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Number: 375/240.09
Name: Pulse or digital communications > Bandwidth reduction or expansion > Television or motion video signal > Feature based > Polygonal approximation
Description: Subject matter wherein objects in images are coded by approximating the shape of each object by polygons.


Patents under this class:

Patent Number Title Of Patent Date Issued
7502413 Motion estimator for coding and decoding image sequences Mar. 10, 2009
7061980 Method of describing object region data, apparatus for generating object region data, video processing method, and video processing apparatus Jun. 13, 2006
7046728 Method of video coding the movement of a human face from a sequence of images May. 16, 2006
7012958 Partition coding method and device Mar. 14, 2006
6996171 Data describing method and data processor Feb. 7, 2006
6985526 SNR scalable video encoding method and corresponding decoding method Jan. 10, 2006
6963605 Method for estimating the motion between two digital images with management of mesh overturning and corresponding coding method Nov. 8, 2005
6917649 Method of encoding video signals Jul. 12, 2005
6909748 Method and system for image compression using block size heuristics Jun. 21, 2005
6772392 Image failure detection unit in redundant duplex transmission Aug. 3, 2004
6650705 Method for encoding and transcoding multiple video objects with variable temporal resolution Nov. 18, 2003
6625213 Video encoding method based on the matching pursuit algorithm Sep. 23, 2003
6611562 Image processing device and image processing method, and computer-readable recorded medium Aug. 26, 2003
6483874 Efficient motion estimation for an arbitrarily-shaped object Nov. 19, 2002
6421384 System and method for contour-based motion estimation Jul. 16, 2002
6400846 Method for ordering image spaces to search for object surfaces Jun. 4, 2002
6396957 Method and apparatus for generating a bounding rectangle of a VOP for interlaced scan type video signals May. 28, 2002
6307886 Dynamically determining group of picture size during encoding of video sequence Oct. 23, 2001
6307964 Method for ordering image spaces to represent object shapes Oct. 23, 2001
6304602 Method and system for processing data on motion pictures by motion compensation combined with image segmentation Oct. 16, 2001
6212235 Video encoder and decoder using motion-based segmentation and merging Apr. 3, 2001
6181747 Methods and systems for high compression rate encoding and decoding of quasi-stable objects in video and film Jan. 30, 2001
5459513 Device for encoding one contour side of segmented images, and decoder therefor Oct. 17, 1995
5144429 High definition television transmission and reception system with an improved motion estimator and with reduced data throughput Sep. 1, 1992
5097330 High definition television transmission and reception system with reduced data throughput Mar. 17, 1992



 
 
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