Abstract:
A data processing apparatus includes a determining unit capable of determining, in accordance with a plurality of data to be extracted from said input data, irregular intervals among said plurality of data to be extracted from said input data, an extracting unit for extracting the plurality of data, which correspond to output data of interest to be predicted, from said input data in accordance with the determination result by said determining unit, and a predicting unit for finding predicted values of the output data of interest based on the plurality of data extracted by said extracting unit.
Abstract:
An image processing apparatus processes input pixel data and outputs the processed pixel data as output pixel data. The image processing apparatus includes an input-reliability calculation section for calculating an input reliability indicating the reliability of the input pixel data; an output-reliability calculation section for calculating an output reliability indicating the reliability of the output pixel data; a motion-amount detecting section for detecting the motion amount of the input pixel data; a motion-amount-reliability calculation section for calculating a motion-amount reliability indicating the reliability of the motion amount; a compensation section for compensating for the output reliability according to the motion-amount reliability; and a processing section for processing the input pixel data according to the input reliability and the output reliability compensated for, and for outputting the output pixel data. The image processing apparatus effectively reduces noise.
Abstract:
An image processing device for calculating the motion direction of each pixel in a predetermined screen of interest from among a plurality of time series screens. The image processing device includes a score calculator for calculating a score corresponding to each of a plurality of motion directions of each pixel in the predetermined screen of interest, based on pixels present in the motion direction across the plurality of the time series screens, and a motion direction calculator for calculating the motion direction of each pixel in the predetermined screen of interest, by processing the plurality of the motion directions based on the scores corresponding to the plurality of the motion directions. The image processing device thus performs a highly accurate motion direction detection process within a short calculation time.
Abstract:
A data processing apparatus for coding data includes a coder for generating third data by coding first data and second data. A decoding-information generator generates decoding information, the third data being decoded into the first data and the second data based on the decoding information. An embedding coder embeds the decoding information generated by the decoding-information generator into the third data, thereby generating embedded data.
Abstract:
In an apparatus for recording and reproducing a digital picture signal, the large number of data bits in the digital picture signal to be recorded is reduced by a ratio of approximately 1:9, and the thus compressed data are recorded with a recording density of at least approximately 0.8 bit/&mgr;m2 in relatively narrow successive skewed tracks without guard bands on a metal evaporated magnetic tape having predefined characteristics. The magnetic tape has a width of no more than approximately 8 mm and a thickness of no more than approximately 7 &mgr;m and is wound in a relatively small size cassette.
Abstract:
An information processing apparatus may be for use in dividing an image area to extract objects. Frequency related information generating sections (112, 113) may generate frequency related information related to frequencies of respective pixel values based on pixel values of a plurality of pixels comprising an original image and error information. A representative value deciding section (114) may decide a representative value of a pixel value based on the frequency related information. An accumulating section (115) may accumulate the representative value. A replacing section (116) may replace the pixel values of a plurality of pixels comprising the original image with the representative values accumulated in the accumulated section (115), and may store the replaced representative values in a memory (117) as an outputted image. An error information generating section (118) may generate error information indicative of errors between the pixel values of the outputted image of the replacing section (116) and the pixel values of the original image. A control section 110A may control the respective sections such that the processing of the respective section s may be executed repeatedly until the error may become less than a threshold value. When the operation is ended, the outputted image comprising a plurality of areas whose pixel values are made the same may be stored in the frame memory 117.
Abstract:
A motion determining apparatus for detecting a motion of a partial picture of an input picture signal is disclosed, that comprises a first motion detecting portion for comparing a frame difference detected for the partial picture with a predetermined threshold value and determining that the partial picture has a motion when the frame difference is larger than the threshold value, a second motion detecting portion for comparing a frame difference detected for the partial picture with a predetermined threshold value, comparing a field difference detected for the partial picture with a predetermined threshold value, and determining that there is a motion of an artificial picture when the frame difference and the field difference are larger than the respective threshold values, and an output portion for forming motion determination data with determination data that is output from the first motion detecting portion and the second motion detecting portion.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a coding apparatus for embedding second data into first data without deterioration of the first data, and a decoding apparatus for decoding the coded data to the original first data and the second data without deterioration. The invention provides the coding apparatus which includes a memory for storing at least partial data of the first data and embeds the second data into the first data by performing rotation of the at least partial data stored in the memory in accordance with the second data; and provides the decoding apparatus in which at least partial data of the coded data embedded with the second data is rotated and a correlation with respect to peripheral data is calculated, so that the original first data and the second data are decoded in accordance with a rotation amount determined on the basis of the correlation.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a system and method for explicitly transmitting a block attribute in the data of a block. In one embodiment, a current block of data is randomized in accordance with an ID value from the current block and from at least one temporally adjacent block of data. The ID of the current block is selected such that when combined with determined bits of the data results in the value of the block attribute. During a decoding process, the block attribute is retrieved by accessing the determined bits of the data. In one embodiment, the data is then decoded by generating possible candidate decodings and evaluating the candidate decodings based upon confidence metrics.
Abstract:
In a picture coding apparatus and a picture coding method, when a picture data is hierarchically coded, compression efficiency can be improved, and the deterioration of picture quality can be reduced. When a picture data is hierarchically coded by utilizing a recursive hierarchical representation, adaptive division of block is performed corresponding to the characteristic of the picture data and then coding is performed, and thus obtained hierarchical coded data is transmitted, so that the block of the lower hierarchy can be adaptively divided, thereby the information quantity such as a plane portion of picture can be reduced.