Abstract: An image frame of a video stream is compressed area by area with at least two areas having different bit rates. When compressing an area of the current frame pixels, the bit rate information of the corresponding area of previous frame which is referred which is saved in a temporary storage device. The bit rate information of each area is inserted into the predetermined location of the compressed image bit stream to allow fast random accessing and pipelining decompressing pixels in any area.

Abstract: This invention applies a luminance detection device to determine the brightness of the place where the display device is located and adjusts the power of the light source accordingly. The photo sensor can also be place in front of the light source to detect the color deviation and to compensate the deviation by adding or subtracting the value of the corresponding color component which has color deviation. The image to be displayed is examined to determine the level of luminance and adjusts the power of the light source accordingly.

Abstract: A compression method and apparatus compresses the program and data for a CPU which significantly reduces the density of storage device of storing the program and the data for a CPU to execute the program. Multiple groups of instructions and data are compressed separately by a mapping unit indicating the starting location of a group of instructions and data set s which helps quickly recovering the corresponding instructions and data. In decoding, multiple instructions and data are decoded in parallel to quickly recover instructions and data to avoid running out of instruction and data in the file register. A mapping unit is used to translate the corresponding address of a group of data for quickly recovering the corresponding data for the file register file to avoid running out of data for a CPU to execute.

Abstract: The present invention provides method and apparatus of digital video stream decoding by calculating the complexity of the B-type coded frame or macro-block and decoding whether the motion compensation can be skipped to save the time of accessing the referencing memory. The block with the decompressed accumulative pixel difference is less than a predetermined threshold and the motion vector equals to (0,0) or “Frame movement”, the motion compensation is skipped and one of the P-Type or I-type referencing frames will be accessed as the reference for motion compensation.

Abstract: A method and device of image capturing comprising of timing control of sequentially placing the corresponding color filter to top of the image sensor allows an image sensor cell to capture multiple colors and produce output of multiple colors. Thin films are applied to function as color filters to be turn on and off by electrical field. A semiconductor image sensor cell with micron-lens on top allows all light to penetrate into the photo diode and form variable voltage difference among different colors' sequence.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus of image and video compression, decoding and display procedure includes: image and video compression by taking the digitized one color per pixel format instead of RGB or YUV per pixel. Manipulation of video decompression and the color processing before being presented to the display device saves the density and I/O bandwidth of the storage device and transmission time. The digitized color components are compressed and stored in the referencing frame buffer and decompressed block by block before motion estimation.

Abstract: A video compression method compresses the capture video raw data into the 1st compression format and records the image patter complexity of each frame of a predetermined amount of video frames. The information of the image pattern complexity is used to determine the bit rate of each frame for the 2nd time of the video compression. For saving the image buffer size and speeding up the accessing time, a lossless and near lossless video compression algorithm is applied to the 1st video compression algorithm.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing the density of a frame buffer image for display device is presented. The source image is compressed before storing into a temporary frame buffer and decompressed before displaying in a display device. When a new object is to be display into the previous frame, the starting and ending position of each line and segment which the new object pixels reside are calculated and the corresponding segments of pixels are decompressed to be concatenated with the new object pixels and re-compressed before storing into the frame buffer.

Abstract: A video compression, transmission and decoding procedure includes: reducing the image data by calculating the average of a predetermined number of pixels, calculating the DCT coefficients and dividing DCT coefficients by predetermined matrix of values, and applying fixed length of code to represent the DCT coefficients. Low frequency DCT coefficients of each block of pixels are saved in a temporary storage device, should the data loss or damage happened during transmission, the low frequency DCT coefficients of the corresponding block are decoded to represent the lost data. In audio compression and transmission point, a group of audio samples are separated to be at least two sub-groups of audio samples, should any audio sample is lost or damaged, the interpolated value of the nearest adjacent samples of at least one sub-group is used to represent the lost or damaged audio sample.

Abstract: The differential values of adjacent pixels of a group of pixels are calculated and are re-ordered by referring to the magnitude of pixels of a neighboring line. Another time of calculation of differential values of the re-ordered differential values of adjacent pixels is done and the results go through a procedure of a variable length coding. When complex pattern happened, a market code is asserted to break the calculating the differences of adjacent pixels followed by a new raw pixel data as a reference for a new group of pixel. The variable length coding only keeps the “Quotient” and “Remainder” with the “Divider” implicitly done by prediction.

Abstract: Recovered 8×8 DCT coefficient arrays of all block of a JPEG image is formed by reversely decompressing the JPEG image till the procedure of dequantization. A method of redundancy removal of inter-block same subband AC coefficient and intra-block adjacent subband DCT coefficients is applied by re-ordering the coefficients by magnitude of the neighboring subband or a weighted sum of those. The differential values of both inter-block and intra-block DCT coefficients are calculated and coded by an entropy coder to further reduce the data rate. A short code is assigned to represent the “end of non-zero” of each re-ordered subband AC coefficients.

Abstract: A power management method of estimating the battery power automatically and entering power saving mode automatically is presented. Power level measuring of the battery and the needed amount of power to run till the end of the selected program is firstly done before a power saving method is selected to reduce the power consumption. Reducing supplier voltage level of the system and component voltage, reducing the bright of the display panel light and reducing sound volume of the speakers are three alternatives of mechanism of power saving.

Abstract: A video recording and output system applies compression method and apparatus to plurality of images. The majority pixels of video stream which have been compressed and saved into a storage device have no data loss compared to the original raw image data is compressed by a method so named as “lossless” compression algorithm. When outputting the compressed image, a decompression engine is to reconstruct the compressed image into the raw image firstly and output to a display device. Another mechanism of outputting the decompressed image of raw image is to re-compress it into another image format with a certain amount of pixels having data loss compared to original image.

Abstract: Audio compression/decompression codec is applied to reduce the data rate during wireless transmission and receiving resulting in higher efficiency of transmission bandwidth which allows scheduled time to turn on and shut off the transmission and receiving devices. The average values of a predetermined amount of audio samples within a pack of audio are inserted into the compressed audio data as references in recovering the audio data. When small amount of audio data are lost during transmission, some recovered audio samples are repeated to represent the lost data within a pack of audio data. Should the variance of a certain amount of data samples are high, some un-compressed audio data will be packed and sent out to maintain the audio quality.

Abstract: 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 higher compression ratio. Predication of the pixel value is also modified in variable length coding. On-chip line buffer is also applied with the instant compression mechanism. Fixed compression ratio is predetermined to actually downsize the chip design for the worst case.

Abstract: The present invention provides method of image and audio data compression. Filtering and down sampling means are firstly applied to reduce data of samples. The selected data samples are firstly compressed by means of ADPCM. The error between the original and the ADPCM coded data stream are calculated and compared to at least one predetermined value to determine the means of correction. Discrete Cosine Transform is applied to compress error data between the original and the ADPCM coded data stream. The DCT coefficients of error are inserted into the ADPCM data stream for correction.

Abstract: An image compression method for compressing groups of pixel data, including the following steps: MSB portions and LSB portions of the pixel data are compressed separately. Further, the LSB portions are grouped according to their associated MSB portions so that similar pixels are compressed together to gain higher a compression ratio. Some LSB portions are truncated to ensure a compression ratio. When performing compression, enhanced variable-length coding is adopted that predicts more accurate dividers by considering weighted combination of adjacent pixels. The quotient of each groups of compression portion is predicted and coded accordingly.

Abstract: The present invention provides method and apparatus of image data compression for the temporary image storage buffer. At least one image pixel is compressed and stored in a storage device for the following pixel's reference. The difference planes among R-plane, G-plane, and B-plane are generated to take advantage of correlation among color components in reducing the image data. The difference between adjacent pixels is generated to further reduce the length of the code of image pixels.

Abstract: This invention provides an efficient method of error tracking which quickly recovers the error packet of data. A side information is sent along with a normal video stream that can be used by an intermediate network node in order to improve the quality of the video transmission. The intermediate node receives the original video stream as well as the side information and uses the side information to reduce the error propagation. The error tracking is signaled from the intermediate node to the mobile phone device and the intermediate network node functions the error correction. The side information can then be used to refresh or update those areas that are affected by error concealment and error propagation.

Abstract: An efficient motion estimation with an accurate starting point prediction and a scalable searching range is disclosed. A storage device saving MVs and SADs of an entire frame of the nearest neighboring frame and surrounding blocks is implemented. The majority or an average of MVs of the surrounding blocks and the corresponding position of at least one nearest neighboring frame is selected to be the starting point of the best match block full search. A threshold value is determined to early stop the calculation of the best match block search. Depending on the MV values of the surrounding blocks and a corresponding block in a nearest neighboring frame, pixels within a calculated scalable searching range are moved into a smaller on-chip searching range buffer from a larger reference frame buffer.