Patents by Inventor Aljo{hacek over (s)}a Smolic

Aljo{hacek over (s)}a Smolic has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9571812
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for view generation based on a video coding scheme. A bitstream is received that is encoded based on the video coding scheme. The bitstream includes video, quantized warp map offsets, and a message of a message type specified by the video coding scheme. Depth samples decoded from the first bitstream are interpreted as quantized warp map offsets, based on a first syntax element contained in the message. Warp maps are generated based on the quantized warp map offsets and a second syntax element contained in the message. Views are generated using image-domain warping and based on the video and the warp maps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Aljo{hacek over (s)}a Smolic, Nikolce Stefanoski
  • Patent number: 9495766
    Abstract: As described herein, an electronic device with a display screen may simulate the color diffusion that occurs in a physical painting process. For instance, the user may perform one or more actions that simulate a brushstroke on the display screen such as swiping a touch-sensitive area or dragging a cursor across the screen. The electronic device then calculates a geodesic distance between a pixel inside a region defined by the brushstroke and a pixel located outside this region based on the physical distance between the two pixels and a weighting factor that varies depending on whether an image boundary is between the two pixels. Based on the geodesic distance, the electronic device uses a color diffusion relationship that defines the effect of the color of the brushstroke on the pixel and a time delay controlling when the color of the brushstroke reaches the pixel in order to simulate color diffusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignees: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., ETH ZURICH (EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZURICH
    Inventors: Aljo{hacek over (s)}a Smolic, Oliver Wang, Nicolas Märki