Patents by Inventor Reinhard Steffens

Reinhard Steffens 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: 9479766
    Abstract: Modifying images for a 3-dimensional display mode includes receiving a third image encoded for a 3-dimensional display mode, receiving a first image not encoded for the 3-dimensional display mode, modifying the first image to generate a second image encoded for the 3-dimensional display mode, and displaying the third image and the second image in the 3-dimensional display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Gianluca Filippini, Bernd Weber, James F. Dougherty, Thomas J. Zato, Reinhard Steffens
  • Patent number: 8830300
    Abstract: Techniques for converting 3D images using alpha maps are described. A left-view image and a right-view image may be determined from media data received by a 3D display system. An alpha map specifying a plurality of operations for a plurality of locations that correspond to the first plurality of locations in the images may also be determined. The plurality of operations specified in the alpha map may be applied by the 3D display system to process the left-view and right-view images, and to generate, based on the left-view and right-view images, a third image in an appropriate 3D format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Gianluca Filippini, Reinhard Steffens, James Dougherty, Thomas Zato
  • Patent number: 8743178
    Abstract: Techniques for multi-view video format control are provided. In some embodiments, a display video format supported by a display panel is determined. A video format code is extracted from a coded bitstream in which a plurality of images is encoded in two or more source video formats. The video format code identifies a source video format in which a set of images in the plurality of images is encoded. A video format filter is selected to modify the set of images encoded in the source video format to generate another set of images encoded in the display video format. The other set of images encoded in the display video format is sent to the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Gianluca Filippini, Reinhard Steffens, James Dougherty, Thomas Zato
  • Publication number: 20120098943
    Abstract: Modifying images for a 3-dimensional display mode includes receiving a third image encoded for a 3-dimensional display mode, receiving a first image not encoded for the 3-dimensional display mode, modifying the first image to generate a second image encoded for the 3-dimensional display mode, and displaying the third image and the second image in the 3-dimensional display mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Gianluca Filippini, Bernd Weber, James F. Dougherty, Thomas J. Zato, Reinhard Steffens
  • Publication number: 20110221864
    Abstract: Techniques for converting 3D images using alpha maps are described. A left-view image and a right-view image may be determined from media data received by a 3D display system. An alpha map specifying a plurality of operations for a plurality of locations that correspond to the first plurality of locations in the images may also be determined. The plurality of operations specified in the alpha map may be applied by the 3D display system to process the left-view and right-view images, and to generate, based on the left-view and right-view images, a third image in an appropriate 3D format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gianluca Filippini, Reinhard Steffens, James Dougherty, Thomas Zato
  • Publication number: 20110222835
    Abstract: Techniques for providing application tracks in a media data container are described. An application descriptor may be extracted from a coded bitstream. The coded bitstream comprises media data to be played by a media presentation system. The application descriptor identifies an application archive (i) that is retrievable by the media presentation system from one or more sources and (ii) that is required by the media presentation system at a set media time associated with the media data. While playing the media data, the media presentation system causes retrieving all of the application archive from the one or more sources before the set media time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Dougherty, Thomas Zato, Gianluca Filippini, Reinhard Steffens
  • Publication number: 20110216162
    Abstract: Techniques for multi-view video format control are provided. In some embodiments, a display video format supported by a display panel is determined. A video format code is extracted from a coded bitstream in which a plurality of images is encoded in two or more source video formats. The video format code identifies a source video format in which a set of images in the plurality of images is encoded. A video format filter is selected to modify the set of images encoded in the source video format to generate another set of images encoded in the display video format. The other set of images encoded in the display video format is sent to the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gianluca Filippini, Reinhard Steffens, James Dougherty, Thomas Zato
  • Publication number: 20070211895
    Abstract: A data processing technique includes encryption/decryption of an input dataword using a key to obtain an output dataword. Reversible single-bit operations are applied to the input dataword before the encryption or decryption, and/or application of single-bit operations to the output dataword obtained by the encryption or decryption, wherein the single-bit operations are represented by a completely minimized Boolean operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Inventors: Reinhard Steffens, Sebastian Kaluza
  • Publication number: 20070140482
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of storing data in a random access memory and to an encryption and decryption device. According to the method of storing data in a random access memory in which data words, each comprising a predetermined number of data bits, are storable, an encryption of each data word is effected before storage whereby a permutated data word with a predetermined number of data bits is generated from each data word, or from a data word derived from this data word, by one-to-one permutation of the individual data bits using a first permutation key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventors: Hagen Ploog, Reinhard Steffens