Patents Examined by Dave Czekaj
  • Patent number: 11582483
    Abstract: A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: shifting point cloud data indicating three-dimensional positions in a three-dimensional space by a first shift amount; dividing the point cloud data into pieces of sub point cloud data; shifting each of the pieces of sub point cloud data by a second shift amount based on a position of one of the subspaces that includes the sub point cloud data, the pieces of sub point cloud data being included in the point cloud data shifted by the first shift amount; and encoding the pieces of sub point cloud data shifted, to generate a bitstream. The bitstream includes first shift information for calculating the first shift amount, and pieces of second shift information each for calculating a corresponding one of second shift amounts by which the pieces of sub point cloud data are shifted and each of which is the second shift amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Noritaka Iguchi, Toshiyasu Sugio
  • Patent number: 11575909
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information for a current block in a coded video sequence. The prediction information indicates a cross-component linear model (CCLM) prediction mode for the current block. The processing circuitry determines a sample value of a first unavailable neighboring luma sample of the current block based on at least one luma sample used in the CCLM prediction mode not being available. The sample value of the first unavailable neighboring luma sample is determined based on a sample value of an available neighboring luma sample. The processing circuitry calculates a parameter of the CCLM prediction mode based on the sample value of the first unavailable neighboring luma sample of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Ling Li, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11570456
    Abstract: A method to be performed by a receiving apparatus for decoding an encoded bitstream representing a sequence of pictures of a video stream is provided. In the method, capabilities relating to level of decoding parallelism for the decoder are identified, a parameter indicative of the decoder's capabilities relating to level of decoding parallelism is kept, and for a set of levels of decoding parallelism, information relating to HEVC profile and HEVC level that the decoder is capable of decoding is kept. A method for encoding a bitstream representing a sequence of pictures of a video stream is also provided. In the method, a parameter is received from a transmitting apparatus that should decode the encoded bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Jonatan Samuelsson, Bo Burman, Rickard Sjöberg, Magnus Westerlund
  • Patent number: 11553203
    Abstract: A method for video processing is provided to include performing a conversion between a current video block of a video region of a video and a coded representation of the video, wherein the conversion uses a coding mode in which the current video block is constructed based on a first domain and a second domain and/or chroma residue is scaled in a luma-dependent manner, and wherein a parameter set in the coded representation comprises parameter information for the coding mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Jizheng Xu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11553213
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry can receive coded information of pictures in a coded video sequence. The coded information can include a coding tree unit (CTU) size information that indicates a CTU size selected for the pictures. The CTU size information can be encoded using a truncated unary code. The processing circuitry can determine the selected CTU size based on the CTU size information encoded using the truncated unary code. The processing circuitry can reconstruct samples in the pictures based on the selected CTU size. The selected CTU size can be 32×32, 64×64, or 128×128 luma samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Yixin Du, Xin Zhao, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11539973
    Abstract: A method for processing a video signal comprises the steps of: obtaining, from the video signal, an intra sub-partitions (ISP) mode flag indicating whether the ISP mode is applied to a current block; when the ISP mode is applied to the current block, obtaining, from the video signal, an ISP partitioning flag indicating a partitioning direction of the current block; partitioning the current block into a plurality of transform blocks on the basis of the partitioning direction; generating residual blocks of the transform blocks by performing an inverse transformation on each of the transform blocks; and restoring the current block on the basis of the residual blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: HUMAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaehong Jung, Juhyung Son, Dongcheol Kim, Geonjung Ko, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 11539939
    Abstract: Video processing methods and apparatuses for processing a current block in a current picture include receiving input data of the current block, determining a reference picture, determining whether picture sizes of the current and reference pictures are different, determining whether horizontal wraparound motion compensation is enabled for predicting the current block, performing motion compensation for the current block to obtain a reference block from the reference picture, and encoding or decoding the current block according to the reference block. Horizontal wraparound motion compensation is disabled when the picture sizes of the current and reference pictures are different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: HFI Innovation Inc.
    Inventors: Chih-Yao Chiu, Chun-Chia Chen, Chih-Wei Hsu, Ching-Yeh Chen, Yu-Wen Huang, Tzu-Der Chuang
  • Patent number: 11525996
    Abstract: Provided are a fiber bundle image processing method (200) and an apparatus. The method (200) includes: determining pixel information corresponding to a center position of a fiber in a sample image; correcting the determined pixel information; and reconstructing the sample image based on the corrected pixel information to obtain a reconstructed image. The method (200) and apparatus can not only obtain a more ideal fiber-bundle processed image, but also have a smaller calculation amount, and the entire calculation process takes less time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: SUZHOU MICROVIEW MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinhua Shao, Houli Duan, Jin Sun
  • Patent number: 11523113
    Abstract: Control over encoding of a quantization parameter is appropriately enabled with not only square sub-blocks but also rectangular sub-blocks by using a quantization control size adaptively according to a shape of sub-blocks, with the result that coding efficiency is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Kawaguchi, Masato Shima
  • Patent number: 11509934
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for video coding incorporating enhanced multiple transform (EMT) are disclosed. According to one method, the number of candidates for EMT in the horizontal direction or vertical direction is reduced depending on the current block size. According to another method, an EMT flag, one or more EMT indices or both are signalled only if the total number of non-zero coefficients in at least a part of the 2D coefficient block is greater than a threshold, where the threshold is equal to 1 or larger. A method and apparatus for video coding using non-separable secondary transform (NSST) are disclosed. According to this method, a total number of non-zero first coefficients in a partial block of the 2D coefficient block is determined and used to determine whether to apply the NSST process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: HFI INNOVATION INC.
    Inventors: Ching-Yeh Chen, Tzu-Der Chuang, Yu-Wen Huang
  • Patent number: 11503315
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for decoding a video signal, which includes: generating a first prediction block according to a prediction mode of a current block; checking the prediction mode of a neighboring block adjacent to the current block; generating a second prediction block based on the prediction mode of the neighboring block; generating a final prediction block by applying a weight to the first prediction block and the second prediction block; and reconstructing the video signal by using the final prediction block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Naeri Park, Sunmi Yoo, Junghak Nam, Hyeongmoon Jang
  • Patent number: 11503331
    Abstract: A method for video processing is provided to include performing a conversion between a current video block of a video region of a video and a coded representation of the video, wherein the conversion uses a coding mode in which the current video block is constructed based on a first domain and a second domain and/or chroma residue is scaled in a luma-dependent manner, and wherein a parameter set in the coded representation comprises parameter information for the coding mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Jizheng Xu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11477490
    Abstract: A video processing method includes receiving a reconstructed frame, and applying in-loop filtering, by at least one in-loop filter, to the reconstructed frame. The step of in-loop filtering includes performing a sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering operation. The step of performing the SAO filtering operation includes keeping a value of a current pixel unchanged by blocking the SAO filtering operation of the current pixel included in the reconstructed frame from being applied across a virtual boundary defined in the reconstructed frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Sheng-Yen Lin, Jian-Liang Lin
  • Patent number: 11477440
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: generating a prediction sample for the current block on the basis of an intra prediction mode for the current block and neighboring reference samples; and generating a reconstructed picture for the current block on the basis of the prediction sample, wherein, when the reference sample position indicated by a prediction direction of a directional prediction mode of the current block from the position of the prediction sample is the fractional sample position, the prediction sample is derived from among the neighboring reference samples by interpolating with respect to specific neighboring reference samples located around the fractional sample position, when the specific neighboring reference samples include outer neighboring reference samples located at (2*nW+1, ?1) and (2*nW+2, ?1) positions, the values of the outer neighboring reference samples are set to be equal to the value of a sample located at (2*nW, ?1), and nW may indi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunmi Yoo, Jin Heo
  • Patent number: 11470325
    Abstract: A method for decoding an image, according to the present document, comprises: receiving a bitstream including BDPCM information; deriving residual samples for a current block on the basis of the BDPCM information; deriving prediction samples for the current block on the basis of the BDPCM information; generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the residual samples and the prediction samples; and performing deblocking filtering on the reconstructed picture, wherein when BDPCM is applied to the current block, the deblocking filtering is not performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyeongmoon Jang, Jaehyun Lim, Junghak Nam
  • Patent number: 11470342
    Abstract: A method for decoding an image according to the present invention comprises the steps of: decoding a residual block by quantizing and inverse transforming an entropy-decoded residual block; generating a prediction block via motion compensation; and decoding an image by adding the decoded residual block to the prediction block, wherein on the basis of the maximum number of motion vector candidates of the motion vector candidate list related to the prediction block, a motion vector candidate list is adjusted by adding a particular motion vector candidate or by discarding a portion from among the motion vector candidates, and in the prediction block generation step, a prediction motion vector of the prediction block is determined on the basis of the adjusted motion vector candidate list. Accordingly, the complexity of arithmetic operations is reduced during encoding/decoding of an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung Chang Lim, Hui Yong Kim, Jin Ho Lee, Jin Soo Choi, Jin Woong Kim
  • Patent number: 11457233
    Abstract: A method for inter-coding video in which encoder and decoder memory requirements associated with storage of motion information related to collocated coding units is reduced. In the method motion information related to only a single or reduced set of collocated coding unit(s) may be stored at the encoder and decoder. In operation, if the encoder determines that motion information for a current coding unit should replace a currently stored motion information for currently stored motion information for the collocated coding unit, then the encoder can replace the motion information at the encoder and transmit an indicator with the current coding unit to signal to the decoder that currently stored motion information currently should be updated or replaced with the motion information associated with the current coding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Yue Yu, Krit Panusopone, Limin Wang, Seungwook Hong
  • Patent number: 11454795
    Abstract: The disclosure features methods and systems that include positioning a surface of a coverslip overlying a sample relative to an object plane of a microscope system, projecting a two-dimensional pattern of light onto the surface, where a focal plane of the two-dimensional pattern at a position of the surface is rotated by an angle ? relative to the object plane, obtaining a two-dimensional image of the pattern of light reflected from the surface using a detector that includes an imaging sensor oriented perpendicular to a direction of propagation of the reflected pattern of light at the sensor, analyzing the image to determine a line of best focus of the pattern within the image, determining an offset of the line of best focus from an expected position of the line of best focus within the image, and determining a position adjustment of the surface based on the offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Akoya Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Russell Gershman, Peter J. Miller, Olavi Ollikainen
  • Patent number: 11457230
    Abstract: A video decoder is configured to decode a plurality of video frames which are subdivided into a set of one or more slices. The decoder evaluates slice type information indicating whether a slice is encoded using an independent coding mode having no prediction of video content of a current frame on the basis of a video content of a previous frame, or using a single-predictive mode having a prediction of a block of pixels on the basis of one block of pixels of a previous frame, or using a bi-predictive mode having a prediction of a block of pixels on the basis of two or more blocks of pixels of one or more previous frames, to select a mode of operation for decoding a slice. The video decoder includes an arithmetic decoder for providing a decoded binary sequence on the basis of an encoded representation of the binary sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Jan Stegemann, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Detlev Marpe, Heiko Schwarz, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 11451782
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which includes matrix-based intra prediction methods for video coding, are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video processing includes performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a bitstream representation of the current video block using a matrix based intra prediction (MIP) mode in which a prediction block of the current video block is determined by performing, on previously coded samples of the video, a boundary downsampling operation, followed by a matrix vector multiplication operation, and selectively followed by an upsampling operation, where the performing the conversion includes deriving, according to a rule, boundary samples by applying a left bit shift operation or a right bit shift operation on a sum of at least one reference boundary sample, and where the rule determines whether to apply the left bit shift or the right bit shift operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Jizheng Xu