# US 7,609,899 B2 · Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium thereof to smooth tile boundaries

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- Number: US 7,609,899 B2
- Document ID: US7609899B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 11/140,679
- Filed: 2005-05-26
- Published: 2005-12-01
- Granted: 2009-10-27
- Earliest claimed: 2004-05-28
- Assignees: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Inventors: Tooru Suino
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US7609899B2

## CPC

- G06T 5/70: Denoising; Smoothing
- G06T 5/10: using non-spatial domain filtering
- H04N 19/86: involving reduction of coding artifacts, e.g. of blockiness
- G06T 2207/20064: Wavelet transform [DWT]
- G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

## Abstract

An image processing apparatus is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a coefficient correction unit for correcting only a high frequency coefficient situated adjacent to a tile boundary of an encoded image data divided into non-overlapping tiles. The high frequency coefficient is corrected during a process of decoding the encoded image data.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An image processing apparatus comprising:
a coefficient correction unit to correct a first high frequency coefficient situated adjacent to a tile boundary of an encoded image data divided into non-overlapping tiles, and a second high frequency coefficient situated in the vicinity of but not adjacent to the tile boundary;
wherein the first and second high frequency coefficients are corrected during a process of decoding the encoded image data;
wherein the coefficient correction unit is operable to adaptively exclude the second high frequency coefficient from the correction according to the number of quantization steps of the second high frequency coefficient.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the coefficient correction unit adaptively excludes the second high frequency coefficient from the correction when the number of the quantization steps of the second high frequency coefficient is no greater than a predetermined value.

### Claim 3

An image processing method comprising:
using a processor to perform:
correcting a first high frequency coefficient situated adjacent to a tile boundary of an encoded image data divided into non-overlapping tiles, and a second high frequency coefficient situated in the vicinity of but not adjacent to the tile boundary;
wherein the first and second high frequency coefficients are corrected during a process of decoding the encoded image data;
wherein the second high frequency coefficient is adaptively excluded from correction, when correcting the first and second frequency coefficients, according to at least one of the number of quantization steps of the second high frequency coefficient and the value of the second high frequency coefficient.

### Claim 4

A computer readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute an image processing method, the image processing method comprising:
correcting a first high frequency coefficient situated adjacent to a tile boundary of an encoded image data divided into non-overlapping tiles, and a second high frequency coefficient situated in the vicinity of but not adjacent to the tile boundary;
wherein the first and second high frequency coefficients are corrected during a process of decoding the encoded image data;
wherein the second high frequency coefficient is adaptively excluded from correction, when correcting the first and second frequency coefficients, according to at least one of the number of quantization steps of the second high frequency coefficient and the value of the second high frequency coefficient.