Patents Assigned to Madison
  • Patent number: 10795692
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a first device to determine profile information are described including receiving input from a second device, wherein at least one of the first device or the second device detects physical characteristics of people present in an area and the physical characteristics are used by the device to determine who is present in the area, retrieving profile information of the people present in the area, determining a relationship between profiles of the people in the area, applying rules to negotiate a compromise regarding device settings responsive to the relationship between profiles of the people present in the area and adjusting settings of a first device or a third device responsive to the compromise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS
    Inventors: Chad Andrew Lefevre, Thomas Edward Horlander, Mark Francis Rumreich
  • Publication number: 20200281651
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of removing a lesion from a patient. A method of removing a lesion from a patient includes positioning wire loops of a probe device relative to the lesion. The wire loops are simultaneously rotated and expanded to cut material from the lesion. Irrigation fluid is supplied, via the probe device, to irrigate the material cut from the lesion. The supplied irrigation fluid is aspirated, via the probe device, to facilitate removal of the material cut from the lesion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: Madison Surgical Designs, LLC
    Inventor: Behnam Badie
  • Patent number: 10757472
    Abstract: Various aspects of methods and apparatuses are described herein. Some methods may include receiving video content, receiving metadata including a hierarchical order of metadata fields, and performing an enhancement operation on at least a portion of the video content according to settings associated with at least one of the metadata fields. The enhancement operation may include a video processing operation configured to modify one or more visual characteristics of the video content. The settings associated with the metadata field(s) may be predefined in a device that receives the video content and the metadata. The enhancement operation may be performed at a time based on a time code in the video content. The enhancement operation may be performed on a bounded area of an object. The hierarchical order may correspond to a type of display technology. The hierarchical order may correspond to information associated with a manufacturer of a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Samir Ahmed, Christophe Louvion
  • Patent number: 10749749
    Abstract: A method (30) and system (10) for automatically configuring wireless local area network (WLAN) devices (21, 22, 23) of a wireless residential access network (20) is provided. An automatic authorization process initiated by an access point (21) is enabled by utilizing a back-end-network (40, 50) and results in the activation of a basic service set identifier (BSSID) based on which auto-pairing of at least one station (22) with the access point (21) is realized. An automatic authentication process of the at least one station (22) is enabled based on a comparison of an identification provided by the station (22) against a list of unique device identifiers installed in the access point (21) during the automatic authorization process. The authentication process results in granting or denying access to the residential access network (20) for the at least one station (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventors: Koen Van Oost, Stijn Segers, Frederik Verwaest
  • Patent number: 10743027
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for adaptive residual updating of template matching prediction for video encoding and decoding. In one embodiment, an apparatus and method encodes picture data for at least a block in a picture using template matching prediction, wherein the template matching prediction involves selecting from among a plurality of residual updating schemes for use in encoding the block. In another embodiment, an apparatus and method encodes a block in a picture using template matching prediction, wherein the template matching prediction involves partitioning the block into a plurality of sub-blocks, and applying a transform to a residual of a particular sub-block from among the plurality of sub-blocks subsequent to searching for a prediction for the particular sub-block block and prior to completion of processing of the block with respect to the template matching prediction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Yunfei Zheng, Peng Yin, Joel Sole, Xiaoan Lu, Qian Xu
  • Patent number: 10715861
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving signal quality in a relatively fixed ATSC 3.0 device are described including accepting a channel selection, establishing communication with all ATSC 3.0 devices in a premises, polling each portable ATSC 3.0 device to obtain signal quality information, selecting one or more of the portable ATSC 3.0 devices to receive a signal, receiving IP packetized data related to a program on the selected channel from the one or more selected portable ATSC 3.0 devices to improve signal quality at the relatively fixed ATSC 3.0 device and combining the received IP packetized data received from the one or more selected portable ATSC 3.0 devices with a signal of the relatively fixed ATSC 3.0 device to form a combined signal for rendering a program on the selected channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS, SAS
    Inventor: John Sidney Stewart
  • Patent number: 10705625
    Abstract: The disclosed methods and systems are related to a navigation of user interfaces that is vector based. Vector based navigation combines the efficiency of orthogonal direction navigation (up/down/left/right) with the flexibility of pointer-based (e.g. mouse/touch-pad) navigation. User interface elements can be arranged arbitrarily in 2D (or 3D) space and described in term of vector relationships from the currently active UI element. Directional gestures coming from control devices such as a track-ball, touch-pad, or gyroscopic remote can be translated into vector movements to affect navigation between UI elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Mark Leroy Walker, Christopher Stephen Burns
  • Patent number: 10702336
    Abstract: A surgical device for use in removing a lesion from a brain includes a first tube, a second tube disposed within the first tube, a sleeve that encloses a portion of the first tube, wire loops attached to a distal end of the first tube, a loop expander and rotation mechanism drivingly coupled with the wire loops, an aspiration port, and an irrigation port. The loop expander and rotation mechanism is operable to expand the wire loops while rotating the wire loops relative to the first tube and contract the wire loops while rotating the wire loops relative to the first tube. Cut tissue is aspirated via the aspiration port. Irrigation fluid is supplied to irrigate the cut tissue via the irrigation port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Madison Surgical Designs, LLC
    Inventor: Behnam Badie
  • Patent number: 10489452
    Abstract: It is provided a method for triggering an action on a second device. It comprises the steps of obtaining audio of a multimedia content presented on a first device; comparing the obtained audio with reference audio data in a database; if finding the obtained audio exists in the database containing reference audio, determining an action corresponding to the matched reference audio; and triggering the action in the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS
    Inventors: Jianfeng Chen, Xiaojun Ma, Zhigang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10477256
    Abstract: It is provided a method for providing an interactive service. At the side of a device among a plurality of devices, each being assigned one of two types, the method comprises the steps of receiving a first request associated with the interactive service requesting for responses associated with the interactive service, wherein the first request includes conditional information associated with the devices; and in response to an input from a user, if said device is of a first type, sending the response; and if said device is of a second type, sending the response only if the device meets the conditional information included in the first request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Jianfeng Chen, Xiaojun Ma
  • Patent number: 10389453
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a system for controlling gain when time-sharing a tuner in a frequency diversity receiver. Two radio-frequency automatic gain control (RFAGC) filter capacitors are used, each capacitor corresponding to one of the currently utilized frequencies in the frequency diversity scheme. The capacitors are switched in tandem with the tuner frequency selection. This allows the capacitor associated with a tuned frequency to retain the RFAGC voltage until the tuner returns to that frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventor: Mark Francis Rumreich
  • Patent number: 10349080
    Abstract: There are provided methods and apparatus for reduced complexity template matching prediction for video encoding and decoding. The encoding method encodes at least an image block in a picture using template matching prediction (615, 620, 640, 641, 642), wherein the template matching prediction is selectably constrained using one or more constraining criterion that reduces a complexity of performing the template matching prediction (615, 625, 640).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Yunfei Zheng, Peng Yin, Qian Xu, Xiaoan Lu, Joel Sole
  • Patent number: 10338015
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and devices for NMR spectroscopy analyzing sealed containers e.g., food and beverage containers and other containers, and particularly according to specific embodiments sealed containers made of a conducting but generally nonferromagnetic metal or other conducting material. As discussed in above referenced applications, many current strategies for contaminant detection require a container to be violated, a process that can destroy the container or product and is impractical in large scale applications. The present invention overcomes these and other problems by providing methods and devices for the detection of contaminants and/or contraband in metal or conducting containers by NMR spectroscopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MADISON AVENUE MANAGEMENT CO., INC.
    Inventors: Matthew P. Augustine, Victor Lim, Joseph S. Broz
  • Patent number: 10333858
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a device and a method at the device, the device comprising a first interface to a first network comprising an adaptive streaming server, a second interface to a second network comprising at least one adaptive streaming client device, a stream identifier for detecting at least one streaming content requested by the at least one adaptive streaming client device, the at least one streaming content being available at more than one data rate, a bandwidth manager for selecting a data rate among the more than one data rate, a scheduler for transmitting at the second interface the at least one streaming content to the at least one client device at a data rate above said selected data rate but below any higher data rate available for said streaming content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Stephane Gouache, Remi Houdaille
  • Patent number: 10313702
    Abstract: At least one disclosed method and apparatus relate to inter-view prediction with different resolution reference picture. A particular method includes accessing at least a portion of an encoded picture (614), the encoded picture being from a particular view of multiple views, and the portion being encoded at a particular resolution. The method further includes determining a particular view level based on the particular view (614), determining the particular resolution based on the particular view level (606), and decoding the portion based on the particular resolution (630).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Purvin Bibhas Pandit, Peng Yin, Cristina Gomila
  • Patent number: 10305510
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for unified significance map coding. An apparatus includes a video encoder (400) for encoding transform coefficients for at least a portion of a picture. The transform coefficients are obtained using a plurality of transforms. One or more context sharing maps are generated for the transform coefficients based on a unified rule. The one or more context sharing maps are for providing at least one context that is shared among at least some of the transform coefficients obtained from at least two different ones of the plurality of transforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Xiaoan Lu, Joel Sole, Peng Yin, Qian Xu, Yunfei Zheng
  • Patent number: 10298952
    Abstract: There are provided methods and apparatus for motion skip mode with multiple inter-view reference pictures. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding an image block relating to multi-view video content by performing a selection, for the image block, of at least one of an inter-view reference picture list from a set of inter-view reference picture lists, an inter-view reference picture from among a set of inter-view reference pictures, and a disparity vector from among a set of disparity vectors corresponding to the inter-view reference picture. The encoder extracts motion information for the image block based on at least one of the inter-view reference picture list, the inter-view reference picture, and disparity vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Dong Tian, Purvin Bibhas Pandit, Peng Yin
  • Patent number: 10298897
    Abstract: Method wherein each image of the content is transformed using at least one pre-transformed image which is associated with a key image of this content wherein, from each key image and an associated pre-transformed image, a color transform is derived, and wherein each color transform is applied to a selection of images of this content which is associated with said key image. Applied to a content broadcast system comprising a server and a receiver to which are connected several types of display devices, the invention advantageously makes it possible to adapt the content to these different types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventors: Hassane Guermoud, Jurgen Stauder, Laurent Blonde
  • Patent number: D863680
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Madison Reed, Inc.
    Inventors: Chelsea Leigh Smith, David Ross
  • Patent number: D882170
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Madison Reed, Inc.
    Inventors: Chelsea Leigh Smith, David Ross