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WO/2008/003260A1
A method and apparatus for connecting multiple multi-party calls is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps: making a user temporarily leave an on- going multi-party call which the user is attending, wherein the user is a rem...  
WO/2007/149695A2
Methods and apparatus for optimizing quality of streaming data transmitted between a first node and a second node over a network, the streaming data including one or more frame groups is disclosed. A processor-readable medium having embo...  
WO/2007/143271A2
A rate control system (107) for a video encoder including rate control logic (111) which determines a first QP corresponding to a selected encoding layer of multiple encoding layers, and scaling logic (112) configured to scale the first ...  
WO/2007/138846A1
It is possible to effectively reduce an amount of image data captured by using a wide-angle lens such as a fish-eye lens. An image data compression method using the wide-angle lens (9) includes: a step(ST2) for replacing the pixel data i...  
WO/2007/132877A1
Provided are a communication system, a transmission device, a reception device, a communication method, and a program capable of performing effective data transmission in an HDMI(R). An HDMI(R) source (53) judges whether an HDMI(R) sink ...  
WO/2007/131174A2
A system and method are described that provide television content broadcast system subscribers with convenient access to aggregated web feed content. In one embodiment, a television content broadcast system (20) maintains a database (21 ...  
WO/2007/124188A2
A video encoder including a processing block (301) and an external memory (201) storing a current frame and a reference frame. The processing block includes a memory interface (311), a local memory (309) and a processor (307). The proces...  
WO/2007/124360A2
In one embodiment, a method for reducing motion artifacts in an output image is provided (Fig. 2). The method comprises capturing multiple frames of a scene (14); determining local motion vectors between each pixel in a current frame and...  
WO/2007/120286A2
A fast motion estimation system that determines a reference macroblock or sub-block (701 ) combination within a reference frame for a current macroblock in a current frame (701 ) includes a memory (711 ), a reference macroblock search ci...  
WO/2007/117236A1
The invention provides techniques for separating luma and chroma signal components in a composite SECAM video signal. During reception, the SECAM video signal is split into 5 luma and chroma output. The amplitude of the chroma carrier is...  
WO/2007/115144A2
The invention describes methods, devices, kits and systems for isolating one or more teeth. The devices include a topology conformable device that can be constrained into a shape that can be delivered into an oral cavity and unconstraine...  
WO/2007/112384A2
Systems and methods (fig. 1) are provided for communicating timely information related to the scalability layer structure of signals received by decoders (120 of fig. 1) and other components in a video and/or audio communication system. ...  
WO/2007/103357A2
A method for rendering text onto moving image content. The method comprises receiving a request to translate dialog associated with moving image content, transmitting an interface, transmitting a time-stamped transcription, and receiving...  
WO/2007/102928A2
In one embodiment (Fig.4), the methods and apparatuses detect a current macroblock and an adjacent macroblock within the scene (410); detect a mode of the adjacent macroblock (480); and select a skip mode as a mode for the current macrob...  
WO/2007/103655A2
Automated media programming (AMP) systems and methods are provided. The systems and methods allow independent users to summit, edit, rate, and watch video content (preferably, although not necessarily, from other users) over a broadcast ...  
WO/2007/097067A1
An image encoding device includes: a dynamic range generation unit for outputting dynamic range data Dd1 of block image data Dc1; an average value generation unit for outputting an average value data De1 of the block image data Dc1; a pi...  
WO/2007/089916A2
A system and method for determining the efficient number of reference frames which are to be evaluated for an image using frame level adaptation techniques. The system and method determines and updates the number of reference frames whic...  
WO/2007/089321A2
Settop box (STB) or other housing for use in protecting electronic components. The housing may include an interior portion for protecting the components. The housing may include feet on a bottom and side to facilitate stabilizing the STB...  
WO/2007/084869A2
Systems and methods have been developed for manipulating media assets in a networked computing environment where processing power, bandwidth and/or storage capacity may be limited. More specifically, systems and methods have been develop...  
WO/2007/076486A2
Systems and methods for videoconferencing are provided. The systems use scalable video coding techniques and a compositing scalable video coding server (CSVCS) to composite input video signals from transmitting conferencing participants ...  
WO/2007/070343A2
A hardware multi-standard video decoder device. A command parser accesses a video stream and identifies a video encoding standard used for encoding the video stream. A plurality of hardware decoding blocks perform operations associated w...  
WO/2007/064341A2
Techniques (Fig. 1) for performing combined scaling, filtering, and/or scan conversion (115,165) are disclosed that reduce the amount of line buffer space required in the overall design of a video processing system. In particular, coeffi...  
WO2006004837B1
A method of video data transmitting (3) by means of video data reconstruction on the receiving end of the communication channel per time unit (4), based not only on the data transmitted directly via the channel but on all previously tran...  
WO/2007/059186A2
A system and method are provided for encoding and compressing video data. A memory device is configured to store video data, and a corresponding memory controller controls the storage of video data in the memory device. A frame buffer co...  
WO/2007/050817A2
An aspect ratio converter. The aspect ratio converter scales different segments of a video stream using different scaling functions. The aspect ratio converter can scale one region of a video frame using a first scaling function and scal...  
WO/2007/051202A2
A system and method for decoding high definition video content using multiple processors reduces the likelihood of dropping video frames. Each of the multiple processors produces and stores a portion of a decoded video frame in its dedic...  
WO/2007/047250A2
A method and system is described for video encoding with multiple parallel encoders. The system uses multiple encoders which operate in different rows of the same slice of the same video frame. Data dependencies between frames, rows, and...  
WO/2007/047036A2
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method of delivering notifications. The method can include receiving a communication at a server within an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) network, where the communication is directe...  
WO/2007/047412A2
A method of making a coding mode decision for a current macroblock of a current video frame (501) including determining an INTERSAD value, selecting at least one video characteristic associated with the current video frame, comparing the...  
WO/2007/048061A2
An apparatus and method for wireless transmission of uncompressed HDTV video overcomes the challenges of sending vast amounts of information over a wireless link. This is achieved by direct mapping of transformation coefficients of the v...  
WO/2007/044556A2
A method and apparatus is provided for decoding an encoded baseline video stream and an enhancement stream. The baseline video stream is decoded, upscaled and enhanced by applying adaptive filters specified by the enhancement stream. Bas...  
WO/2007/044599A2
In a perfect world, citizens would have all of the sensing equipment and analysis capability with no concern about costs. Unfortunately, the costs are an impediment to most people and their health and well-being may be compromised as a r...  
WO/2007/044683A2
Additional data compression is achieved by enhancing the spatial and temporal correlation of the data in a pre-processing module prior to sending the data to an encoding algorithm, such as for example, the MPEG algorithm. An input frame ...  
WO/2007/041140A2
A NICAM processor (82) comprises a first memory (100) for temporarily storing a current frame of A-channel and B-channel input data, wherein the current frame data is stored into the first memory at a first clock rate. A second memory (1...  
WO/2007/037912A2
A method of generating a spatial prediction of a target lock of pixels in a target image includes generating a spatial vector for a target block of pixels, using the spatial vector to construct a spatial reference block, and using the sp...  
WO/2007/035476A2
An original full resolution frame is encoded, stored and reconstructed The oÏ€ginal full resolution frame is then downsampled to render a reduced spatial resolution frame, and the resulting reduced resolution frame encoded, stored and re...  
WO/2007/035238A2
A method of selection motion vector includes receiving a set of motion vectors and a target rate, and using a rate-distortion criterion (630) to modify the set of motion vectors.  
WO/2007/035514A2
A system, method and software program is provided for creating and implementing self-contained mini-applications that store, retrieve and display data and allow user interaction in a constrained computing environment such as a set-top bo...  
WO/2007/035236A2
A method of creating a variable-shaped block in a target image includes generating an initial pattern of target blocks, identifying allowable combinations of target blocks, calculating a combination value for each allowable combination, ...  
WO/2007/035387A2
A method for determining values of motion vectors including receiving an irregular pattern of motion vectors for a target image, estimating an initial value for each of the motion vectors, using the motion vectors to generate a tap struc...  
WO/2007/035465A2
A method of generating an adaptive temporal filter is performed by constructing a motion vector area cell around each of a plurality of motion vectors in a target image, selecting a pixel in the target image, constructing a pixel area ce...  
WO/2007/034601A1
In a case of using a 4:0:0 format to encode three color components, it is possible to put the data of one picture into a single access unit, while justifying the encoding modes and time information of the color components. In an image en...  
WO/2007/035362A2
A method of filtering an image includes receiving target image data and applying a multiple stage filter to the target image data. Each stage of the filtering includes generating a motion vector sampling pattern, using the target image d...  
WO/2007/035231A2
A method of performing adaptive temporal prediction includes receiving a target image, wherein a position of an object in the target image is different from a position of the object in a reference image, using a boundary of the object to...  
WO/2007/035266A2
A method of irregular motion compensation includes using contours of objects in a reference image to tile the reference image into a plurality of irregular shapes, and mapping each irregular shape to a location in a target image by assig...  
WO/2007/032824A2
A method and apparatus for reconstructing a full color image. The method may include receiving a signal pertaining to an encoded image, and reconstructing four color values for each pixel location in the image using a set of convolution ...  
WO/2007/030716A2
Systems and methods for reducing a bit rate in a multimedia data stream while maintaining high image quality. Two consecutive frames of the multimedia data stream are spatially filtered, temporally filtered, and combined into a pre-proce...  
WO/2007/030702A2
Embodiments related to coding data using a motion compensated transform, and replicated matching pursuits are disclosed.  
WO/2007/027397A2
A method for attaching a flat screen display device onto a flat surface using a surface mounted holder is disclosed. The holder includes a plurality of springy electrical contacts and a plurality of hooks each having a latch. The rear su...  
WO/2007/024648A2
A data stream encoder eliminates duplicate transmission units in a transmitted data stream in which the detected duplicate may not be the immediately preceding transmission unit. A data aggregator transmits a stream of data by identifyin...  

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