Abstract: An apparatus, a method, and a computer program implementing resource allocation for video playback are disclosed. First, information of a video sequence is obtained (902), and resource estimate for the video sequence is created (904) utilizing the obtained information. Next, resources are allocated (906) according to the resource estimate, and the video sequence is played (908) back with the allocated resources.

Abstract: A new method, system, apparatus and software product for constructing by an electronic device an image panorama from a plurality of images based on their visual quality is presented. The same portion of a panoramic image scene is typically captured on multiple neighborhood video frames from which one can choose the best visual representation to be pasted into the panorama. Constructing the image panorama from the plurality of captured images can comprise the following steps: a) evaluating image quality of K consecutive frames out of the captured plurality of images using a predetermined criterion, b) selecting one image out of the evaluated K frames with the best image quality using a predetermined rule, and c) appending the selected frame to previously selected frames for constructing the image panorama. On-line and off-line implementations are possible.

Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for constructing by an electronic device an image panorama from a plurality of images based on their visual quality. The same portion of a panoramic image scene is typically captured on multiple neighborhood video frames from which one can choose the best visual representation to be pasted into the panorama. Constructing the image panorama from the plurality of captured images can comprise the following steps: a) evaluating image quality of K consecutive frames out of the captured plurality of images using a predetermined criterion, b) selecting one image out of the evaluated K frames with the best image quality using a predetermined rule, and c) appending the selected frame to previously selected frames for constructing the image panorama. On-line and off-line implementations are possible.

Abstract: A method and system for characterising paper, where from images of numerous paper samples are extracted multi-dimensional features describing features of the paper; the said features are entered as input into a learning classifier operating in an unsupervised manner, which produces an projection of the said data of each picture part in a low-dimension space in such a way that paper grades having close properties produce close projection in the low-dimension space and the classification results depicted in the low-dimension space are used to aid classification.

Abstract: A method, system, computer program product, and business method manage physical devices using a virtual device domain. The method includes establishing a virtual device for each physical device of one or more devices associated with a user and synchronizing the virtual device with one or more other virtual devices.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for coding successive images. The method comprises defining (600) a search area in a reference image; and computing (602) the cost function of each motion vector candidate. Then, the block to be coded is coded (614) by using the motion vector candidate giving the lowest cost function value. In the computation (602) of the cost function, number-theoretic transform is performed (604, 606) for the block to be coded and for the candidate block; multiplication is performed (608) between the block to be coded and the transformed candidate block; correlation between the block to be coded and the candidate block is formed (610) by performing inverse transform of number-theoretic transform for the result of the multiplication; and the correlation formed is used (612) in the computation of the cost function.