摘要:
A video signal coding system employing a segmentation technique segments a video frame signal into regions to generate contour and texture information of each region and detects continuous boundaries located between adjacent regions. The contour and the texture information of each region and the boundary information of the continuous boundary are encoded to provide an encoded video signal. The video signal coding system calculates a mean value of pixels in two adjacent regions of each side of a continuous boundary and updates each pixel value within a predetermined distance from a continuous boundary with the mean value.
摘要:
A method for detecting and thinning a contour image of an object in a video frame comprises the steps of: (a) calculating edge magnitudes for pixels in the video frame and detecting edge points, (b) generating a contour image constituted by the detected edge points, and (c) thinning the contour image by comparing an edge magnitude for each of the edge points with each of the edge magnitudes included in a plurality of edge magnitude sets, each of the edge magnitude sets having a series of three edge magnitudes selected from the edge magnitudes corresponding to the neighboring pixels surrounding said each of the edge points.
摘要:
An apparatus, for use in a motion-compensated video signal encoder, for determining a predicted current frame based on a current and a previous frame, includes: a feature point motion vector(MV) detector for detecting a first set of MVs for feature points and a second set of MVs for edge points in the previous frame; a quasi-point detector for detecting quasi-feature points and a third set of MVs therefor, and quasi-edge points and a fourth set of MVs therefor; a non quasi-point MV detector for determining a quasi-feature point range for each of the quasi-feature points by indexing each of non-quasi-points to its closest quasi-feature point, and detecting a distance between a quasi-feature point and each of the remaining pixels in a quasi-feature point range and setting the distance as a search radius for the remaining pixel, and determining one or more quasi-feature point ranges dispersed within the search radius from each of the remaining pixels, and detecting a fifth set of MVs for the remaining pixels, each of the fifth set of MVs being determined by averaging motion vectors of the quasi-feature points included in the one or more quasi-feature point ranges; and a motion compensator for compensating the previous frame with the third, fourth and fifth sets of MVs.
摘要:
A method for adaptively selecting feature points according to motions of objects between the current frame and the reference frame, comprising: detecting a motion vector for each pixel in the current frame between the current frame and the reference frame; providing a pixel value from the reference frame based on the motion vector for each pixel in the current frame; subtracting the pixel value provided from the reference frame from a pixel value of said each pixel of the current frame to thereby provide a differential pixel value; comparing the differential pixel value with a threshold value TH and selecting regions having their respective differential pixel values larger than the threshold value TH; shifting the pixels within the selected regions to positions indicated by their respective motion vectors to thereby provide shifted regions; detecting edge points from the reference frame; determining processing regions from the shifted regions, wherein the shifted regions are overlapped with a portion of the edge points; generating a first grid on the reference frame and a second grid for each of the processing regions, wherein the second grid is formed by a portion of grid points of the first grid and newly added grid points; and selecting, as the feature points, a multiplicity of pixels in the reference frame based on the first and the second grids and the edge points.
摘要:
An apparatus for predicting a current frame signal included in an image signal based on a reference frame first detects a panning vector representing a spatial displacement between the current and the reference frames. Once the panning vector is detected, a predicted frame containing a substitutable region and an unsubstitutable region is determined based on the panning vector and the reference frame, and then an amplitude of the panning vector is compared with a reference value. Subsequently, a predicted current frame signal is generated as the result of the current frame prediction process in response to the result of the comparison. If the amplitude of the panning vector is smaller than the reference value, the predicted current frame signal is produced by padding pixel values of the substitutable region which are located along a boundary between the substitutable region and the unsubstitutable region into the unsubstitutable region. Meanwhile, if the amplitude of the panning vector is greater than or equal to the reference value, the predicted current frame signal is created by using a block matching technique for the unsubstitutable region based on the current and the reference frame signals.
摘要:
A method for providing an accurately predicted current frame, comprising the steps of: selecting feature points in the previous frame and detecting a first set of motion vectors for the feature points; defining quadrangles by connecting the feature points; defining horizontally split triangles by splitting quadrangles and calculating a variance for each triangle and comparing the variance to select the smallest variance as first variance; defining vertically split triangles by splitting the quadrangles and calculating the variance for each triangle and comparing the variance to select the smallest variance value as second variance value; comparing the first and the second variance and selecting the smaller variance as a third variance and providing triangle information representing the split direction for the third variance; determining quasi-feature points on the current frame and a second set of motion vectors for the quasi-feature points; defining quadrangles formed by connecting the quasi-feature points, and splitting each quadrangle into two triangles; determining a predicted position on the previous frame for pixel contained in triangle of the current frame; determining a third set of motion vectors for the pixels contained in triangle of the current frame; and providing value of each pixel to be contained in the predicted current frame by using the second and the third set of motion vectors.
摘要:
An apparatus, for use in a motion-compensated video signal encoder, for determining a predicted current frame based on a current and a previous frame, comprises: a feature point motion vector(MV) detector for detecting a first set of MVs for feature points; an edge point MV detector for, in each of the edges, detecting one or two neighboring feature points for each of edge points, and determining a second set of MVs for the edge points; a quasi-point detector for detecting quasi-feature points and a third set of MVs therefor, and detecting quasi-edge points and a fourth set of MVs therefor; a non-quasi-point MV detector for detecting a fifth set of MVs for all non-quasi-points, each of the fifth set of MVs being determined by averaging the MVs of one or more neighboring quasi-feature points for each of the non-quasi-points; an arrangement block for arranging the third, the fourth and the fifth sets of MVs to determine a group of MVs for all of the pixels in the current frame; and a motion compensator for providing a pixel value from the previous frame based on the position data of each pixel in the current frame and a MV thereof.
摘要:
An apparatus, for use in a motion-compensated video signal encoder, for determining a predicted current frame based on a current frame and a previous frame, includes: a feature point motion vector detector for selecting a number of feature points among edge points in the previous frame and detecting a first set of motion vectors therefor; an edge point motion vector detector for detecting a second set of motion vectors for non-selected edge points; a quasi-point detector for detecting quasi-feature points and a third set of motion vectors, and quasi-edge points and a fourth set of motion vectors; a non-quasi-point motion vector detector for selecting one or more influential quasi-feature points for all non-quasi-points such that straight line drawn between each of the non-quasi-points and each of the corresponding one or more influential quasi-feature points intersects none of the quasi-feature and the quasi-edge points, and detecting a fifth set of motion vectors for the non-quasi-points; an arrangement block for arranging the third, the fourth and the fifth sets of motion vectors to determine a group of motion vectors for all of the pixels in the current frame; and a motion compensator for providing a pixel value from the previous frame based on a position of each pixel in the current frame and a motion vector thereof, to thereby determine the predicted current frame.
摘要:
A method for pairing and operating a multi-mode pointing device is provided. A pointing device may be automatically paired with an image display device. A pairing request signal may be transmitted on a prescribed frequency channel, and a signal may be received indicating information of a plurality of frequency channels. One of the frequency channels may be selected as a pairing frequency channel for operating in a radio frequency mode.
摘要:
An apparatus for tracing contours of segmented regions in an image includes a zero masking unit to produce a closed contour loop for each of the segmented regions, a tracing circuit for sequentially assigning each of the non-zero masked pixels on the closed contour loop as a tracing pixel, comparing the tracing pixel with a set of its adjacent pixels located at a rightward, an upward, a leftward and a downward directions with respect to the tracing pixel to select one of the adjacent pixels having a luminance level identical to that of the tracing pixel and updating the tracing pixel with the selected adjacent pixel with until the updated tracing pixel coincides with the tracing pixel selected first.