Patents Examined by Fabio S Lima
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Patent number: 11876984Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, a luma mapping with chroma scaling (LMCS) process may be simplified, and a linear LMCS may be applied. Accordingly, the complexity of the LMCS may be reduced and video/image coding efficiency may be increased.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jie Zhao, Seunghwan Kim
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Patent number: 11877011Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for processing visual media data are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between visual media data and a visual media file that includes one or more tracks that store one or more bitstreams of the visual media data according to a format rule; wherein the format rule specifies whether to include, in a configuration record of a track, a first element indicative of a picture width of the track and/or a second element indicative of a picture height of the track is based on (1) whether a third element indicative of whether the track contains a specific bitstream corresponding to a specific output layer set and/or (2) whether the configuration record is for a single-layer bitstream, and wherein the format rule further specifies that the first element and/or the second element, when included in the configuration record of the track, are represented in a field including 16 bits.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Lemon Inc.Inventor: Ye-Kui Wang
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Patent number: 11871012Abstract: Examples of video encoding methods and apparatus and video decoding methods and apparatus are described. An example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video, wherein the bitstream comprises one or more output layer sets comprising one or more video layers according to a rule, wherein the rule specifies a particular decoding order between a subpicture level information (SLI) supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message and a buffering period (BP) SEI message that apply to a particular output layer set, responsive to a condition that the SLI SEI message and the BP SEI message are included in an access unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: BYTEDANCE INC.Inventor: Ye-kui Wang
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Patent number: 11849137Abstract: A motion estimation technique finds first and second candidate bi-directional motion vectors for a first region of an interpolated frame of video content by performing double ended vector motion estimation on the first region. One of these candidate bi-directional motion vectors is selected, and used to identify a remote region of the interpolated frame. This remote region is located at an off-set location from the first region, and is found based on an endpoint of the selected candidate bi-directional motion vector. A remote motion vector for the remote region of the interpolated frame is obtained, and one or more properties of this remote motion vector are used to bias a selection between the first and second candidate vectors.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Imagination Technologies LimitedInventor: Steven Fishwick
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Patent number: 11849138Abstract: 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 16, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Guillaume Laroche, Christophe Gisquet, Patrice Onno, Jonathan Taquet
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Patent number: 11835706Abstract: The present disclosure relates optical imaging devices and methods useful in biological and medical imaging applications. In one embodiment, an optical imaging device includes a flexible lightguide having a first end and a second end, the output of the source of pulsed infrared radiation being optically coupled to the first end of the flexible lightguide; a lens assembly attached to and optically coupled to the second end of the flexible lightguide, the lens assembly comprising a variable-focus lens element, the a variable-focus lens element having a tunable focal length; and a photodetector coupled to the flexible lightguide to detect radiation propagating from the second end toward the first end of the flexible lightguide. The optical imaging devices and methods can be used in both confocal and multi-photon techniques.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: The Regents of the University of Colorado, A Body CorporateInventors: Juliet T. Gopinath, Emily A. Gibson, Victor M. Bright, Richard Weir, Diego Restrepo, Baris Ozbay
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Patent number: 11838511Abstract: 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: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: GE 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: 11831924Abstract: A device may be configured to general constraint information according to one or more of the techniques described herein.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Jonatan Samuelsson, Sachin G. Deshpande, Christopher Andrew Segall
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Patent number: 11825096Abstract: 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: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Hendry Hendry, Seunghwan Kim, Jie Zhao
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Patent number: 11818338Abstract: Methods and apparatus for processing of video are described. A video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video including multiple layers of one or more pictures and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule. The format rule specifies that a reference picture referred to by each inter-layer reference picture entry in a reference picture list of a slice of a current picture of a current layer satisfies a constraint. The constraint is at least one of: (a) the reference picture is an intra random access (IRAP) picture or (b) the reference picture has a temporal identifier that is less than or equal to a certain value that is a function of a maximum allowed value of a video layer to which slices from the current layer can reference. The maximum allowed value is indicated in a syntax element.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: BYTEDANCE INC.Inventors: Ye-kui Wang, Li Zhang
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Patent number: 11818355Abstract: Provided is a video decoding apparatus for decoding coded data of a tile group in which a picture is split into rectangular regions, the tile group being composed of segments, the video decoding apparatus including: a header decoder configured to decode the number of tiles, a WPP enabled flag, and a slice enabled flag indicating whether segments in a target tile group are rectangular tiles, CTU rows, or slices from a tile group header, wherein the header decoder is configured to decode only one of the number of tiles being two or more, the WPP enabled flag being 1, and the slice enabled flag being 1 in one tile group.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono, Takeshi Chujoh, Yukinobu Yasugi, Eiichi Sasaki
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Patent number: 11812024Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory connected thereto. The circuitry, in operation: encodes an image; when encoding the image: binarizes coefficient information of the image; controls whether to apply arithmetic encoding to a binary data string obtained by binarizing the coefficient information; and outputs a bitstream including the binary data string to which arithmetic encoding has been applied or has not been applied; and when binarizing the coefficient information: binarizes the coefficient information according to a first syntax structure when arithmetic encoding is to be applied to the binary data string and a determined condition is not satisfied; binarizes the coefficient information according to a second syntax structure when arithmetic encoding is to be applied to the binary data string and the determined condition is satisfied; and binarizes the coefficient information according to the second syntax structure when no arithmetic encoding is to be applied to the binary data string.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Tadamasa Toma, Takahiro Nishi, Kiyofumi Abe, Yusuke Kato
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Patent number: 11800119Abstract: In encoding a picture, comprising a plurality of tiles, into a bitstream, a method and apparatus is provided for signaling the tile attribute values per-tile, using a compact syntax. These embodiments signal per-tile attribute values. The tile attributes may, for example, be in the form of a set of tile syntax elements (one syntax element per tile attribute), or for example in the form of a set of flags to enable or disable the usage of the tile attributes. These embodiments provide freedom for an encoder to assign the tile attribute values per tile, or per any subset of tiles in a picture, and the attribute values are signaled in a compact syntax at least once. A corresponding method and apparatus for decoding a picture is also described.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Rickard Sjöberg, Mitra Damghanian, Martin Pettersson
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Patent number: 11792436Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a video. According to an embodiment, provided is a method of setting a level for each of one or more regions, including decoding a definition syntax element related to level definition and a designation syntax element related to target designation from a bitstream; defining one or more levels based on the definition syntax element; and setting a target level designated by the designation syntax element among the defined levels for a target region designated by the designation syntax element.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.Inventors: Jeong-yeon Lim, Jae Seob Shin, Sun Young Lee, Se Hoon Son, Tae Young Na, Jae Il Kim
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Patent number: 11778237Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, scaling list data delivered in an adaptation parameter set (APS) may be signaled through a hierarchical structure, and the amount of data that needs to be signaled for video/image coding may be reduced and implementation may be facilitated by placing limits on the scaling list data delivered in the APS.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Seunghwan Kim, Jie Zhao
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Patent number: 11778204Abstract: Embodiments for video processing, including video coding, video decoding and video transcoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video having one or more video pictures in a video layer and a bitstream of the video according to a rule, wherein the rule specifies that, in a process of sub-bitstream extraction, removal of (i) a video coding layer (VCL) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit, (ii) filler data NAL units associated with the VCL NAL unit, and (iii) filler payload supplemental enhancement information (SEI) messages associated with the VCL NAL unit is performed regardless of an availability of an external means used to replace a parameter set that is removed during the sub-bitstream extraction.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.Inventors: Ye-kui Wang, Zhipin Deng, Kai Zhang, Li Zhang
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Patent number: 11778239Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a video. According to an embodiment, provided is a method of setting a level for each of one or more regions, including decoding a definition syntax element related to level definition and a designation syntax element related to target designation from a bitstream; defining one or more levels based on the definition syntax element; and setting a target level designated by the designation syntax element among the defined levels for a target region designated by the designation syntax element.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.Inventors: Jeong-yeon Lim, Jae Seob Shin, Sun Young Lee, Se Hoon Son, Tae Young Na, Jae Il Kim
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Patent number: 11778221Abstract: A method for decoding a picture from a bitstream. In one embodiment, The method includes: receiving a slice header for a slice of the picture, wherein the slice header comprises a state syntax element; decoding a state value from the state syntax element in the slice header, wherein a) if the state value is not equal to a first value, then the state value indicates that i) the bitstream includes for the picture a picture header comprising a set of picture syntax elements and ii) the slice header does not comprise the set of picture syntax elements and b) if the state value is equal to the first value, then the state value indicates that i) the slice header contains said set of picture syntax elements and ii) the bitstream does not include a picture header for the picture; and using the set of picture syntax elements to decode the slice of the picture.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Rickard Sjöberg, Martin Pettersson, Mitra Damghanian
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Patent number: 11778238Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding a video. According to an embodiment, provided is a method of setting a level for each of one or more regions, including decoding a definition syntax element related to level definition and a designation syntax element related to target designation from a bitstream; defining one or more levels based on the definition syntax element; and setting a target level designated by the designation syntax element among the defined levels for a target region designated by the designation syntax element.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.Inventors: Jeong-yeon Lim, Jae Seob Shin, Sun Young Lee, Se Hoon Son, Tae Young Na, Jae Il Kim
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Patent number: 11770522Abstract: This application discloses a picture display order determining method which includes: obtaining a decoding order index value of a current picture and a decoding order index value of a previous picture that is adjacent to the current picture according to a decoding order; adding 1 to a cycle identifier value when the decoding order index value of the current picture is less than the decoding order index value of the previous picture; and determining a display order index value of the current picture based on a sum of the decoding order index value of the current picture and a preset positive integer multiple of the cycle identifier value. In this application, the display order index value of the current picture progressively increases based on a display order index value of a picture that is located before the current picture according to the decoding order.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Haitao Yang, Yuqun Fan, Xiang Ma, Huanbang Chen, Lian Zhang