Image file formats

About: Image file formats is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 10349 publications have been published within this topic receiving 102407 citations.

Method and apparatus for formatting digital images to conform to communications standard

Abstract: A computerized imager is programmed with software that allows properly formatted image files (data objects) to be sent to multiple remotely located devices via a network. The imager is programmed with multiple configurable DICOM tasks, one task for each configured remote device. Each task is configured to format image files into DICOM objects acceptable to a particular remote device. Each DICOM object is constructed from image frame data and attribute data. Each DICOM task queries an Attribute Control Engine, which instructs that DICOM task concerning which attributes and what attribute values to include in the DICOM objects being constructed by that task. The Attribute Control Engine in turn reads the attribute information from an Attribute Control File. A respective Attribute Control file is provided for each configured remote device.

Pre-processing image editing

Abstract: A film camera including an electronic display is provided with a driver for presenting moveable markers to frame and edit the electronically displayed image. Electronic manipulation of the markers provides for zooming and cropping the image, as well as changing the image format and horizontal or vertical orientation. The control then records editing data on the film in a predetermined position relative to the exposed scene image. The camera includes an input for selecting a print format from a predetermined set of print formats, each having a predetermined size and aspect ratio, and the control limits the frame formats to those that are consistent with the selected print format.

Method and system for processing images using time and location filters

Abstract: A device may process images (e.g. sort, group, file, e-mail, etc.) using various filters. The filters may relate to non-image data in the image files to be processed. The filters may include time and location filters.

System and method of customizing animated entities for use in a multi-media communication application

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method is provided for creating a personal animated entity for delivering a multi-media message from a sender to a recipient. An image file from the sender may be received by a server. The image file may include an image of an entity. The sender may be requested to provide input with respect to facial features of the image of the entity in preparation for animating the image of the entity. After the sender provides the input with respect to the facial features of the image of the entity, the image of the entity may be presented as a personal animated entity to the sender to preview. Upon approval of the preview from the sender, the image of the entity may be presented as a sender-selectable personal animated entity for delivering the multi-media message to the recipient.

Remote graphical user interface support using a graphics processing unit

Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for the display, on a remote node, of a three-dimensional (3D) image rendered on a host system in a first image format are described. In general, the 3D image is transformed into a second image format that is compressed (i.e., uses fewer data bits per pixel) relative to the first image format, (optionally) scaled to a screen size of remote node, and subsequently transferred to remote node for display. In instances, the transformation of the image from the first image format to the second image format and the optional scaling of the image to the screen size of remote node may be done in a graphics processing unit (GPU) on the host system. As an example, the first image format may be an RGB-based format, such as RGBA (32-bits per pixel) or standard RGB (24-bits per pixel) and the second image format may be a YUV-based format, such as YV12 (12-bits per pixel).