Patents by Inventor Muhammed Ibrahim Sezan

Muhammed Ibrahim Sezan 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: 6205260
    Abstract: A sprite-based coding system includes an encoder and decoder where sprite-building is automatic and segmentation of the sprite object is automatic and integrated into the sprite building as well as the coding process. The sprite object is distinguished from the rest of the video objects on basis of its motion. The sprite object moves according to the dominant component of the scene motion, which is usually due to camera motion or zoom. Hence, the sprite-based coding system utilizes dominant motion, to distinguish background images from foreground images. The sprite-based coding system is easily integrated into a video object-based coding framework such as MPEG-4, where shape and texture of individual video objects are coded separately. The automatic segmentation integrated in the sprite-based coding system identifies the shape and texture of the sprite object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Regis J. Crinon, Muhammed Ibrahim Sezan
  • Patent number: 5956458
    Abstract: A system and method of determining representative frames of a video sequence to form a visual table of contents for a video tape is disclosed. A representative frame is identified on the occurrence of an event, such as the beginning of a recording sequence, which may follow a record command, a pause-release command, some form of special effect command, or a user-initiated marking command. The representative frame, and location data associated therewith, may be marked along the length of a video tape in a camcorder or VCR, or, the representative frame may be identified and stored, along with the location data therefor, on a MIC. In the case where the representative frame location data is stored on the tape, a scanning mechanism is provided for scanning the recorded video tape to locate the representative frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Muhammed Ibrahim Sezan, Shawmin Lei, Jeffrey Brian Sampsell