Abstract: An image display system increases the data volume of a control signal in a frame of analog image so as to process an analog image in real time. A method for increasing the data volume of the control signal, which is used in the image display system, includes increasing the time for transmitting the control signal, changing an encoding method of the control signal to increase a data volume which is transmitted in unit time or outputting an analog image signal and the control signal at the same time. Therefore, the data volume of the control signal in a frame of image can be increased.

Abstract: An image display system increases the data volume of a control signal in a frame of analog image so as to process an analog image in real time. A method for increasing the data volume of the control signal, which is used in the image display system, includes increasing the time for transmitting the control signal, changing an encoding method of the control signal to increase a data volume which is transmitted in unit time or outputting an analog image signal and the control signal at the same time. Therefore, the data volume of the control signal in a frame of image can be increased.

Abstract: A method for controlling a display of a vehicular image by a touch panel is provided. The vehicular image is synthesized by a plurality of sub-images. The method includes the following steps: detecting a first touch event on the touch panel to generate touch position information; determining a control parameter according to the touch position information; and switching a viewing-angle stage of the vehicular image according to the control parameter.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a local brightness adjustment circuit and an image enhancement circuit. The local brightness adjustment circuit is arranged to obtain a local brightness gain relation between an input image before a local brightness adjustment and the input image after the local brightness adjustment. The image enhancement circuit is coupled to the local brightness adjustment circuit, and is arranged to perform at least one of a noise reduction and an edge enhancement upon an image to be processed according to the local brightness gain relation to generate an output image.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image correction method and a related image correction system which can correct images captured via a fisheye lens or a ultra-wide angle lens camera so as to alleviate geometrical distortion in the images, and geometrically adjust the images according to user's requirements. Wherein, the present invention further enhances the processing performance of image correction computation by a memory allocation technique.

Abstract: A dynamic image processing method includes: providing a plurality of first images; synthesizing the first images to generate a second image; selecting a plurality of calibration points on the second image; performing a geometric transformation upon the first images; performing the geometric transformation upon the calibration points to generate a plurality of transformed calibration points; and generating at least one image characteristic boundary according to the transformed calibration points.

Abstract: A fisheye correction with perspective distortion reduction method used for saving memory space and reducing perspective distortion includes a coordinate transformation function, a fisheye distorted image and a fisheye corrected image, the fisheye corrected image includes a plurality of pixels, for each pixel of the plurality of pixels, orderly calculating a coordinate value in the fisheye distorted image, and according to the coordinate value, calculating a pixel value of the fisheye corrected image via an interpolation method, wherein the coordinate transformation function includes a fisheye correction coordinate transformation, a perspective distortion reduction coordinate transformation and an image crop and scale coordinate transformation.

Abstract: An image processing method for generating a vehicular image includes the following steps: providing a first image, wherein the first image has a first specific region, and pixel data of each pixel in the first specific region is converted to a predetermined value; providing a second image, and overlapping the first image and the second image to form an overlapping region; comparing the predetermined value with pixel data of each pixel in the first image overlapped on the second image to generate a comparison result; and determining whether pixel data of each pixel in the overlapping region is pixel data of the first image or pixel data of the second image according to the comparison result, and accordingly generating the vehicular image.

Abstract: A method for controlling a display of a vehicular image by a touch panel is provided. The vehicular image is synthesized by a plurality of sub-images. The method includes the following steps: detecting a first touch event on the touch panel to generate touch position information; determining a control parameter according to the touch position information; and switching a viewing-angle stage of the vehicular image according to the control parameter.

Abstract: An image processing method for generating a vehicular image includes the following steps: providing a first image, wherein the first image has a first specific region, and pixel data of each pixel in the first specific region is converted to a predetermined value; providing a second image, and overlapping the first image and the second image to form an overlapping region; comparing the predetermined value with pixel data of each pixel in the first image overlapped on the second image to generate a comparison result; and determining whether pixel data of each pixel in the overlapping region is pixel data of the first image or pixel data of the second image according to the comparison result, and accordingly generating the vehicular image.

Abstract: A dynamic image processing method includes: providing a plurality of first images; synthesizing the first images to generate a second image; selecting a plurality of calibration points on the second image; performing a geometric transformation upon the first images; performing the geometric transformation upon the calibration points to generate a plurality of transformed calibration points; and generating at least one image characteristic boundary according to the transformed calibration points.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a local brightness adjustment circuit and an image enhancement circuit. The local brightness adjustment circuit is arranged to obtain a local brightness gain relation between an input image before a local brightness adjustment and the input image after the local brightness adjustment. The image enhancement circuit is coupled to the local brightness adjustment circuit, and is arranged to perform at least one of a noise reduction and an edge enhancement upon an image to be processed according to the local brightness gain relation to generate an output image.

Abstract: A transcoder for converting a digital video signal from a first format into a second format in transform domain. The first format and the second format are respectively adopted by video coding schemes possessing different DCT transform kernels. The transcoder includes: a transform-domain decoder, coupled to the digital video signal, for decoding the digital video signal of the first format to generate a first DCT-domain signal, the first DCT-domain signal corresponding to a first DCT transform of the first format in the transform domain; a transform kernel converter, coupled to the transform-domain decoder, for converting the first DCT-domain signal into a second DCT-domain signal, the second DCT-domain signal corresponding to a second DCT transform of the second format in the transform domain; and a transform-domain encoder, coupled to the transform kernel converter, for generating a resultant video signal encoded in the second format according to the second DCT domain signal.

Abstract: A color interpolation method for processing a plurality of image pixels corresponding to a color filter array to reconstruct missing color components for each image pixel having a single color component. The color interpolation method includes: (a) detecting edges in a plurality of interpolating directions for a target image pixel and then generating a plurality of edge indicators respectively corresponding to the interpolating directions, wherein the edge indicators have been normalized by stochastic adjustment factors; and (b) reconstructing at least a missing color component of the target image pixel according to a plurality of neighboring image pixels respectively in the interpolating directions and the edge indicators of the interpolating directions, wherein each of the neighboring image pixels has a color component identical to the missing color component.