Beamr Imaging Ltd.

Euronano Spa

Boris Filippov

Tamar Shoham

Dror Gill

Sharon Carmel

Alexey Martemyanov

Udi Yehuda Shrot

Igor Vladimirovich Basargin

Nikolay Igorevich Alekseev

Dmitry Vladimirovich Afanasiev

Aleksandr Alekseevich Bogdanov

Mikhail Terterov

Georgy Andreevich Duzhev

There are provided computerized systems and methods of pre-processing video information for optimized video encoding. In various aspects, the pre-processing can be performed in different ways. By way of example, this can be performed by aligning a plurality of consecutive frames in the sequence of video frames. By way of another example, this can be performed by conducting adaptive pre-filtering of the video information. By way of yet another example, this can be performed by filtering the video information in order to remove grain content thereof.

Method of pre-processing of video information for optimized video encoding

There is provided a computerized method and system of controlling a quality measure in a compression quality evaluation system, the method comprising: calculating a grain value indicative of an extent of grain present in an input image, the grain value being calculated based on one or more features characterizing a base image related to the input image; and configuring the quality measure upon a criterion being met by the value, the quality measure being indicative of perceptual quality of a compressed image compressed from the input image. The calculated grain value may be dependent also on further characteristics of the input image, or in the case of a sequence of images, dependent also on the relation between the image and the preceding image.

Method of controlling a quality measure and system thereof

The inventive method for producing fullerene-containing carbon and the device for carrying out said method relate to the chemical industry and are used for producing fullerenes. Said method for producing fullerene-containing carbon consists in vaporising graphite in an electric arc between coaxial graphite electrodes. The graphite electrode is continuously moved inside the electric arc zone through the glow discharge zone. The products formed inside the electric arc are removed therefrom with the aid of an annular inert gas flow which is directed along the axes of the electrodes through an area arranged at a defined distance from a discharge axis. The inventive device for producing fullerene-containing carbon comprises a plasma reactor provided with a system for circulating inert gas and a system for recuperating fullerene carbon. Said reactor is provided with a chamber for degassing the graphite electrode which is continuously moved by the glow discharge towards the arc. The system for circulating inert gas is provided with an annular slot nozzle coaxially arranged in relation to the moving graphite electrode.

Method for producing fullerene-containing carbon and device for carrying out said method

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St. Petersburg, Russia

Boris Filippov