Patents Assigned to Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1
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Publication number: 20180288434Abstract: A picture decoding method is provided for decoding coded picture data. The method includes decoding the coded picture data to obtain a reconstructed picture. The method also includes removing coding distortion in an area disposed on both sides of a block boundary between a first block and an adjacent second block in the reconstructed picture having a plurality of blocks, each block being adaptively decoded either as a field structure block, comprising only even field pixels or comprising only odd field pixels, or a frame structure block, comprising odd field pixels and even field pixels. The method further includes storing the reconstructed picture, for which coding distortion is removed, as a reference picture.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1Inventors: Shinya KADONO, Sheng Mei SHEN, Teck Wee FOO, Chak Joo LEE, Zhong XUE
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Patent number: 10091522Abstract: A moving picture coding method for coding a picture with switching between frame coding and field coding adaptively on a block-by-block basis includes: determining the maximum number of reference indices for field coding for specifying fields which are to be referred to at the time of field coding, using the maximum number of reference indices for frame coding for specifying frames which are to be referred to at the time of frame coding; and assigning to fields the reference indices for field coding for specifying fields which are to be referred to at the time of field coding, within a range of the determined maximum number thereof, using the reference indices for frame coding for specifying frames which are to be referred to at the time of frame coding.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2017Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Shinya Kadono, Satoshi Kondo
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Patent number: 10080033Abstract: A moving picture coding apparatus includes a motion estimation unit (101) for performing motion estimation by fixing the one of two reference pictures as a reference picture indicated by an inputted default reference picture number DefRefNo and a variable length coding unit (107) for performing variable length coding on coded residual data ERes, a prediction type PredType, a reference picture number RefNo2 and motion vectors MV1, MV2 on a block-by-block basis, and outputting them as coded moving picture data Str.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1Inventors: Makoto Hagai, Shinya Kadono, Satoshi Kondo, Kiyofumi Abe
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Patent number: 10063890Abstract: The present invention is a variable length coding method for coding coefficients in each block which are obtained by performing frequency transformation on picture data of a moving picture per block having a predetermined size, and comprises: a coefficient scanning step of scanning the coefficients in the block in a predetermined order; and a coding step of coding the coefficients scanned in the coefficient scanning step into variable length codes in a predetermined order by switching a plurality of tables to be used for coding. Here, a direction of switching between the tables may be one-directional. Also, the coding may be non-arithmetic coding.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1Inventors: Satoshi Kondo, Shinya Kadono, Makoto Hagai, Kiyofumi Abe
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Patent number: 10057602Abstract: The present invention is a variable length coding method for coding coefficients in each block which are obtained by performing frequency transformation on picture data of a moving picture per block having a predetermined size, and comprises: a coefficient scanning step of scanning the coefficients in the block in a predetermined order; and a coding step of coding the coefficients scanned in the coefficient scanning step into variable length codes in a predetermined order by switching a plurality of tables to be used for coding. Here, a direction of switching between the tables may be one-directional. Also, the coding may be non-arithmetic coding.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1Inventors: Satoshi Kondo, Shinya Kadono, Makoto Hagai, Kiyofumi Abe
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Patent number: 10057595Abstract: A picture coding apparatus includes a motion vector estimation unit and a motion compensation unit. The motion vector estimation unit selects one method for deriving a motion vector of a block to be motion-compensated, depending on a motion vector of a block located in a corner of a decoded macroblock from among a group of blocks that compose the decoded macroblock corresponding to the current macroblock to be coded and determines the motion vector derived by the selected method for derivation to be a candidate of the motion vector of the current macroblock to be coded. The motion compensation unit generates a predictive image of the block to be motion-compensated based on the estimated motion vector.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2016Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1Inventors: Shinya Kadono, Satoshi Kondo, Kiyofumi Abe
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Patent number: 10034025Abstract: The present invention is a variable length coding method for coding coefficients in each block which are obtained by performing frequency transformation on picture data of a moving picture per block having a predetermined size, and comprises: a coefficient scanning step of scanning the coefficients in the block in a predetermined order; and a coding step of coding the coefficients scanned in the coefficient scanning step into variable length codes in a predetermined order by switching a plurality of tables to be used for coding. Here, a direction of switching between the tables may be one-directional. Also, the coding may be non-arithmetic coding.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1Inventors: Satoshi Kondo, Shinya Kadono, Makoto Hagai, Kiyofumi Abe
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Patent number: 10033506Abstract: A communication apparatus has a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver, in operation receives a control signal including a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) Index, a channel quality indicator (CQI) trigger and information indicating uplink resource blocks. The transmitter in operation, determines whether to multiplex an aperiodic CQI report with data in an uplink signal based on the MCS Index, the channel quality indicator trigger, the information indicating uplink resource blocks, and a threshold number of resource blocks, and transmits the uplink signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1Inventors: Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Christian Wengerter, Joachim Löhr
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Patent number: 10034309Abstract: A mobile station includes communication control circuitry that selects a preamble contained in a first Random Access Preamble group when a message size based on data available for transmission does not meet a first condition or when a value calculated based on a reference signal received power of downlink does not meet a second condition, a preamble contained in a second Random Access Preamble group when the message size based on data available for transmission meets the first condition and the value calculated based on the reference signal received power of downlink meets the second condition, and a preamble contained in the third Random Access Preamble group for a handover, independent of the message size based on data available for transmission and the value calculated based on the reference signal received power of downlink. The communication control circuitry also generates and transmits a selected preamble.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Sadaki Futagi, Atsushi Matsumoto, Tomofumi Takata
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Patent number: 10028268Abstract: In a terminal, a control unit transmits a bundle response signal using a resource in a basic region of an uplink control channel in an uplink unit band of a unit band group when no error is detected in each of a plurality of pieces of downlink data of the unit band group, the uplink control channel in the uplink unit band being associated with a downlink control channel in a basic unit band that is a downlink unit band in which a broadcast channel signal including information relating to the uplink unit band is transmitted, and the control unit transmits the bundle response signal using a resource in an additional region of the uplink control channel when an error is detected in each of the plurality of pieces of downlink data.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura
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Patent number: 10027990Abstract: The present invention is a variable length coding method for coding coefficients in each block which are obtained by performing frequency transformation on picture data of a moving picture per block having a predetermined size, and comprises: a coefficient scanning step of scanning the coefficients in the block in a predetermined order; and a coding step of coding the coefficients scanned in the coefficient scanning step into variable length codes in a predetermined order by switching a plurality of tables to be used for coding. Here, a direction of switching between the tables may be one-directional. Also, the coding may be non-arithmetic coding.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1Inventors: Satoshi Kondo, Shinya Kadono, Makoto Hagai, Kiyofumi Abe
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Patent number: 10021389Abstract: In a picture coding method for generating a coded signal corresponding to each picture by coding a plurality of coded signals, a switching picture which is capable of switching a plurality of coded signals and subsequent pictures of the switching picture can refer to only a group of pictures of the same time in the coded signals. More specifically, the case where picture numbers of an adjacent picture of an S picture and the S picture are not continuous is not considered as an error.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1Inventors: Shinya Kadono, Satoshi Kondo, Makoto Hagai, Kiyofumi Abe
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Patent number: 10015517Abstract: A coding distortion removal method is provided for removing coding distortion in an area disposed on both sides of a block boundary between a first block and an adjacent second block in a picture having a plurality of blocks, each block being adaptively coded either as a field structure block, comprising only even field pixels or comprising only odd field pixels, or a frame structure block, comprising odd field pixels and even field pixels. The method includes detecting whether the block boundary between the first block and the adjacent second block is a block boundary between a field structure block and a frame structure block, and performing a coding distortion removal process on the first block and the adjacent second block. The coding distortion removal process includes determining whether coding distortion removal is needed, determining the number of pixels to be processed, and removing coding distortion.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1Inventors: Shinya Kadono, Sheng Shen, Teck Wee Foo, Chak Joo Lee, Zhong Xue
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Patent number: 10009890Abstract: An integrated circuit, for example, included in a wireless communication base station, controls a process that includes mapping a first downlink control channel to control channel element(s) (CCE(s)) in a first search space comprised of a first plurality of CCEs, the first downlink control channel including resource assignment information, which indicates a resource allocated to a terminal in a component carrier n (CCn) out of one or more component carrier(s) (CC(s)), and mapping a second downlink control channel to CCE(s) in a second search space comprised of a second plurality of CCE(s), the second downlink control channel including resource assignment information, which indicates a resource allocated to the terminal in a component carrier n+1 (CCn+1) out of the CC(s), the first plurality of CCEs and the second plurality of CCEs are consecutive. The process also includes transmitting the first and the second downlink control channels to the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2017Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura, Masayuki Hoshino
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Patent number: 10003983Abstract: A radio communication apparatus receives control information on one or more control channel elements (CCEs) with consecutive CCE number(s). The radio communication apparatus first-spreads a response signal with a sequence defined by a cyclic shift value that is determined among a plurality of cyclic shift values from an index of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), which is associated with a first CCE number of the one or more CCEs, and second-spreads the first-spread response signal with an orthogonal sequence that is determined among a plurality of orthogonal sequences from the index. One of cyclic shift values used for an orthogonal sequence is determined from an index of the PUCCH, which is associated with an odd CCE number, and another one of the cyclic shift values used for the same orthogonal sequence is determined from an index of the PUCCH, which is associated with an even CCE number.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Masayuki Hoshino
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Patent number: 9998751Abstract: A moving picture coding method for coding a picture with switching between frame coding and field coding adaptively on a block-by-block basis includes: determining the maximum number of reference indices for field coding for specifying fields which are to be referred to at the time of field coding, using the maximum number of reference indices for frame coding for specifying frames which are to be referred to at the time of frame coding; and assigning to fields the reference indices for field coding for specifying fields which are to be referred to at the time of field coding, within a range of the determined maximum number thereof, using the reference indices for frame coding for specifying frames which are to be referred to at the time of frame coding.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Shinya Kadono, Satoshi Kondo
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Patent number: 9998756Abstract: A moving picture coding apparatus includes a motion estimation unit (101) for performing motion estimation by fixing the one of two reference pictures as a reference picture indicated by an inputted default reference picture number DefRefNo and a variable length coding unit (107) for performing variable length coding on coded residual data ERes, a prediction type PredType, a reference picture number RefNo2 and motion vectors MV1, MV2 on a block-by-block basis, and outputting them as coded moving picture data Str.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1Inventors: Makoto Hagai, Shinya Kadono, Satoshi Kondo, Kiyofumi Abe
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Patent number: 9979508Abstract: In MIMO communication, a communication device is provided that transmits a transfer rate request signal while reducing it and reducing the interference and power consumption when the transfer rate request signal is transmitted substantially without lowering the transmission efficiency. A modulation encoding unit encodes and modulates transmission data transmitted to a communication partner and the transfer rate request signal is the plurality of transmission antennas. A transmission unit and a transmission antenna transmit a signal from the modulation encoding unit. A transmission control unit controls transmission of a signal transmitted from the transmission antenna and transmits a transfer rate request signal of one transmission antenna via the transmission antenna according to a comparison result between a difference of the transfer rate request signal in the respective transmission antenna of the communication partner and a predetermined value.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Godo Kaisha IP Bridge 1Inventor: Hiroaki Sudo
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Patent number: 9973773Abstract: An image decoding method is provided which includes a time information determination step of determining time information of a current picture, a first reference picture referred to by the current picture and a second reference picture referred to by the current picture; a scaling parameter calculation step of calculating a scaling parameter based on a time distance between the first reference picture and a second reference picture; a weighting coefficient determination step of determining two weighting coefficients based on the scaling parameter; a predictive pixel value generation step of generating a predictive pixel value of the current picture by scaling a pixel value of the first reference picture and a pixel value of the second reference picture using the two weighting coefficients determined in the weighting coefficient determination step; and a decoding step of decoding the current picture using the predictive pixel value.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1Inventors: Shinya Kadono, Chong Soon Lim, Teck Wee Foo, Sheng Mei Shen
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Patent number: 9967584Abstract: An image decoding method is provided which includes a time information determination step of determining time information of a current picture, a first reference picture referred to by the current picture and a second reference picture referred to by the current picture; a scaling parameter calculation step of calculating a scaling parameter based on a time distance between the first reference picture and a second reference picture; a weighting coefficient determination step of determining two weighting coefficients based on the scaling parameter; a predictive pixel value generation step of generating a predictive pixel value of the current picture by scaling a pixel value of the first reference picture and a pixel value of the second reference picture using the two weighting coefficients determined in the weighting coefficient determination step; and a decoding step of decoding the current picture using the predictive pixel value.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1Inventors: Shinya Kadono, Chong Soon Lim, Teck Wee Foo, Sheng Mei Shen