Patents Examined by Fabio S Lima
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Patent number: 12385849Abstract: An inspection system for carrying out an inspection method for a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure, the inspection system including: a robot arm with a robot hand at a tip of the robot arm, the robot hand comprising a pair of gripping surfaces capable of gripping the pillar-shaped honeycomb structure from the first end surface and the second end surface, the pair of gripping surfaces being configured to be able to rotate the pillar-shaped honeycomb structure at a predetermined rotational speed while gripping the pillar-shaped honeycomb structure from the first end surface and the second end surface; the area camera for the side surface; a screen that can display the strip-shaped images; and a controller that can at least set a rotation speed of the pair of gripping surfaces and the shutter speed of the area camera for the side surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2023Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.Inventors: Takafumi Terahai, Ryota Kurahashi, Yoshihiro Sato
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Patent number: 12379469Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-channel lidar sensor module capable of measuring at least two target objects using one image sensor. The multi-channel lidar sensor module according to an embodiment of the present invention includes at least one pair of light emitting units configured to emit laser beams and a light receiving unit formed between the at least one pair of emitting units and configured to receive at least one pair of reflected laser beams which are emitted from the at least one pair of light emitting units and reflected by target objects.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: SOS LAB CO., LTDInventors: Ji Seong Jeong, Jun Hwan Jang, Dong Kyu Kim, Sung Ui Hwang, Bum Sik Won, Gwang Bin Kim
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Patent number: 12375729Abstract: A device may be configured to signal level information according to one or more of the techniques described herein.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2024Date of Patent: July 29, 2025Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Sachin G. Deshpande, Jonatan Samuelsson
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Patent number: 12352705Abstract: A pipeline endoscopic mechanism, which includes a host, a camera connected to the host via an extension cord, and a base device positioned below the host, wherein the extension cord is wound around the base device, the base device includes a bracket and a meter counter box, and the host includes a box body provided with a receiving groove, a rotating arm positioned at one side of the receiving groove, and a display screen connected to the rotating arm and capable of being unfolded and received in the receiving groove.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2025Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: SHENZHEN SANYI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Xiaoquan Chen
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Patent number: 12355974Abstract: Video processing can involve encoding and/or decoding a picture based on determining an activation of a processing mode involving a motion vector refinement process and a second process other than the motion vector refinement process; modifying the motion vector refinement process based on the activation and the second process; and encoding and/or decoding the picture based on the modified motion vector refinement process and the second process.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2024Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings, SASInventors: Fabrice Urban, Franck Galpin, Philippe Bordes
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Patent number: 12348709Abstract: A method and apparatus for deriving an intra-prediction mode are disclosed. At least one embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method of deriving an intra-prediction mode, including (i) obtaining, based on reference line information indicating any one of a plurality of reference lines, most probable mode (MPM) information indicating whether an intra-prediction mode of a current block is included in an MPM list lacking a planar mode, (ii) determining, based on the reference line information and the MPM information, planar information indicating whether the intra-prediction mode of the current block is the planar mode, and (iii) deriving the intra-prediction mode of the current block by using the planar information.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2024Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae Il Kim, Sun Young Lee, Kyung Hwan Ko
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Patent number: 12342001Abstract: An encoding method includes pre-encoding a current video frame in a video stream, to obtain a pre-encoded current video frame, when there is no I frame in M encoded video frames that have been encoded before the current video frame, determining whether the current video frame is a scene switching frame in which scene switching has occurred relative to a previous video frame, based on the pre-encoded current video frame and a pre-encoded previous video frame to the current video frame, M being a preset positive integer, and encoding the current video frame into an I frame when the current video frame is the scene switching frame, and encoding the current video frame into a P frame when the current video frame is not the scene switching frame.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2023Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Jia Zhang, Xiaoxiang Yang, Sijia Chen, Jian Cao, Yongcheng Huang, Hongbin Cao
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Patent number: 12341993Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise the steps of: deriving a first variable indicating whether there is a valid coefficient in a region excluding a DC region from a current block; deriving a second variable indicating whether there is a valid coefficient in a second region excluding a first region formed at the upper left end of the current block; when the first variable indicates that the valid coefficient exists in the region excluding the DC region, and the second variable indicates that the valid coefficient does not exist in the second region, parsing an LFNST index from the bitstream; and applying an LFNST matrix derived on the basis of the LFNST index to transform coefficients in the first region, to derive the modified transform coefficients.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2024Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
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Patent number: 12335652Abstract: Systems and methods for medical imaging and spectroscopy analysis are disclosed. Some embodiments relate to digital staining. Some embodiments relate to digital staining using hyperspectral or multispectral imaging. Some embodiments relate to digital staining using RGB imaging. Some embodiments relate to analysis of other types of medical imaging and spectroscopy. Some embodiments relate to platform for performing analysis of medical imaging and spectroscopy data.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: Genetic Innovations, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey N. Yu, Lalit K. Mestha, Sohail A. Dianat
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Patent number: 12323576Abstract: A video decoding device, in the case where a video of the progressive format is inputted, processes a frame as a picture, in the case where a video of the interlace format is inputted, processes a field as a picture. A video decoding device performs display control corresponding to a format of the both video by analyzing display control information in display control information analyzer. The display control information includes sequence unit display control information which is commonly used in a display process of all pictures that belong to a sequence to be decoded and picture unit display control information which is individually used in a display process of a picture to be decoded. A second code string analyzer acquires each of the sequence unit display control information and the picture unit display control information from an extended information area in units of pictures.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2023Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Kazuhito Kimura, Hideyuki Ohgose, Hiroshi Arakawa, Koji Arimura
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Patent number: 12301819Abstract: A decoder for decoding a data stream into which media data is coded has a mode switch configured to activate a low-complexity mode or a high-efficiency mode depending on the data stream, an entropy decoding engine configured to retrieve each symbol of a sequence of symbols by entropy decoding using a selected one of a plurality of entropy decoding schemes, a desymbolizer configured to desymbolize the sequence of symbols to obtain a sequence of syntax elements, a reconstructor configured to reconstruct the media data based on the sequence of syntax elements, selection depending on the activated low-complexity mode or the high-efficiency mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2023Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Dolby Video Compression, LLCInventors: Valeri George, Benjamin Bross, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Detlev Marpe, Tung Nguyen, Matthias Preiss, Mischa Siekmann, Jan Stegemann, Thomas Wiegand, Christian Bartnik
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Patent number: 12301832Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for multi-symbol arithmetic coding in video decoding. The method includes receiving a coded video bitstream; obtaining an array of cumulative distribution functions and corresponding M symbols, wherein M is an integer larger than 1; and performing, based on the array of cumulative distribution functions, arithmetic decoding on the coded video bitstream to extract at least one symbol by: for each extracted symbol, updating the array of cumulative distribution functions according to the extracted symbol based on at least one probability update rate, and continuing, based on the updated array of cumulative distribution functions, arithmetic decoding on the coded video bitstream to extract next symbol.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Tencent America LLCInventors: Madhu Peringassery Krishnan, Xin Zhao, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 12289465Abstract: A method of encoding a motion information predictor index for an Affine Merge mode, comprising: generating a list of motion information predictor candidates; selecting one of the motion information predictor candidates in the list as an Affine Merge mode predictor; and generating a motion information predictor index for the selected motion information predictor candidate using CABAC coding, one or more bits of the motion information predictor index being bypass CABAC coded.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Guillaume Laroche, Christophe Gisquet, Patrice Onno, Jonathan Taquet
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Patent number: 12284398Abstract: The various embodiments described herein include methods and systems for coding video. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining video data that includes a first syntax element with a corresponding alphabet of M elements, and obtaining respective probabilities of occurrence for the M elements. The method further includes entropy coding a first portion of the video data using the respective probabilities of occurrence, and, while entropy coding, encountering the first syntax element. The method also includes updating probabilities of occurrence based on the first syntax element, and, in accordance with at least one of the updated probabilities being less than a threshold probability value, determining regularized probabilities of occurrence by applying a probability regularization to the updated probabilities of occurrence, where the probability regularization does not include a division operation.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Madhu Peringassery Krishnan, Xin Zhao, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 12267501Abstract: A video decoding method performed by a video decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: obtaining image information from a bitstream, wherein the image information includes a picture header associated with a current picture, and the current picture includes a plurality of slices; parsing at least one of a first flag and a second flag from the picture header; generating prediction samples by performing at least one of intra prediction and inter prediction on a current block in the current picture on the basis of at least one of the first flag and the second flag; generating reconstructed samples on the basis of the prediction samples; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the reconstructed samples.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Hendry Hendry, Seunghwan Kim, Jie Zhao
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Patent number: 12267506Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for deriving prediction pixel blocks for use in intra-coding video and combined inter- and intra-coding video. In a first aspect, the techniques may include deriving value(s) for pixel location(s) of the prediction pixel block by, when a prediction direction vector assigned to the prediction vector points to quadrants I or III of a Cartesian plane, deriving the pixel location's value from pixel values in two regions of previously-decoded pixel data intercepted by extending the prediction direction vector in two opposite directions through the pixel location. When the prediction direction vector points toward quadrants II of the Cartesian plane, deriving the pixel location's value from pixel values in one region intercepted by the prediction direction vector through the pixel location, and from a second region intercepted by a vector that is orthogonal to the prediction direction vector.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Mei Guo, Jun Xin, Hsi-Jung Wu, Alexandros Tourapis, Krishnakanth Rapaka
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Patent number: 12255669Abstract: A method for partitioning of input vectors for coding is presented. The method comprises obtaining of an input vector. The input vector is segmented, in a non-recursive manner, into an integer number, NSEG, of input vector segments. A representation of a respective relative energy difference between parts of the input vector on each side of each boundary between the input vector segments is determined, in a recursive manner. The input vector segments and the representations of the relative energy differences are provided for individual coding. Partitioning units and computer programs for partitioning of input vectors for coding, as well as positional encoders, are presented.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2024Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Tomas Jansson Toftgård, Volodya Grancharov, Jonas Svedberg
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Patent number: 12245864Abstract: An imaging device that includes a housing mounted on the head of a subject, a camera that is held by the housing and captures an image of an eyeball of the subject, communication circuitry that communicates information with an external device, and controller circuitry that synchronizes together the image captured by the camera and an external signal output from the external device and received.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: J. MORITA MFG. CORP.Inventors: Kazuo Funabiki, Yutaka Ito, Fuyuki Yamada
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Patent number: 12244849Abstract: A method of encoding a motion information predictor index for an Affine Merge mode, comprising: generating a list of motion information predictor candidates; selecting one of the motion information predictor candidates in the list as an Affine Merge mode predictor; and generating a motion information predictor index for the selected motion information predictor candidate using CABAC coding, one or more bits of the motion information predictor index being bypass CABAC coded.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Guillaume Laroche, Christophe Gisquet, Patrice Onno, Jonathan Taquet
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Patent number: 12238302Abstract: A method is described for forming output video frames by a decoder device, comprising: receiving a bitstream comprising bitstream parts representing encoded media data of video tiles and tile positioning information associated with the encoded video tiles; extracting tile positioning information from the bitstream, the tile positioning information comprising tile identifiers for identifying encoded video tiles, a tile identifier being associated with one or more boundary identifiers, each identifying a boundary of a video tile identified by a tile identifier; determining a tile map based on the boundary identifiers, the tile map representing a spatial layout of video tiles in an output video frame; and forming an output video frame, including identifying parts of the bitstream representing encoded media data of video tiles identified in the tile map, decoding the identified encoded media data and copying the decoded media data in the output video frame buffer according to spatial layout.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: Koninklijke KPN N.V., Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNOInventors: Emmanuel Thomas, Omar Aziz Niamut, Robert Koenen