Patents by Inventor Moonmo Koo

Moonmo Koo 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: 11889080
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for reconstructing a video signal, which include: obtaining a transform coefficient block by performing an entropy decoding and a dequantization for a current block; deriving a secondary transform corresponding to a specific area in the transform coefficient block, wherein the specific area represents an area including a top-left block of the transform coefficient block; performing an inverse secondary transform for each of subblocks within the specific area using the secondary transform; performing an inverse primary transform for a block which the inverse secondary transform is applied to; and reconstructing the current block using a block which the primary inverse transform is applied to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Mehdi Salehifar, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
  • Publication number: 20240031573
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for video signal processing. A method for decoding an image signal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include determining an input length and an output length of a non-separable transform based on a height and a width of a current block; determining a non-separable transform matrix corresponding to the input length and the output length of a non-separable transform; and applying the non-separable transform matrix to coefficients by a number of the input length in the current block, wherein the height and the width of a current block is greater than or equal to 8, wherein, if each of the height and the width of a current block is equal to 8, the input length of the non-separable transform is determined as 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Moonmo KOO, Mehdi SALEHIFAR, Seunghwan KIM, Jaehyun LIM
  • Patent number: 11882310
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and device for processing a video signal. A method for decoding an image signal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: determining a non-separable transform set index indicating a non-separable transform set used for a non-separable transform of a current block from among non-separable transform sets predefined on the basis of an intra-prediction mode of the current block; determining. as a non-separable transform matrix, a transform kernel indicated by a non-separable transform index for the current block from among transform kernels included in the non-separable transform set indicated by the non-separable transform set index; and applying the non-separable transform matrix to an upper left region which of the current block, which is determined according to the width and height of the current block, wherein each of the predefined non-separable transform sets includes two transform kernels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Mehdi Salehifar, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
  • Patent number: 11882273
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for processing a video signal. Particularly, a method for decoding a video signal according to an embodiment of the disclosure may include: determining, among predefined secondary transform sets based on intra-prediction modes of a current block, a secondary transform set applied to the current block; obtaining a first syntax element indicating a secondary transform matrix applied to the current block in the determined secondary transform set; deriving a secondary inverse-transformed block by performing a secondary inverse transform on a left top region of the current block by using the secondary transform matrix specified by the first syntax element; and deriving a residual block of the current block by performing a primary inverse transform on the secondary inverse-transformed block using a primary transform matrix of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Mehdi Salehifar, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
  • Patent number: 11882289
    Abstract: An image decoding method, according to the present document, may comprise the steps of: deriving transform coefficients for a current block on the basis of residual information; determining whether a significant coefficient is present in a second region excluding a first region in the top-left end of the current block; parsing a LFNST index from a bitstream if the significant coefficient is not present in the second region; deriving modified transform coefficients by applying a LFNST matrix, derived on the basis of the LFNST index, to transform coefficients of the first region; and deriving residual samples of the current block on the basis of an inverse primary transform of the modified transform coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Jaehyun Lim, Junghak Nam, Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11876966
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document comprises a step for performing inverse first-order transform and inverse non-separable transform on a residual sample. The inverse non-separable transform is performed on the basis of a transform index indicating a predetermined transform kernel matrix, the inverse first-order transform is performed on the basis of a multiple transform selection (MTS) index indicating MTS for a horizontal transform kernel and a vertical transform kernel, and a syntax element bin string for the transform index is derived on the basis of first context information when a tree type for a split structure of a target block is not a single tree type and is derived on the basis of second context information when the tree type is the single tree type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Jaehyun Lim, Junghak Nam, Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11870982
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for processing a video signal. A method for decoding an image signal according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: for a current block having a width and a height different from each other, determining a modified intra prediction mode from an intra prediction mode, on the basis of a ratio between the width and the height of the current block and the intra prediction mode; determining an inverse non-separable transform set on the basis of the modified intra prediction mode; and applying an inverse non-separable transform matrix selected from the inverse non-separable transform set with respect to the top-left region of the current block, which is determined according to the width and the height of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Mehdi Salehifar, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
  • Patent number: 11871035
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document comprises a step for deriving a modified transform coefficient, wherein the step for deriving the modified transform coefficient comprises a step for determining whether or not to parse an LFNST index on the basis of whether or not the width and height of a current block satisfy a condition about whether the LFNST can be applied, and whether or not the condition about whether the LFNST can be applied is satisfied is determined on the basis of a tree type and a color format of the current block and whether or not an ISP is applied to the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
  • Publication number: 20240007632
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: deriving a quantized transform coefficient for a current block on the basis of BDPCM; deriving a transform coefficient by performing dequantization on the quantized transform coefficient; and deriving a residual sample on the basis of the transform coefficient, wherein, when the BDPCM is applied to the current block, inverse non-separable transform is not applied to the transform coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Moonmo KOO, Jaehyun LIM, Junghak NAM, Seunghwan KIM
  • Publication number: 20240007642
    Abstract: An image decoding method includes a step of deriving a modified transform coefficient, wherein the step of deriving the modified transform coefficient includes the steps of: deriving a first variable indicating whether the transform coefficient exists in an area excluding a DC location of the current block; parsing an LFNST index based on the derivation result; and deriving the modified transform coefficient based on the LFNST index and an LFNST matrix, and based on the fact that the current block is divided into a plurality of sub-partition blocks, the LFNST index can be parsed without deriving the first variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Moonmo KOO, Jaehyun LIM, Seunghwan KIM
  • Publication number: 20240007674
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document comprises a step of deriving modified transform coefficients, wherein the step of deriving the modified transform coefficients comprises a step of setting an LFNST apply variable about whether to apply an LFNST on the basis of the tree type of the current block, a transform coefficient coding flag for each component of the current block, or a transform skip flag for each component of the current block, and can comprise a step of parsing an LFNST index on the basis of the value of the LFNST apply variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Moonmo KOO, Jaehyun LIM, Seunghwan KIM
  • Patent number: 11863746
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for processing video signals. An image signal decoding method according to an embodiment of the disclosure comprises the steps of: determining, on the basis of the height and width of a current block, an input length and output length of a non-separable transform; determining a non-separable transform matrix corresponding to the input length and output length of the non-separable transform; and applying the non-separable transform matrix to the current block, wherein, when the height and width of the current block are 4 each, the input length and output length of the non-separable transform are determined to be 8 and 16 respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Mehdi Salehifar, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
  • Patent number: 11863778
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a video signal decoding method based on a Multiple Transform Selection (MTS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Mehdi Salehifar, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
  • Publication number: 20230421780
    Abstract: A video decoding method according to the present document comprises a step of deriving transform coefficients for a current block on the basis of residual information, wherein the step of deriving the transform coefficients comprises a step of deriving a zero-out block indicating a region in which effective transform coefficients may exist in the current block, wherein the zero-out block is derived on the basis of flag information indicating whether multiple transform selection (MTS), in which a plurality of transform kernels are used, can be applied to the current block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Moonmo KOO, Seunghawan KIM, Jaehyun LIM
  • Patent number: 11856196
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for processing a video signal. A method for processing a video signal according to an embodiment of the present specification comprises the steps of: acquiring position information of a last significant coefficient according to scanning order in a transform block; and performing residual coding on the basis of the position information of the last significant coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Jaehyun Lim, Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11856224
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present specification comprises the steps of: deriving transform coefficients through inverse quantization on the basis of quantized transform coefficient for a target block; deriving modified transform coefficients on the basis of inverse reduced secondary transform (RST) of the transform coefficients; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of residual samples for the target block on the basis of an inverse primary transform of the modified transform coefficients, wherein the step of deriving the modified transform coefficients is characterized in deriving 16 modified transform coefficients by applying a transform kernel matrix to 8 transform coefficients in a 4×4 region of the target block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Jaehyun Lim, Seunghwan Kim, Mehdi Salehifar
  • Publication number: 20230412843
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document comprises a step of deriving modified transform coefficients on the basis of an inverse reduced secondary transform (RST) regarding transform coefficients regarding a target block. The inverse RST is performed on the basis of transform sets determined on the basis of a mapping relation following an intra prediction mode applied to the target block, and a transform kernel matrix selected from two transform kernel matrices included in the transform sets, respectively, and and is performed on the basis of whether or not the inverse RST is applied, and a transform index indicating one of the transform kernel matrices included in the transform sets. A syntax element bin string regarding the transform index is decoded on the basis of a different context set according to the tree type regarding the division structure of the target block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Moonmo KOO, Seunghwan KIM, Mehdi SALEHIFAR, Jaehyun LIM
  • Publication number: 20230396788
    Abstract: Provided is a method for decoding a video signal based on a reduced transform, which includes: checking whether a transform skip is applied to a current block; obtaining a transform index indicating a transform kernel of the current block from the video signal when the transform skip is not applied to the current block; determining a region where a primary transform is applied to the current block based on the transform kernel indicated by the transform index and a size of the current block; and performing an inverse primary transform on the region to which the primary transform is applied by using the transform kernel indicated by the transform index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Seunghwan KIM, Mehdi SALEHIFAR, Moonmo KOO, Jaehyun LIM
  • Patent number: 11838549
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: acquiring prediction-related information and residual-related information for a current block; deriving transform coefficients for the current block on the basis of the residual-related information; and generating residual samples of the current block on the basis of the transform coefficients, wherein the residual-related information includes low-frequency non-separable transform (LFNST) index information indicating information relating to non-separable transform for a low-frequency transform coefficient of the current block on the basis of a matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) flag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Junghak Nam, Jaehyun Lim, Moonmo Koo, Seunghwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20230388547
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a video signal processing method and device. Particularly, a method for decoding a video signal, may comprise the steps of: checking whether a transfer skip is applied to a current block; obtaining, from a video signal, a transform index for indicating a transform type set applied to the current block when the transform skip is not applied to the current block, wherein the transform type set includes transform types applied to the current block in horizontal and vertical directions; checking whether the transform type set includes DCT2; determining a region to which a primary transform is applied based on a checking result; and performing an inverse transform on the region to which the primary transform is applied in the horizontal and vertical directions using the transform types included in the transform type set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Moonmo KOO, Mehdi SALEHIFAR, Seunghwan KIM, Jaehyun LIM