Patents Assigned to INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS
  • Patent number: 12382056
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Pierre Andrivon, Yannick Olivier, Jean-Claude Chevet, David Gendron
  • Patent number: 12355964
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to improve compression efficiency in a video compression scheme enables separate control of a local chroma quantization parameter. The control can be used to disable a local chroma quantization parameter. One embodiment uses an existing local luma quantization parameter control flag for controlling local chroma quantization parameter. Another embodiment includes a separate local chroma quantization parameter control flag. Bitstream syntax is used to convey the flags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Philippe De Lagrange, Karam Naser, Philippe Bordes, Fabrice Leleannec
  • Patent number: 12335209
    Abstract: A method of obtaining contact information for a person or an entity is disclosed. The method comprises detecting a name of the person or the entity in a frame from a screen of a device; determining a presence status for the detected name based on one or more connectivity status for the detected name in one or more communication applications and/or one or more databases, where the one or more communication applications operate on the device from which the frame originates and where the one or more databases are accessible on the device; displaying the presence status on the screen of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventor: Tim Carr
  • Patent number: 12335808
    Abstract: To perform location-specific services of a broadcasting unit, virtual cells for the location-specific services are set up so that cell data, which define a local cell area, are transmitted to a mobile receiving device via the broadcasting unit. The cell data are stored in the mobile receiving device. The mobile receiving device establishes its current position and determines whether it is located in the cell area. If the mobile receiving device is located in the cell area, the receiving device performs a service assigned to the cell data. The setting up of cells for location-specific services by the broadcasting unit in a multitude of mobile receiving devices in the service area of the broadcasting unit enables geographical areas inside and outside the service area to be slit up into smaller, interactive and virtual service cells and cell clusters in a dynamic and optimal manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventor: Rudolf Ritter
  • Patent number: 12294725
    Abstract: Flexible methods to use a combination of coding modes while keeping good performance tradeoff are implemented with embodiments that determine coding mode information. In one embodiment, determination is made of activation of a first coding mode, and upon determination of whether a second coding mode is used, coding or decoding using the determined modes occurs. Other embodiments enable use of multiple reference lines, intra sub-block partitioning, matrix intra prediction, and low frequency non-separable transforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Franck Galpin, Philippe Bordes, Gagan Rath, Edouard Francois
  • Patent number: 12293470
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for facilitating navigation toward a region of interest in an extended scene of video content include determining a timeline including information regarding at least one region of interest in the video content and displaying, in a portion of the video content currently being displayed, a visual indicator indicating a direction in which to move in the video content to cause the display of the at least one region of interest. In one embodiment of the present principles a timeline is attached to the content and carries information evolving over time about the region(s) of interest. A renderer processes the timeline and provides navigation information to a user using available means such as a graphical representation or haptic information, or a combination of several means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Anthony Laurent, Vincent Alleaume, Maximilien Bellot
  • Patent number: 12279197
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Koen Van Oost, Bart Vercammen, Kevin Gardner
  • Patent number: 12273606
    Abstract: A device includes at least one first sensor and at least one second sensor for capturing first image data, the at least one first and second sensors being rectangular and arranged orthogonal to the at least one first rectangular sensor, and at least one hardware processor configured to cause the at least one first and second sensors, respectively, the first image data and the second image data at least substantially simultaneously, and at least one of display simultaneously data from the first image data and data from the second image data as a cross-shaped image or store together data from the first image data and data from the second image data as a cross-shaped image. The resulting first and second image data can be stored in a single file in memory. The at least one hardware processor can be processed to remove redundancies between the image data. The device can also extract from the first and second image data, image data corresponding to a rectangle parallel with an horizon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Frederic Babon, Tristan Langlois, Guillaume Boisson, Didier Doyen
  • Patent number: 12267949
    Abstract: A display unit includes: a display section (11) having flexibility; and a bending control section (12a, 12b) configured to limit a movable shaft in bending the display section (11) to one direction in a display surface and allowed to maintain the display section (11) in an arbitrary bending state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventor: Gen Yukawa
  • Patent number: 12250378
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to improve compression efficiency in a video compression scheme enables separate control of a local chroma quantization parameter. The control can be used to disable a local chroma quantization parameter. One embodiment uses an existing local luma quantization parameter control flag for controlling local chroma quantization parameter. Another embodiment includes a separate local chroma quantization parameter control flag. Bitstream syntax is used to convey the flags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Philippe De Lagrange, Karam Naser, Philippe Bordes, Fabrice Leleannec
  • Patent number: 12223161
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a position of a manipulation body on a display screen and a control unit configured to, if a first manipulation on the display screen in a locked state is detected, display, on the display screen, icons to be arranged based on a reference point indicating a position of the manipulation body when the first manipulation is completed, and if a second manipulation indicating a direction from the reference point is detected, start up an application corresponding to the icon specified by the second manipulation. An associated method and computer readable storage medium are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventor: Reiko Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 12214493
    Abstract: A device configured for radiating a focused electromagnetic beam is proposed. Such device comprises: —a first (101) and a second (102) part having respectively a second n2 and third n3 refractive index and a first W1 and second W2; —a first contact area (100e1) intended to be between a host medium having a first refractive index n1 and in which the micro or nanoparticles are intended to be trapped or moved by a focused electromagnetic beam radiated by the device; —a second contact area (100e2) between the first part and the second part; and —a third contact area (100e3) intended to be between the second part and the host medium. The focused electromagnetic beam results from a combination of at least two beams among a first (NJ1), a second (NJ2) and a third (NJ3) jet beams radiated respectively by the first, second and third contact areas when an incoming electromagnetic wave (IEM) illuminates the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Oksana Shramkova, Laurent Blonde, Valter Drazic, Mitra Damghanian
  • Patent number: 12212784
    Abstract: Methods, devices and stream are disclosed to encode and decode a scene (such as a point cloud) in the context of a patch-based transmission of a volumetric video content. Attributes of points of the scene are projected onto patches. Every point has a geometry attribute. For other attributes, like transparency of displacement attribute, some points may have no value. According to the present principles, each attribute is encoded in a different atlas with its own layout. This allow to save pixel rate in memory of the renderer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Bertrand Chupeau, Renaud Dore, Franck Thudor
  • Patent number: 12192189
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Feng Mi, Wei Luo, Gao Zhang
  • Patent number: 12190461
    Abstract: A method of sharing and a method of presenting virtual content in a mixed reality scene rendered on at least two user devices having different viewing position and/or orientation onto the mixed reality scene and corresponding apparatus are described. At a first user device, a user is enabled to select a virtual content to be shared and a second user device with whom the virtual content is to be shared. Information related to the virtual content to be shared is provided, wherein the provided information comprises the 3D position of the virtual content to be shared. The information is received by the second user device and the shared virtual content is rendered with regard to the viewing position and/or orientation of the second user device onto the mixed reality scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Matthieu Fradet, Caroline Baillard, Anthony Laurent
  • Patent number: 12190451
    Abstract: At least one embodiment relates to a method for smoothing (filtering) the geometry of a point cloud frame by performing an analysis and filtering of said geometry point cloud in a 2D space, without reconstruction of 3D samples in a 3D space, and by using a flexible filtering operator that, in addition to moving existing points, can also remove points or add new ones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Julien Ricard, Joan Llach Pinsach, Pierre Andrivon, Jean-Claude Chevet, Celine Guede, Yannick Olivier
  • Patent number: 12185111
    Abstract: In a context of virtualized access points deployment, an access point of a first wireless network is split in a radio equipment deployed at the user premises and a radio equipment controller deployed in a data centre located a few kilometres from the user premises, the radio equipment and the radio equipment controller being interconnected via a wired network connection. In order to establish a secure wireless connection of a device to the virtualized access point in a user-friendly manner, a salient idea is to receive at the radio equipment controller in the data centre a first and a second information items respectively emulating a first action of a user on the first device and a second action of the user on the virtualized access point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS SAS
    Inventors: Cyril Quinquis, Henk Heijnen, Loic Fontaine
  • Patent number: 12177479
    Abstract: During a streaming session of tile based immersive video, upon request to switch from at a current tile segment associated with a current tile to a new tile segment associated with a new tile at a reference time, an encoder (300) is providing to generate one or more complementary frames of the new tile segment allowing a decoding, by a requesting player, of the new tile segment from the reference time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Charline Taibi, Frederique Humbert, Remi Houdaille
  • Patent number: 12165250
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an operation unit acquiring an input operation for a message composed of at least one of text and an image, a recording control unit recording the message in accordance with the acquired input operation, and a reproduction control unit reproducing the recorded message to display the message on a display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Takurou Noda, Yasushi Okumura
  • Patent number: 12167034
    Abstract: Methods, devices and stream are disclosed to encode and decode a scene (such as a point cloud) in the context of a patch-based transmission of a volumetric video content. The present principles relate a method of dividing an atlas image in regions, a region being associated with a sector of the space of the scene and packing patches obtained by projecting points comprised in the associated sector only. The atlas and related metadata are encoded in a data stream; At the rendering, a set of sectors is selected based on the current field of the user. Only pixels of regions associated with the selected sectors are accessed to generate the viewport image representative of the scene viewed from the current point of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Charles Salmon-Legagneur, Jean Le Roux, Franck Aumont, Yvon Legallais