An apparatus for processing a video signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving prediction mode information, interpolating information and a residual of a current block, reconstructing an interpolating pixel using the interpolating information and a neighbor block, and reconstructing the current block using the interpolating pixel, the prediction mode information and the residual, wherein the interpolating information is generated based on a location of the current block. According to an apparatus and method for processing a video signal, high reconstruction rate can be obtained by improving the related art method having limited intra prediction modes available for a current block located on a boundary area of a picture in encoding in a manner of reconstructing and using an interpolating pixel based on interpolating information.

Method and an apparatus for processing a video signal

A method of processing an audio signal transmitted from a remote transmitter and received at a local receiver of an acoustic system, includes at the receiver receiving with the audio signal an indication of remote transmitter gain, determining an overall system gain of the acoustic system from the remote transmitter gain and a local receiver gain and selectively applying a system gain reduction step to the audio signal if it is determined that the overall system gain exceeds a threshold.

Processing audio signals

A social network may be provided. First, a content group comprising a list of a plurality of content programs may be received. Next, a user selectable element corresponding to the content group may be made available to a plurality of users. A first request may then be received associated with the user selectable element from a one of the plurality of users. The first request may indicate that the one of the plurality of users wants to receive the content group. Next the content group may be provided to the one of the plurality of users in response to the first request. A second request may then be received from the one of the plurality of users for content corresponding to a one of the plurality of content programs. Then the content may be provided to the one of the plurality of users in response to the second request.

Providing a Social Network

A system for optimizing electrical power management in a vehicle. The system includes a HVAC device and a thermal storage device, both configured to provide heating and cooling to an occupant compartment of the vehicle. The system further includes a controller connected to an electrical storage device and an electrical generating device. The controller receives electrical power generated by the electrical generating device and directs the electrical power to satisfy the vehicle's power requirements and/or stores the electrical power in at least one of the electrical storage device and the thermal storage device. Furthermore, the controller directs at least one of the HVAC device and the thermal storage device to provide heating and cooling to the occupant compartment of the vehicle, depending on the available storage of the thermal storage unit or occupant compartment demands.

Energy management system for a hybrid-electric vehicle

The present embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for use in maintaining data quality upon conversion to a different data format. Some embodiments provide methods that receive media data in a first format, initiate a first conversion of the media data at the first format to a second converted format, identify parameters dictating the conversion to the second converted format, record the parameters, and distribute the recorded parameters to remote systems such that the parameters at least in part control the remote systems during a conversion of the media data to the second converted format.

Methods and systems for use in maintaining media data quality upon conversion to a different data format

A motion picture storage apparatus includes: a motion picture input unit which inputs motion picture data; a motion picture storage unit which sequentially stores the motion picture data; a condition storage unit which stores a condition related to a desirable scene previously set by a user; a motion picture analyzing unit configured to analyze the motion picture data stored in the motion picture storage unit to check whether a scene satisfying the condition is present, and configured to acquire specifying information of the scene satisfying the condition when the scene satisfying the condition is present; and an information notifying unit which notifies the specifying information to a device of the user.

Motion picture storage apparatus and motion picture distributing system

A decoding section generates a decoded image and a coding parameter set from a first video coded video sequence. A coding parameter set conversion section first sets the coding structure for a pair of upper and lower macro blocks based on the coding structures of the corresponding macro blocks and converts the remaining parameters such as a motion vector based on the coding structure. A coding parameter set generation section generates coding parameters of an intraframe coding parameter, etc., a coding parameter set selection section selects an optimum parameter set, and a coding section performs recoding processing.

Coded video sequence conversion apparatus, method and program product for coded video sequence conversion

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a function capable of reaching a target scene with few operations at the same time while reducing the processing of a portable viewing terminal side as much as possible in the case of viewing a moving image recorded in a hard disk recorder, etc., by the portable viewing terminal. SOLUTION: An inputted moving image is stored in a moving image storing part 102, and a moving image analyzing part 105 analyzes the existence/absence of a scene that agrees with a condition that a user preliminarily stores in a condition storing part 106. When the scene agreeing with the condition is found, selection information that indicates the scene is notified to the portable viewing terminal of the user through an information notifying part 107. The user can easily view the scene by giving the selection information to a reception requesting/control part 104 and requesting moving image data. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Moving image storage device and moving image distribution system

The image coding apparatus is provided to realize image coding with little calculation quantity and through rate distortion optimization thereby maintaining a favorable image quality. The image coding apparatus includes a processing unit that conducts frequency transform and quantization on a block in a predetermined manner for a plurality of coding modes, each mode having a different coding process, a cost calculating unit that calculates a predictive coded quantity and coding distortion in a coding mode using a result of the quantization conducted by the processing unit and a residue to obtain a cost regarding the coding mode, a minimum coding cost selecting unit that selects a minimum coding cost among the coding costs calculated for respective coding modes, and a coding unit that conducts coding on the blocks in a coding mode associated with the minimum coding cost selected by the minimum coding cost selecting unit.

Image coding apparatus, image coding method and image coding program

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus and a method for image processing for automatically obtaining an artificial front image without reference to the photography position and kind of a photographed image SOLUTION: A character line (a string of characters) in the image (transformation source image) obtained by a digital camera, etc, is detected and perspective distortion of the transformation source image is detected according to a distribution of the character lines On the basis of the perspective distortion, a reverse perspective transformation matrix for transforming a transformation source rectangular area 41 of the transformation source image into a transformation destination rectangular area 42 of a transformation destination image is calculated In the basis of the reverse perspective transformation matrix, the transformation source image is corrected into the transformation destination image Characters in the transformation destination image are recognized and according to whether the character recognition result is proper, it is decided whether the reverse perspective transformation matrix is employed COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Tatsuaki Iwata

Papers

Motion picture storage apparatus and motion picture distributing system

Coded video sequence conversion apparatus, method and program product for coded video sequence conversion

Moving image storage device and moving image distribution system

Image coding apparatus, image coding method and image coding program

Apparatus and method for image processing