Patents Examined by Jerry T Jean Baptiste
  • Patent number: 11601655
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for encoding or decoding video. The method includes encoding or decoding, in a plurality of picture parameter sets (PPS) associated with pictures of a coded layer video sequence (CLVS), corresponding first PPS flags indicating whether pictures are allowed to be partitioned into a plurality of tiles or slices. In a first PPS, a corresponding first PPS flag with a first value indicates a first picture of the CLVS is unpartitioned, and in a second PPS, another corresponding first PPS flag with a second value being different from the first value indicates that a second picture of the CLVS is allowed to be partitioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Yan Ye, Ru-Ling Liao
  • Patent number: 11595696
    Abstract: There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform obtaining video data, parsing a video parameter set (VPS) syntax of the video data, determining whether a value of a syntax element of the VPS syntax indicates a picture order count (POC) value of an access unit (AU) of the video data, and setting at least one of a plurality of pictures, slices, and tiles of the video data to the AU based on the value of the syntax element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Byeongdoo Choi, Stephan Wenger, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11589060
    Abstract: A method for coding unit partitioning in a video encoder is provided that includes performing intra-prediction on each permitted coding unit (CU) in a CU hierarchy of a largest coding unit (LCU) to determine an intra-prediction coding cost for each permitted CU, storing the intra-prediction coding cost for each intra-predicted CU in memory, and performing inter-prediction, prediction mode selection, and CU partition selection on each permitted CU in the CU hierarchy to determine a CU partitioning for encoding the LCU, wherein the stored intra-prediction coding costs for the CUs are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hyung Joon Kim, Minhua Zhou, Akira Osamoto, Hideo Tamama
  • Patent number: 11589069
    Abstract: A method of signaling tile set parameters is disclosed. A value for a syntax element is signaled in a network abstraction layer (NAL) unit. The value for the syntax element indicates that a tile set layer syntax structure is included in the NAL unit. Values for one or more tile set parameters included in the tile set layer syntax structure are signaled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 11579259
    Abstract: A laser scanner that includes a transmission path and a reception path that is spatially separate from the transmission path, at least in areas. In the laser scanner, the transmission path and the reception path meet on opposite sides of an angularly movable deflection mirror of the laser scanner. An angular position of the deflection mirror in the transmission path defines a scan angle of a laser light of the laser scanner, and the angular position in the reception path compensates for an incidence angle of a reflection of the laser light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Hasselbach, Alexander Greiner
  • Patent number: 11582447
    Abstract: A method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video unit of a video and a coded representation of the video using at least a video picture. Only one of a sub-picture coding mode or a resolution-changing coding mode is enabled for the video unit. The sub-picture coding mode is a mode in which the video picture is divided into multiple sub-pictures, and the resolution-changing coding mode is a mode in which a resolution of the video picture is adjusted during the conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Zhipin Deng, Hongbin Liu, Li Zhang, Jizheng Xu
  • Patent number: 11575918
    Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for encoding video data. Data corresponding to a video frame is received. One or more luma and chroma samples from are identified from the received image data. Two or more linear models are determined from the identified luma and chroma samples. The luma and chroma samples are classified into a number of categories corresponding to a number of linear models, and each category has one or more corresponding linear model parameters signaled to the bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Liang Zhao, Xin Zhao, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11570447
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a video coding method and a video coding apparatus and a video decoding method and a video decoding apparatus. The video coding method includes: when determining that a current block is coded in intra block copy prediction mode, carrying first indication information and second indication information in bitstream data corresponding to the current block by a video coder, wherein the first indication information specifies that a prediction mode of the current block is intra prediction, the second indication information specifies that the current block is coded in intra block copy prediction mode; and sending the bitstream data with the first indication information and the second indication information by the video coder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventors: Shurui Ye, Li Wang
  • Patent number: 11563955
    Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, LMCS may also be applied to a block having a dual tree structure. In addition, the number of LMCS APS may be limited. Therefore, an LMCS procedure may be efficiently performed, and the complexity of LMCS may be reduced. As the performance of LMCS is improved, the video/image coding efficiency may be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jie Zhao, Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11563968
    Abstract: Motion vectors of a first reference frame are permitted to point to a plurality of further reference frames. A method of storing the motion vectors comprises, when a block of the first reference frame has two motion vectors (V2A, V2B) initially, selecting one of the two motion vectors, the non-selected motion vector not being stored. The selected motion vector may be scaled. This can reduce the motion vector memory size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Guillaume Laroche, Patrice Onno, Edouard Francois
  • Patent number: 11553191
    Abstract: A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes partitioning a picture into a plurality of tiles. A number of the tiles are included in a tile group. The mechanism determines whether the tile group is a raster scan tile group or a rectangular tile group. The number of tiles in the tile group is determined based on whether the tile group is the raster scan tile group or the rectangular tile group. The tiles are encoded into a bitstream based on the tile group. The bitstream is stored for communication toward a decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fnu Hendry, Ye-Kui Wang
  • Patent number: 11553161
    Abstract: An electronic sitter management system coupled to patient surveillance network having a plurality of video cameras, each camera transmitting a stream of surveillance video of a respective patient room. The sitter management system includes at least one sitter management device and a plurality of sitter devices. Each device being assigned a plurality of patient rooms and capable of receiving a plurality of streams of surveillance video for the corresponding plurality of patient rooms and simultaneously displaying a plurality of video images of the corresponding plurality of patient rooms. Each device is also capable of transmitting sitter device availability information to the sitter management device. The sitter management device being capable of recognizing a sitter device being unavailable and reassigning the plurality of patient rooms previously assigned to the unavailable device to other of the plurality of sitter devices that are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Care View Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Sam Anthony Greco, Steven Gail Johnson, Matthew Cameron Clark, Derek Stevan del Carpio
  • Patent number: 11553210
    Abstract: Video coding tools can be controlled by including syntax in a video bitstream that makes better use of video decoding resources. An encoder inserts syntax into a video bitstream to enable a decoder to parse the bitstream and easily control which tools combinations are enabled, which combinations are not permitted, and which tools are activated for various components in a multiple component bitstream, leading to potential parallelization of bitstream decoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Edouard Francois, Pierre Andrivon, Franck Galpin, Fabrice Leleannec, Michel Kerdranvat
  • Patent number: 11544933
    Abstract: A smart reader system for a scale having a display is disclosed. The smart reader system includes an image capture device for capturing an image of the display; and an attachment device for mounting on the scale, the attachment device configured to receive the image capture device; and a computing device configured to identify, using a machine learning model, a weight from the image of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Inventors: Lishao Wang, Shiwei Liu, Zibo Wang
  • Patent number: 11543525
    Abstract: To provide a signal generation apparatus that is used in a ToF camera system especially adopting an indirect system and can suppress occurrence of erroneous distance measurement caused by distance measurement of a same target by a plurality of cameras with a simple configuration. There is provided a signal generation apparatus including a first pulse generator configured to generate a pulse to be supplied to a light source that irradiates light upon a distance measurement target, a second pulse generator configured to generate a pulse to be supplied to a pixel that receives the light reflected by the distance measurement target, and a signal generation section configured to generate a pseudo-random signal for inverting a phase of signals to be generated by the first pulse generator and the second pulse generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yohtaro Yasu, Nobuhiko Shigyo
  • Patent number: 11546607
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for encoding video. The method includes: generating training data based on one or more video sequences, the training data including a structure similarity index comprising at least one of structure similarity index (SSIM) or multi-scale-structural similarity index (MS-SSIM); training a rate-distortion optimization (RDO) model using the training data; processing the one or more video sequences using the rate-distortion optimization model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Zhao Wang, Yan Ye
  • Patent number: 11546633
    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 encoding a current video block of a video using a matrix 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; and adding, to a coded representation of the current video block, a syntax element indicative of applicability of the MIP mode to the current video block using arithmetic coding in which a context for the syntax element is derived based on a rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Jizheng Xu
  • Patent number: 11539950
    Abstract: An example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video comprising one or more pictures and a bitstream representation of the video. The bitstream representation is required to conform to a format rule that specifies that each picture is coded as one or more slices. The format rule prohibits samples in a picture from not being covered by any of the one or more slices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Zhipin Deng, Hongbin Liu, Li Zhang, Jizheng Xu
  • Patent number: 11539940
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of prediction for video coding using MH (Multiple Hypothesis) mode are disclosed. According to this method, a block is partitioned into a first partition and a second partition. A first candidate and a second candidate are derived for the first and second partitions respectively. At least one of the first candidate and the second candidate is derived using a candidate list derived for a regular Merge mode (or also called as normal Merge mode). An MH prediction generated by blending a first prediction corresponding to a first candidate and a second prediction corresponding to a second candidate, and the MH prediction is applied to a part of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: HFI INNOVATION INC.
    Inventors: Man-Shu Chiang, Chih-Wei Hsu, Tzu-Der Chuang, Ching-Yeh Chen
  • Patent number: 11536806
    Abstract: Provided in a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) device including a scanning optical system including a plurality of light sources and a beam steering device, the scanning optical system being configured to scan an object with a plurality of irradiation beams projected from the plurality of light sources toward the object at a plurality of irradiation angles, respectively, a light detector including a plurality of pixel regions that are configured to separately detect the plurality of irradiation beams projected toward the object at the plurality of irradiation angles and reflected from the object, and a processor configured to control the scanning optical system and the light detector, and obtain information about the object based on the plurality of irradiation beams detected by the light detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jungwoo Kim, Tatsuhiro Otsuka, Yongchul Cho