Patents by Inventor Stefano Pascali

Stefano Pascali 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).

  • Method and systems for thumbnail generation, and corresponding computer program product
    Patent number: 9652818
    Abstract: An embodiment of a consumer electronics product having a thumbnail display feature includes a system for generating and storing thumbnails having a given size from images, such as JPEG images, for which a spatial frequency domain representation is available. The system includes a zooming processor to reduce the size of the images by zooming. The zooming processor is configured to perform both spatial frequency domain zooming to approximate the desired thumbnail size and then image pixel domain zooming to fit the desired thumbnail size. The product includes cache storage configured to store a plurality of thumbnails in a file system as free blocks in the file system, so that file system data structures are left unchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Stefano Pascali, Andrea Riccardo Palmieri
  • Method and systems for thumbnail generation, and corresponding computer program product
    Patent number: 9105111
    Abstract: An embodiment of a consumer electronics product having a thumbnail display feature includes a system for generating and storing thumbnails having a given size from images, such as JPEG images, for which a spatial frequency domain representation is available. The system includes a zooming processor to reduce the size of the images by zooming. The zooming processor is configured to perform both spatial frequency domain zooming to approximate the desired thumbnail size and then image pixel domain zooming to fit the desired thumbnail size. The product includes cache storage configured to store a plurality of thumbnails in a file system as free blocks in the file system, so that file system data structures are left unchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Stefano Pascali, Andrea Riccardo Palmieri
  • Method and systems for thumbnail generation, and corresponding computer program product
    Patent number: 9076239
    Abstract: An embodiment of a consumer electronics product having a thumbnail display feature includes a system for generating and storing thumbnails having a given size from images, such as JPEG images, for which a spatial frequency domain representation is available. The system includes a zooming processor to reduce the size of the images by zooming. The zooming processor is configured to perform both spatial frequency domain zooming to approximate the desired thumbnail size and then image pixel domain zooming to fit the desired thumbnail size. The product includes cache storage configured to store a plurality of thumbnails in a file system as free blocks in the file system, so that file system data structures are left unchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Stefano Pascali, Andrea Riccardo Palmieri
  • METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR THUMBNAIL GENERATION, AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT
    Publication number: 20100278443
    Abstract: An embodiment of a consumer electronics product having a thumbnail display feature includes a system for generating and storing thumbnails having a given size from images, such as JPEG images, for which a spatial frequency domain representation is available. The system includes a zooming processor to reduce the size of the images by zooming. The zooming processor is configured to perform both spatial frequency domain zooming to approximate the desired thumbnail size and then image pixel domain zooming to fit the desired thumbnail size. The product includes cache storage configured to store a plurality of thumbnails in a file system as free blocks in the file system, so that file system data structures are left unchanged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Stefano Pascali, Andrea Riccardo Palmieri