| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6771841 |
Determining a bounding shape for a collection of points |
August 3, 2004 |
| A multi-dimensional bounding sphere is determined for a collection of points by determining a multi-dimensional bounding box that encompasses all of the points, determining the center of the bounding sphere from the center of the bounding box, and determining the radius of the bounding |
| 6717621 |
Method and apparatus for reducing flicker in a video image sequence |
April 6, 2004 |
| Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method of reducing flicker in a video image sequence includes the following. Successive video images are temporally filtered. The filter length is adjusted so as to reduce the amount of filtering across temporal discontin |
| 6559848 |
Coding and decoding three-dimensional data |
May 6, 2003 |
| Three-dimensional data that defines a bone in a three-dimensional model is coded by coding a quaternion defining an orientation of the bone, coding vectors defining a displacement of the bone and a scaling factor for the bone, and coding a value defining a time corresponding to the orien |
| 6526179 |
Compression sensitive sharpening |
February 25, 2003 |
| A method comprising decoding a video image such that the decoding generates a number of transform coefficients. Additionally, the number of transform coefficients are processed to determine whether to sharpen the video image. |
| 6421097 |
Method and apparatus for reducing flicker in a video image sequence |
July 16, 2002 |
| Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method of reducing flicker in a video image sequence includes the following. Successive video images are temporally filtered. The filter length is adjusted so as to reduce the amount of filtering across temporal discontin |
| 6353680 |
Method and apparatus for providing image and video coding with iterative post-processing using a |
March 5, 2002 |
| The present invention is an apparatus that comprises a memory including one or more instructions and a processor coupled to the memory. In response to the one or more instructions, the processor transforms an image to provide a transformed image and quantizes the transformed image to pro |
| 6330372 |
Compression edge adaptive video and image sharpening and scaling |
December 11, 2001 |
| In one embodiment, a method comprises the detection of an edge pixel in an unsharpened image. The edge pixel is sharpened to form a sharpened image. Additionally, a region of the sharpened image is selected such that the region includes the edge pixel. The region of the sharpened image i |
| 6226410 |
Method and apparatus for providing image and video coding with iterative post-processing using t |
May 1, 2001 |
| The present invention is an apparatus that includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory contains instruction executed by the processor to transform an image to provide a transformed image, quantize the transformed image to provide a quantized image, and process |
