Patents Examined by Irfan Habib
  • Patent number: 11477436
    Abstract: Encoders and decoders of digital video signals use combined intra prediction modes for some images. In at least one embodiment, combined intra prediction modes can result from the intra prediction modes of neighboring blocks. The combined intra prediction mode can be added to a most probable modes list. Various embodiments describe techniques for combining the intra prediction modes, comprising a combination of reference samples and a combination of directions to form a prediction. Another embodiment adds a combination mode to the most probable modes list if the two modes that are combined to form it are directional modes with angle difference less than 90 degrees. Another embodiment uses a linear combination of intra prediction modes and another embodiment performs a linear combination which depends on the distance of a prediction from the left and above blocs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Franck Galpin, Fabien Racape, Philippe Bordes, Fabrice Urban
  • Patent number: 11477441
    Abstract: A method of visual media processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of visual media data and a bitstream representation of the current video block, a buffer that stores reference samples for prediction in an intra block copy mode; for a sample spatially located at location of the current video block relative to an upper-left position of a coding tree unit including the current video block and having a block vector, computing a corresponding reference in the buffer at a reference location, wherein the reference location is determined using the block vector and the location; and upon determining that the reference location lies outside the buffer, re-computing the reference location based at least in part on a location of the current video block relative to the coding tree unit including the current video block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Jizheng Xu, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11477446
    Abstract: Provided is a video decoding method of applying a deblocking filter to neighboring pixels adjacent to a boundary of a current block, the video decoding method including selecting a deblocking filter to be applied to the neighboring pixels from among a plurality of deblocking filters according to pixel values of the neighboring pixels and a size of the current block, and applying the selected deblocking filter to the neighboring pixels, wherein the plurality of deblocking filters include three or more deblocking filters having different ranges of neighboring pixels to which deblocking filtering is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woong-il Choi, Sun-il Lee, Ki-ho Choi
  • Patent number: 11470347
    Abstract: A video decoding method includes determining, based on an area of a current block, whether a multi-prediction combination mode for predicting the current block by combining prediction results obtained according to a plurality of prediction modes is applied to the current block, when the multi-prediction combination mode is applied to the current block, determining the plurality of prediction modes to be applied to the current block, generating a plurality of prediction blocks of the current block, according to the plurality of prediction modes, and determining a combined prediction block of the current block, by combining the plurality of prediction blocks according to respective weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungsoo Jeong, Chanyul Kim, Minsoo Park, Minwoo Park, Kiho Choi, Narae Choi, Woongil Choi, Anish Tamse, Yinji Piao
  • Patent number: 11462383
    Abstract: Linear fiducials including notches or chevrons with known angles relative to each other are formed such that each branch of a chevron appears in a cross-sectional face of the sample as a distinct structure. Therefore, when imaging the cross-section face during the cross-sectioning operation, the distance between the identified structures allows unique identification of the position of the cross-section plane along the Z axis. Then a direct measurement of the actual position of each slice can be calculated, allowing for dynamic repositioning to account for drift in the plane of the sample and also dynamic adjustment of the forward advancement rate of the FIB to account for variations in the sample, microscope, microscope environment, etc. that contributes to drift. An additional result of this approach is the ability to dynamically calculate the actual thickness of each acquired slice as it is acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: FIBICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Michael William Phaneuf, Ken Guillaume Lagarec
  • Patent number: 11463734
    Abstract: Methods of encapsulating a bitstream include generating reference information to enable image items identifying image portions of a bit stream to be referenced to corresponding description information. The resulting encapsulated file may also include information identifying a timed portion of the data stream corresponding to a video sequence. Description information may include spatial parameters, such as position and width and height of sub-parts of an overall image, and/or display parameters such as colour display, pixel aspect ratio, and clean aperture parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kai sha
    Inventors: Franck Denoual, Frédéric Maze, Jean Le Feuvre, Cyril Concolato
  • Patent number: 11463728
    Abstract: An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a step of deriving an intra prediction mode for a current block; a step of deriving upper neighboring samples of a plurality of rows for the current block, and left neighboring samples of a plurality of columns; a step of deriving one row of upper reference samples on the basis of the upper neighboring samples; a step of deriving one column of left reference samples on the basis of the left neighboring samples; and a step of generating a prediction sample for the current block by using at least one of the upper reference samples and the left reference samples in accordance with the intra prediction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jin Heo
  • Patent number: 11463704
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for compressing digital content. The digital content may comprise a plurality of frames. The plurality of frames may comprise a plurality of crossfade frames. A first boundary frame of the crossfade frames may be determined. A second boundary frame of the crossfade frames may be determined. At least a portion of the crossfade frames may be coded as inter-predicted frames using a weighting factor and based on the first boundary frame or the second boundary frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Alexander Giladi
  • Patent number: 11451791
    Abstract: Disclosed is a video signal processing method and device for encoding or decoding a video signal. More specifically, disclosed are a video signal processing method and a video signal processing device for performing the method, the method comprising: obtaining reference line information indicating a reference line for intra prediction of a current block among a plurality of reference lines comprising neighboring samples of the current block; determining, on the basis of the reference line information, an intra prediction mode for the current block among a plurality of intra prediction modes constituting an intra prediction mode set; and decoding the current block on the basis of a plurality of reference samples on the reference line according to the reference line information and the determined intra prediction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Dongcheol Kim, Geonjung Ko, Jaehong Jung, Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 11451770
    Abstract: An information handling system executing a multimedia multi-user collaboration application (MMCA) may include a memory; a power management unit; a video camera to capture video of a user participating in a video conference session conducted by a processor executing code instructions of the MMCA via a first network link on a network interface device; a time-of-flight (TOF) sensor to provide distance data descriptive of the distance between a user's body and the video camera; the processor configured to execute a video frame user presence detection system to: slice a video frame into a plurality of video frame slices; based on the distance data, create a human object presence (HOP) heat map to assign a probability of the presence of the user's body within each video frame slice of the video frame; the processor configured to select, among the plurality of video frame slices, those video frame slices with an assigned probability of presence of the user's body that exceeds a threshold probability as a HOP video f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Vivek Viswanathan Iyer, Todd E. Swierk
  • Patent number: 11451776
    Abstract: A method for decoding video includes receiving a frame of the video that includes at least one slice and at least one time. Each of the at least one slice and the at least one tile are not all aligned with one another. Each of the at least one slice is characterized that it is decoded independently of the other the at least one slice. Each of the at least one tile is characterized that it is a rectangular region of the frame and having coding units for the decoding arranged in a raster scan order. The at least one tile of the frame are collectively arranged in a raster scan order of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Velos Media, LLC
    Inventors: Kiran Misra, Christopher Segall
  • Patent number: 11445182
    Abstract: A method of visual media processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of visual media data and a bitstream representation of the current video block, a buffer that stores reference samples for prediction in an intra block copy mode; for a sample spatially located at location of the current video block relative to an upper-left position of a coding tree unit including the current video block and having a block vector, computing a corresponding reference in the buffer at a reference location, wherein the reference location is determined using the block vector and the location; and upon determining that the reference location lies outside the buffer, re-computing the reference location based at least in part on a location of the current video block relative to the coding tree unit including the current video block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Jizheng Xu, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11445184
    Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, when the inter prediction type of a current block indicates bi-prediction, weight index information for candidates in a merge candidate list or a sub-block merge candidate list can be derived, and thus coding efficiency can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventors: Naeri Park, Junghak Nam, Hyeongmoon Jang
  • Patent number: 11438622
    Abstract: An image decoding method performed by means of a decoding device according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: configuring an affine merge candidate list with respect to a current block; deriving CPMVs with respect to CPs of the current block on the basis of the affine merge candidate list; deriving prediction samples with respect to the current block on the basis of the CPMVs; and generating a reconstructed picture with respect to the current block on the basis of the derived prediction samples, wherein the maximum number of inherited affine candidates is two, a first inherited affine candidate is derived on the basis of a left block group of the current block, and a second inherited affine candidate is derived on the basis of an upper block group of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Jaeho Lee
  • Patent number: 11431966
    Abstract: Video coding and decoding methods are described. In example method includes performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a bitstream representation of the current video block by determining a first intra coding mode to be stored which is associated with the current video block using a differential coding mode, where the first intra coding mode associated with the current video block is determined according to a second prediction mode used by the differential coding mode, and where, in the differential coding mode, a difference between a quantized residual of an intra prediction of the current video block and a prediction of the quantized residual is represented in the bitstream representation for the current video block using a differential pulse coding modulation (DPCM) representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Weijia Zhu, Li Zhang, Jizheng Xu, Hsiao Chiang Chuang
  • Patent number: 11425390
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a decoding method and apparatus and an encoding method and apparatus that perform inter-prediction using a motion vector predictor. For a candidate block in a col picture, a scaled motion vector is generated based on a motion vector of the candidate block. When the scaled motion vector indicates a target block, a motion vector predictor of the target block is generated based on the motion vector of the candidate block. The motion vector predictor is used to derive the motion vector of the target block in a specific inter-prediction mode such as a merge mode and an AMVP mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA COOPERATION GROUP OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY, INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION KOREA AEROSPACE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Sung-Chang Lim, Jung-Won Kang, Hyunsuk Ko, Jin-Ho Lee, Ha-Hyun Lee, Dong-San Jun, Hui-Yong Kim, Yung-Lyul Lee, Nam-Uk Kim, Jae-Gon Kim
  • Patent number: 11425328
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a computing apparatus including the same are provided. A display apparatus includes: a display module including a display panel configured to display an image, a system rear cover covering a rear surface of the display module, a vibration plate between the system rear cover and the rear surface of the display module, and a vibration module configured to vibrate the vibration plate, wherein the display panel is further configured to vibrate based on a vibration of the vibration plate to output sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: DongUk Kim, JongSeo Yoon, DongIl Chung, ByeongJun Lee, JaeMin Shin, JinHo Park
  • Patent number: 11425405
    Abstract: An example device for decoding video data includes one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: decode a coding tree unit (CTU) of video data, the CTU including a luminance (luma) block and a chrominance (chroma) block, to produce a decoded luma block and a decoded chroma block; determine that a chroma sample of the decoded chroma block is on a first side of an adaptive loop filter (ALF) virtual boundary and that a co-located luma sample of the decoded luma block is on a second side of the ALF virtual boundary, the co-located luma sample being co-located with the chroma sample, the first side being different than the second side; and in response to determining that the chroma sample is on the first side and the luma sample is on the second side, disable cross-component adaptive loop filtering (CC-ALF) for the chroma sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Nan Hu, Vadim Seregin, Cheng-Teh Hsieh, Marta Karczewicz
  • Patent number: 11418805
    Abstract: A moving picture coding method includes: coding a coding target block using a motion vector; generating motion vector predictors; and coding the motion vector using one of the motion vector predictors generated in the generating of the motion vector predictors. In the generating of the motion vector predictors, a replacement vector which replaces a temporal motion vector predictor is added to the motion vector predictors when it is impossible to obtain the temporal motion vector predictor from a block which is included in a coded picture different from the coding target picture and corresponds to the coding target block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio, Takahiro Nishi, Youji Shibahara, Hisao Sasai
  • Patent number: 11412213
    Abstract: A method of visual media processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of visual media data and a bitstream representation of the current video block, a buffer that stores reference samples for prediction in an intra block copy mode; for a sample spatially located at location of the current video block relative to an upper-left position of a coding tree unit including the current video block and having a block vector, computing a corresponding reference in the buffer at a reference location, wherein the reference location is determined using the block vector and the location; and upon determining that the reference location lies outside the buffer, re-computing the reference location based at least in part on a location of the current video block relative to the coding tree unit including the current video block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Jizheng Xu, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang