Patents Examined by Tyler W Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11146815
    Abstract: A method of video coding using generalized bi-prediction (GBi) receives input data associated with a current block in a current picture, wherein the input data comprises information associated with a block size of the current block, determines a set of weighting factor pairs, wherein a size of the set of weighting factor pairs depends on the block size of the current block, and derives a set of advanced motion vector prediction (AMVP) candidate lists comprising MVP (motion vector prediction) candidates. The method further derives a set of final motion information based on the MVP candidates, determines that the set of final information comprises a bi-prediction predictor, generates a final predictor by combining two reference blocks associated with the final motion information using a target weighting factor pair selected from the set of weighting factor pairs, and encodes or decoding the current block using the final predictor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Ching-Yeh Chen, Tzu-Der Chuang, Chih-Wei Hsu, Yu-Wen Huang
  • Patent number: 11136141
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to methods and systems for avoiding a collision between an aircraft on the ground and an obstacle using a three-dimensional visual indication of the area or plane of winglets on the wingtips of the aircraft. The method includes receiving a video image from a camera positioned in one of the winglets, the video image representing a field of view through which the winglet of the aircraft will pass along a present heading of the aircraft. Next a processor determines a three-dimensional area or plane within the field of view through which the winglet of the aircraft will pass. An overlay is displayed within the field of view to assist the pilot in avoiding collisions with obstacles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, Securaplane Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert O'Dell, Frank Manochio, Jason Meade, Michael Boost, Jamie Clive Marshall
  • Patent number: 11140418
    Abstract: A video decoder can be configured to set each block-level syntax element of a plurality of block-level syntax elements to a value indicating that an adaptive loop filter is enabled for an associated component of the video data in response to determining that a slice-level syntax element is set to a value indicating that values for the plurality of block-level syntax elements are inferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Marta Karczewicz, Nan Hu, Vadim Seregin, Akshay Gadde
  • Patent number: 11122280
    Abstract: An image data of pictures constituting moving image data is encoded to generate an encoded video stream. In this case, the image data of the pictures constituting the moving image data is classified into a plurality of levels and encoded to generate a video stream having the image data of the pictures at the respective levels. Hierarchical composition is equalized between a low-level side and a high-level side, and corresponding pictures on the low-level side and the high-level side are combined into one set and are sequentially encoded. This allows a reception side to decode the encoded image data of the pictures on the low-level side and the high-level side with a smaller buffer size and a reduced decoding delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 11091100
    Abstract: A multi-camera vision system utilized onboard a work vehicle includes, among other components, vehicle cameras and a display device utilized within an operator station of the work vehicle. The vehicle cameras provide vehicle camera feeds of the work vehicle's surrounding environment, as captured from different vantage points. A controller, which is coupled to the vehicle cameras and to the display device, is configured to: (i) generate, on the display device, a multi-camera display including framing icons, gallery display areas within the framing icons, and a main display area; (ii) identify a currently-selected vehicle camera feed and one or more non-selected vehicle camera feeds from the multiple vehicle camera feeds; and (iii) present the currently-selected vehicle camera feed in the main display area of the multi-camera display, while concurrently presenting the one or more non-selected vehicle camera feeds in a corresponding number of the gallery display areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventor: Nathaniel M. Czarnecki
  • Patent number: 11082697
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for signaling intra prediction for large blocks for video encoders and decoders. The intra prediction is signaled by selecting a basic coding unit size and assigning a single spatial intra partition type for the basic coding unit size. The single spatial intra partition type is selectable from among a plurality of spatial intra partition types. The at least one large block has a large block size greater than a block size of the basic coding unit. The intra prediction is hierarchical layer intra prediction and is performed for the at least one large block by at least one of splitting from the large block size to the basic coding unit size and merging from the basic coding unit size to the large block size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: InterDigital VC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Yunfei Zheng, Qian Xu, Xiaoan Lu, Peng Yin, Joel Sole Rojals, Adeel Abbas
  • Patent number: 11070813
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and systems may provide for technology that performs global motion estimation. More particularly, implementations relate to technology that provides accurate global motion compensation in order to improve video processing efficiency. In some implementations, a highly adaptive and accurate approach may be used to address the problem of estimation and compensation of global motion in video scenes. The solution may be content adaptive as it uses adaptive modeling of motion using best of multiple models that are used to estimate global motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Socek, Atul Puri
  • Patent number: 11042774
    Abstract: The current document is directed to methods and systems for monitoring a dental patient's progress during a course of treatment. A three-dimensional model of the expected positions of the patient's teeth can be projected, in time, from a three-dimensional model of the patient's teeth prepared prior to beginning the treatment. A digital camera is used to take one or more two-dimensional photographs of the patient's teeth, which are input to a monitoring system. The monitoring system determines virtual-camera parameters for each two-dimensional input image with respect to the time-projected three-dimensional model, uses the determined virtual-camera parameters to generate two-dimensional images from the three-dimensional model, and then compares each input photograph to the corresponding generated two-dimensional image in order to determine how closely the three-dimensional arrangement of the patient's teeth corresponds to the time-projected three-dimensional arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Artem Borovinskih, Mitra Derakhshan, Carina Koppers, Eric Meyer, Ekaterina Tolstaya, Yury Brailov
  • Patent number: 11044473
    Abstract: A video encoder and/or video decoder are configured to apply an adaptive loop filter to a reconstructed block of video data. The video encoder and/or video decoder may be configured to determine gradient values for a window that covers the reconstructed block of video data, determine a scaling factor for the gradient values based on a number of available pixels in the window that are on a same side of a virtual boundary as the reconstructed block, and scale the gradient values based on the scaling factor. The video encoder and/or video decoder may determine a class of adaptive loop filter based on the scaled gradient values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Nan Hu, Vadim Seregin, Marta Karczewicz
  • Patent number: 11012694
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method to increase virtual machine density on a server system through adaptive rendering by dynamically determining when to shift video rendering tasks between the server system and a client computing device. In another embodiment, the adaptive rendering, using various parameters, can select one or more encoding and compression algorithms to use to prepare and process the video for transmission to the client computing device. In another embodiment, a video rendering system is disclosed that can adaptively alter how and where a video is rendered, encoded, and compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Rouslan Dimitrov, Chris Amsinck, Viktor Vandanov, Santanu Dutta, Walter Donovan, Olivier Lapicque
  • Patent number: 11012711
    Abstract: A method of controlling intra prediction for decoding or encoding of a video sequence, is performed by at least one processor and includes identifying whether a first intra prediction mode of an above neighboring block of a prediction block is different than a second intra prediction mode of a left neighboring block of the prediction block. The method further includes, based on the first intra prediction mode being identified to be not different than the second intra prediction mode, obtaining a most probable mode (MPM) list including the first intra prediction mode, first immediate modes immediate to the first intra prediction mode and one among second immediate modes respectively immediate to the first immediate modes, and performing the intra prediction on multiple reference lines of the prediction block, using the obtained MPM list, the multiple reference lines being without a first reference line closest to the prediction block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xiaozhong Xu, Shan Liu, Yingbin Wang, Zhenzhong Chen
  • Patent number: 10996628
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for encoding a hologram and evaluating a holographic image quality for an amplitude-modulated hologram. A hologram encoding method may include acquiring three-dimensional (3D) information of a scene or an object; generating hologram information based on the 3D information; deriving a real number hologram function by extracting a real number part and an imaginary number part from the hologram information; determining an intermediate hologram function based on a sign characteristic of the real number hologram function; and determining encoded hologram information based on the intermediate hologram function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Minsung Yoon
  • Patent number: 10992948
    Abstract: Motion compensation requires a significant amount of memory bandwidth, especially for smaller prediction unit sizes. The worst case bandwidth requirements can occur when bi-predicted 4×8 or 8×4 PUs are used. To reduce the memory bandwidth requirements for such smaller PUs, methods are provided for restricting inter-coded PUs of small block sizes to be coded only in a uni-predictive mode, i.e., forward prediction or backward prediction. More specifically, PUs of specified restricted sizes in bi-predicted slices (B slices) are forced to be uni-predicted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Minhua Zhou
  • Patent number: 10979605
    Abstract: Disclosed is a portable magnifier camera with both storage and deployed configurations. In the storage configuration, the entire assembly can be carried via an associated handle. The camera is designed to rest on a desktop, or other planar surface, in the deployed configuration. When deployed, a housing and camera arm are positioned in a cantilevered arrangement over top of an object to be viewed. A camera housing, with an associated camera, is pivotally connected to the camera arm and is positioned over the object upon the camera being placed into a deployed configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Murphy, Todd Conard, Bradley S. Davis, Carlos M. Rodriguez, Michael Goldenberg
  • Patent number: 10951908
    Abstract: According to the present disclosure, an image decoding method performed by a decoding device comprises the steps of: deriving a first intra prediction mode of a current block; deriving neighboring samples including left neighboring samples and upper neighboring samples of the current block; deriving a second intra prediction mode of a target sample on the basis of a location of the target sample and the first intra prediction mode of the current block; and performing prediction for the target sample on the basis of the second intra prediction mode of the target sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sunmi Yoo, Jaehyun Lim, Jin Heo
  • Patent number: 10933814
    Abstract: Disclosed are front entry cabs, and power machines with front entry cabs, having a door that is moveable between opened and closed positions and a display oriented in the cab to provide information to the operator both while the door is in the opened and closed positions. In the opened position, the door is positioned within an operator compartment of the cab above the operator seat and below a top of the cab. The display is positioned to not interfere with the door, door linkages, or operator joystick control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: CLARK EQUIPMENT COMPANY
    Inventors: Cody Erhardt, Jonathan J. Roehrl
  • Patent number: 10931951
    Abstract: Technique for initialization of encoders and decoders. In some cases, the decoder receives a slice and identifies if the slice is either a forward predicted B-slice or a backward predicted B-slice, and not both a forward and backward predicted B-slice, and based upon this identification initializes, using a P-slice technique, a context associated with the slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Velos Media, LLC
    Inventors: Kiran Misra, Christopher Segall
  • Patent number: 10924761
    Abstract: A technique for encoding a privacy masked image comprising a plurality of pixels into an encoded image frame of a video stream is disclosed, The technique includes receiving image data of the image, wherein the image data represents the pixel of the image, grouping the pixels of the image into encoding units, wherein each encoding unit comprises a plurality of neighboring pixels; receiving data defining a privacy mask masking part of the image in the interest of personal integrity, and graphical characteristics of the privacy mask including any one or a combination of constant coloring, smearing, and pixelization, identifying all encoding units having one or more pixels located within the privacy mask, extending the privacy mask to be aligned with the identified encoding units to form a redefined privacy mask covering the identified encoding units, generating a privacy masked image by applying the redefined privacy mask and the received graphical characteristics to the image, and encoding the privacy masked i
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Axis AB
    Inventors: Viktor Edpalm, Song Yuan
  • Patent number: 10924765
    Abstract: A method for encoding a video bitstream by an encoder device includes generating hypothetical reference decoder parameters in a video parameter set, generating the video parameter set and a video parameter set video usability information syntax structure, and encoding the video bitstream having a constant picture rate. The hypothetical reference decoder parameters include a fixed picture rate general flag, a fixed picture rate coded video sequence flag and a temporal distance, the video parameter set includes a video parameter set video usability information present flag, and the video parameter set video usability information syntax structure includes a picture rate present video parameter set flag, a picture rate present flag, a constant picture rate value and an average picture rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 10901193
    Abstract: Volumetric imaging with selective volume illumination (SVI) using light field detection is provided using various systems and techniques. A volumetric imaging apparatus includes a light source configured to emit an illumination light that propagates via an illumination light path to illuminate a three-dimensional (3D) sample; and an optical system arranged with respect to the light source to receive a light field, which comes from the illuminated 3D sample. The light field propagates via a detection light path, and the light source, the optical system, or both; are configurable to perform SVI, which selects a volume of a 3D-confined illumination of the 3D sample based on the 3D sample to be illuminated and a light field detection (LFD) process to be applied. Further, the volume of the 3D-confined illumination is a selected 3D volume of the 3D sample to be particularly excited by the 3D-confined illumination for imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: University of Southern California
    Inventors: Thai V. Truong, Sara Madaan, Daniel B. Holland, Scott E. Fraser