Patents Assigned to Madison
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Patent number: 10795692Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SASInventors: Chad Andrew Lefevre, Thomas Edward Horlander, Mark Francis Rumreich
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Publication number: 20200281651Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Applicant: Madison Surgical Designs, LLCInventor: Behnam Badie
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Patent number: 10757472Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS, SASInventors: Samir Ahmed, Christophe Louvion
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Patent number: 10749749Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 17, 2016Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS, SASInventors: Koen Van Oost, Stijn Segers, Frederik Verwaest
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Patent number: 10743027Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGSInventors: Yunfei Zheng, Peng Yin, Joel Sole, Xiaoan Lu, Qian Xu
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Patent number: 10715861Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 14, 2016Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS, SASInventor: John Sidney Stewart
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Patent number: 10705625Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGSInventors: Mark Leroy Walker, Christopher Stephen Burns
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Patent number: 10702336Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 4, 2016Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Madison Surgical Designs, LLCInventor: Behnam Badie
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Patent number: 10489452Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings, SASInventors: Jianfeng Chen, Xiaojun Ma, Zhigang Zhang
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Patent number: 10477256Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 22, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGSInventors: Jianfeng Chen, Xiaojun Ma
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Patent number: 10389453Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 15, 2009Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGSInventor: Mark Francis Rumreich
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Patent number: 10349080Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGSInventors: Yunfei Zheng, Peng Yin, Qian Xu, Xiaoan Lu, Joel Sole
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Patent number: 10338015Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 4, 2014Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignees: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, MADISON AVENUE MANAGEMENT CO., INC.Inventors: Matthew P. Augustine, Victor Lim, Joseph S. Broz
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Patent number: 10333858Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGSInventors: Stephane Gouache, Remi Houdaille
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Patent number: 10313702Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 23, 2008Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGSInventors: Purvin Bibhas Pandit, Peng Yin, Cristina Gomila
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Patent number: 10305510Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGSInventors: Xiaoan Lu, Joel Sole, Peng Yin, Qian Xu, Yunfei Zheng
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Patent number: 10298952Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 30, 2008Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGSInventors: Dong Tian, Purvin Bibhas Pandit, Peng Yin
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Patent number: 10298897Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 28, 2011Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGSInventors: Hassane Guermoud, Jurgen Stauder, Laurent Blonde
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Patent number: D863680Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Madison Reed, Inc.Inventors: Chelsea Leigh Smith, David Ross
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Patent number: D882170Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: Madison Reed, Inc.Inventors: Chelsea Leigh Smith, David Ross