摘要:
A system and method facilitating progressively transforming and coding digital pictures is provided. The present invention via employment of a multi-resolution lapped transform provides for progressive rendering as well as mitigation of blocking artifacts and ringing artifacts as compared to many conventional compression systems. The invention includes a color space mapper, a multi-resolution lapped transform, a quantizer, a scanner and an entropy encoder. The multi-resolution lapped transform outputs transform coefficients, for example, first transform coefficients and second transform coefficients. A multi-resolution representation can be obtained utilizing second transform coefficients of the multi-resolution lapped transform. The color space mapper maps an input image to a color space representation of the input image. The color space representation of the input image is then provided to the multi-resolution lapped transform. The quantizer receives the first transform coefficients and/or the second transform coefficients and provides an output of quantized coefficients for use by the scanner and/or the entropy encoder. The scanner scans the quantized coefficients in order to produce a one-dimensional vector for use by the entropy encoder. The entropy encoder encodes the quantized coefficients received from the quantizer and/or the scanner resulting in data compression.
摘要:
A system and method facilitating image retouching is provided. The invention includes an image retoucher having a boundary detector and an image extender. The invention provides for the image retoucher to extend care pixels of at least one of a foreground and a background near a detected spurious boundary by altering the binary mask used for compression of the foreground and/or the background.
摘要:
A data compression system is provided in accordance with the present invention. The system includes a scanning component which scans at least a portion of a transformed image. The scan is performed substantially in a horizontal direction on a first section of the portion and in a vertical direction on a second section of the portion to enable improved data compression of the transformed image. The horizontal and vertical scan directions are performed via a contiguous scan of the respective sections to further enable improved data compression of the transformed image.
摘要:
The present invention is embodied in a system and method for performing spectral analysis of a digital signal having a discrete duration by spectrally decomposing the digital signal at predefined frequencies uniformly distributed over a sampling frequency interval into complex frequency coefficients so that magnitude and phase information at each frequency is immediately available to produce a modulated complex lapped transform (MCLT). The present invention includes a MCLT processor, an acoustic echo cancellation device and a noise reducer integrated with an encoder/decoder device.
摘要:
The present invention is embodied in a system and method for performing spectral analysis of a digital signal having a discrete duration by spectrally decomposing the digital signal at predefined frequencies uniformly distributed over a sampling frequency interval into complex frequency coefficients so that magnitude and phase information at each frequency is immediately available to produce a modulated complex lapped transform (MCLT). The system includes real and imaginary window processors and real and imaginary transform processors. The real and imaginary window processors receive the input signal and apply and compute butterfly coefficients for the real and imaginary parts of the signal to produce resulting real and imaginary vectors, respectively. The real and imaginary transform processors compute spatial transforms on the real and imaginary vectors to produce real and imaginary transform coefficient of the MCLT, respectively. The MCLT is a biorthogonal spectral transformation system, in the sense that the original time domain signal can be reconstructed exactly by an inverse MCLT operator.
摘要:
The present invention is embodied in a system and method for performing spectral analysis of a digital signal having a discrete duration by spectrally decomposing the digital signal at predefined frequencies uniformly distributed over a sampling frequency interval into complex frequency coefficients so that magnitude and phase information at each frequency is immediately available to produce a modulated complex lapped transform (MCLT). The system includes real and imaginary window processors and real and imaginary transform processors. The real and imaginary window processors receive the input signal and apply and compute butterfly coefficients for the real and imaginary parts of the signal to produce resulting real and imaginary vectors, respectively. The real and imaginary transform processors compute spatial transforms on the real and imaginary vectors to produce real and imaginary transform coefficient of the MCLT, respectively. The MCLT is a biorthogonal spectral transformation system, in the sense that the original time domain signal can be reconstructed exactly by an inverse MCLT operator.
摘要:
The present invention is embodied in a system and method for fast computation of a spatial transform of an input signal. The computation system includes a window processor having a window function and an operator having a first set of weights. The window processor receives the input signal as sample blocks and the operator is adapted to apply butterfly coefficients determined by the window function to produce resulting vectors. Also, the window processor maps the input signal to a cascade of butterflies using the first set of weights and reorders the cascade of butterflies. A transform processor having a transform module computes a spatial transform from the reordered cascade of butterflies to produce transform coefficient. A coefficient combination operator combines the transform coefficients to produce an encoded output corresponding to the input signal.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for processing n-dimensional digitized signals containing at least two adjacent blocks of digitized sample values. The digitized signal is transformed in accordance with a spatial transform operator. The spatial transform operator is characterized by similar size blocks to the blocks in the input signal, but is operative over blocks of the signal which extend beyond the nominal blocks in the signal by a predetermined number of sample values in at least one dimension. The resultant signal may be similarly transformed by another spatial transform operator to obtain an output transform signal. The latter signal is substantially free from blocking artifacts.
摘要:
An adaptive interpolation technique with artifact reduction is described that technique generates digital images with full-color RGB (red, green, blue) information, from raw pictures (e.g., Bayer-mosaiced single-color images) created by single-CCD digital cameras. The technique employs an improved criterion for choosing the interpolation criterion, which takes into account an output interpolated value. It employs small changes to filter coefficients, for better results and accommodation of “correction attenuation”. In one embodiment, the technique further employs a “correction attenuation” step, which reduces “color sprinkling” artifacts for certain kinds of diagonal edges. The technique makes only a single pass over the image; all colors are interpolated during that pass, vice the multiple passes required by other better performing algorithms (in some cases over ten).
摘要:
A “STAC Codec” provides audio transcoding and decoding by processing an encoded audio signal using a backward-adaptive run-length Golomb-Rice (RLGR) decoder to recover transform coefficients of the encoded audio signal. The transform coefficients are then either transcoded in the transform domain to lossy or other formats, or decoded to the time domain by applying an inverse integer-reversible modulated lapped transform (MLT) to the recovered transform coefficients to recover an uncompressed time domain representation compressed audio signal. In additional embodiments, an inter-block spectral estimation and inverse data sorting strategy is used in recovering the transform coefficients from the encoded audio signal. In other embodiments, conversion from lossless encoding to near-lossless encoding is achieved by right-shifting recovered transform coefficients by some number of bits such that quantization errors are not perceived as distortion in the decoded audio signal, then re-encoding the right shifted transform coefficients.