Patents by Inventor Tien-Ying Kuo

Tien-Ying Kuo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8059157
    Abstract: A method and a system for digital image stabilization are provided for a digital image sequence. The present method calculates local motion vectors between two adjacent images by an interlaced Gray-coded bit-plane matching. An appropriate global motion vector is obtained by weighted accumulation of all local motion vectors. Finally, an accumulated motion vector is obtained by the global motion vector so as to process a motion correction on the digital image sequence and produce a stabile output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Institute for Information Industry
    Inventors: Tien-Ying Kuo, Chung-Hsin Wang, Chih-Chun Lai
  • Publication number: 20100134640
    Abstract: A method and a system for digital image stabilization are provided for a digital image sequence. The present method calculates local motion vectors between two adjacent images by an interlaced Gray-coded bit-plane matching. An appropriate global motion vector is obtained by weighted accumulation of all local motion vectors. Finally, an accumulated motion vector is obtained by the global motion vector so as to process a motion correction on the digital image sequence and produce a stabile output image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION INDUSTRY
    Inventors: Tien-Ying Kuo, Chung-Hsin Wang, Chih-Chun Lai
  • Patent number: 6618439
    Abstract: A block-based motion-compensated frame interpolation method and apparatus using a block-based video coder operating in low bit rates. Smooth movement of objects between video frames can be obtained without the complexity of pixel-wise interpolation motion estimation that is present in standard motion-compensated frame interpolation (MCI). An additional motion search for interpolating all of the individual pixel trajectories is not required because the interpolation uses block-based motion vector information from a standard codec such as H.26x/MPEG. Video quality is improved by increasing smoothness and the frame rate is increased without a substantial increase in the computational complexity. The proposed block-based MCI method maps from block-wise motion to pixel-wise motion in a motion vector mapping unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Tien-Ying Kuo, Chung-Chieh Kuo, Chia-Wen Lin