Patents by Inventor Christian ETMANN

Christian ETMANN 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).

  • Method and data processing system for lossy image or video encoding, transmission and decoding
    Patent number: 11936866
    Abstract: A method for lossy video encoding, transmission and decoding, the method comprising the steps of: receiving an input video at a first computer system; encoding an input frame of the input video to produce a latent representation; producing a quantized latent; producing a hyper-latent representation; producing a quantized hyper-latent; entropy encoding the quantized latent; transmitting the entropy encoded quantized latent and the quantized hyper-latent to a second computer system; decoding the quantized hyper-latent to produce a set of context variables, wherein the set of context variables comprise a temporal context variable; entropy decoding the entropy encoded quantized latent using the set of context variables to obtain an output quantized latent; and decoding the output quantized latent to produce an output frame, wherein the output frame is an approximation of the input frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DEEP RENDER LTD.
    Inventors: Chris Finlay, Christian Besenbruch, Jan Xu, Bilal Abbasi, Christian Etmann, Arsalan Zafar, Sebastjan Cizel, Vira Koshkina
  • METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR LOSSY IMAGE OR VIDEO ENCODING, TRANSMISSION AND DECODING
    Publication number: 20240007631
    Abstract: A method for lossy video encoding, transmission and decoding, the method comprising the steps of: receiving an input video at a first computer system; encoding an input frame of the input video to produce a latent representation; producing a quantized latent; producing a hyper-latent representation; producing a quantized hyper-latent; entropy encoding the quantized latent; transmitting the entropy encoded quantized latent and the quantized hyper-latent to a second computer system; decoding the quantized hyper-latent to produce a set of context variables, wherein the set of context variables comprise a temporal context variable; entropy decoding the entropy encoded quantized latent using the set of context variables to obtain an output quantized latent; and decoding the output quantized latent to produce an output frame, wherein the output frame is an approximation of the input frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Chris FINLAY, Christian BESENBRUCH, Jan XU, Bilal ABBASI, Christian ETMANN, Arsalan ZAFAR, Sebastjan CIZEL, Vira KOSHKINA