| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6654499 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding images |
November 25, 2003 |
| A method of encoding and decoding an image includes the following steps: subsampling the image to obtain a plural number of subsampled frames of spatially offset image-representative signals; transforming each of the subsampled frames to obtain a corresponding number of frames of transfo |
| 6580834 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding signals |
June 17, 2003 |
| A method for encoding and decoding an input signal, includes the following steps: applying a transform to the input signal to obtain a transformed signal; quantizing the transformed signal to obtain a sequence of quantized values, the quantized values being representable in the form of |
| 6473528 |
Shape adaptive technique for image and video compression |
October 29, 2002 |
| A method for wavelet encoding image-representative signals, including the following steps: identifying shape information of a shape in the image; within rows of pixels of a shape, performing wavelet decompositions for segments of consecutive pixels in the shape; for segments of pixels ha |
| 6400847 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding images |
June 4, 2002 |
| A method for decoding an encoded signal that includes an encoded control portion and an encoded video portion, includes the following steps: providing a plurality of inverse transform functions; decoding the encoded signal to recover the control portion; selecting one of the inverse |
| 6310972 |
Shape adaptive technique for image and video compression |
October 30, 2001 |
| A method for encoding an image-representative signal, including the following steps: for shapes of the image, applying a transform to a segment of pixels of the shape to obtain a low pass transform component and a high pass transform component; and for segments with an odd number of |
| 6144771 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding images |
November 7, 2000 |
| A method is disclosed for adaptive entropy coding and decoding of a stream of indices representative of information, including the following steps: establishing, at both an encoder and a decoder, respective coding tables to have codes corresponding to indices; finding, in the encoder tab |
| 5940542 |
Encoding and decoding apparatus and method for analog and digital signals |
August 17, 1999 |
| A method and apparatus is disclosed for encoding and decoding an input signal representative of video or audio information. A form of the method includes the following steps: processing the input signal to produce a sequence of vectors representative of the input signal; implementing a |
| 5883981 |
Lattice vector transform coding method for image and video compression |
March 16, 1999 |
| A method is disclosed for encoding and decoding an input signal representative of video or audio information. A form of the encoding includes the following steps: processing the input signal to produce a sequence of vectors representative of the input signal; implementing a lattice v |
| 5754122 |
System and method for monitoring structures |
May 19, 1998 |
| A system is disclosed for monitoring strain on a structure, such as a bridge. A plurality of battery powered wireless monitoring units are adapted for attachment to the structure, each or the units including: a sensing transducer for producing signals representative of strain, proces |
| 5592569 |
Method for encoding and decoding images |
January 7, 1997 |
| A technique for encoding and decoding an image includes the following steps: subsampling the image to obtain a number of subsampled frames of spatially offset image-representative signals; transforming each of the subsampled frames to obtain a corresponding number of frames of transform |
| 5521988 |
Vector transform coder with multi-layered codebooks and dynamic bit allocation |
May 28, 1996 |
| In a vector transform coding (VTC) scheme for image and video compression, a multi-layered codebook structure and a dynamic bit-allocation scheme in the vector transform domain are employed. The main advantage of this technique is that distortion is controlled by dynamically allocating m |
| 5453945 |
Method for decomposing signals into efficient time-frequency representations for data compressio |
September 26, 1995 |
| A method for decomposing signals into efficient time-frequency representations for data compression and recognition which uses adaptable wavelet basis functions and concentrates a signal or image's information to a higher degree than methods based on the discrete fourier transform, t |
| 5436985 |
Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding images |
July 25, 1995 |
| A technique for encoding and decoding an image includes the following steps: subsampling the image to obtain a number of subsampled frames of spatially offset image-representative signals; transforming each of the subsampled frames to obtain a corresponding number of frames of transform |
