Substantial Processing Of Image In Compressed Form Patents (Class 382/235)
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Patent number: 12205366Abstract: A system is provided for identifying and quantizing a change in a scene having objects based on comparison of features representing a target object derived from a first image and a second image that includes the target object. The system segments, based on a scene model of the scene, a second image that includes the target object to identify a second area representing the target object within the second image. The system extracts, from the second image, second features for the target object based on the second area. The system determines a second effectiveness of the second features indicating effectiveness of the second features in representing the target object. The system detects a change based on a difference between first features and the second features factoring in a first effectiveness and the second effectiveness.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLCInventors: Randy S. Roberts, John Goforth
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Patent number: 11869524Abstract: This application relates to an audio processing method and apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium, and relates to the field of audio processing technologies. The method is executed by a computer device and includes: acquiring first audio data of which a sampling rate is a first sampling rate, processing the first audio data by using a super-resolution model, and obtaining second audio data according to an output result of the super-resolution model, a sampling rate of the second audio data being a second sampling rate, the second sampling rate being N times the first sampling rate.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventor: Fasheng Chen
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Patent number: 11798273Abstract: A system is provided for identifying and quantizing a change in a scene having objects based on comparison of features representing a target object derived from a first image and a second image that includes the target object. The system segments, based on a scene model of the scene, a second image that includes the target object to identify a second area representing the target object within the second image. The system extracts, from the second image, second features for the target object based on the second area. The system determines a second effectiveness of the second features indicating effectiveness of the second features in representing the target object. The system detects a change based on a difference between first features and the second features factoring in a first effectiveness and the second effectiveness.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL SECURITY, LLCInventors: Randy S. Roberts, John Goforth
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Patent number: 11544928Abstract: A system and method leverages understanding of complex dribbling video clips by representing a video sequence with a single Dribble Energy Image (DEI) that is informative for dribbling styles recognition. To overcome the shortage of labelled data, a dataset of soccer video clips employs Mask-RCNN to segment out dribbling players and OpenPose to obtain joints information of dribbling players. To solve issues caused by camera motions in highlight soccer videos, the system registers a video sequence to generate a single image representation DEI and dribbling styles classification.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Bir Bhanu, Hengyue Liu, Runze Li
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Patent number: 11468655Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for extracting information, a device and a storage medium, relate to the field of image processing technology. The method may include: acquiring a location template corresponding to a category of a target document image; determining key point locations on the target document image; generating a transformation matrix based on the key point locations on the target document image and key point locations on the location template; determining locations of information corresponding to the target document image, based on locations of information on the location template and the transformation matrix; and extracting information at the locations of information corresponding to the target document image to obtain information in the target document image.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Fu Qu, Minhui Pang, Guangyao Han, Zeqing Jiang
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Patent number: 11348594Abstract: Methods, devices, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and systems are described for compressing audio data. The techniques involve obtaining a sequence of digitized samples of an audio signal, performing a transform using the sequence of digitized samples, to generate a plurality of spectral lines, obtaining a group of spectral lines from the plurality of spectral lines, and quantizing the group of spectral lines to generate a group of quantized values. Quantizing the group of spectral lines to generate the group of quantized values may comprise performing a specialized rounding operation on a spectral line selected from the group of spectral lines and using the specialized rounding operation to force a group parity value, computed for the group of quantized values, to a predetermined parity value. One or more data frames based on the group of quantized values may be outputted.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Richard Turner, Megan Lucy Taggart, Laurent Wojcieszak, Justin Hundt
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Patent number: 11056039Abstract: Disclosed is a signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same. The signal processing device and the image display apparatus comprise: a first reduction unit to receive a image signal and reduce noise of the received image signal, and a second reduction unit to perform grayscale amplification based on the image signal from the first reduction unit, wherein the second reduction unit is configured to perform the grayscale amplification so that upper-limit level of grayscale of the image signal from the first reduction unit is greater than upper-limit level of grayscale of an OSD signal. Accordingly, OSD area may be uniformly displayed regardless of ambient luminance.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Kyeongryeol Park, Jongchan Kim, Jeonghyu Yang
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Patent number: 10880556Abstract: Several methods and systems for masking multimedia data are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for masking includes performing a prediction for at least one multimedia data block based on a prediction mode of a plurality of prediction modes. The at least one multimedia data block is associated with a region of interest (ROI). A residual multimedia data associated with the at least one multimedia data block is generated based on the prediction. A quantization of the residual multimedia data is performed based on a quantization parameter (QP) value. The QP value is variable such that varying the QP value controls a degree of masking of the ROI.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Yashwant Dutt, Kumar Desappan, Piyali Goswami
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Patent number: 10841549Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for facilitating enhancing the quality of video. An example method disclosed herein includes estimating an optical flow between a first noisy frame and a second noisy frame, the second noisy frame following the first noisy frame. The example method also includes warping a first enhanced frame to align with the second noisy frame, the warping being based on the estimation of the optical flow between the first noisy frame and the second noisy frame, the first enhanced frame being an enhanced frame of the first noisy frame. The example method also includes generating a second enhanced frame based on the warped first enhanced frame and the second noisy frame, and outputting the second enhanced frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Reza Pourreza Shahri, Amirhossein Habibian, Taco Sebastiaan Cohen
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Patent number: 10275852Abstract: In executing image processing using low-frequency band evaluation values and high-frequency band evaluation values obtained from an input image, one of a plurality of processors applies the image processing to a partial image assigned thereto using high-frequency band evaluation values obtained from the partial image and low-frequency band evaluation values. This processor distributes, to another processor, low-frequency band evaluation values or a reduced image of the input image to be used by another processor. Another processor applies the image processing to a partial image assigned thereto using high-frequency band evaluation values obtained from the partial image and one selected from the group consisting of the distributed low-frequency band evaluation values and low-frequency band evaluation values obtained from the reduced image, and returns a resultant image.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yasushi Ohwa
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Patent number: 10257384Abstract: A binary image generation portion binarizes a scanned image and generates a binary image. A specific character position detection portion (a) specifies rectangles that circumscribe a plurality of characters, respectively, in the binary image, (b) detects a plurality of specific characters having longitudinal lines or transverse lines at centers of the specified circumscribing rectangles, and (c) detects, as positions of the plurality of specific characters, center positions of the longitudinal lines or the transverse lines, within a predetermined range, to be detected, in a main scanning direction or a sub-scanning direction. A skew angle specifying portion specifies an alignment direction in which the plurality of specific characters are aligned, based on the positions of the plurality of specific characters detected in the range to be detected, and specifies a skew angle of a document image in the scanned image, based on the specified alignment direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Ryuichi Okumura
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Patent number: 10242650Abstract: A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Jon Scott Miller, Scott Daly, Mahdi Nezamabadi, Robin Atkins
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Patent number: 10200695Abstract: Several methods and systems for masking multimedia data are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for masking includes performing a prediction for at least one multimedia data block based on a prediction mode of a plurality of prediction modes. The at least one multimedia data block is associated with a region of interest (ROI). A residual multimedia data associated with the at least one multimedia data block is generated based on the prediction. A quantization of the residual multimedia data is performed based on a quantization parameter (QP) value. The QP value is variable such that varying the QP value controls a degree of masking of the ROI.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Yashwant Dutt, Kumar Desappan, Piyali Goswami
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Patent number: 10015503Abstract: A request for an image is received. A reduced version of the image is generated. A plurality of reduced distorted images is generated, wherein each reduced distorted image is a reduced version of a different distortion applied to the image. A variation of quality signature of the image is determined, wherein the variation of quality signature of the image comprises a plurality of element signatures, and wherein the plurality of element signatures are determined based on the plurality of reduced distorted images. The image is categorized into one of a plurality of clusters of images, wherein the categorization is based on a similarity between the variation of quality signature of the image and one or more other variation of quality signatures of one or more other images within the plurality of clusters of images. A distorted version of the image based on the categorization is delivered.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Instart Logic, Inc.Inventor: Parvez Ahammad
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Patent number: 9965248Abstract: In an embodiment, a processor includes a compression domain threshold filter coupled to a plurality of cores. The compression domain threshold filter is to: receive a sample vector of compressed data to be filtered; calculate, based at least on a first subset of the elements of the sample vector, an estimated upper bound value of a dot product of the sample vector and a steering vector; determine whether the estimated upper bound value of the dot product satisfies a filter threshold value; and in response to a determination that the estimated upper bound value of the dot product does not satisfy the filter threshold value, discard the sample vector without completion of a calculation of the dot product of the sample vector and the steering vector. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Sudhir K. Satpathy, Sanu K. Mathew, Ram K. Krishnamurthy
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Patent number: 9959837Abstract: A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2017Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensin CorporationInventors: Jon Scott Miller, Scott Daly, Mahdi Nezamabadi, Robin Atkins
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Patent number: 9930354Abstract: An image decoder includes a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions configured to cause the processor to perform steps. The steps include to receive a bitstream including a plurality encoded blocks representing an image, receive a boundary indicator representing a cropped portion of the image, determine a row start and a row end within the image based on the boundary indicator, and in a single decoding pass, entropy decode the plurality of encoded blocks that include the row start, the row end and the rows there between and transform for display a portion of the plurality of encoded blocks that include the rows including the cropped portion of the image, and skip processing of a remainder of the plurality of encoded blocks.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Matt Sarett, Leon Scroggins, Derek Sollenberger, Michael Roland Reed
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Patent number: 9697799Abstract: A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Jon Scott Miller, Scott Daly, Mahdi Nezamabadi, Robin Atkins
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Patent number: 9685139Abstract: A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Jon Scott Miller, Scott Daly, Mahdi Nezamabadi, Robin Atkins
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Patent number: 9521419Abstract: A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: December 13, 2016Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorproationInventors: Jon Scott Miller, Scott Daly, Mahdi Nezamabadi, Robin Atkins
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Patent number: 9510004Abstract: Systems and methods for multi-layered rate control for scalable video coding. A parameter value may be calculated based on a current layer target bit rate and a current layer buffer state for a frame in a video stream. The frame may include a lower layer and one or more higher layers. A determination may then be made as to whether the current layer is the lower layer. If the current layer is the lower layer, a determination may then be made as to whether a coupling request has been received from a higher layer in the frame. If the coupling request has been received from the higher layer in the frame, the parameter value for the current layer may be increased based on a buffer state threshold value of the higher layer in the frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2013Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Cheng Chang, Chih-Lung Lin, Ming-Chieh Lee
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Patent number: 9424747Abstract: This disclosure provides method and systems of recording a predetermined event associated with a moving object, the predetermined event captured with an image capturing unit and one or more of the associated frames compressed, producing one or more motion vectors. According to one exemplary embodiment, vehicle counting is performed based on motion vectors produced during the data compression process, either inline or offline.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2012Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Edgar A. Bernal, Robert P. Loce, Orhan Bulan
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Patent number: 9355326Abstract: An image processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first image extraction portion and a first determination portion. The first image extraction portion is configured to extract, from image data, a plurality of linear images in each of which reference pixels each having a tone in a predetermined range are continuous so as to form a straight line. The first determination portion is configured to determine, when the plurality of linear images extracted by the first image extraction portion include linear images that are spaced by a uniform distance, the linear images that are spaced by the uniform distance, as ruled lines.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Masato Shiose
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Patent number: 9336565Abstract: An image processing device includes: a first memory section that has memory areas equivalent to data of k1 rows of an image and stores data of at least two adjoining pixels in each of the memory areas; a second memory section that has memory areas equivalent to data of k2 rows of the image and stores data of at least two adjoining pixels in a row different from pixels of which data is stored in the first memory section in each of the memory areas; and a correction section that corrects data of an object pixel, out of pixels of r rows×c columns, using data of a plurality of pixels stored in a memory area corresponding to a position designated by an offset vector corresponding to the object pixel in the first and second memory sections.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Tadashi Hayashi
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Patent number: 9299127Abstract: A method of splitting of elliptical images performed by a processor is provided. The method includes: receiving an image whose pixels span a range along each of two orthogonal axes; segmenting the image into indexed sub-images; storing the sub-images as texture maps; responding to a request for a value of a texture element having S1, T1 and H coordinates by returning the value of the texture element of the sub-image indexed by H whose X and Y coordinates are S1 and T1.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: ImmerVisionInventors: Gregory Pekofsky, Dongxu Li, Guillaume Racine
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Patent number: 9282333Abstract: Several methods and systems for masking multimedia data are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for masking includes performing a prediction for at least one multimedia data block based on a prediction mode of a plurality of prediction modes. The at least one multimedia data block is associated with a region of interest (ROI). A residual multimedia data associated with the at least one multimedia data block is generated based on the prediction. A quantization of the residual multimedia data is performed based on a quantization parameter (QP) value. The QP value is variable such that varying the QP value controls a degree of masking of the ROI.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Yashwant Dutt, Kumar Dessapan, Piyali Goswami
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Patent number: 9275284Abstract: An apparatus and method for extracting a static background image from a non-static image sequence or video sequence having at least three spatially overlapping frames is presented. Obscured static background areas are filled, according to the disclosure, with actual content as the background area becomes visible over time as non-static objects move with respect to the background. Consecutive image frames are stored in tracking buffers from which alignment is performed and absolute differences determined. Object contours are found in the difference image and bounding boxes determined as object masks. The background is then filled from areas outside these object masks to arrive at a static background image.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Sabri Gurbuz
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Patent number: 9257100Abstract: A display device includes: a display panel displaying a still image and a motion picture; a display panel which displays a still image and a motion picture; a signal controller which controls signals to drive the display panel; and a graphics processing unit which transmits input image data to the signal controller, where the signal controller includes a frame memory which stores compressed image data generated by compressing the input image data, and a mixer which mixes compression recovered image data generated by recovering the compressed image data and the input image data to generate mixed image data.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2012Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Sang Su Han, Min Joo Lee, Po-Yun Park, Youn Jin Jung, Jung Hwan Cho
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Patent number: 9202444Abstract: Embodiments relate to systems and methods for generating address information to translate the order in which memory locations are accessed in a video buffer, to maintain a desired orientation in a rotated display. A video buffer is filled with display data to drive a CRT, LCD, or other display screen, starting with the upper-left corner. When the user rotates the display screen, the display screen continues to scan from the same starting corner, resulting in a misaligned orientation. In embodiments, a correct orientation can be automatically generated by determining a scan direction for the rotated display. The physical location of the new logical starting pixel is determined, and the rows and columns of the display image are rendered in a revised logical order which compensates for the amount and direction of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.Inventor: Adam Jackson
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Patent number: 9179155Abstract: Systems and methods for encoding a video stream based upon identified regions of interest (ROI's) are disclosed herein. Standard video encoding schemes require a significant amount of unnecessary data in order to designate macroblocks to be skipped for a particular video frame of a video stream. Rather than encoding such skip or no skip information for each macroblock (or sequence of macroblocks) for each frame, embodiments disclosed herein can encode the video stream based upon an identified ROI that represents an area of macroblocks that change and/or do not remain static from one frame to the next. Designating active areas in terms of the ROI can yield more efficient encoding.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2012Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Tero Mikko Rintaluoma, Sami Aleksi Pietilä
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Patent number: 9055219Abstract: An image editing device, for editing a combined photographic image formed by combining a plurality of images with a predetermined background image, comprises a combined photograph processing section for creating a combined photograph by combining a plurality of images with the background image in accordance with combining position of the combined photograph, an image compression section for dividing the combined photograph into a number of blocks of a specified number of pixels, and subjecting an image to lossy compression, a background portion image selection section for dividing the background image into the blocks, and selecting a plurality of blocks that include at least the combining position as a background portion image, and a storage section for storing an image that has been compressed by the image compression section, and the background portion image that has been selected by the background portion image selection section, as a single image file.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.Inventor: Manabu Ichikawa
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Patent number: 9036709Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for decoding motion information in merge mode. The apparatus for decoding motion information in merge mode discloses a merge mode motion vector decoding unit configured to generate motion information using available spatial and temporal merge candidates when a motion information encoding mode of a current block indicates a merge mode; a prediction bock generating unit configured to generate a prediction block of the current block using motion information; and a residual block generating unit configured to perform an entropy-decoding process and an inverse-scanning process on residual signals to generate a quantized block, and to perform an inverse-transforming process on the quantized block to generate a residual block.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: IBEX PT HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kwangje Kim, Hyunoh Oh
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Patent number: 9037749Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes rendering a software processing result to an image memory that stores a image to be displayed on a terminal apparatus connected through a network, and includes detecting an update field in which the image is updated, when the rendering with respect to the image memory is performed, and includes first compressing the image of the update field to obtain first compression data, and includes dividing the first compression data into a data size within a window size of a connection established with the terminal apparatus to obtain division data, and includes second compressing the image of the update field to the data size within the window size of the connection to obtain second compression data, and includes assigning each division data to any connection of multiple connections and assigning the second compression data to a dedicated connection different from the multiple connections.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Tomoharu Imai, Kazuki Matsui
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Patent number: 9025669Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for decoding motion information in merge mode. The apparatus for decoding motion information in merge mode discloses a merge mode motion vector decoding unit configured to generate motion information using available spatial and temporal merge candidates when a motion information encoding mode of a current block indicates a merge mode; a prediction bock generating unit configured to generate a prediction block of the current block using motion information; and a residual block generating unit configured to perform an entropy-decoding process and an inverse-scanning process on residual signals to generate a quantized block, and to perform an inverse-transforming process on the quantized block to generate a residual block.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Ibex PT Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kwangje Kim, Hyunoh Oh
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Patent number: 9025668Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for decoding motion information in merge mode for reconstructing a moving picture signal coded at a low data rate while maintaining a high quality of an image. The apparatus for decoding motion information in merge mode discloses the position of a merge mode candidate and the configuration of a candidate in order to predict motion information in merge mode efficiently. Furthermore, a merge candidate indicated by the merge index of a current block can be efficiently reconstructed irrespective of a network environment by adaptively generating a merge candidate based on the number of valid merge candidate.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2014Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: IBEX PT Holdings Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kwangje Kim, Hyunoh Oh
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Patent number: 9020254Abstract: Described is a technology by which an image is transcoded to a desired quality measure (e.g., PSNR). A quality measure of transcoded image data is checked against a desired quality measure, and if a desired quality measure is not achieved, a different quality level is iteratively provided to attempt to re-transcode the image until the desired quality measure is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Yisheng Yao, Ke-Cheng Huang, Emmanuel Papirakis, Patrick E. Plaisted
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Patent number: 9014261Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for media file compression, which includes: extracting the encoding parameters from an input media file, separating and decoding the audio and video stream from the input media file, and extracting an original audio stream and an original video stream; computing the transcoding parameters required for compression according to the encoding parameters; encoding the original audio stream to output a new compressed audio stream, and encoding the original video stream to output a new compressed video stream according to the transcoding parameters; synthesizing the new compressed audio stream and the new compressed video stream to create a new media file. The present invention also provides a system for media file compression.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company LimitedInventors: Jun Liu, Jingchang Chen, Xinliang Wang
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Patent number: 9014497Abstract: A tile of pixels is encoded by variable length encoding at least a first block of pixels into a first sequence of symbols and a second block of pixels into a second sequence of symbols. The symbols of the first and second sequences are co-organized into a combined sequence of symbols in which the symbols of the first sequence are readable in a first reading direction and at least a portion of the symbols in the second sequence are readable in a second, opposite reading direction. The encoding of the tile to form one or more combined sequences significantly reduces the bandwidth requirements when writing the tile to a pixel value buffer. The co-organization of the first and second sequences enables parallel reading and decoding of the first and second sequences from the pixel value buffer, thereby reducing any decoding latency.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2010Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Jacob Strom, Per Wennersten
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Patent number: 9014275Abstract: A method and an apparatus for performing multi-threaded video decoding are disclosed. The method takes use of a multi-threaded scheme to process an encoded picture stream on a picture by picture basis. In the method, multiple threads are used for performing video decoding at the same time, such as one thread for the operation of parsing input bits into syntax elements of one picture implemented by the first thread, another thread for the operation of decoding the parsed syntax elements of another picture into pixel values implemented by the second thread, and the other threads for the operations of the non-reference picture, such as bidirectional predictive picture, including parsing input bits into syntax elements and the subsequent operation of decoding the parsed syntax elements into pixel values. Therefore, the decoding speed is substantially increased, and the decoding efficiency is enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: 8324450 Delaware LLCInventors: Ioannis Katsavounidis, Yu-Nien Chien, Chun-Huan Chuang, Chung-Tao Chu, Te-Chien Chen
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Patent number: 8989259Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for media file compression, which includes: extracting the encoding parameters from an input media file, separating and decoding the audio and video stream from the input media file, and extracting an original audio stream and an original video stream; computing the transcoding parameters required for compression according to the encoding parameters; encoding the original audio stream to output a new compressed audio stream, and encoding the original video stream to output a new compressed video stream according to the transcoding parameters; synthesizing the new compressed audio stream and the new compressed video stream to create a new media file. The present invention also provides a system for media file compression.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2014Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company LimitedInventors: Jun Liu, Jingchang Chen, Xinliang Wang
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Patent number: 8989275Abstract: A method for video processing may include receiving video data units, and compressing the video data units to generate compressed video data units that have a variable size. The method may also include storing the compressed video data units contiguously in a memory in memory segments that have a fixed size, where the size of at least one of the compressed video data units is indivisible by the fixed size of the memory segments, and where a portion of the indivisible compressed video data unit is stored with a portion of another compressed video data unit in one of the memory segments. The method may also include determining data storage information associated with the compressed video data units, and storing the data storage information in the memory. A system may have a video processing architecture designed to support the method.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2010Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Chia-Yuan Teng, Dan M. Chuang, Gokce Dane, Raghavendra C. Nagaraj, Vladan Andrijanic, Yiu-Wing Leung
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Patent number: 8989265Abstract: A method for context-modeling coding information of a video signal for compressing or decompressing the coding information is provided. An initial value of a function for probability coding of coding information of a video signal of an enhanced layer is determined based on coding information of a video signal of a base layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Byeong Moon Jeon, Doe Hyun Yoon, Ji Ho Park, Seung Wook Park
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Patent number: 8983175Abstract: The present invention provides an improved method and device for generating a depth map (112) by extracting three-dimensional depth information from the movement vectors of an encoded video bit stream (102) to display two-dimensional video sequences onto three-dimensional displays. In particular, the invention performs depth extraction (110) by means of a post-processing of the movement vectors of the inter-coded macroblocks, which have been already encoded in the video bit stream, thereby significantly reducing the heavy processing requirements associated with conventional motion estimation techniques.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2006Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Entropic Communications, Inc.Inventor: Geraud Plagne
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Patent number: 8982949Abstract: A decoding method decodes a bit stream in an image decoding apparatus. The method includes receiving a weight parameter that is added to a luma quantization parameter as the bit stream. The method also includes decoding, in a decoding unit in the image decoding apparatus, the bit stream, and generating a luma component of quantized coefficients and a chroma component of quantized coefficients. Further, the method includes performing, in a dequantization unit in the image decoding apparatus, dequantization on the luma component of quantized coefficients using the luma quantization parameter and the chroma component of quantized coefficients using a chroma quantization parameter calculated on the basis of the luma quantization parameter weighted by an add operation of the weight parameter. In addition, the method includes performing, in a transform unit in the image decoding apparatus, an inverse orthogonal transform.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Kazushi Sato, Osamu Sunohara, Teruhiko Suzuki, Peter Kuhn, Yoichi Yagasaki, Kuniaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 8976872Abstract: The disclosure is directed to techniques for picture-in-picture (PIP) processing for video telephony (VT). According to the disclosed techniques, a local video communication device transmits PIP information to a remote video communication device. Using the PIP information, the remote video communication device applies preferential encoding to non-PIP regions of video transmitted to the local video communication device.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2011Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yen-Chi Lee, Khaled Helmi El-Maleh, Ming-Chang Tsai
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Patent number: 8977064Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for rotating an encoded image, such as an image encoded according to a JPEG standard. In one example, a method for rotating an encoded image comprising reordering minimum coded units (MCUs) of the encoded image according to a specified rotation of the encoded image, rotating image data within the MCUs according to the specified rotation, and generating a rotated version of the encoded image comprising the reordered MCUs and the rotated image data within the MCUs.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2008Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hau Hwang, Hsiang-Tsun Li, Shizhong Liu
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Patent number: 8976857Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed herein that relate to quality-based video encoding. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a video compression system configured to compress a video item at a constant average quality to form compressed video data. Further, the system is configured to compare a bit rate of each portion of a plurality of portions of the compressed video data to a threshold bit rate, and if a bit rate of a selected portion of the compressed video data meets or exceeds the threshold bit rate, then adjust a compression process variable while compressing a segment of the video item corresponding to the selected portion of the compressed video data to reduce the bit rate of the portion of the compressed video data.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Andrew D. Rosen, John Conrad
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Patent number: 8971532Abstract: Systems and methods for content-protecting video codecs are described. At least one embodiment of the invention comprises a system for protecting video content comprising computer memory comprising a stored set of instructions for processing video data; and at least one microprocessor configured to process the video data according to the stored set of instructions, the stored set of instructions requiring identification of data to be removed, at least a portion of which is essential to obtaining a visually acceptable reproduction of video, the stored set of instructions being further configured to replace removed data with data-hiding values, wherein the visually acceptable reproduction of video cannot be generated without a key that enables recovery of enough of the removed data from the data-hiding values that replaced the removed data.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Exaimage CorporationInventor: Jaime Milstein
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Patent number: 8971408Abstract: A sequence of visual dynamic range (VDR) images may be encoded using a standard dynamic range (SDR) base layer and one or more enhancement layers. A prediction image is generated by using piecewise cross-color channel prediction (PCCC), wherein a color channel in the SDR input may be segmented into two or more color channel segments and each segment is assigned its own cross-color channel predictor to derive a predicted output VDR image. PCCC prediction models may include first order, second order, or higher order parameters. Using a minimum mean-square error criterion, a closed form solution is presented for the prediction parameters for a second-order PCCC model. Algorithms for segmenting the color channels into multiple color channel segments are also presented.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing CorporationInventors: Guan-Ming Su, Sheng Qu, Peng Yin
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Patent number: 8958476Abstract: A moving picture coding/decoding method and apparatus with improved coding efficiency. A moving picture coding method includes selecting a color space from among a plurality of color spaces, selecting a prediction mode to be commonly applied to all the color components constituting the selected color space, generating first residual data corresponding to differences between a current picture and a predicted picture for each of the color components according to the selected prediction mode, generating second residual data corresponding to differences between the first residual data, and coding the second residual data.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2006Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wooshik Kim, Dmitri Birinov, Daesung Cho, Hyun Mun Kim