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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2007
Hyung-soo Ohk, Seoul, KR;
Jonghyon Yi, Yongin-si, KR;
Charles A. Bouman, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Eri Haneda, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Hyung-Soo Ohk, Seoul, KR;
Jonghyon Yi, Yongin-si, KR;
Charles A. Bouman, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Eri Haneda, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Abstract
An apparatus usable in an image encoding and/or decoding system includes a segmentation unit to convert a first image of a first resolution into a second image of a second resolution, to segment the second image of the second resolution with one or more blocks of a binary mask layer having a foreground and a background, and to convert the segmented second image into a third image of a third resolution as a segmented image.