Patents Examined by Dominic D Saltarelli
  • Patent number: 11902516
    Abstract: A method for deblocking at least one boundary of a coding unit, wherein the boundary forms a first side and a second side of the coding unit, wherein a video picture comprises the coding unit, and wherein the first and second sides use a same reference picture. The method includes obtaining a first motion vector component in the first side; obtaining a second motion vector component in the second side; determining whether an absolute difference between the first motion vector component and the second motion vector component is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold that is less than 1 sample; and as a result of determining that the absolute difference between the first motion vector component and the second motion vector component is equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold, applying deblocking to the vertical or horizontal boundary between the first side and the second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Kenneth Andersson, Jack Enhorn, Ruoyang Yu
  • Patent number: 11895347
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a media processing device including a receiver configured to receive a service and receive a service list for the service from a service list server, a processor configured to perform service discovery for the service based on the service list, and a displayer configured to display the service based on the service discovery. Disclosed herein is a media processing device including a memory and a processor connected to the memory, wherein the processor may be configured to transmit a service, and transmit a service list for the service from a service list server, wherein the service list may be used to perform service discovery for the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jonghwan Park, Joonhee Yoon
  • Patent number: 11895349
    Abstract: A synchronous shift of video/audio data between a plurality of display system devices is suppressed. A synchronous control device includes a coded-data adjustment unit 312 or a video and audio data adjustment unit 314 configured to perform frame adjustment based on a predetermined frame adjustment instruction by inserting predetermined frame data into a plurality of pieces of frame data in a chronological order or deleting a piece of frame data from the plurality of pieces of frame data, a video and audio data output unit 315 configured to sequentially output each piece of frame data subjected to the frame adjustment, and a video and audio data output time-point adjustment unit 316 configured to compare a reference time point for outputting each piece of the frame data with an output time point at which each piece of the frame data is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Ono, Takahide Hoshide, Yasushi Matsubara, Shinji Fukatsu, Kenichi Minami
  • Patent number: 11889072
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a video encoding and decoding method and a video encoding and decoding device. The method includes: partitioning the current block into a first triangular sub-block and a second triangular sub-block when a current block satisfies specific conditions for enabling a geometric partitioning mode with triangular partition and the geometric partitioning mode with triangular partition is determined to be enabled; obtaining first target motion information of the first triangle sub-block and second target motion information of the second triangle sub-block, wherein the first target motion information is different from the second target motion information; and performing an encoding processing or a decoding processing on the current block based on the first target motion information and the second target motion information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fangdong Chen
  • Patent number: 11877010
    Abstract: A decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises: a step for determining the prediction mode of a current block on the basis of information on a prediction mode acquired from a bitstream; a step for deriving movement information on the current block on the basis of the prediction mode; a step for generating prediction samples of the current block on the basis of the movement information; and a step for generating reconstructed samples on the basis of the prediction samples, wherein the step for determining the prediction mode may include a step for acquiring a regular merge flag from the bitstream on the basis of a combined inter-picture merge and intra-picture prediction (CIIP) available flag that indicates whether or not a CIIP is available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyeongmoon Jang, Naeri Park, Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11870947
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating images using neural networks. One of the methods includes generating the output image pixel by pixel from a sequence of pixels taken from the output image, comprising, for each pixel in the output image, generating a respective score distribution over a discrete set of possible color values for each of the plurality of color channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Aaron Gerard Antonius van den Oord, Nal Emmerich Kalchbrenner, Karen Simonyan
  • Patent number: 11863838
    Abstract: A server may receive metadata associated with specific content in a transport signal stream from a content information service. The metadata may identify a point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may instruct an encoder to insert a marker into the transport signal stream corresponding to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The marker may indicate control of a trick mode to be enforced by a delivery platform subsequent to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may record the marker in a data store associated with the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC
    Inventor: John Raymond Mick, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11863754
    Abstract: A method and for reconstructing chroma blocks and a video decoding apparatus are disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, provided is a method for reconstructing a chroma block of a target block to be reconstructed. The method includes decoding correlation information between first residual samples and second residual samples, the first residual sample, and prediction information of the chroma block from a bitstream, wherein the first residual samples are residual samples of a first chroma component and the second residual samples are residual samples of a second chroma component. The method further includes generating predicted samples of the first chroma component and predicted samples of the second chroma information on the basis of the prediction information, and deriving the second residual samples by applying the correlation information to the first residual samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Kwangwoon University Industry-Academic Collaboration Foundation
    Inventors: Dong Gyu Sim, Sea Nae Park, Seung Wook Park, Wha Pyeong Lim
  • Patent number: 11856231
    Abstract: A device may be configured to signal hypothetical reference decoder parameters according to one or more of the techniques described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 11856214
    Abstract: One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for video encoding are provided. For example, a video file may be segmented into at least a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may be analyzed to determine that the first portion is associated with a first level of complexity, and the second portion may be analyzed to determine that the second portion is associated with a second level of complexity. A first bitrate associated with the first level of complexity may be determined, and a second bitrate associated with the second level of complexity may be determined. The first portion may be encoded at the first bitrate to generate a first encoded portion, and the second portion may be encoded at the second bitrate to generate a second encoded portion. The first encoded portion and the second encoded portion may be assembled to generate an optimized video file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
    Inventors: Jian Zhou, Congxia Dai, Heri Zhao, Zhonghua Ma, Xumin Wu, Michael Chang-Ping Chen, Sagar Dattatraya Bhandare
  • Patent number: 11856232
    Abstract: A quantization parameter signalling mechanism for both SDR and HDR content in video coding is described using two approaches. The first approach is to send the user-defined QpC table directly in high level syntax. This leads to more flexible and efficient QP control for future codec development and video content coding. The second approach is to signal luma and chroma QPs independently. This approach eliminates the need for QpC tables and removes the dependency of chroma quantization parameter on luma QP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Fangjun Pu, Toaran Lu, Peng Yin, Sean Thomas McCarthy
  • Patent number: 11856188
    Abstract: Systems and methods relating to presenting media content are disclosed. According to an example method, media data comprising a first media content segment is received. The first media content segment comprises first audio data received via the first user device and first video data received via the first user device, and is encoded according to a first set of encoding parameters. A fault is detected in the first media content segment. Detecting the fault comprises determining a quality value of the first media content segment, and determining whether the quality value exceeds a threshold. A second media content segment is received. The second media content segment comprises second audio data and second video data, and is encoded according to a second set of encoding parameters. The first media content segment is replaced with the second media content segment in the media data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventors: Roie Cohen, Gideon Keyson, Nadav Keyson, Sebastian Greco
  • Patent number: 11856206
    Abstract: A method for decoding an image based on an intra prediction, comprising: obtaining a first prediction pixel of a first region in a current block by using a neighboring pixel adjacent to the current block; obtaining a second prediction pixel of a second region in the current block by using the first prediction pixel of the first region; and decoding the current block based on the first and the second prediction pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Je Chang Jeong, Ki Baek Kim, Won Jin Lee, Hye Jin Shin, Jong Sang Yoo, Jang Hyeok Yun, Kyung Jun Lee, Jae Hun Kim, Sang Gu Lee
  • Patent number: 11849173
    Abstract: Techniques for a quality of service optimization using a content adaptive slate image in a media player application are described. According to some embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes sending a request for a video from a client device to a content delivery service that is separate from the client device; receiving, by the client device from the content delivery service, a manifest of the video and an intro slate separate from the manifest and separate from the video; displaying the intro slate on the client device; loading an initial frame of the video identified by the manifest onto the client device concurrently with the displaying of the intro slate; and displaying the video on the client device after the displaying of the intro slate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongjun Wu, John F. X. Gaquin, Andrew Joseph Whittaker, Harshil Vikram Katira, Mairo Pedrini
  • Patent number: 11843840
    Abstract: A device for retrieving media includes a memory configured to store media data of a media presentation; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: retrieve a manifest file for a media presentation indicating that container parsing of media data of a bitstream can be started at a resync point of a segment of a representation of the media presentation, the resync point being at a position other than a start of the segment and representing a point at which the container parsing of the media data of the bitstream can be started; use the manifest file to form a request to retrieve the media data of the representation starting at the resync point; send the request to initiate retrieval of the media data of the media presentation starting at the resync point; and present the retrieved media data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Thomas Stockhammer, Imed Bouazizi, Waqar Zia
  • Patent number: 11838564
    Abstract: Reception-side processing performed in a case where transmission of standard dynamic range video data and transmission of high dynamic range video data coexist in a time sequence is simplified. SDR transmission video data is converted into SDR transmission video data through dynamic range conversion. The SDR transmission video data is the one obtained by performing, on SDR video data, photoelectric conversion in accordance with an SDR photoelectric conversion characteristic. In this case, the conversion is performed on the basis of conversion information for converting a value of conversion data in accordance with the SDR photoelectric conversion characteristic into a value of conversion data in accordance with an HDR photoelectric conversion characteristic. A video stream is obtained by performing encoding processing on HDR transmission video data. A container having a predetermined format and including this video stream is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ikuo Tsukagoshi
  • Patent number: 11831952
    Abstract: A virtual set-top box (vSTB) for executing a middleware component, designed originally for use with the physical STB, including emulating hardware capabilities of the physical STB to process IPTV content received over a connection for presenting the IPTV content on a display of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: DISH Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: Geraint Jenkin, Marcus C. Liassides, Christopher G. Hooks, David F. Evans, Jayne L. Gilmour
  • Patent number: 11831869
    Abstract: A method of video processing includes determining a classification of samples of a block in a video picture of a video according to a rule, wherein the video picture is divided into multiple regions, and wherein the rule disallows use of neighboring samples of a current sample across one or more boundaries of the multiple regions for the classification. The one or more boundaries of the multiple regions includes a virtual boundary for an adaptive loop filtering (ALF) process. The method also includes performing a conversion between the block and a bitstream representation of the video by selectively applying the ALF process according to the classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11831951
    Abstract: A display controlling method for a broadcast receiving apparatus allowed to receive IP simultaneous broadcasting of a 4K broadcasting service via a communication transmission line, in which simultaneous broadcasting of the 4K broadcasting service and a 2K broadcasting service is executed by a broadcasting wave, is configured to: receive and demodulate the 4K broadcasting service, and display a broadcasting program of the 4K broadcasting service; and select and execute one display switching process of first and second display switching processes in accordance with priority order in a case where a defect occurs in reception, demodulation, or display of the 4K broadcasting service, the 2K broadcasting service being received and demodulated to display a broadcasting program of the 2K broadcasting service in the first display switching process, the IP simultaneous broadcasting being received and demodulated to display a program of the IP simultaneous broadcasting in the second display switching process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunobu Hashimoto, Kazuhiko Yoshizawa, Takuya Shimizu, Hitoshi Akiyama
  • Patent number: 11825178
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-transitory medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: providing (1002) one or more first media (1161) in the background by first user (102) by using first user device (104); providing (1004) one or more second media (1162) as foreground picture-in-picture overlay and/or as segmented display by first user (102) by using first user device (104); capturing (1006) plurality of first media (1161) slides navigation changes and/or screen pointer movements and/or screen marker animation in sync with timeline of the one or more second media as interactivity data and/or cue points, as per the first user's (102) haptic interaction with the first user device (104), through the authoring module (106); storing (1008) one or more first media (1161), one or more second media (1162), with or without cue points, and/or interactivity data as interactive content as network-based resource; shar
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: RXPRISM HEALTH SYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventor: Maruthi Viswanathan