Patents by Inventor Nicholas Milo Johnston

Nicholas Milo Johnston 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).

  • Publication number: 20240144583
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for compressing attributes of volumetric and hypervolumetric datasets. An example system performs operations including obtaining a reference dataset comprising attributes indexed by a domain of multidimensional coordinates; subdividing the domain into a plurality of blocks respectively associated with a plurality of attribute subsets; inputting, to a local nonlinear operator, a latent representation for an attribute subset associated with at least one block of the plurality of blocks; obtaining, using the local nonlinear operator and based on the latent representation, an attribute representation of one or more attributes of the attribute subset; and updating the latent representation based on a comparison of the attribute representation and the reference dataset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Philip Andrew Chou, Berivan Isik, Sung Jin Hwang, Nicholas Milo Johnston, George Dan Toderici
  • Patent number: 11900525
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for compressing attributes of volumetric and hypervolumetric datasets. An example system performs operations including obtaining a reference dataset comprising attributes indexed by a domain of multidimensional coordinates; subdividing the domain into a plurality of blocks respectively associated with a plurality of attribute subsets; inputting, to a local nonlinear operator, a latent representation for an attribute subset associated with at least one block of the plurality of blocks; obtaining, using the local nonlinear operator and based on the latent representation, an attribute representation of one or more attributes of the attribute subset; and updating the latent representation based on a comparison of the attribute representation and the reference dataset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Philip Andrew Chou, Berivan Isik, Sung Jin Hwang, Nicholas Milo Johnston, George Dan Toderici
  • Publication number: 20230260197
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for compressing attributes of volumetric and hypervolumetric datasets. An example system performs operations including obtaining a reference dataset comprising attributes indexed by a domain of multidimensional coordinates; subdividing the domain into a plurality of blocks respectively associated with a plurality of attribute subsets; inputting, to a local nonlinear operator, a latent representation for an attribute subset associated with at least one block of the plurality of blocks; obtaining, using the local nonlinear operator and based on the latent representation, an attribute representation of one or more attributes of the attribute subset; and updating the latent representation based on a comparison of the attribute representation and the reference dataset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Philip Andrew Chou, Berivan Isik, Sung Jin Hwang, Nicholas Milo Johnston, George Dan Toderici
  • Publication number: 20230237332
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, by a neural network (NN), a dataset for generating features from the dataset. A first set of features is computed from the dataset using at least a feature layer of the NN. The first set of features i) is characterized by a measure of informativeness; and ii) is computed such that a size of the first set of features is compressible into a second set of features that is smaller in size than the first set of features and that has a same measure of informativeness as the measure of informativeness of the first set of features. The second set of features if generated from the first set of features using a compression method that compresses the first set of features to generate the second set of features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Abhinav Shrivastava, Saurabh Singh, Johannes Ballé, Sami Ahmad Abu-El-Haija, Nicholas Milo Johnston, George Dan Toderici
  • Patent number: 11019366
    Abstract: An encoder system can include a pixel grid generator to receive an image having a first dimension, generate a grid having a second dimension, add a plurality of points to positions on the grid, and map a plurality of pixels of the image to the plurality of points. The encoder system can include a color module to assign a color to each of the plurality of points using a color table, a triangulation module to generate a plurality of vertices based on the plurality of points and triangulate the grid using the vertices, and a compression module to compress the vertices as a set of compressed vertex positions and a set of vertex colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
  • Publication number: 20190356931
    Abstract: An encoder system can include a pixel grid generator to receive an image having a first dimension, generate a grid having a second dimension, add a plurality of points to positions on the grid, and map a plurality of pixels of the image to the plurality of points. The encoder system can include a color module to assign a color to each of the plurality of points using a color table, a triangulation module to generate a plurality of vertices based on the plurality of points and triangulate the grid using the vertices, and a compression module to compress the vertices as a set of compressed vertex positions and a set of vertex colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019