Abstract: What is disclosed is method that interpolates missing color components for an original pixel by utilizing color gravities for surrounding blocks of green pixels. A new pixel is output which has complete color information which is a function of the original pixel and interpolated color components. The interpolated pixel is a true representation of both luminance and chrominance information.

Abstract: What is disclosed is a method that allows a fixed length codeword and flag to serve as a structure for encoding large run lengths, a sequence of such structures representing the number of zeroes between two non-zero values in a data set to be encoded. Also disclosed is an adaptive encoding technique that determines an encoding method suitable with the entropy characteristics of the data to be encoded. An architecture is disclosed which allows the size of the fixed length to be varied, if needed. This architecture includes a plurality of logic networks coupled to a single counter, each of which may be enabled depending on the desired codeword size.

Abstract: A method comprising forming an approximated image from an original input image, forming a pre-enhancement map by differentiating the approximated image from the input image, enhancing the pre-enhancement map according to an image enhancement technique forming an enhanced map thereby, and combining the enhanced map with the approximated image to generate an enhanced image.

Abstract: What is disclosed is a method for dynamically and automatically determining the threshold value for edge detection based on localized intensity information. Each pixel can be assigned a threshold to which its gradient or other intensity change information can be compared so as to detect whether or not the pixel belongs to an edge feature of the image or not. Further, the thresholding can be based upon the response of the human vision system so that visual appearance of the image to users is considered when analyzing localized intensity information. The localized thresholding technique can be applied to any edge detection scheme.

Abstract: What is disclosed is method that interpolates missing color components for an original pixel by utilizing color medians for surrounding blocks of green pixels. A new pixel is output which has complete color information which is a function of the original pixel and interpolated color components. The interpolated pixel is a true representation of both luminance and chrominance information.

Abstract: The invention provides an integrated systolic architecture which can perform both forward and inverse Discrete Wavelet Transforms with a minimum of complexity. A plurality of processing cells, each having an adder and a multiplier, are coupled to a set of multiplexers and delay elements to selectively receive a single input datastream in the forward DWT mode and two datastreams in the inverse DWT mode. In the forward DWT mode, the integrated architecture decomposes the input datastream into two output sequences--a high frequency sub-band output and a low frequency sub-band output. In the inverse DWT mode, the integrated architecture reconstructs the original input sequence by outputting even terms and odd terms on alternating clock cycles. As a result, the architecture can achieve 100% utilization and is suitable to be implemented in VLSI circuitry.

Abstract: An image compression scheme is disclosed which models the human visual perception system. Using quantization of image error values, according to a visually-lossless scheme, an image can be compressed such that it is visually indistinguishable to the naked eye from the original image. To aid in image compression on portable devices such as a digital camera, the quantization can be precoupled into a look-up table.

Abstract: What is disclosed is a mapping circuit configured to map a range of captured intensity values to a companded intensity level based upon the density of captured intensity values present in the captured image. Also provided is a companding circuit coupled to the mapping circuit, the companding circuit configured to replace each pixel of the captured image with a corresponding mapped intensity value pixel. The companding circuit and mapping circuit are configured to preserve image characteristics.

Abstract: The invention provides an integrated systolic architecture which can perform both forward and inverse Discrete Wavelet Transforms with a minimum of complexity. A plurality of processing cells, each having an adder and a multiplier, are coupled to a set of multiplexers and delay elements to selectively receive a single input datastream in the forward DWT mode and two datastreams in the inverse DWT mode. In the forward DWT mode, the integrated architecture decomposes the input datastream into two output sequences--a high frequency sub-band output and a low frequency sub-band output. In the inverse DWT mode, the integrated architecture reconstructs the original input sequence by outputting even terms and odd terms on alternating clock cycles. As a result, the architecture can achieve 100% utilization and is suitable to be implemented in VLSI circuitry.

Abstract: The invention provides an integrated systolic architecture which can perform both forward and inverse Discrete Wavelet Transforms with a minimum of complexity. A plurality of processing cells, each having an adder and a multiplier, are coupled to a set of multiplexers and delay elements to selectively receive a single input datastream in the forward DWT mode and two datastreams in the inverse DWT mode. In the forward DWT mode, the integrated architecture decomposes the input datastream into two output sequences--a high frequency sub-band output and a low frequency sub-band output. In the inverse DWT mode, the integrated architecture reconstructs the original input sequence by outputting even terms and odd terms on alternating clock cycles. As a result, the architecture can achieve 100% utilization and is suitable to be implemented in VLSI circuitry.