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20100092099 | IMAGE ENCODING METHODS AND APPARATUS PROVIDING IMPROVED VISUAL RESULTS - Microsoft's recently proposed new image compression codec JPEG XR is currently undergoing ISO standardization as JPEG-XR. Even though performance measurements carried out by the JPEG committee indicated that the PSNR performance of JPEG XR is competitive, the visual performance of JPEG XR showed notable deficits, both in subjective and objective tests. This paper introduces various techniques that improve the visual performance of JPEG XR without leaving the current codestream definition. Objective measurements performed by the author indicate that the modified encoder, while staying backwards compatible to the current standard proposition, improves visual performance significantly, and the performance of the modified encoder is similar to JPEG. | 04-15-2010 |
20100246986 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND USING VISUAL ERROR WEIGHTS - A low complexity visual masking method used as part of an image encoding process is described. The method is suitable for use in JPEG2000 image compression systems. Control weights used for rate allocation are generated based on integer order moments of wavelet transformed coefficients corresponding to a codeblock. The novel rate allocation weight generation method can, and in some embodiments is, combined with an apriori rate allocation algorithm, where allocation of bits to different portions of images is controlled as a function of one or more generated weights. The methods and apparatus of the present invention have the effect of increasing errors in busy areas of an image where they tend to be less noticeable and allocating a higher number of bits to less busy areas than some other systems, e.g., systems which attempt to minimize a mean squared error under a constraint of a user selected output rate. | 09-30-2010 |
20100310188 | ENCODING METHODS AND APPARATUS INCLUDING BUFFER RATE CONTROL - Methods and apparatus for performing image encoding and rate control as part of the image encoding process, e.g., a JPEG-2000 compliant image encoding process, are described. As part of the image encoding processes, rate control operations are performed based on rate statistic information at a point where encoded image data in selected for storage in a buffer and based on updated statistic information at a point where encoded image data is selected to be output from the buffer. The statistic information including overhead information used for rate control is also updated after formatting of data to be included in the output set of encoded image data to reflect overhead, e.g., header overhead, associated with formatting the data for storage. Encoding and rate control is applied on an ongoing basis, e.g., as portions of an image are processed, so that buffer size does not grow proportionally with the image size. | 12-09-2010 |
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20100180867 | LEAD-ZIRCONATE-TITANATE CERAMIC HAVING TEXTURING, METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THE CERAMIC, AND USE OF THE CERAMIC - A lead-zirconate-titanate ceramic has texturing, with textured nuclei containing barium-titanate crystallites, wherein the barium-titanate crystallites have a substantially equal crystal characteristic, including form anisotropy, and an orientation in the lead-zirconate-titanate ceramic. A method for the production of a PZT ceramic has the following steps: a) providing the barium-titanate crystallite, b) mixing the barium-titanate crystallite and a starting material of the lead-zirconate-titanate into a ceramic green body such that the barium-titanate crystallites in the green body have an orientation, and c) heat-treating the green body. The heat treatment has calcination and sintering of the piezo-ceramic composition. The barium-titanate crystallites are used in a “template grain growth process” as crystallization nuclei. The piezo-ceramic component is, for example, an ultrasonic transducer or a piezo-ceramic bender actuator. In particular, the piezo-ceramic component is a multilayer piezo actuator, which is used to actuate a fuel valve of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle. | 07-22-2010 |
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20150048722 | Method for Making Electrical Contact With an Electronic Component in the Form of a Stack, and Electronic Component Having a Contact-Making Structure - A method is provided for making electrical contact with an electronic component in the form of a stack formed from a plurality of material layers, which react upon application of an electric field, and a plurality of electrode layers, wherein each material layer is arranged between two of the electrode layers. An insulation structure is generated on at least one stack circumferential region of the stack, which exposes each second electrode layer of the at least one stack circumferential region for electrical contact to be made. Also, a contact-making structure is applied to the at least one stack circumferential region which is provided with the insulation structure. Before the step of generating the contact-making structure, the material layers are partially removed by a material-removing method such that the electrode layers are exposed close to the surface. | 02-19-2015 |
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20110244411 | GAS BURNER - A gas burner, which is particularly suitable for flame treatment of substrates having large surfaces, e.g. for coating such surfaces in a combustion chemical vapor deposition (CCVD) process, includes a burner body with a gas supply connection and a nozzle plate, wherein the burner body and the nozzle plate constitute together a gas plenum and the nozzle plate constitutes a perforated wall section of the plenum. The nozzle plate includes a large number of nozzles extending from a plenum side to a flame side of the nozzle plate and it is made of a plurality of sheets which are arranged in a stack and extend substantially perpendicular or substantially parallel to the nozzle extension. The sheets include through openings, wherein the through openings of all sheets are at least partly aligned with each other, or they have a comb-like form. | 10-06-2011 |
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20130262983 | SYSTEM, METHOD, SOFTWARE ARRANGEMENT AND COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM FOR A GENERATOR THAT AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFIES REGIONS OF INTEREST IN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS FOR TRANSCODING - A system, method and computer-accessible medium for analyzing an electronic document(s) can be provided. For example, content data can be received that can be related to the electronic document(s). The content data can be segmented into a plurality of first segments, and then combined into a second segment(s). Ranking information can be generated for the second segment(s). | 10-03-2013 |
20140143172 | SYSTEM, METHOD, SOFTWARE ARRANGEMENT AND COMPUTER-ACCESSIBLE MEDIUM FOR A MOBILE-COMMERCE STORE GENERATOR THAT AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACTS AND CONVERTS DATA FROM AN ELECTRONIC-COMMERCE STORE - Electronic documents, such as e-commerce stores and electronic forms, can be displayed on a range of devices, which have different screen properties. In order to present e-commerce stores in a visually consistent and readable way, they need to be converted. The present disclosure is applied to e-commerce stores that can be converted and provides a mobile engine with data from one or more e-commerce stores in an internal standardized format so that the mobile engine can adjust and optimize the data so that it can be optimally rendered into one or more mobile commerce stores for targeted end user machines. The automatic content identifier can be used to extract the relevant data from one or more e-commerce stores | 05-22-2014 |
20150135182 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DATA PROCESSING - A data processing apparatus, a data processing method and a computer program product are disclosed. In an embodiment, the data processing apparatus comprises: a processor comprising a plurality of parallel lanes for parallel processing of sets of threads, each lane comprising a plurality of pipelined stages, the pipelined stages of each lane being operable to process instructions from the sets of threads; and scheduling logic operable to schedule instructions for processing by the lanes, the scheduling logic being operable to identify that one of the sets of threads being processed is to be split into a plurality of sub-sets of threads and to schedule at least two of the plurality of sub-sets of threads for processing by different pipelined stages concurrently. | 05-14-2015 |
20150149742 | MEMORY UNIT AND METHOD - A memory unit and method are disclosed. The memory unit comprises: at least one controller interfaced with at least one corresponding persistent memory device operable to store files in accordance with a file system; and a file mapping unit operable, in response to a virtual file access request from a memory management unit of a processor, the virtual file access request having a virtual address within a virtual address space associated with one of the files identifying data to be accessed, to map the virtual address to a physical address of the data within the one of the files using pre-stored mapping information and to issue a physical access request having the physical address to access the data within the one of the files. | 05-28-2015 |