Patents by Inventor Arlene Kasai

Arlene Kasai 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).

  • Video frame synthesis
    Patent number: 6963614
    Abstract: A method comprising selecting a number of blocks of a frame pair and synthesizing an interpolated frame based on those selected blocks of the frame pair. Additionally, the synthesis of the interpolated frame may be aborted upon determining that the interpolated frame has an unacceptable quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Rajeeb Hazra, Arlene Kasai
  • Video frame synthesis
    Publication number: 20030202605
    Abstract: A method comprising selecting a number of blocks of a frame pair and synthesizing an interpolated frame based on those selected blocks of the frame pair. Additionally, the synthesis of the interpolated frame is aborted upon determining the interpolated frame has an unacceptable quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Rajeeb Hazra, Arlene Kasai
  • Increased video playback framerate in low bit-rate video applications
    Patent number: 6594313
    Abstract: A method comprising selecting a number of blocks of a frame pair and synthesizing an interpolated frame based on those selected blocks of the frame pair. Additionally, the synthesis of the interpolated frame is aborted upon determining the interpolated frame has an unacceptable quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Rajeeb Hazra, Arlene Kasai
  • Method and apparatus for increasing video frame rate
    Patent number: 6192079
    Abstract: Synthesizing of video frames that have been dropped by a video encoder is achieved by interpolating between decoded frames at a decoder. The method consists of successive refinement stages that increase in computational complexity. Starting with a spatio-temporal median filtering approach, each stage uses information that improves the quality of the interpolated frames, such as bit stream motion information, decoder-based motion estimation and motion-based state segmentation of regions. By using more computational resources, each of these stages results in an improved quality of interpolated video. The motion compensation techniques are based on block-based motion estimation of the kind used by block-transform based video encoders. More accurate motion estimates are obtained by using a combination of forward and backward block motion estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ravi K. Sharma, Rajeeb Hazra, Arlene Kasai
  • Method and apparatus for monitoring video compression processing
    Patent number: 5499050
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing accurate, real-time monitoring of image compression processing. Video data is compressed by a microprocessor running a video compression algorithm. A product of this compression process is a decompressed (i.e., companded) image to be used in the compression of the next video image. This companded image is also used by the video capture system for display for real-time monitoring of video compression processing. In a preferred embodiment, every video frame that is compressed, is also displayed in real-time on a display monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1996
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Gary C. Baldes, Ben Echols, Arlene Kasai