Patents by Inventor Hong-Ye Gao

Hong-Ye Gao 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: 7206451
    Abstract: An image process system tiles an image data array, processing the tiles in a predefined order. Each tile of image data is processed by applying a predefined family of transform layers to the tile of image data so as to generate successive sets of transform coefficients. Distinct groups of bit planes of the transform coefficients are stored in distinct bitstreams or distinct portions of a file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Zoran Corporation
    Inventors: Charles K. Chui, Hong-Ye Gao, Lefan Zhong
  • Publication number: 20060072838
    Abstract: An image process system tiles an image data array, processing the tiles in a predefined order. Each tile of image data is processed by applying a predefined family of transform layers to the tile of image data so as to generate successive sets of transform coefficients. Distinct groups of bit planes of the transform coefficients are stored in distinct bitstreams or distinct portions of a file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Charles Chui, Hong-Ye Gao, Lefan Zhong
  • Patent number: 6978049
    Abstract: An image process system tiles an image data array, processing the tiles in a predefined order. Each tile of image data is processed by applying a predefined family of transform layers to the tile of image data so as to generate successive sets of transform coefficients. Each set of transform coefficients include edge coefficients positioned at outside boundaries of the set of transform coefficients and non-edge coefficients positioned at interior locations of the set of transform coefficients. The sets of transform coefficients include a last set of transform coefficients, produced by the last transform layer, and one or more earlier sets of transform coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: Zoran Corporation
    Inventors: Charles K. Chui, Hong-Ye Gao, Lefan Zhong
  • Publication number: 20050053301
    Abstract: An image process system tiles an image data array, processing the tiles in a predefined order. Each tile of image data is processed by applying a predefined family of transform layers to the tile of image data so as to generate successive sets of transform coefficients. Each set of transform coefficients include edge coefficients positioned at outside boundaries of the set of transform coefficients and non-edge coefficients positioned at interior locations of the set of transform coefficients. The sets of transform coefficients include a last set of transform coefficients, produced by the last transform layer, and one or more earlier sets of transform coefficients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Inventors: Charles Chui, Hong-Ye Gao, Lefan Zhong
  • Patent number: 6807308
    Abstract: An image is divided into nonoverlapping tiles, and the tiles are processed in a predefined order. Each tile is processed by applying a predefined family of transform layers to the tile so as to generate successive sets of transform coefficients. The sets of transform coefficients correspond to spatial frequency subbands of the image. The subbands are grouped in accordance with the transform layer that generated them. For one or more respective groups of subbands one or more parameters are generated whose value is indicative of the density of image features in the tile. The tile is classified in accordance with the values of the one or more parameters. Based on the classification, a set of quantization factors for the tile are selected, and then the transform coefficients of the tile are scaled by the selected set of quantization factors to as to generate a set of quantized transform coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Zoran Corporation
    Inventors: Charles K. Chui, Hong-Ye Gao, Lefan Zhong
  • Publication number: 20030123744
    Abstract: An image process system tiles an image data array, processing the tiles in a predefined order. Each tile of image data is processed by applying a predefined family of transform layers to the tile of image data so as to generate successive sets of transform coefficients. Each set of transform coefficients include edge coefficients positioned at outside boundaries of the set of transform coefficients and non-edge coefficients positioned at interior locations of the set of transform coefficients. The sets of transform coefficients include a last set of transform coefficients, produced by the last transform layer, and one or more earlier sets of transform coefficients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Applicant: Picsurf, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles K. Chui, Hong-Ye Gao, Lefan Zhong
  • Patent number: 6549674
    Abstract: An image processing system tiles an image data array. Each tile of image data is processed by applying a family of transform layers to the tile of image data so as to generate successive sets of transform coefficients. Each set of transform coefficients include edge coefficients positioned at outside boundaries of the set of transform coefficients and non-edge coefficients positioned at interior locations of the set of transform coefficients. The transform filters include a short edge transform filter that is applied to image data at boundaries of the tile and to coefficients positioned at and near boundaries of each of the earlier sets of transform coefficients so as to generate the edge coefficients, and a long interior filter that is applied to image data at interior locations of the tile and to coefficients at interior locations of the earlier sets of transform coefficients so as to generate the non-edge coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Picsurf, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles K. Chui, Hong-Ye Gao, Lefan Zhong