Patents by Inventor Ramin Eslami

Ramin Eslami 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).

  • Publication number: 20160119623
    Abstract: An image processing system, and a method of operation thereof, including: a capture unit for obtaining an input image block; and an image signal processing unit coupled to the capture unit, the image signal processing unit including: a pre-processing module for generating a one-dimensional image block from the input image block, a wavelet transform module, coupled to the pre-processing module, for transforming the one-dimensional image block by wavelet coefficients includes a significant partition and a sub-significant partition identified in the wavelet coefficients, a coding module, coupled to the wavelet transform module, for generating a compressed image block including accessing a variable length coding table based on the significant partition and the sub-significant partition, and an inverse wavelet transform module coupled to the coding module for generating an output image block by performing an inverse wavelet transform on the compressed image block for display on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventor: Ramin Eslami
  • Publication number: 20160119629
    Abstract: An image processing system, and a method of operation thereof, including: a capture device for obtaining an input image block; and an image signal processing hardware coupled to the capture device, the image signal processing hardware including: a coding module including: a scaling correction module for generating a scaled wavelet block based on the input image block, a grey block detection module for determining the input image block to be a grey image block, a compression ratio module for determining the compression ratio of the input image block, a mode setting module for setting a PCM mode identifier based on the compression ratio, the coding module for generating a compressed image block by scanning and coding the input image block using PCM mode; and a decoding module for generating an output image block by decoding the compressed image block for display on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventor: Ramin Eslami
  • Publication number: 20160119646
    Abstract: An image processing system, and a method of operation thereof, includes: a pre-processing module for receiving a raw image block of a source image from an imaging device; a wavelet transform module, coupled to the pre-processing module, for forming a wavelet coefficient block by performing a wavelet transform operation on the raw image block; and an encoding module, coupled to the wavelet transform module, for initializing a region significance vector based on the wavelet coefficient block, for generating a code value based on the region significance vector at an index position of a bit region in a wavelet bitplane of the wavelet coefficient block, for forming an encoded block based on the code value, and for generating a bitstream based on the encoded block for decoding into a display image to display on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventor: Ramin Eslami
  • Publication number: 20160119651
    Abstract: An image processing system, and a method of operation thereof, includes: a pre-processing module for receiving a raw image block of a source image from an imaging device; a wavelet transform module, coupled to the pre-processing module, for forming a wavelet coefficient block by performing a wavelet transform operation on the raw image block; an encoding module, coupled to the wavelet transform module, for generating an encoded block in a wavelet bitplane based on the wavelet coefficient block, for checking a bitstream length of the encoded block in a coding pass, for generating a header in the encoded block based on the bitstream length, and for generating a bitstream based on the header for decoding into a display image to display on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventor: Ramin Eslami
  • Patent number: 9294782
    Abstract: An image processing system, and a method of operation thereof, including: a capture device for obtaining a base input image; and an image signal processing hardware including: a pre-processing module for: partitioning the base input image into base image blocks, generating an input image block based on the base image blocks, inverting the input image block associated with some of the positions within the base input image; a wavelet transform module for generating a transformed image block based on the input image block; a coding module for generating a scaled wavelet block based on the transformed image block, the coding module for generating a compressed image block based on the scaled wavelet block; and a decoding module and an inverse wavelet transform module for generating an output image block by decoding and performing an inverse wavelet transform on the compressed image block for display on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Ramin Eslami