Patents Assigned to INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDING
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Publication number: 20240171750Abstract: Video processing can involve encoding and/or decoding a picture based on determining an activation of a processing mode involving a motion vector refinement process and a second process other than the motion vector refinement process; modifying the motion vector refinement process based on the activation and the second process; and encoding and/or decoding the picture based on the modified motion vector refinement process and the second process.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2024Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SASInventors: Fabrice Urban, Franck Galpin, Philippe Bordes
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Patent number: 11991338Abstract: A terminal adapted to receive an immersive video spatially tiled with a set of tiles is configured to request tiles depending on their intersection with a volume of vision associated with a user.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGSInventors: Yvon Legallais, Charles Salmon-Legagneur, Remi Houdaille
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Patent number: 11991361Abstract: A video coding system comprises a post-processing stage using position dependent intra prediction combination where a predicted sample is modified based on a weighting between a value of a left or top reference sample and the obtained predicted value for the sample, wherein the left or top reference sample is determined based on the intra prediction angle. This provides better computing efficiency while keeping identical compression performance. Encoding method, decoding method, encoding apparatus and decoding apparatus based on this post-processing stage are proposed.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SASInventors: Gagan Rath, Fabien Racape, Fabrice Urban
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Publication number: 20240163761Abstract: A method (30) and system (10) for controlling wireless local area network (WLAN) user quality in a multi-access point environment is provided. In order to ensure good quality of service/user experience in a multi-access point Wi-Fi™ setup in which a user roams with a station (14), the access points (11, 12) continuously or at intervals assess the wireless environment's quality and report to a control entity (13). The control entity (13) determines, from the assessment data, alternative target access points (11, 12) that could be used in case the link quality of a current connection between an access point (11) and the station (14) falls below a predefined value. The control entity (13) then instructs the access point (11) to actively disconnect the station (14) and selects a new target access point (12) to accept the stations (14) connection request.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2024Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGSInventors: Koen VAN OOST, Bart Vercammen, Kevin Gardner
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Image sensor comprising a color splitter with two different refractive indexes, and different height
Patent number: 11972508Abstract: It is proposed an image sensor comprising pixels for acquiring color information from incoming visible light, wherein said image sensor comprising three pixels being partially covered by a color splitter structure for deviating only one color channel of said incoming visible light towards one of said three pixels, and for deviating other colors of said incoming visible light towards the other pixels among said three pixels.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SASInventors: Oksana Shramkova, Mitra Damghanian, Laurent Blonde -
Patent number: 11964200Abstract: In a particular implementation, a user environment space for haptic feedback and interactivity (HapSpace) is proposed. In one embodiment, the HapSpace is a virtual space attached to the user and is defined by the maximum distance that the user's body can reach. The HapSpace may move as the user moves. Haptic objects and haptic devices, and the associated haptic properties, may also be defined within the HapSpace. New descriptors, such as those enable precise locations and link between the user and haptic objects/devices are defined for describing the HapSpace.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SASInventors: Philippe Guillotel, Fabien Danieau, Julien Fleureau, Didier Doyen
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Patent number: 11962745Abstract: A method and system are provided for processing image content. The method comprises receiving information about a content image captured at least by one camera. The content includes multi-view representation of an image including both distorted and undistorted areas. The camera parameters and image parameters are then obtained and used to determine to which areas are undistorted and which areas are distorted in said image. This is used to calculate depth map of the image using the determined undistorted and distorted information. A final stereoscopic image is then rendered that uses the distorted and undistorted areas and calculation of depth map.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SASInventors: Didier Doyen, Franck Galpin, Guillaume Boisson
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Publication number: 20240114143Abstract: At least one embodiment relates to provides a method of encoding/decoding attribute of orthogonally projected 3D samples and in-between 3D samples in which an information indicates whether at least one first attribute patch of 2D samples obtained by encoding the attribute of said at least one orthogonally projected 3D samples according to a first attribute coding mode, and at least one second attribute patch of 2D samples of an image obtained by encoding the attribute of at least one in-between 3D sample, are stored in separate images.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SASInventors: Pierre Andrivon, Yannick Olivier, Jean-Claude Chevet, David Gendron
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Patent number: 11929377Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an image sensor (21) comprising an array of pixels, wherein a set of pixels of the array comprises pixels with different height levels arranged according to their height level and relative position to an optical axis (22) of the image sensor, wherein each pixel of the set can take one height level i among N different height levels, N?2, where i=1 is the smallest height level and i=N is the highest height level. According to the disclosure, for a pixel of the set having a first height level equal to n, 2?n?N, and an adjacent pixel of the set having a second height level equal to m, lower than the first height level, in at least one of horizontal, vertical, or diagonal scanning direction, from a point at which the optical axis (22) intersects the image sensor (21) to at least one rim of the image sensor, the second height level m is equal to n?1.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SASInventors: Mitra Damghanian, Oksana Shramkova, Valter Drazic
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Patent number: 11930184Abstract: Video processing can involve encoding and/or decoding a picture based on determining an activation of a processing mode involving a motion vector refinement process and a second process other than the motion vector refinement process; modifying the motion vector refinement process based on the activation and the second process; and encoding and/or decoding the picture based on the modified motion vector refinement process and the second process.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SASInventors: Fabrice Urban, Franck Galpin, Philippe Bordes
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Patent number: 11930004Abstract: A method and apparatus are described including logging on to an account on the shared server based on credentials, transmitting a request to the shared server for a list of smart devices registered to the account, receiving the list of smart devices from the shared server, linking to a selected one of the smart devices from the list of smart devices received from the shared server; and transmitting a smart device command to the selected smart device. Also described are a method and apparatus including receiving credentials from a client device to log-on to an account, receiving a request from the client device for a list of smart devices registered to the account and transmitting the list of smart devices to the client device.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGSInventors: Feng Mi, Wei Luo, Gao Zhang
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Patent number: 11910054Abstract: A method and an apparatus for decoding a volumetric video are disclosed. Such a method comprises receiving a data stream representative of a file comprising information for selecting, according to a rendering viewpoint, at least one atlas comprising color and depth data patches associated with a viewpoint in said volumetric video, said color and depth data patches being generated with respect to depth and color reference data acquired from a reference viewpoint in said volumetric video.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent HoldingsInventors: Serge Travert, Jean Le Roux, Charles Salmon-Legagneur, Remi Houdaille
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Patent number: 11898738Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for designing, implementing, and/or using communication cables comprising a leaky feeder structure, which may be configurable for homogeneous distribution of data signals. An example communication cable may comprise a core conductor, an insulation shield surrounding the core conductor, an outer conductor around the insulation shield and having one or more apertures arranged along its length, and a jacket at least partly covering the outer conductor. The communication cable may also comprise an illumination arrangement which may be arranged at least along sections of the length of the cable. The illumination arrangement may comprise a plurality of light emitting units.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SASInventor: Daniel Wenger
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Patent number: 11902848Abstract: A method (30) and system (10) for controlling wireless local area network (WLAN) user quality in a multi-access point environment is provided. In order to ensure good quality of service/user experience in a multi-access point Wi-Fi™ setup in which a user roams with a station (14), the access points (11, 12) continuously or at intervals assess the wireless environment's quality and report to a control entity (13). The control entity (13) determines, from the assessment data, alternative target access points (11, 12) that could be used in case the link quality of a current connection between an access point (11) and the station (14) falls below a pre-defined value. The control entity (13) then instructs the access point (11) to actively disconnect the station (14) and selects a new target access point (12) to accept the stations (14) connection request.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGSInventors: Koen Van Oost, Bart Vercammen, Kevin Gardner
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Publication number: 20240048535Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for use in selectable data transmission. In a portable mobile computing device, a request to initiate an instant video communication with a remote portable multi-function computing device may be received, and in response to receiving the request to initiate the instant video communication, it may be determined, based on a stored authorization list, that the instant video communication connection to the remote portable multi-function computing device is authorized, and In response to such determining, stored connection information for the remote portable multi-function computing device may be accessed, and captured video communication data for the requested instant video communication may be transmitted according to the stored instant connection information such that the captured video communication data may be displayed at the remote portable multi-function computing device as it is received.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SASInventors: Marc Danzeisen, Jan Linder, Simon Winiker, Florian Baumgartner
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Patent number: 11895301Abstract: At least one embodiment relates to provides a method of encoding/decoding attribute of orthogonally projected 3D samples and in-between 3D samples in which an information indicates whether at least one first attribute patch of 2D samples obtained by encoding the attribute of said at least one orthogonally projected 3D samples according to a first attribute coding mode, and at least one second attribute patch of 2D samples of an image obtained by encoding the attribute of at least one in-between 3D sample, are stored in separate images.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SASInventors: Pierre Andrivon, Yannick Olivier, Jean-Claude Chevet, David Gendron
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Patent number: 11888834Abstract: Methods are systems are provided for onboarding network equipment to managed networks. An onboarding controller of a managed network may generate a challenge for network equipment to be onboarded into the managed network, and may send the challenge to a communication device different from the equipment network. The challenge may include information relating to a configuration change to be made to the network equipment. Further, the challenge is sent over a connection that is different than a connection used in communicating with the network equipment. The onboarding controller may verify, based on handling of the configuration change, an identity and/or a network location of the network equipment. Handling the configuration change may include applying the configuration change.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SASInventors: Dominik Schatzmann, Markus Brunner
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Patent number: 11870549Abstract: System and methods are provided for managing use of media feeds in a media player. A media feed may be selected from a plurality of media feeds based on a feedback signal corresponding to an audio output signal of a media player, and a corresponding transmit signal may be configured for transmittal to the media player. The transmit signal may include a plurality of channels, and configuring the transmit signal may include selecting one channel from the plurality of channels based on the feedback signal, and conveying the media feed over the selected channel. The selected channel may be processed to carry the media feed, such as by frequency-modulating the media feed into the selected channel. The feedback signal may be processed, and control information may be determined based on the processing for controlling one or both of the selecting of the media feed and configuring of the transmit signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SASInventor: Urs-Viktor Marti
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Patent number: 11863862Abstract: A display device (100) obtains (S210) an image, obtains (S220) a current measure of inclination of a screen (110) of the display device (100), rotates (S230) the image to compensate for the inclination to render the image parallel with the horizon, scales (S240) and displays (S250) the image entire and horizontally on the screen. The image can be part of a video for which other images are processed to be displayed horizontally. The image can be scaled to maximise the size of the image when displayed on the screen (110); this can be performed after a period of unchanged inclination.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SASInventors: Goulven Querre, Thomas Morin, Karine Jegou, Sebastien Fraleu
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Publication number: 20230412581Abstract: Methods are systems are provided for onboarding network equipment to managed networks. An onboarding controller may be used in authenticating the to-be-onboarded network equipment. The onboarding controller may issue a challenge, which may include instructions for making configuration changes to the network equipment. The configuration changes may include adding, removing, and/or changing connections within and/or to the network equipment within a local network including the network equipment. The onboarding controller may determine whether or not the configuration changes have been made to the network equipment. The determination of configuration changes may be used in verifying the identity and/or location of the network equipment, and/or in determining determine to which managed network the network equipment should be onboarded.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SASInventors: Dominik Schatzmann, Markus Brunner