decoding apparatus and method, recording medium, and image processing system and method
An encoding apparatus includes an extremum detector configured to detect extremum pixels having extrema in input image data and the number of extrema corresponding to the number of the extremum pixels; and an encoder configured to encode the image data by an encoded-data amount that is based on the number ...

08/17/06 - 20060182351 - Jpeg packed block data structure for enhanced image processing
An intermediate data format which is readily convertible to or from JPEG compliant data streams and to or from image data provides, in most circumstances, accelerated encoding and decoding in a degree sufficient to allow additional processing without necessitating increase of processor power even in relatively time-critical applications such as ...

08/17/06 - 20060182350 - Encoding apparatus and method, decoding apparatus and method, image processing system and method, and recording medium
In encoding input image data including first and second images, the first image is divided into blocks. A second block corresponding to a first block that is one of the blocks is detected from the second image. Pixels forming the first and second blocks are sorted in order according to ...

08/10/06 - 20060177139 - Digital intermediate (di) processing and distribution with scalable compression in the post-production of motion pictures
Scalable image compression is exploited to facilitate the creative process in the post-production of motion pictures. Specifically, digital intermediate (DI) processing of motion pictures is enabled by dynamically rendering proxies in response to client requests. A DI application is designed to enhance the efficiency of post-processing and the quality of ...

08/10/06 - 20060177138 - Image compressing apparatus that achieves desired code amount
An apparatus for compressing an image, comprising: a coding unit configured to generate code data by encoding data derived from image data; a memory unit which stores truncation data items identified by respective data sequence numbers, wherein a truncation data item specifies a way in which code data is removed ...

08/03/06 - 20060171601 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, and program
There are disclosed an image processing apparatus and method, and the like, which can obtain a high-quality image, the dynamic range or partial pixel value range of which has been changed while suppressing or avoiding collapse of the edge structure of an image or generation of overshoot. Also, there are ...

08/03/06 - 20060171600 - Video image encoder, video image decoder, and coded stream generation method
According to the embodiment, there is provided a coded stream generation method for generating a coded stream including a plurality of first units and a plurality of second units that are arranged in a time series. The method includes; separating the coded stream into a plurality of information units and ...

08/03/06 - 20060171599 - Image searching device and method, program and program recording medium
An encoded code stream is searched for a frame generally coincident with a specific frame without having to decoding the frame to its original image. The present invention provides an image search device that searches an object encoded code stream formed by compression coding of a plurality of frames for ...

08/03/06 - 20060171598 - Method and device for reducing the artifacts of a digital image
Artifacts of an incident digital image including pixels carrying information are reduced by determining, for certain pixels being considered from the image, displaced pixels. A displaced pixel associated with a pixel being considered is situated at a location that is displaced with respect to the location of the pixel being ...

08/03/06 - 20060171597 - Method and apparatus for compressing a stream of video data
A method of and apparatus for compressing a stream of data, such as video data, is disclosed. First, data in the video stream are classified in accordance with their values. Data with values equal to zero are classified in a first class. Data with values less than a predetermined positive ...

08/03/06 - 20060171596 - Method and apparatus for displaying images with compression mechanism
A codec device is disposed in a display control device for instantly supplying decompressed image data to manipulating devices in the display control chip. Reference images are stored in compressed format after instantly compressed by the codec device. In addition, MSB portions and LSB portions are separately compressed for gaining ...

07/27/06 - 20060165299 - Semiconductor memory apparatus
A semiconductor memory apparatus according to the present invention includes: two bank areas each having one-port memories capable of performing writing and reading only with separate timings; a writing control circuit for writing data into said one-port memories in one bank area of the two bank areas; and a reading ...

07/27/06 - 20060165298 - Moving picture encoder, decoder, and method for generating coded stream
The present invention restricts a method of assigning unit identification numbers when parameter sets are arranged in a stream. This makes it possible to simplify a decode process and to increase the speed of the process. In a stream containing a plurality of picture units, a plurality of picture parameter ...

07/27/06 - 20060165297 - Method and apparatus for image compression
A method and an apparatus for image compression. First, an image is partitioned into a plurality of image blocks, the image having A×B pixels, each of the image blocks having N×M pixels, wherein N is less than A and M is less than B. Next, a selected image block is ...

07/27/06 - 20060165296 - Video coding and decoding method
The invention relates to a video coding method applied to an original video sequence in which the successive frames or video object planes (VOPs) include one or several arbitrarily shaped video objects (VOs) defined by their texture and motion components and an additional shape component. According to the invention, said ...

07/20/06 - 20060159350 - Apparatus and method for image processing
An image processing apparatus includes an entropy decoding section, an extracting section, a reconfiguring section, and an entropy encoding section. The entropy decoding section carries out entropy-decoding on each of blocks of an image data supplied thereto to generate entropy-decoded blocks. The extracting section extracts original block data of the ...

07/20/06 - 20060159349 - Method for processing image frame
In an image-frame processing method, the image frame is outputted from and image sensor by an image processor via the buffering of a memory buffer. The method includes the following steps of: defining at least two storage spaces in the memory buffer; dividing the image frame into a plurality of ...

07/20/06 - 20060159348 - System and method for rendering a binary volume in a graphics processing unit
A system and method for rendering a binary volume in a GPU are provided. The method for rendering a binary volume comprises: storing eight bits of the binary volume along an x-axis in a byte of memory to form a compact representation of the binary volume; generating a two-dimensional decoding ...

07/13/06 - 20060153462 - Method and system for coding/decoding of a video bit stream for fine granularity scalability
Methods, computer code products and devices for encoding and/or decoding video data in multiple passes, the video data having a multiple components each component including multiple coefficients. The method can starting the next pass of the encoding or decoding process immediately after the end of the current encoding or decoding ...

07/13/06 - 20060153461 - Repetition coded compression for highly correlated image data
This invention is related to both a process and a system for compressing highly correlated image data. The system for compressing image and other highly correlated data comprises means for capturing the image, means for converting to digital form, means for reshaping the data, means for encoding the repetitions, means ...

07/06/06 - 20060147120 - Image processing method for facilitating data transmission
An image processing method for facilitating data transmission is provided. An image compression method is performed to convert X-bits binary digital signals to a binary compressed data in the form of n*2m, in which n is represented by the former Y bits of the X-bits binary digital signals, m is ...

06/29/06 - 20060140491 - Method and apparatus for storing bitplanes of coefficients in a reduced size memory
A method and apparatus for storing bitplanes of coefficients in a reduced size memory is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for encoding coefficients comprises applying one or more wavelet transforms to generate multiple coefficients and storing N bitplanes of each of the multiple coefficients in a first memory having ...

06/29/06 - 20060140490 - Method and apparatus for controlling access to image data
Method and apparatus for controlling access to image data is described. In one example, a set of samples associated with said image data is frequency translated to produce coefficients. The coefficients are quantized. At least a first portion of the coefficients are shifted using first key data. At least a ...

06/29/06 - 20060140489 - Motion encoding of still images
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for encoding a series of still images. The first image is captured and stored, then for each subsequent image of the series, that image is captured and compared to the first image or the previous image and difference information between ...

06/29/06 - 20060140488 - Image encoding apparatus and image encoding method
In an image encoding apparatus, pattern image cut-out means cuts out partial regions of an image of image data and generates pattern images. At the same time, the pattern image cut-out means outputs position information that is representative of positions on the image data, from which the pattern images are ...

06/29/06 - 20060140487 - Image compressing apparatus and image decoding apparatus and image converting apparatus and image processing method
An image compression apparatus includes a block division unit that executes block division of an image, a first compression unit that compresses the image, which is divided by the block division unit, to first compression data, a second compression unit that compresses the image, which is divided by the block ...

06/22/06 - 20060133675 - Image processing method, system, and apparatus for facilitating data transmission
An image processing method for facilitating data transmission is provided. An image compression method is performed to convert X-bits binary digital signals to a binary compressed data in a floating-point form of (1.n)*2m. Bit m represents the first bit with logic level “1” of the X-bits binary digital signals, and ...

06/22/06 - 20060133674 - Image processing device, image processing method, information processing device, information processing method, information recording device, information recording method, information reproduction device, information reproduction method, recording medium
The present invention can code an I-picture that satisfies a predetermined condition using parameter information. When it is determined at step S1 that a picture type is the I-picture, it is determined at step S2 whether or not the phase of a macro block in previous coding agrees with that ...

06/15/06 - 20060126951 - Method of coding and decoding still picture
A method of coding/decoding a still picture is provided. The coding method includes transforming color components of image data based on a first color space into components on a first color space using an integer-integer color transform, and constructing frames for the transformed components on the second color space and ...

06/15/06 - 20060126950 - Method for managing image files in mobile communication terminal
Disclosed is a method for managing image files in a mobile communication terminal capable of classifying a compressed image file in each field unit and then restructuring the compressed image file only with a field including essential information among the classified fields, thereby storing and managing the files. The method ...

06/15/06 - 20060126949 - Method of coding and decoding still picture
A method of coding and decoding a still picture is provided. The method of coding and decoding a still image includes: constructing a coded data configured with a region consisting of a first information expressible in bit and a second information expressible in byte by using separate output buffers; and ...

06/15/06 - 20060126948 - Image compression apparatus and method, and program and recording medium
An image compression apparatus and method which compression-encode an input moving image signal according to a JPEG2000 system and record the acquired encoded code stream in an MXF file, are provided. The image compression apparatus includes an encoding unit that compression-encodes each frame constituting an input moving image signal according ...

06/15/06 - 20060126947 - Method for the transmission of additional information when using a method for compressing data by means of prioritizing pixel transmission
The invention relates to a method for the transmission of additional information when using a method for compressing data by means of a prioritizing pixel transmission, said data consisting of individual pixel groups, each of which comprises a positional value within an image array and at least one pixel value. ...

06/08/06 - 20060120611 - Apparatus and method for transmitting an advanced image
An apparatus and method for transmitting an advanced image are provided. The apparatus includes: an encoder for encoding image data according to a frequency component of the image data; a fragmenter for selecting a part of the encoded image data based on a fragmentation position calculated using PSNR value; and ...

06/08/06 - 20060120610 - Image transcoding
A method transcodes an image in the form of an encoded input bitstream. The input bitstream includes quality layers, each quality layer includes a resolution levels, each resolution level includes components, each component includes precincts, and each precinct includes a packet partition location, a header length, and a body length. ...

06/01/06 - 20060115164 - Rice lossless compression module
A Rice coding data compression module includes a memory interface operable to receive sensor data from memory, a data normalization module operable to normalize received sensor data, an encoder operable to apply a Rice compression algorithm to the normalized data to produce compressed sensor data, a data management module operable ...

05/25/06 - 20060110055 - Recorder and method therefor, player and therefor, program, and recording medium
A recorder operable to compress and code first image data of a moving image, and record the compressed and coded first image data on a data recording medium, including: an extracting mechanism operable to extract second image data to display a still image from the first image data of the ...

05/25/06 - 20060110054 - Method and system for the treatment of multiple-description signals, and corresponding computer-program product
A processing system, such as typically a CPU, is used for converting a digital signal organized in pixels, such as a video signal, between a first format and a second multiple-description format. The system comprises at least one input register and at least one output register, and is configured via ...

05/25/06 - 20060110053 - Method and apparatus for processing an image data for output
A technique of processing an image data for output on a digital image device that compresses (164) a portion of a received image data to a data frame (110) according to a predefined size that is optimized for output with a processor of the device. The portion of the image ...

05/25/06 - 20060110052 - Image signal processing
An image signal is processed by deriving measurements representing the luminance of a signal; calculating values relating to the local mean, the local standard deviation, the local maximum and/or the local minimum; and computing therefrom local standard coordinates such as z-scores which are independent of brightness and contrast. ...

05/25/06 - 20060110051 - Image signal, processing device and processing method, coefficient data generation device and generation method used for the same, program for executing the methods and computer readable medium containing the program
The present invention relates to an apparatus for processing an image signal etc. that are well applicable to removal of coding noise from, for example, an image signal. Based on five consecutive frames of an image signal Va, a memory portion 121 outputs as pixel data xi of predictive taps ...

05/25/06 - 20060110050 - Image processing device, image processing system, and image processing method
An image processing apparatus, an image processing system and an image processing method can correct the distortion of an image at a low cost and can generate a high quality image in real time. An image processing apparatus is provided which is an image processing apparatus for correcting an original ...

05/18/06 - 20060104523 - Electronic camera
An electronic camera includes an image capturing section, a guide section, a display section, and an image compressing section. More specifically, the image capturing section captures a subject and generates image data. The display section combines, for display, image data for monitoring captured by the image capturing section and an ...

05/18/06 - 20060104522 - Methods and apparatus for performing mq-decoding operations
Methods and apparatus for providing JPEG decoder functions are described. In particular, features and methods of the present invention are directed to an efficient way of implementing a non-common decoding path function used in an MQ-coder, such as the type used to decode JPEG-2000 images. The methods of the present ...

05/18/06 - 20060104521 - Image processing devices and methods
Image processing devices. A motion estimation processor generates an image block according to video data. A forward discrete cosine transform module transforms the image block to a discrete cosine transformed data block segmented into a plurality of first transformed data segments, and outputs the first transformed data segments in sequence. ...

05/04/06 - 20060093224 - Image capturing apparatus and image distributing system
A network camera (image capturing apparatus) extracts an image of a monitoring area and an image of a watch area from a captured image that is output from an image capturing device, and changes the size of each of the images by a scaler, thereby generating a whole image and ...

05/04/06 - 20060093223 - Spectral geographic information system
A system for the conversion, analysis and display of geographic imaging data is provided which allows for the efficient location of various targets based on user selectable search criteria. The system provides a means to convert large image database information to a more compact and efficient structure employing the use ...

04/27/06 - 20060088222 - Video coding method and apparatus
A video coding method and apparatus are provided for improving compression efficiency or video/image quality by selecting a spatial transform method suitable for characteristics of an incoming video/image during video/image compression. The video coding apparatus includes a temporal transform module for removing temporal redundancy in an input frame to generate ...

04/27/06 - 20060088221 - Method and device for randomly accessing a region of an encoded image for the purpose of decoding it and a method and device for encoding an image
A method for accessing a region of an encoded image comprising a plurality of segments that are encoded and put in order of encoding. The method includes the following steps applied to encoded segments and by going through the segments in the opposite direction to their order: comparing the position ...

04/27/06 - 20060088220 - Graphics to video encoder
A graphics to video encoder is disclosed. The encoder comprises a client image constructor that receives client input and constructs client image frames based on the client input. A scene integrator is coupled to the client image constructor. The scene integrator accesses base image frames and integrates client image frames ...

04/20/06 - 20060083434 - Coding system, coding method and coding apparatus
The video-coding apparatus 1 is provided that includes: an apparatus registration block 13 which, when an external apparatus 2 is connected, acquires apparatus information 103 from the connected external apparatus 2 and automatically registers the external apparatus; a coding block 10 that encodes programs in a file format appropriate for ...

04/20/06 - 20060083433 - Jpeg2000 encoder
The image quality value of the code block currently processed is monitored, and when it falls below a threshold, encoding of the code block is terminated (in other words, encoding in the subsequent passes is omitted for the code block) to shift to encoding of the next code block. ...

04/20/06 - 20060083432 - System and method for encoding mosaiced image data employing a reversible color transform
A new color space that maps image pixel values in a mosaiced sampling pattern (such as that generated by a Bayer color filter array) into four color channels that correspond to rectangular sampling patterns. Because these new channels correspond to a rectangular sampling grid, they are much more amenable to ...

04/13/06 - 20060078208 - System and method for progressively transform coding digital data
The present invention is embodied in a system and method for compressing image data using a lapped biorthogonal transform (LBT). The present invention encodes data by generating coefficients using a hierarchical LBT, reorders the coefficients in a data-independent manner into groups of similar data, and encodes the reordered coefficients using ...

04/06/06 - 20060072838 - Multi-resolution image data management system and method based on tiled wavelet-like transform and distinct bitstreams for distinct groups of bit planes
An image process system tiles an image data array, processing the tiles in a predefined order. Each tile of image data is processed by applying a predefined family of transform layers to the tile of image data so as to generate successive sets of transform coefficients. Distinct groups of bit ...

04/06/06 - 20060072837 - Mobile imaging application, device architecture, and service platform architecture
Systems and methods are provided for compressing and decompressing still image and video image data in mobile devices. Corresponding mobile device architectures, and service platform architectures for transmitting, storing, editing and transcoding still images and video images over wireless and wired networks and viewing them on display-enabled devices are also ...

04/06/06 - 20060072836 - Arbitrary quantization step number encoding and decoding apparatus and method
An arbitrary step number is used in an encoding apparatus and method to encode an input data, or in a decoding apparatus and method to decode an input code. The arbitrary step number is an even number and greater than one, so that arbitrary compression ratio is available. In association ...

04/06/06 - 20060072835 - Image pickup device and decoding device
An image pickup device includes an image pickup unit outputting an image pickup result; an analog-to-digital converter analog-to-digital converting the image pickup result and outputting image data; a reduced image generator generating a plurality of reduced images by sequentially and gradually reducing a resolution of an original image based on ...

04/06/06 - 20060072834 - Permutation procrastination
A system and method by which multiple run-of-zeros elimination (ROZE) data areas, or other compressed data, can be restored to a single dense data array with simple address computation, even when the simple addressing puts the data into non-final, permuted locations. The data is rearranged in a subsequent computational step ...

04/06/06 - 20060072833 - Method and system for progressive image transmission
A method and system for transmitting an image progressively is provided. The transmission system identifies a first region and a second region of the image. The transmission system also identifies a first resolution and a second resolution. The transmission system then transmits the image by transmitting, in the following order, ...

04/06/06 - 20060072832 - Method and apparatus to detect anchor frames from digital video streams
A method (60) and apparatus process video in a multiple encoder system by identifying (61) those frames that were originally encoded as anchor frames in the first encoder and ensuring that the second encoder (e.g., the re-encoder) encodes (65) these identified frames as anchor frames rather than bidirectional frames or ...

04/06/06 - 20060072831 - Low-latency remote display rendering using tile-based rendering systems
Apparatus, systems and methods for low latency remote display rendering using tile-based rendering systems are disclosed. In one implementation, a system includes a network interface and a content source coupled to the network interface. The content source being capable of rendering at least one tile of a tiled image, encoding ...

03/30/06 - 20060067581 - Image coding apparatus, image coding method, image decoding apparatus and image decoding method
A coded bit stream generated on a coding side consists of a VO header, a VOL header, a GOV header, a VOP header and VOP data, and the VOL header multiplexes an object intra-coded indicator signal indicating whether all the VOP data contained in a VOL or GOV are intra ...

03/30/06 - 20060067580 - Consumer electronic device supporting navigation of multimedia content across multiple camera views of a scene
A consumer electronic device includes a storage sub-system to store multimedia data associated with multiple camera views of a scene and metadata describing the multimedia data in separate tracks defined by a media file format. Each of the separate tracks corresponds to one of the multiple camera views of the ...

03/23/06 - 20060062480 - Image processing apparatus
When a moving area and a fixed area are detected on a screen, it is determined whether the detected moving area and the fixed area overlap or not. As a result, when it is determined that an overlap exists, a compound area is set so as to include noticed areas ...

03/23/06 - 20060062479 - Moving picture coding apparatus, moving picture coding method, and moving picture imaging apparatus
When a frame (n+1) is to be inter-coded after inter-coding a frame n (S142: INTER), a moving picture coding apparatus determines a quantizer scale Q[n+1] to be used in quantization of the frame (n+1), using a first method, based on an amount of generated codes Cn of the frame n ...

03/23/06 - 20060062478 - Region-sensitive compression of digital video
A video coding method for surveillance videos allowing some regions of the scene to be encoded in an almost lossless manner. Such Regions of Interest (RoI) can be determined a priori or they can be automatically determined in real-time by an intelligent system. The user can set high priority in ...

03/16/06 - 20060056714 - Image process device, image processing program, and recording medium
In an image processing device, a block-basis edit processing unit performs a block-basis edit processing of specific blocks in an initial codestream of compression coded image data in a predetermined format to create blocks of edited code data. A codestream control unit combines the edited code data of the blocks ...

03/16/06 - 20060056713 - Image coding apparatus and image coding method
A variable c1 is counted up by one for the Nth bit in attribute information=“1”, and a variable c0 is counted up by one for the Nth bit=“0” (S402). When the total code amount of the coding results of pieces of attribute information which have been coded up to now ...

03/16/06 - 20060056712 - Data processing apparatus and control method thereof
A data processing apparatus includes a plurality of image processing units which execute different processes on input image data and an encoding unit which encodes the image data. A generation unit selects an image processing unit to be used from among a plurality of image processing units based on requests ...

03/16/06 - 20060056711 - Method and apparatus for efficiently encoding chromatic images using non-orthogonal basis functions
A method and apparatus for efficiently encoding images using a set of non-orthogonal basis functions, thereby allowing reduction of file size, shorter transmission time, and improved accuracy. The non-orthogonal basis functions include homogenous color basis functions, luminance-encoding basis functions that have luminance edges and chromatic basis functions that exhibit color ...

03/16/06 - 20060056710 - Mrc image compression
A method of processing an MRC image file, comprising at least a mask plane and a background plane, comprises determining that at least one of the mask plane and background plane is substantially empty; and effectively removing the substantially empty plane from the file for further processing. ...

03/16/06 - 20060056709 - Compression method for binary images
A dynamic compression method and system for digital binary images encoded using a matrix of pixels, each pixel of the matrix of pixels having one of a first and a second color. The method comprises providing the image; defining a first color area type symbol, a second color area type ...

03/16/06 - 20060056708 - Accelerated video encoding using a graphics processing unit
The systems and methods described herein are directed at accelerating video encoding using a graphics processing unit. In one aspect, a video encoding system uses both a central processing unit (CPU) and a graphics processing unit (GPU) to perform video encoding. The system implements a technique that enables the GPU ...

03/16/06 - 20060056707 - Methods, devices and computer program products for capture and display of visually encoded data and an image
Visually encoded data is captured along with one or more visual elements, the encoded data is decoded and one composite view is displayed that incorporates information related to the decoding data, such as a decode confirmation or decoded data, and the visual elements. The recognition and decoding process may additionally ...

03/16/06 - 20060056706 - Methods for decoding corrupt jpe2000 codestreams
The present invention provides a method for decoding corrupt codestreams for encoded digital imagery and video and, in particular, JPEG2000 codestreams with improved error resilience properties. The decoding techniques apply to a class of coding algorithms in which the data from underlying images are partitioned, typically to allow decoding of ...

03/16/06 - 20060056705 - Video encoding method
A picture coding method according to the present invention includes: a coding step (S102, S103) of coding, picture parameter sets (PPS) to be used for decoding all the pictures (pic) included in a random access unit (RAU) made up of plural pictures and a sequence parameter set (SPS); and a ...

03/09/06 - 20060050975 - Image encoding apparatus and method, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium
According to this invention, encoded data of a target data amount is generated by one image input operation while both lossless encoding and lossy encoding are adopted. For this purpose, an encoding sequence control unit controls a first encoding unit for lossy (JPEG) encoding, a second encoding unit for lossless ...

03/09/06 - 20060050974 - Image encoding apparatus and method, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium
According to this invention, degradation of the image quality of a decoded image is reduced while losslessly encoded data and lossily encoded data coexist. For this purpose, a first encoding unit performs JPEG encoding for each pixel block, and a second encoding unit performs JPEG-LS encoding. Letting Lx be the ...

03/09/06 - 20060050973 - Image communication system, server apparatus, and image communication method
In an image communication system including a server which stores image data encoded in accordance with a hierarchy coding, and a client configured to download the image data from the server and display the image data, the server determines on the basis of a request received from the client whether ...

03/09/06 - 20060050972 - Interpolation image compression
A method of compressing an image formed of pixels. The method includes providing a pixel of the image, to be encoded, selecting at least two pixels of the image, other than the encoded pixel, defining a straight line including the encoded pixel, to serve as prediction pixels, calculating a prediction ...

03/09/06 - 20060050971 - Slab-based processing engine for motion video
Systems and methods of encoding a video signal that includes a succession of images are disclosed. A system may include a plurality of independently programmable processing elements (PEs), an input interface device adapted to receive, buffer, and divide the input video signal in a manner appropriate to the plurality of ...

03/09/06 - 20060050970 - Method and apparatus for transmitting a coded video signal
A method and apparatus for transmitting a digitally encoded video image in real time via a data network wherein the video image is digitally encoded using a compression algorithm having a variable bit rate, e.g., JPEG2K, to provide an encoded data stream, the encoded data stream is fed into a ...

03/02/06 - 20060045364 - Video data compression apparatus and method of same
A video data compression apparatus with which compressed video data of suitable amounts of data can be produced and the time required for processing is short. The apparatus approximates a real difficulty data Dj indicating the difficulty of the pattern of each picture by the ME residual, flatness, and intra ...

03/02/06 - 20060045363 - Method, apparatus, system, and program for switching image coded data
A conversion server and a plurality of clients are connected via a transmission line. The conversion server that receives image coded data from the clients converts the image coding system in accordance with the coding system available to each client, the coding setting, and the status of the transmission line, ...

03/02/06 - 20060045362 - Image encoding apparatus and method, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium
According to this invention, encoded data of a target data amount is generated by one image input operation while both lossless encoding and lossy encoding are adopted. For this purpose, a first memory stores encoded data of a shorter encode length among encoded data generated by a first encoding unit ...

03/02/06 - 20060045361 - Encoding device, decoding device, encoding method, decoding method, and program therefor
An encoding device to encode an object image to be encoded includes a reference information generating unit that generates reference information with respect to a key image different from the object image, and a code generating unit that generates code data of the reference information generated by the reference information ...

03/02/06 - 20060045360 - Methods for compression using a denoiser
Various embodiments of the present invention provide a compression method and system that compresses received data by first denoising the data and then losslessly compressing the denoised data. Denoising removes high entropy features of the data to produce lower entropy, denoised data that can be efficiently compressed by a lossless ...

03/02/06 - 20060045359 - Methods and systems for dv encoding and decoding
Methods and systems for multi-stage DV encoding and decoding. A skip command may be issued by a microprocessor or DRAM controller via a physical link when DRAM bandwidth is overtaxed. Corresponding encoding and decoding systems implementing the proposed DV encoding or decoding method are also provided. ...

03/02/06 - 20060045358 - System and method for improved page composition
A system and method for page composition in a processor-controlled printing system. Formatted image data is first received to a processor, the data representing image elements to be merged into a new document. At least one compressed cell describing each of the page elements is generated based on the formatted ...

03/02/06 - 20060045357 - Multi-resolution segmentation and fill
A multi-resolution segmentation and fill technique is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises generating a plurality of layers using image data from multiple resolutions, generating a mask describing compositing of the plurality of layers to obtain the image, and filling pixels in each of the plurality of layers where ...

02/23/06 - 20060039617 - Method and assembly for video encoding, the video encoding including texture analysis and texture synthesis, and corresponding computer program and corresponding computer-readable storage medium
The invention relates to a method and assembly for video coding comprising a texture analysis, texture synthesis, corresponding computer program and a computer-readable recording medium. Said invention can be used, in particular for reducing a data rate during a video data transmission. An analysis of video scene texture by an ...

02/23/06 - 20060039616 - Amplitude coding for clustered transform coefficients
A method, apparatus, and carrier medium to encode a series of quantized transform coefficients. The method includes identifying runs of one or more non-zero-valued coefficients, and for each such run, identifying events of a run of one or more amplitude-1 coefficients followed by a single coefficient of amplitude greater than ...

02/23/06 - 20060039615 - Joint amplitude and position coding for photographic image and video coding
A method, apparatus, and carrier medium to encode a series of quantized transform coefficients. The method includes identifying clusters of at least one non-zero-valued coefficients, and for each such cluster, identifying at least one position event that defines the relative position and runlength of the cluster of non-zero coefficients and ...

02/23/06 - 20060039614 - Methods and apparatus for implementing jpeg 2000 encoding operations
Improved methods and apparatus for implementing JPEG 2000 MQ encoding operations are described. The following features of the invention may be used alone or in combination to implement JPEG 2000's coefficient bit modeling 1) Lists of coefficients to be processed in one or more subsequent coding passes are generated as ...

02/23/06 - 20060039613 - Methods and apparatus for generating and using lists of coefficients to be coded
Improved methods and apparatus for implementing JPEG 2000 MQ encoding operations are described. The following features of the invention may be used alone or in combination to implement JPEG 2000's coefficient bit modeling 1) Lists of coefficients to be processed in one or more subsequent coding passes are generated as ...

02/16/06 - 20060034527 - Method for encoding co-ordinates of a video image moving along the display of a computing device
The method consists in displaying a videoframe having at least one image of a visual object (VO) on a monitor screen and in dividing said videoframe with the VO into X×Y cells. According to said method, an intraframe encoding is carried out by selecting characteristic cells which coincide with VO ...

02/16/06 - 20060034526 - Image coding device and method thereof and image decoding device and method thereof
A predetermined area of input image data (100) is read and stored into a memory section (1). As soon as data is stored in the data read memory section (1), wavelet conversion filtering is performed on the image area, in the horizontal or vertical direction, by a wavelet conversion section ...

02/16/06 - 20060034525 - Digital image encoding device, digital image encoding program, digital image encoding method, digital image decoding device, digital image decoding program, and digital image decoding
A digital image encoding device, which encodes digital image data using a discrete wavelet transform, includes a coefficient bit shift processing unit that performs bit shift processing on a wavelet coefficient after the discrete wavelet transform. The coefficient bit shift processing shifts the wavelet coefficient to a lower bit side ...

02/16/06 - 20060034524 - Image processing apparatus, method, and program
A plurality of band-limited images is produced from an original image. A transformed image is produced by processing each pixel value in the band-limited images so that the absolute value of an output value does not exceed that of an input value. The processing is non-linear transformation processing. If the ...

02/16/06 - 20060034523 - Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding an icosahedron panorama image
A method of and apparatus for efficient encoding and decoding by reconstructing an icosahedron panorama image are provided. The method includes: dividing patches forming a top part and a bottom part, respectively, in development figure of an icosahedron panorama image, from patches forming a middle part; reconstructing the divided patches ...

02/16/06 - 20060034522 - Method and system for equalizing video quality using selective re-encoding
In a video processing system, a method and system for equalizing video quality using selective re-encoding are provided. Increasing the occurrence frequency of intra-coded pictures may improve video encoding quality by optimizing a target bit-budget for a specified group-of-pictures structure. Selected predictive and/or bidirectional-predictive pictures may be re-encoded as virtual ...

02/16/06 - 20060034521 - Computer program product and method for analysis of medical image data in a medical imaging system
The present invention relates to a computer program product for analysis of a source medical image data set in a medical imaging system, being operable to: identify a user identity; identify at least one role linked to the user identity; load a source medical image data set; allow the user ...

02/09/06 - 20060029280 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program and storage medium therefor
An image processing apparatus comprises: a histogram calculation unit for calculating a histogram that is consonant with an input image; a binary threshold value calculation unit for calculating a binary threshold value, based on the histogram, with which a predetermined area in the input image is blurred; a binarizing unit ...

02/09/06 - 20060029279 - Method and apparatus for compressed sensing
The invention provides a method and apparatus for making reduced numbers of measurements compared to current practice and still give acceptable quality reconstructions of the object of interest. In one embodiment, a digital signal or image is approximated using significantly fewer measurements than with traditional measurement schemes. A component x ...

02/09/06 - 20060029278 - Systems and methods for authenticating objects using multiple-level image encoding and decoding
A method of producing a digital multiple-level encoded image is presented. The method comprises obtaining a digital authentication image, obtaining a first encoding parameter set comprising one or more encoding parameters, and constructing a first encoded image. The first encoded image is constructed using a first encoding methodology, the digital ...

02/02/06 - 20060023958 - System and method for progressively transforming and coding digital data
A system and method facilitating progressively transforming and coding digital pictures is provided. The present invention via employment of a multi-resolution lapped transform provides for progressive rendering as well as mitigation of blocking artifacts and ringing artifacts as compared to many conventional compression systems. The invention includes a color space ...

02/02/06 - 20060023957 - Image encoding apparatus and method, computer program, computer-readable storage medium, and image forming apparatus
According to this invention, the encoded data amount of an image and its area attribute information can be encoded to a target amount or less by one input operation of image data, and an input image can be efficiently encoded in accordance with the property of the image. For this ...

02/02/06 - 20060023956 - Systems and methods for information storage
A product with stored non-sequential data may be provided using a method that codes the data to a coding pattern using at least one sequence with symbols. The coding pattern may be configured such that an arbitrary subsequence of a predetermined magnitude of the sequence unambiguously defines the position of ...

02/02/06 - 20060023955 - Image data processing circuit and image processing apparatus including the same
An image data processing circuit including: an input section for inputting image data; a plurality of compressing sections which are capable of compressing the input image data solely or in parallel; a plurality of decompressing sections which are capable of decompressing the compressed image data solely or in parallel; an ...

02/02/06 - 20060023954 - Image processing system
In an image processing system, an image-input-processing unit divides an original image into portions so as to generate divided original images, and writes the divided original images in an encoder-side memory so that luminance data and chrominance data of each of the divided original images are stored in different storage ...

02/02/06 - 20060023953 - Methods and apparatus for communicating and displaying compressed image data
Methods and apparatus are provided for creating one or more compressed image tiles based on a compressed file that describes a digital image. In particular, the compressed image tiles are created without fully decompressing the compressed file. Each compressed image tile includes data corresponding to a portion of the digital ...

02/02/06 - 20060023952 - Method and apparatus for transforming the dimensions of an image
The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for transforming the dimensions of an image represented by block-interleaved data. The method comprises: (a) storing a first minimum coded unit of the image data in a first memory; (b) dimensionally transforming the first minimum coded unit; and (c) storing a ...

02/02/06 - 20060023951 - Method and system for processing an input image and generating an output image having low noise
A method for processing an input image and generating an output image having low noise is provided. At least a homogeneous region in the input image is determined, and a mask which is indicative of the homogeneous region is generated. The input image is compressed, and both the compressed input ...

02/02/06 - 20060023950 - Method and appratus for encoding a digital video signal
The present invention relates to a method and an encoder for encoding a digital video sequence, said digital video sequence comprising some sets of images including a disparity map, said disparity map being used to reconstruct one image of a set of images from another image of said set of ...

01/26/06 - 20060018558 - Image processing apparatus and image processing program
An image processing apparatus reduces a distortion that occurs at a tile boundary (tile distortion) when an image is compressed or expanded on a tile-by-tile basis. It is equipped with a tone jump detecting section, a slope calculating section, and a slope correcting section. The tone jump detecting section calculates ...

01/26/06 - 20060018557 - Apparatus and method for filtering blocking effect in an image
Provided is an apparatus and method for filtering a blocking effect in an image, which removes the blocking effect that may occur in an image that is compressed in block units in compression and/or decompression of a moving image. The apparatus and method for filtering a blocking effect in an ...

01/26/06 - 20060018556 - Method, apparatus and system for data block rearrangement for lz data compression
A technique for rearranging an input data stream for LZ data compression system to achieve a higher data compression. In one example embodiment, this is achieved by receiving an input data stream of a sequence of data blocks. Each of the received data blocks is then compared with each of ...

01/26/06 - 20060018555 - System and method for cache-friendly volumetric image memory storage
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01/26/06 - 20060018554 - Block-based motion estimation method
A motion estimation method for determining a resultant motion vector. The motion estimation method includes: performing a first searching operation starting from an initial motion vector to determine an intermediate motion vector, wherein the first searching operation is performed according to a first searching principle; and performing a second searching ...

01/26/06 - 20060018553 - Controlling apparatus and method for bit rate
Provided are an apparatus and a method for controlling a bit rate. The apparatus and method comprise a buffer for storing information as to a bit rate of a frame immediately preceding a frame to be compressed; a bit rate controller for generating a target bit rate and an expected ...

01/26/06 - 20060018552 - Efficient rate control techniques for video encoding
This disclosure describes rate control techniques that can improve video encoding. In particular, the described rate control techniques exploit relationships between the number of bits encoded per frame and the number of non-zero coefficients of the video blocks after quantization. The number of number of non-zero coefficients of the video ...

01/19/06 - 20060013494 - Image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, image communications system and coded bit stream converting apparatus
An image decoding apparatus is capable of decoding coded bit streams with different coding schemes. The image decoding apparatus includes a coding scheme decision section for deciding a coding scheme from coding scheme identification information multiplexed into a coded bit stream, a setting unit for setting header information on a ...

01/19/06 - 20060013493 - Method, system and computer program product for optimization of data compression
A sequence of n coefficients is compressed by determining a cost-determined sequence of n coefficient indices represented by a cost-determined sequence of (run, index derivative) pairs under a given quantization table and run-index derivative coding distribution, wherein each sequence of (run, index derivative) pairs defines a corresponding sequence of coefficient ...

01/19/06 - 20060013492 - Process for the acquisition of images from a probe with a light scanning electron microscope with punctiform light source distribution
Process for the acquisition of images from a probe with a light scanning electron microscope with punctiform light source distribution, wherein detected image data that correspond to three dimensional probe regions are detected and stored to memory, wherein data compression ensues in that the data of images lying next to ...

01/19/06 - 20060013491 - Process for the acquisition of images from a probe with a light scanning electron microscope with linear scanning
Process for the acquisition of images from a probe with a light scanning electron microscope with linear scanning, wherein detected image data that correspond to three dimensional probe regions are detected and stored to memory, wherein data compression ensues in that the data of images lying next to one another ...

01/19/06 - 20060013490 - 3d video coding using sup-sequences
A stereo-view image sequence is coded in an H.264-based sub-sequence coding by coding a first view of the stereo-view image sequence into a base layer of a sub-sequence coding. The second view of the stereo-view image sequence is coded into an enhancement layer of the sub-sequence coding. Accordingly, the sub-sequence ...

01/19/06 - 20060013489 - Methods of representing a color with a compressed code
The methods according to the invention include converting the three digit decimal red, green, and blue values (000-255) to two digit decimal values (00-25), representing each two digit decimal value as an alpha character, and encoding the alpha character using the standard UPC alpha character codes. A rounding algorithm is ...

01/19/06 - 20060013488 - Information-embedding apparatus, encoder, tamper-detecting apparatus, information-embedding method, tamper-detecting method, and recording medium having program recorded therein for executing both of the methods
A digital image signal is transformed in frequency, thereby providing partitioned frequency components. Characteristic information is calculated in accordance with a coefficient at a first frequency domain that is selected from among the partitioned frequency components. A coefficient at a second frequency domain is handled in accordance with predetermined rules, ...

01/12/06 - 20060008160 - System and method for image compression, storage, and retrieval
A system and method for compressing and storing image data. The system and method creates for each of a plurality of original images a plurality of resultant images by altering the content of each of the plurality of original images a corresponding plurality of different ways. Each of the resultant ...

01/12/06 - 20060008159 - Image processing apparatus and method, image capturing apparatus, program, and storage medium
When image data which is decoded after being irreversibly compressed is to be displayed, this invention makes it possible to display a histogram close to the exposure conditions perceived by the human sense during photography. This invention includes a histogram acquisition unit which acquires histogram information from input image data, ...

01/12/06 - 20060008158 - Data conversion device
The data conversion device of the present invention includes: a coding section for replacing (i) one or more components constituting the display data of each pixel and other one or more components constituting display data of a pixel existing around that pixel on a screen with (ii) one or more ...

01/12/06 - 20060008157 - Image protection apparatus, imaging apparatus, and program
An image protection apparatus includes (a) a set-state determining unit that determines a set state regarding a protection function for an image, and (b) a protection process unit that, when the protection function is determined by the set-state determining unit to be in a valid state, selectively performs lossless coding ...

01/12/06 - 20060008156 - Method and apparatus for generating electronic document by continuously photographing document in moving picture
A method for generating an electronic document by continuously photographing a document having many pages as a moving picture includes: photographing the document and generating moving picture data; detecting data of one page of the document by performing motion estimation on the moving picture data, performing document recognition on the ...

01/12/06 - 20060008155 - Image processing device
This is an image processing device for predicting the lower-order bits of target pixel data, based on one or more pieces of pixel data constituting image data. The image processing device comprises a lower-order bit calculation unit for calculating the lower-order bits of the target pixel data, based on one ...

01/12/06 - 20060008154 - Video compression and decompression to virtually quadruple image resolution
Compression and decompression of video image data involves removing data (230) representing pixels from a field to leave data representing pixels adjacent and on both sides of the removed pixels in at least two directions. Different pixels are removed from different fields so that over a given number of consecutive ...

01/05/06 - 20060002610 - Initiation of actions with compressed action language representations
A device stores one or more compression rules for an action language. Upon receipt of a signal from a tag (such as an RFID tag, a visual tag, or an audio tag), a compressed data stream corresponding to the tag is decoded from the signal. Based on the one or ...

12/29/05 - 20050286780 - Image processing apparatus
An image processing apparatus includes an image pickup circuit having a plurality of photographic modes, such as television standards, a compression processing circuit for performing compression processing of an image pickup signal outputted from the image pickup circuit, the compression circuit having a plurality of compression modes, and a selecting ...

12/29/05 - 20050286779 - Method and apparatus for synthesizing data
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for synthesizing a plurality of data that is in compressed format. According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of creating a synthesized data by synthesizing a plurality of source data that is in compressed format, ...

12/29/05 - 20050286778 - Compression unit, decompression unit for image data and programs for compressing and decompressing image data
An image data compression unit and a decompression unit are offered which are capable of sending and receiving image data with a smaller amount of information. Also, programs for compressing and decompressing image data are offered. With respect to plural single-component image data sets regarding colors that can be obtained ...

12/29/05 - 20050286777 - Encoding and decoding images
Some embodiments provide a method for encoding a first set of pixels in a first image by reference to a second image in a video sequence. In a first search window within a second image, the method searches to identify a first particular portion in the second image that best ...

12/29/05 - 20050286776 - Using graphic objects in mfd scan-to-export function
A method of compressing a document includes: acquiring an image of the document, the image represented by pixels; segmenting the image into Mixed Raster Content (MRC) planes including a foreground plane (12) that receives a first portion of the pixels, a background plane (14) that receives a second portion of ...

12/29/05 - 20050286775 - Method and apparatus for storing image data using an mcu buffer
The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for storing image data received in a block-interleaved format using an MCU buffer. A first minimum coded unit of the image data is stored in a first memory. The image data in the first minimum coded unit is grouped into pixels. ...

12/22/05 - 20050281472 - System and method for progressively transforming and coding digital data
A system and method facilitating progressively transforming and coding digital pictures is provided. The present invention via employment of a multi-resolution lapped transform provides for progressive rendering as well as mitigation of blocking artifacts and ringing artifacts as compared to many conventional compression systems. The invention includes a color space ...

12/22/05 - 20050281471 - Method and device for secure transmission of jpeg encoded images
A process for distributing digital still images according to a nominal format, where each image is broken into blocks and macroblocks that depend upon each other by correlation coefficients including analyzing contents of the still images to generate two parts: a) a primary contents in nominal format corresponding to the ...

12/22/05 - 20050281470 - System and method for streaming media
A system and method for streaming media transmission employ a compression technology in which null pixel blocks are drastically compressed an additional null pixel blocks are created in the video signal. Various applications of the invention are described, including recorded media distribution, live streamed media distribution, and email distribution. ...

12/22/05 - 20050281469 - Efficient method and system for reducing update requirements for a compressed binary image
A system and method for lossless data compression of byte oriented digital data, including but not exclusively executable program code and related data. This lossless data compression system and method when used to process sets of similar but not identical input data, will generate compressed forms of that data which ...

12/22/05 - 20050281468 - System and method for encoding and decoding video
Data values are encoded by mapping multi-dimensional parameters of the data values to respective one-dimensional parameters and creating a table of encoded data values in which the data values are represented by their respective encoded counterparts utilizing the one-dimensional parameters and in which redundant ones of the encoded data values ...

12/15/05 - 20050276490 - System for displaying character and a method thereof
Disclosed are an image processing system for displaying character information and a method for the same. According to the image processing system, character information is input by a user, and the input character information is combined with received image and audio signals to generate Transport Streams (TSs), which are transmitted ...

12/15/05 - 20050276489 - Picture compressor and picture reproducer
A picture compression apparatus comprises a division device for dividing picture data composed of a plurality of two-dimensionally arrayed pixels into units composed of m×n (m and n: arbitrary positive numbers) pixels; a unit code attaching device for attaching a same code to the unit if the pixel value of ...

12/15/05 - 20050276488 - Impulsive noise removal using maximum and minimum neighborhood values
A system and method for removing impulsive noise from a digital signal are disclosed. The system and method determines either a neighborhood maximum and/or a neighborhood minimum for a pixel of interest. The intensity of the pixel of interest is then compared to the neighborhood maximum or the neighborhood minimum ...

12/15/05 - 20050276487 - Hybrid variable length coding method for low bit rate video coding
A method and an apparatus of image compression, and a memory to store a data structure for compression. The method includes, for an ordered series of quantized coefficients of a transform of an image block, forming events from the series of quantized transform coefficients, each event being a run of ...

12/15/05 - 20050276486 - Data transform for improved compression of multicomponent images
Color image transform coding methods and apparatus which take advantage of redundant information which is normally present in the luminance and chrominance components of a color image are described. The transform coding method of the present invention, can normally provide increased compression and/or better image quality at a given coding ...

12/08/05 - 20050271283 - System and method for the lossless progressive streaming of images over a communication network
A lossless image streaming system for the transmission of images over a communication network. The system eliminates the necessity to store a compressed version of the original image, by losslessly streaming ROI data using the original stored image. The imaging system also avoids the computationally intensive task of compression of ...

11/24/05 - 20050259876 - Image compression device, image output device, image decompression device, printer, image processing device, copier, image compression method, image decompression method, image processing program, and storage medium storing the image processing program
In a data compressing section, an image decompressing section decompresses compression RGB data, obtained by lossy compression, to generate decompression RGB data. A second segmentation section generates a decompression segmentation signal. Further, a differential extracting section generates a differential signal that indicates a differential between the segmentation signal and the ...

11/24/05 - 20050259875 - Image encoding apparatus and image encoding method
An image encoding apparatus having a transmission side capable of preventing generation of pseudo-synchronization and a reception side capable of restoring an image as intended al the transmission side. In the image encoding apparatus; a synchronous word containing possibility detection unit (212) decides whether a quantized DCT coefficient can be ...

11/17/05 - 20050254713 - Image processing using processing by bands and fixed-size work buffer
A high-quality image processing apparatus capable of performing image transfer processing using a predetermined work buffer even if different decoding methods are used, without physically increasing the memory capacity. Image data in page description language is inputted into a host I/F unit from an external device such as a host ...

11/10/05 - 20050249422 - Image data structure, and image recording method, apparatus and computer readable recording medium storing program
In the structure for image data having image components of three channels and a transmission ratio component of one channel, the image data structure includes an image area in which the image components of three channels are recorded in a compressed format, and a transmission ratio area which has the ...

11/10/05 - 20050249421 - Electrical apparatus with image capture unit
An electrical apparatus with an image capture unit includes a casing, an image capture unit and a connection unit. The casing has a container and a first fasten portion set in the container. The image capture unit has a second fasten portion. When the second fasten portion connects with the ...

11/10/05 - 20050249420 - System, method and computer program product for controlling image information
An image information control method and apparatus, the apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive bit map image data sent from an information process unit, and an accumulating unit configured to accumulate the image data received from the information process unit line by line. A blocked unit is configured ...

11/03/05 - 20050244062 - System and method for block truncation-type compressed domain image processing
A method for block truncation-type compressed domain image processing. Image data is received. Block truncation compression (BTC) is performed on the image data to generate a compressed representation of the image data. The broken pixel representation is enhanced in a compressed domain. ...

11/03/05 - 20050244061 - System and method for estimating compression noise in images
A system and method for estimating compression image noise. Image data for an image is received. A compression ratio, an image size ratio, and an activity for the image are determined. Compression artifact estimation is determined based on the compression ratio, the image size ratio, and the activity. ...

11/03/05 - 20050244060 - Reformatting binary image data to generate smaller compressed image data size
In various exemplary embodiments, systems include a segmentor to segment text binary image data to a first plane. A subtractor subtracts text binary image from binary image data to generate a non-text binary image data in a second plane. A converter converts non-text binary image data in the second plane ...

10/27/05 - 20050238242 - Method for block sequential processing
A method and apparatus for performing block sequential processing is described. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a determine pass logic, selection logic, next coefficient logic and control. The determine pass logic has inputs coupled to receive significance state information for a region, a pass bit for each coefficient in ...

10/27/05 - 20050238241 - Image compression apparatus generating and using assistant images for deblocking processing and a method thereof
An image compression apparatus and method for producing and using an assistant image for deblocking processing. The image compression apparatus has an assistant image generation unit for generating an assistant image by using an original image, an image compression part for compressing the generated original image and assistant image, and ...

10/27/05 - 20050238240 - Image compression method
To provide a technology of increasing coding efficiency for an isolated column which appears with a high frequency. Bit map data which indicates an image by an array of pixels of main scanning and subscanning directions is scanned in the main scanning direction, the data is separated into an area ...

10/27/05 - 20050238239 - Video encoder and method for detecting and encoding noise
A digital video signal encoder and method for detecting and encoding noise is disclosed. In a frame in a video signal, the variance of at least four macroblock luminance blocks is calculated. The Log2 of the minimum of these variances is determined. A running sum of the Log2 calculations is ...

10/20/05 - 20050232498 - System and method of storing data in jpeg files
The present invention comprises a system for communicating image data and other data. The system comprises a JPEG file having a JPEG data, at least one non-JPEG data, and a computer. The computer is programmed to read a predetermined number of sequential bytes of the non-JPEG data. The computer is ...

10/20/05 - 20050232497 - High-fidelity transcoding
High-fidelity transcoding techniques are described. For example, a video transcoder obtains re-coding data set elements for source format compressed video and uses the elements for coding decisions and/or equivalent parameters when compressing the video in a target format. This allows syntax elements and coding decisions to be maintained across the ...

10/13/05 - 20050226514 - Distributing limited storage among a collection of media objects
A quality level determining the extent to which each image file is compressed is automatically computed for each image file in a set to ensure that the total size of the compressed image files does not exceed a predefined limit. The compressed size of each image file is initially determined ...

10/13/05 - 20050226513 - Video coding system providing separate coding chains for dynamically selected small-size or full-size playback
Embodiments of the present invention provide a coding system that codes data according to a pair of coding chains. A first coding chain generates coded video data that can be decoded by itself to represent a source video sequence of a small size, such as a size sufficient to support ...

10/06/05 - 20050220352 - Video encoding with constrained fluctuations of quantizer scale
During video compression quantizer scale values for respective blocks under control of a complexity of a content of image information. The temporal and or spatial fluctuations of the quantizer scale values are dampened, for example by low pass filtering provisionally selected quantizer scale values. The quanitizer scale values are use ...

09/29/05 - 20050213827 - Method and apparatus for displaying multimedia information
A data source apparatus, such as a computer, is connected to a remote device, such as a wireless projector, via a transmission channel, such as a wireless network, so that the remote device shows display images of the data source apparatus. Updated regions of the data source apparatus are detected ...

09/29/05 - 20050213826 - Fingerprinting digital video for rights management in networks
Systems and methods generate video fingerprints for video data streams. A collection of sub-fingerprints constitute a fingerprint block. The size and temporal position of the block is chosen to represent the video that is being served. The video server has prior information about the video semantics. Based on this information, ...

09/22/05 - 20050207661 - Apparatus and method for image processing, and computer product
In an image processing apparatus, a pseudo tone processor performs a pseudo tone process by performing an area coverage modulation expression process with respect to M-bit image data, to thereby convert the M-bit image data into N-bit image data, where N is smaller than M. A lossy compressor performs lossy ...

09/22/05 - 20050207660 - System and method for reduction of compressed image artifacts
Provided is a system and method for processing images. A method for removing artifacts for restoring a block of data includes but is not limited to receiving one or more original transform coefficients of the block of data; quantizing the original transform coefficients of the block of data, the quantizing ...

09/22/05 - 20050207659 - Image-processing apparatus, program, and recording medium
An image-processing apparatus for compressing and encoding image data so as to generate compressed image data is disclosed. The apparatus includes image-reading means for reading the image data; compression-processing means for compressing the image data which are read at the image-reading means and for generating header information and code data; ...

09/22/05 - 20050207658 - Method and apparatus for extracting information from a medical image
A method and apparatus for extracting information from a medical image data and transferring the extracted information in a separate format from the medical image data is disclosed. A network element is employed to monitor a network for medical image data transmitted on a network. The network element monitors the ...

09/22/05 - 20050207657 - System and method for encoding and decoding video
A method for encoding and decoding video comprises receiving the video as a plurality of pixel value sets, wherein each pixel value set of the plurality of pixel value sets represents a digitized pixel of the video. The plurality of pixel value sets are grouped into a plurality of digitized ...

09/15/05 - 20050201625 - Image processing apparatus and method, communication apparatus, communication system and method, and recording medium
The present invention provides an image processing apparatus and method destined for processing image data sent via a communication system. In the apparatus and method, image data corresponding to designation data supplied from the user are coupled to each other for grouping, features of the image data corresponding to the ...

09/15/05 - 20050201624 - Method, program and apparatus for image processing capable of effectively performing image transmission, and a medium storing the program
An image processing apparatus includes a receiving mechanism configured to receive a request, from at least one different image processing apparatus connected via a network, for transmission of a codestream generated in a way such that image data is divided into at least one region, each region being hierarchically compressed ...

09/15/05 - 20050201623 - Schema and style sheet for dibr data
A schema and style sheets for DIBR data are provided. The schema includes: a BitWrapper node schema used for graphics data compression; and a DepthImage node schema, which is used for depthimage-based model rendering, includes camera information and texture information having a depth information, defines diTexture as an element including ...

09/08/05 - 20050196051 - Pre-processed information embedding system
Auxiliary information (150) representing binary or multi-level (M≧2) logical values is embedded into successive segments (110) of an audio, video or other data signal in response to a user request to download the data signal via an on-line distributor (350) on a computer network such as the Internet. To avoid ...

09/08/05 - 20050196050 - Method and device for access to a digital image stored on a server computer
A method of access by a client computer to a digital image stored on a server computer via a communication network, the digital image being represented by sets of digital data associated respectively with various blocks (Bi) and various resolution levels (Rj) of the image or with various blocks (Bi) ...

09/08/05 - 20050196049 - System and method for encoding live audio/video information
A method and apparatus for encoding a frame of audio/video data, segment by segment, comprising a number of pixels each having a plurality of pixel color components by creating a frame group table in which each pixel entry includes a dominant pixel color component of the plurality of pixel color ...

09/01/05 - 20050190974 - Spectral encoding of information
A data encoding scheme maps a set of data to a number of spectral components, each component having an amplitude, a phase and a unique frequency. From these mapped tones, an analog baseband signal can be formed, which, when implemented in a data transmission scheme, can realize much higher throughput ...

08/18/05 - 20050180643 - Memory management method, image processing apparatus, and memory management program
When encoding and decoding are concurrently executed by sharing one image memory, the present invention is able to flexibly cope with a situation in which a change occurs in the image size subject to processing. A memory allocation processing block receives information about the image size and the number of ...

08/18/05 - 20050180642 - Systems and methods for generating high compression image data files having multiple foreground planes
The image data is analyzed to identify blobs having similar characteristics. Various blobs are gathered together and placed into a foreground plane based on one or more color characteristics and/or spatial characteristics. Each blob gathered onto a foreground plane has a color that is similar to a color associated with ...

08/18/05 - 20050180641 - System and method for transmitting live audio/video information
A method and apparatus for encoding, segment by segment, frames of audio/video data, including pixels each having a plurality of pixel color components by creating a frame group table of encoded pixel values in which each pixel entry includes a dominant pixel color component of the plurality of pixel color ...

08/04/05 - 20050169542 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program, and information recording medium
A technique is provided for efficiently executing image processing operations such as code editing on a specific region of an image in an image processing apparatus for processing encoded image data such as JPEG 2000 encoded data that have a structure enabling data processing in image region units. Upon storing ...

08/04/05 - 20050169541 - Image signal processing apparatus and image signal processing method
To provide an image signal processing apparatus including an image signal receiving circuit 26 for receiving continuous image signals for every horizontal line, an image signal processing circuit 30 for reading image data from a memory block 28 and collectively applying processing to the image data for a predetermined number ...

08/04/05 - 20050169540 - Method for compression and expansion of display data
A display data compression method can execute both irreversible compression and reversible compression, wherein display data are divided into a plurality of two-dimensional blocks, each of which is subjected to compression. In the irreversible compression, display data of each block are subjected to discrete cosine transform, quantization using a quantization ...

08/04/05 - 20050169539 - Black white image compression having print density control
A scaling system and method for compressing a bitonal image that has print density control. A system is disclosed that comprises: a pixel reduction system that generates a scaled image by reducing pixel pairs down to single scaled pixel based on a set of scaling rules; and a line density ...

08/04/05 - 20050169538 - Method and apparatus for removing image compression artifacts
A method and apparatus from removing image compression artifacts includes comparing a center pixel value with a perimeter pixel value to generate a compare pixel value. The compare pixel value is compared with a threshold value such that when the compare pixel value is below a threshold value, a count ...

08/04/05 - 20050169537 - System and method for image background removal in mobile multi-media communications
A method and an apparatus to carry out the method that enables a mobile phone to reduce the bitrate of an image to be transmitted by the mobile phone. The method first removes a portion of an original image frame thereby creating dead clusters within the image frame. The dead ...

07/28/05 - 20050163388 - Method and apparatus for eliminating flicker by quantizing values based on previous quantization
A method and apparatus for eliminating flicker by quantizing values based on previous quantization is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises encoding a first coefficient value in a first frame of a motion sequence and subsequently setting a second coefficient in a second frame of the motion sequence and ...

07/28/05 - 20050163387 - Data compression apparatus, and data compression program storage medium
According to a data compression apparatus for compressing data such as image data, there is determined a difference between adjacent numerical values on the continuity of numerical values constituting data to be compressed. Of the numerical values appearing in the difference data, only the numerical value “YY” is encoded. There ...

07/28/05 - 20050163386 - System and method for processing image data
In one embodiment, a method of processing image data for compression is provided, wherein the image data represents an image and includes a plurality of image data values, each image data value representing an appearance characteristic of a pixel of the image. In one embodiment, the method includes determining a ...

07/21/05 - 20050157934 - Image processing device and image processing method
After reading a predetermined number of predetermined blocks for each of a plurality of image data, a first image read unit 13 reads out the plurality of image data read in parallel by repeatedly switching the designated order of the plurality of image data. A JPEG compression unit 14 performs ...

07/14/05 - 20050152608 - Method for processing a digital image and image representation format
An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit being represented as a Huffman-coded stream of coefficients of basis functions, ...

07/14/05 - 20050152607 - System and method for controlling compression ratio and image quality of binary images
A method, system and computer-readable medium for achieving a target compression ratio for binary images with a minimum of image degradation. Portions of the binary image are strategically replicated and used to replace adjacent portions of the image. This process is continued until a compressed version of the image data ...

07/14/05 - 20050152606 - Method and system for compressing digitized fingerprint images by a uniform degree of compression
A method and a system are described for achieving a desired value for the magnitude of compression when compressing the information contained in a digitized fingerprint images. A lossy compression method is used that includes use of a compression parameter whose value may be varied to adjust the amount of ...

07/14/05 - 20050152605 - Compression of palettized color images with variable length colors codes
A color image (1) is compressed by associating a variable length color code with each color of the original colour image, and then forming bitplanes (51-54) each representing one bit position of the binary color codes for each pixel of the color image. The variable length codes are optimized, such ...

07/07/05 - 20050147306 - Method of encoding and decoding digital images
An image encoding apparatus comprises first processing means for determining whether or not each bit in a bit plane of a code block should be processed in a first pass, and second processing means for determining whether or not each bit in a bit plane of a code block should ...

06/30/05 - 20050141771 - Generation of decorative picture suitable for input picture
The invention provides a technique for generating a decorative image to be added to an input image which are suitable for input images. The data structure 300 of decorative image data representing the decorative image to be added to the input image by means of an image processing apparatus comprises ...

06/23/05 - 20050135684 - Magnitude refinement coding
Embodiments of the invention provide a magnitude refinement coding instruction for determining an output context value. When encoding and decoding bit planes, magnitude refinement coding may occur in the magnitude refinement pass. This decision is based on significance state variable Sigma and Eta being zero. When performing magnitude refinement coding, ...

06/23/05 - 20050135683 - Zero length or run length coding decision
When encoding and decoding bit planes, a decision is made in the clean up pass if zero coding or run length coding should be performed. Embodiments of the invention provide a zero coding or run length coding decision instruction. The instruction will determine whether significance state variables associated with selected ...

06/23/05 - 20050135682 - Managing file stream generation
An image capturing device is capable of capturing and encoding image data so as to output a streaming media file from the device. Vector information derived from the captured image data may be altered to change, i.e., the frame capture rate of subsequent image data, according to frame resolution requirements. ...

06/09/05 - 20050123204 - Image encoding apparatus and method, and image decoding apparatus and method
In a color converter unit of an image encoding apparatus, a subtractor unit subtracts Y from Z and a divider unit divides the result of this subtraction (Z−Y) by 2 and supplies the result to a component signal Y1 to an image coding unit. Another subtractor unit subtracts Y from ...

06/02/05 - 20050117806 - Methods and apparatus for encoding and decoding video data
According to aspects of embodiments of the invention, a method of encoding a sequence of frames of image data, each frame including a number of lines of pixels equal to a frame height, and each line having a number of pixels equal to a line length, comprises: encoding as an ...

06/02/05 - 20050117805 - Method and system for processing image signals and computer program product therefor
A digital video image is compressed by determining for a group of adjacent pixels the global error values that result from the available combinations of truncation and integration of data strings associated with the group of pixels. A combination of truncation and integration that produces a minimum global error value ...

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