Patents by Inventor Karl-Anders Johansson

Karl-Anders Johansson 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: 7711195
    Abstract: An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit being represented as a Huffman-coded stream of coefficients of basis functions, wherein a zeroth order coefficient is represented as a difference to the previous zeroth order coefficient of the corresponding component, and a block information table, which comprises: indicators to the first coefficient of a specified order of each image block in said bitstream, information indicating the number of bits in the bitstream between adjacent coefficients of said specified order of the image block, and the zeroth order coefficient of at least the first data unit of each component, said zeroth order coefficient being represented in a non-differential form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Scalado AB
    Inventors: Sami Niemi, Karl-Anders Johansson, Johan Stën
  • Publication number: 20090103823
    Abstract: An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit being represented as a Huffman-coded stream of coefficients of basis functions, wherein a zeroth order coefficient is represented as a difference to the previous zeroth order coefficient of the corresponding component, and a block information table, which comprises: indicators to the first coefficient of a specified order of each image block in said bitstream, information indicating the number of bits in the bitstream between adjacent coefficients of said specified order of the image block, and the zeroth order coefficient of at least the first data unit of each component, said zeroth order coefficient being represented in a non-differential form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Sami Niemi, Karl-Anders Johansson, Johan Sten
  • Publication number: 20090103824
    Abstract: An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit being represented as a Huffman-coded stream of coefficients of basis functions, wherein a zeroth order coefficient is represented as a difference to the previous zeroth order coefficient of the corresponding component, and a block information table, which comprises: indicators to the first coefficient of a specified order of each image block in said bitstream, information indicating the number of bits in the bitstream between adjacent coefficients of said specified order of the image block, and the zeroth order coefficient of at least the first data unit of each component, said zeroth order coefficient being represented in a non-differential form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Sami Niemi, Karl-Anders Johansson, Johan Sten
  • Publication number: 20090097761
    Abstract: An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit being represented as a Huffman-coded stream of coefficients of basis functions, wherein a zeroth order coefficient is represented as a difference to the previous zeroth order coefficient of the corresponding component, and a block information table, which comprises: indicators to the first coefficient of a specified order of each image block in said bitstream, information indicating the number of bits in the bitstream between adjacent coefficients of said specified order of the image block, and the zeroth order coefficient of at least the first data unit of each component, said zeroth order coefficient being represented in a non-differential form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Sami Niemi, Karl-Anders Johansson, Johan Sten
  • Publication number: 20090097762
    Abstract: An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit being represented as a Huffman-coded stream of coefficients of basis functions, wherein a zeroth order coefficient is represented as a difference to the previous zeroth order coefficient of the corresponding component, and a block information table, which comprises: indicators to the first coefficient of a specified order of each image block in said bitstream, information indicating the number of bits in the bitstream between adjacent coefficients of said specified order of the image block, and the zeroth order coefficient of at least the first data unit of each component, said zeroth order coefficient being represented in a non-differential form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Sami Niemi, Karl-Anders Johansson, Johan Sten
  • Publication number: 20090097767
    Abstract: An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit being represented as a Huffman-coded stream of coefficients of basis functions, wherein a zeroth order coefficient is represented as a difference to the previous zeroth order coefficient of the corresponding component, and a block information table, which comprises: indicators to the first coefficient of a specified order of each image block in said bitstream, information indicating the number of bits in the bitstream between adjacent coefficients of said specified order of the image block, and the zeroth order coefficient of at least the first data unit of each component, said zeroth order coefficient being represented in a non-differential form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Inventors: Sami Niemi, Karl-Anders Johansson, Johan Sten
  • Patent number: 7480418
    Abstract: An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit being represented as a Huffman-coded stream of coefficients of basis functions, wherein a zeroth order coefficient is represented as a difference to the previous zeroth order coefficient of the corresponding component, and a block information table, which comprises: indicators to the first coefficient of a specified order of each image block in said bitstream, information indicating the number of bits in the bitstream between adjacent coefficients of said specified order of the image block, and the zeroth order coefficient of at least the first data unit of each components said zeroth order coefficient being represented in a non-differential form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Scalado AB
    Inventors: Sami Niemi, Karl-Anders Johansson, Johan Stén
  • Publication number: 20080252656
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for enhancing colour resolution and particularly for obtaining 18 bit resolution in a display using a 16 bits per pixel system frame buffer. The invention uses logic to create intermediate pixel values between 16 bpp colour values. The invention proposes to store the image in the system frame buffer always with a fixed number of bits and using Error Diffusion Dither. Then a postprocessing filter is provided to provide the enhanced colour resolution using a greater number of bits per pixel as accepted by the display means. The invention also relates to a device exploiting the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2006
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
    Inventor: Karl-Anders Johansson
  • Publication number: 20050152608
    Abstract: An image representation format for representing a digital image comprises: image information stored as a bitstream representing sequential image blocks, each block comprising one or more components, each component comprising one or more data units and each data unit being represented as a Huffman-coded stream of coefficients of basis functions, wherein a zeroth order coefficient is represented as a difference to the previous zeroth order coefficient of the corresponding component, and a block information table, which comprises: indicators to the first coefficient of a specified order of each image block in said bitstream, information indicating the number of bits in the bitstream between adjacent coefficients of said specified order of the image block, and the zeroth order coefficient of at least the first data unit of each components said zeroth order coefficient being represented in a non-differential form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Sami Niemi, Karl-Anders Johansson, Johan Sten