Patents Examined by Dramos Kalapodas
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Patent number: 12160613Abstract: An image decoding apparatus capable of more preferably applying inverse non-separable transform and techniques related thereto are provided. A video decoding apparatus includes a header decoder configured to decode a flag indicating a high accuracy coding mode from a sequence parameter set SPS, a scaling processing unit configured to perform inverse quantization on a transform coefficient for each transform block, and an inverse transform processing unit configured to perform inverse transform. The scaling processing unit switches whether a variable for indicating a range of the transform coefficient depends on a bit depth or does not depend on the bit depth, based on the flag and a size of the transform block.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tianyang Zhou, Tomohiro Ikai, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomonori Hashimoto, Takeshi Chujoh, Tomoko Aono
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Patent number: 12160589Abstract: An intra prediction method according to the present invention comprises the following steps: performing a directional prediction using at least one of a neighboring pixel of a current block and a left upper corner pixel positioned at a left upper corner of the current block so as to obtain a first prediction value for the current block; obtaining a second prediction value for the current block using the reference sample positioned in the current block; and weighted summing the first prediction value and the second prediction value using a weighting matrix so as to obtain a final prediction value for the current block. According to the present invention, image encoding/decoding efficiency may be improved.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Jin Ho Lee, Hui Yong Kim, Sung Chang Lim, Jong Ho Kim, Ha Hyun Lee, Se Yoon Jeong, Suk Hee Cho, Jin Soo Choi, Jin Woong Kim, Chie Teuk Ahn
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Patent number: 12143639Abstract: An encoder includes memory and circuitry coupled to the memory. The circuitry stores a total number of temporal sub-layers in a bitstream into either a picture timing supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message or a buffering period SEI message, and encodes the total number of the temporal sub-layers.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Virginie Drugeon, Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Kiyofumi Abe, Yusuke Kato
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Patent number: 12143602Abstract: An information processing apparatus that communicates with a storage device that stores, at a plurality of resolutions, tile images obtained by dividing a picked-up image into a plurality of predetermined regions and to which encoding processing including intra-frame encoding and inter-frame encoding has been performed comprises: a designation unit for designating a predetermined region of the picked-up image for a preset tour in advance; a request unit for requesting the storage device to transmit the tile image including the predetermined region with higher resolution from among the plurality of resolutions; and a display control unit for cutting out the predetermined region from the tile image and cause a display unit to display the cut-out predetermined region, wherein, when the predetermined region is designated in advance, wherein, when the predetermined region is designated in advance, the request unit requests the storage device to transmit the tile image including the predetermined region.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Tsuyoshi Yokomizo
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Patent number: 12135671Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods related to a Deep Learning Accelerator and memory are described. For example, a data storage device may be configured to execute instructions with matrix operands and configured with: an interface to receive a video stream; and random access memory to buffer a portion of the video stream as an input to an Artificial Neural Network and to store instructions executable by the Deep Learning Accelerator and matrices of the Artificial Neural Network. The Deep Learning Accelerator can execute the instructions to generate an output of the Artificial Neural Network, including analytics of the buffer portion. A video encoder in the data storage device may use the analytics to compress the portion of the video stream for storing in the device.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Poorna Kale
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Patent number: 12137238Abstract: A method for video decoding includes determining, based on prediction information, whether the current block uses a flexible partition type. Reconstructed samples of the reference block are stored in a cache memory, which stores reconstructed samples of coding regions of a first size comprising a coding tree unit (CTU) of the current block and reconstructed samples of at least one coding region of the first size comprising a CTU adjacent to the CTU of the current block. The cache memory stores either (i) only reconstructed samples of the coding regions of the CTU of the current block or (ii) reconstructed samples of coding regions of a second size of the CTU of the current block and reconstructed samples of at least one coding region of the second size of the CTU adjacent to the CTU of the current block.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Tencent America LLCInventors: Xiaozhong Xu, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 12132937Abstract: According to embodiments of the present document, the subjective/objective quality of an image can be improved through image coding on the basis of subpictures and/or virtual boundaries, and consumption of hardware resources required for coding can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hendry Hendry, Seethal Paluri, Seunghwan Kim
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Patent number: 12114013Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which includes using multiple transforms, are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video processing includes making a decision, based on one or more decoded coefficients and in an absence of one or more transform indices, regarding an application of a transform to a current block of a video, and performing, based on the decision, a conversion between the current block and a bitstream representation of the video.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Zhipin Deng, Yang Wang, Yue Wang
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Patent number: 12113998Abstract: A decoder may receive, for a block, an indication of decoder-side-prediction and a reconstructed residual block from a bit stream. The decoder may generate, for each respective intra prediction mode of a plurality of intra prediction modes, a reconstructed block based on: a prediction block generated for the respective intra prediction mode; and the reconstructed residual block. The decoder may determine a selected prediction mode, from the plurality of intra prediction modes, for the block based on a visual quality of each of the reconstructed blocks. The decoder may decode the block based on the indication of the decoder-side-prediction and the selected prediction mode.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Ofinno, LLCInventors: Tae Meon Bae, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Kalyan Goswami
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Patent number: 12101474Abstract: A video coding device may be configured to perform intra prediction coding according to one or more of the techniques described herein.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Seung-Hwan Kim, Christopher Andrew Segall
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Patent number: 12100307Abstract: A camera with a field of view toward an external environment of an aircraft is disposed within an aircraft door such that a leading edge of a wing of the aircraft is within the field of view of the camera. A display device is disposed within an interior of the aircraft. A processor is operatively coupled to the camera and to the display device. The processor analyzes image data captured by the camera to predict a likelihood of foreign object collision with the leading edge of the wing, or detect damage or deformation to the leading edge.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: ROSEMOUNT AEROSPACE INC.Inventors: Joseph T. Pesik, Jonathan Boer
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Patent number: 12095993Abstract: A method and apparatus for video coding using a coding mode belonging to a mode group comprising an Intra Block Copy (IBC) mode and an Intra mode are disclosed. According to the present invention, for both IBC and Intra mode, a same default scaling matrix is used to derive the scaling matrix for a current block. In another embodiment, for the current block with block size of M×N or N×M, and M greater than N, a target scaling matrix is derived from an M×M scaling matrix by down-sampling the M×M scaling matrix to an M×N or N×M scaling matrix.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: HFI INNOVATION INC.Inventors: Chen-Yen Lai, Olena Chubach, Tzu-Der Chuang, Ching-Yeh Chen, Chih-Wei Hsu, Yu-Wen Huang
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Patent number: 12095996Abstract: A method for subdividing an interval during entropy decoding for a bitstream representing a set of video pictures is provided. A sub-interval value is computed by (i) performing an initial right bit-shifting operation on a probability estimator value to reduce a length in bits of the probability estimator value, (ii) multiplying the right bit-shifted probability estimator value by a range value representing the interval, (iii) performing another right bit-shifting operation on a result of the multiplication, and (iv) adding a constant value to a result of the other right bit-shifting operation, wherein the probability estimator value is associated with a probability of a bin having a particular value. The sub-interval value computed based on the right bit-shifted probability estimator value is used to update the interval.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventor: Frank Bossen
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Patent number: 12088805Abstract: Systems and methods for coding and decoding of a coded bitstream is provided. A method includes encoding a block of a picture. The encoding includes selecting a transform set based on at least one neighboring sample from one or more previously encoded neighboring blocks or from a previously encoded picture and transforming coefficients of the block using a transform from the transform set.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Xin Zhao, Madhu Peringassery Krishnan, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 12081827Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media that utilize deep learning to map query videos to known videos so as to identify a provenance of the query video or identify editorial manipulations of the query video relative to a known video. For example, the video comparison system includes a deep video comparator model that generates and compares visual and audio descriptors utilizing codewords and an inverse index. The deep video comparator model is robust and ignores discrepancies due to benign transformations that commonly occur during electronic video distribution.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignees: Adobe Inc., University of SurreyInventors: Alexander Black, Van Tu Bui, John Collomosse, Simon Jenni, Viswanathan Swaminathan
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Patent number: 12080107Abstract: A notification apparatus comprises a receiving part that receives a designation of a reference position; a specifying part that specifies a current wheel nut at the same position as a reference wheel nut, which is one of a plurality of wheel nuts included in a reference image that is a captured image acquired by the acquiring part in the past, from the captured image acquired by the acquiring part, with respect to the reference position; and a detecting part that detects looseness of the current wheel nut by detecting that the current wheel nut specified by the specifying part has rotated with respect to the reference wheel nut included in the reference image.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITEDInventor: Akira Imai
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Patent number: 12069284Abstract: A method comprises: receiving, by a video decoder, a video bitstream comprising an RPL flag, wherein the RPL flag equal to a first value specifies that RPL signaling is present in a PH, and wherein the RPL flag equal to a second value specifies that RPL signaling is not present in the PH and may be present in slice headers; and decoding, by the video decoder using the RPL flag, a coded picture to obtain a decoded picture. A comprises: receiving, by a video decoder, a video bitstream comprising an SAO flag, wherein the SAO flag specifies that SAO information may be present or is not present in a PH or specifies that the SAO information may be present or is not present in slice headers; and decoding, by the video decoder using the SAO flag, a coded picture to obtain a decoded picture.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fnu Hendry, Ye-Kui Wang, Jianle Chen
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Patent number: 12063911Abstract: A game scoring camera system is disclosed for capturing images of game animals for the purpose of scoring the antlers using an accepted scoring method. One or more cameras are used in a multiscopic arrangement for capturing two-dimensional (2-D) images which are then converted to three-dimensional (3-D) data models, the resulting 3-D data models being used for determining measurements of various antler structures for calculating a score for the set of antlers captured in the images, the score being based on existing antler scoring systems. Some embodiments include one or more cameras, each being mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle or drone, for capturing images during an aerial survey of game animals located within a particular area. Other embodiments include at least two cameras mounted in a stationary configuration for capturing images of game animals located within a particular area.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Inventor: Kennon Guglielmo
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Patent number: 12059999Abstract: A display system for at least one wheel of at least one vehicle comprising: At least one LED display device for displaying information on a wheel of a vehicle; A computer in association with the at least one LED display device, the computer comprising GPS; A main server; Wherein the LED display device is linked to the computer and the computer is in wireless communication with the main server via a wireless network; in use, the server has stored in memory a plurality of information packets for display by the LED display device, each information packet has an associated location and/or time for being displayed, the main server wirelessly sends at least one information packet and associated time and/or location to the associated computer of the at least one vehicle, when the at least one vehicle is in the desired location and/or time the computer instructs the at least one LED display device to display the associated information.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Inventors: Guy Margetson, Michael Beadman, Ben Crundwell
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Patent number: 12063458Abstract: The application is directed to techniques and processes for integrating multiple security systems. For instance, a system may receive first data from a first security system, where the first data indicates that the first security system detected a security event. The system may then analyze the first data to determine a type of the security event, a time frame of the security event, and/or a threat level of the security event. Based at least in part on the analyzing, the system may determine a security procedure for a second security system. The second security system may be located proximate to the first security system and/or may be included in a same security system network as the first security system. The security procedure may include changing a mode of the second security system and/or causing an electronic device of the second security system to generate image data.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: James Siminoff