Patents Examined by Jae N. Noh
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Patent number: 11723758Abstract: A processing device receives images of an oral cavity of a patient generated by an intraoral scanner and subsequently receives an additional image of the oral cavity of the patient. The processing device makes a comparison between the additional image and the previously received images and determines an amount of overlap between the additional image and at least one of the previously received images based on the comparison. The processing device displays image data from at least one of a) the images or b) the additional image. The processing device determines whether or not the amount of overlap meets or exceeds an overlap threshold, and displays one or more visual indicators based on whether or not the amount of overlap meets or exceeds the overlap threshold, wherein the one or more visual indicators indicate whether or not the amount of overlap meets or exceeds the overlap threshold.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventor: Adi Levin
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Patent number: 11721004Abstract: A thermal image processing method includes determining a blending ratio of a first equalization algorithm to a second equalization algorithm that are different from each other, based on a result of analyzing an original histogram of an original thermal image; generating a first corrected thermal image obtained by applying the first equalization algorithm and the second equalization algorithm to the original thermal image according to the blending ratio; adjusting the blending ratio by comparing a corrected histogram of the first corrected thermal image with the original histogram; and generating a second corrected thermal image obtained by applying the first equalization algorithm and the second equalization algorithm to the original thermal image according to the adjusted blending ratio.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Hanwha Techwin Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Wook Huh, Ki Rim Lee
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Patent number: 11706414Abstract: A video processing method includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, whether to enable a level mapping operation or a level remapping operation based on a rule, wherein the level mapping operation or the level remapping operation includes changing between a first representation of a residual coefficient of the current block and a second representation of the residual coefficient of the current block based on neighboring residual coefficients of the residual coefficient; and performing the conversion by selectively using the level mapping operation or the level remapping operation based on the determining.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignees: Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., Ltd., Bytedance Inc.Inventors: Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Jizheng Xu, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
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Patent number: 11706460Abstract: A device for processing video data can be configured to receive a configuration record for decoding a bitstream of the video data, wherein the configuration record for the bitstream includes a toolset indication syntax element that includes information identifying, from a set of video decoding tools, tools that are required to decode the bitstream associated with the configuration record; based on the toolset indication syntax element, determine whether to retrieve the bitstream associated with the configuration record; and based on the determination to retrieve the bitstream associated with the configuration record, retrieve the bitstream and outputting the bitstream to a video decoder for decoding.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Thomas Stockhammer, Imed Bouazizi, Dmytro Rusanovskyy
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Patent number: 11700386Abstract: There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform obtaining video data, obtaining a coding unit (CU) block, determining whether a flag of the CU block is set to a predetermined flag condition, determining whether a tree type of the CU block is set to a predetermined tree type, determining whether to signal an adaptive color transform (ACT) flag based on any of whether the flag of the CU block is set to the predetermined flag condition and whether the tree type of the CU block is set to the predetermined tree type, and coding the video data based on a whether the ACT flag is signaled.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Lien-Fei Chen, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 11700396Abstract: A de-blocking filter includes a reconstructed memory that is configured to store reconstructed pixels corresponding to a current macroblock of a video image to be filtered. The current macroblock includes a set of sub-blocks, each sub-block having horizontal edges and vertical edges. An internal pixel buffer in the de-blocking filter is configured to store pixels corresponding to the set of sub-blocks from the reconstructed memory, and to store partially filtered pixels corresponding to a set of partially filtered macroblocks. An edge order controller in the de-blocking filter is configured to load the pixels corresponding to the set of sub-blocks into a filter engine from the internal pixel buffer, to filter the set of sub-blocks, such that, at least one horizontal edge is filtered before filtering all vertical edges of the set of sub-blocks.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Niraj Nandan, Mullangi Venkata Ratna Reddy
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Patent number: 11695964Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for signaling a VPS and a recording medium storing a bitstream are provided. An image decoding method may comprise obtaining first information indicating whether each output layer set (OLS) specified by a video parameter set (VPS) includes only one layer, obtaining second information indicating the number of decoded picture buffer (DPB) parameter syntax structures in the VPS, based on the first information, obtaining the DPB parameter syntax structures in the VPS based on the second information, and managing a DPB based on the DPB parameter syntax structures.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Hendry Hendry, Seung Hwan Kim
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Patent number: 11695945Abstract: A video processing method is provided to include performing a conversion between a coded representation of a video comprising one or more video regions and the video, wherein the coded representation includes a first side information at a first level, and wherein a second side information at a second level is derived from the first side information such that the second side information provides parameters for a video unit coded with in-loop reshaping (ILR) in which a reconstruction of the video unit of a video region is based on a representation of a video unit in a first domain and a second domain and/or scaling chroma residue of a chroma video unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.Inventors: Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
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Patent number: 11695953Abstract: A method and apparatus use an Inter coding tool and OBMC (Overlapped Block Motion Compensation). According to one implementation, a method of video coding using OBMC (Overlapped Block Motion Compensation) operates by receiving input data associated with a current block, wherein the input data correspond to pixel data to be coded at an encoder side or coded data to be decoded at a decoder side, applying the OBMC to the current block depending on one or more constraints, and signaling an OBMC syntax conditionally at the encoder side or parsing the OBMC syntax conditionally at the decoder side for the current block, wherein the OBMC syntax indicates whether the OBMC is applied to the current block.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.Inventors: Zhi-Yi Lin, Tzu-Der Chuang, Ching-Yeh Chen, Chun-Chia Chen, Chih-Wei Hsu
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Patent number: 11695939Abstract: A method for determining coding unit (CU) partitioning of a largest coding unit (LCU) of a picture is provided that includes computing a first statistical measure and a second statistical measure for the LCU, selecting the LCU as the CU partitioning when the first statistical measure does not exceed a first threshold and the second statistical measure does not exceed a second threshold, and selecting CUs in one or more lower layers of a CU hierarchy of the LCU to form the CU partitioning when the first statistical measure exceeds the first threshold and/or the second statistical measure exceeds the second threshold.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventor: Hyung Joon Kim
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Patent number: 11683495Abstract: A method for performing video decoding by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: acquiring residual information of a current block; deriving residual samples of the current block on the basis of the residual information; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the residual samples.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jungah Choi, Jin Heo, Sunmi Yoo, Jaehyun Lim, Jangwon Choi, Seunghwan Kim
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Patent number: 11683529Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for visual media data processing are described. One method includes performing a conversion between a visual media data and a visual media file that stores a bitstream of the visual media data in multiple tracks according to a format rule that specifies that the file-level information includes a syntax element that identifies one or more tracks from the multiple tracks that contain a specific type of sample group that includes operation point information.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: LEMON INC.Inventor: Ye-Kui Wang
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Patent number: 11677990Abstract: The embodiments disclose a method including capturing video footage of a youth sports event using at least one video camera with a mobile application installed, transmitting to at least one network server with internet and WI-FI connectivity mobile application multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage, recording on at least one database coupled to the network server at least one video camera mobile application multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage, using at least one network computer coupled to at least one network server configured for processing and displaying multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage for live video streaming game broadcast on a plurality of subscribed viewer digital devices, and mixing advertising into the processed multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage broadcast using the at least one network computer.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Inventors: Robert Bradley Burkhart, Peter Christian Maurer
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Patent number: 11677989Abstract: There is provided a method for encoding and decoding a signal. The method comprises receiving a first signal (900) and a second signal (960), the first and second signals comprising different versions of a common content, the first signal (900) using a first signal element coding format and the second signal (960) using a second signal element coding format. The first signal (900) is encoded by a lower encoding module (1103) to generate a lower encoded signal (910). The lower encoded signal (910) is decoded to generate a lower decoded signal. The lower decoded signal is processed by at least converting from the first signal element coding format to the second signal element coding format and up-sampling, to produce a processed signal. The processed signal and the second signal (960) are processed by an upper encoding module (1107) to generate an upper encoded signal (920).Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Inventors: Simone Ferrara, Guido Meardi
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Patent number: 11677955Abstract: A method by which a decoding device decodes an image, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: receiving a bitstream including residual information about a current block; decoding syntax elements for the current block included in the residual information; deriving conversion coefficients for the current block on the basis of the decoded syntax elements; deriving residual samples for the current block on the basis of the conversion coefficients; and generating a restoration picture on the basis of the residual samples.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jungah Choi, Jaehyun Lim, Jin Heo, Sunmi Yoo, Ling Li, Jangwon Choi, Seunghwan Kim
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Patent number: 11671627Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for generating or parsing a visual media file according to a file format include performing a conversion between a visual media data and a visual media file that stores a bitstream of the visual media data according to a format rule. The visual media file stores multiple tracks that belong to an entity group of a specific type. The format rule specifies that, responsive to the multiple tracks having a track reference to a particular type to a group identifier, the multiple tracks (A) omit carrying a sample group of a specific type or (B) carry the sample group of the specific type such that information in the sample group of the specific type is consistent with that in the entity group of the specific type.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: LEMON INC.Inventor: Ye-Kui Wang
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Patent number: 11671595Abstract: A method of decoding video data includes determining, by one or more processors implemented in circuitry, a partition of the video data into a plurality of blocks. The partition of the video data applies a block size restriction to prevent a splitting of a block of the plurality of blocks that would result in a small block comprising a block width and a block height when the block height times the block width is less than a threshold. The method further includes generating, by the one or more processors, prediction information for the block and determining, by the one or more processors, a predicted block for the block based on the prediction information. The method further includes decoding, by the one or more processors, a residual block for the block and combining, by the one or more processors, the predicted block and the residual block to decode the block.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Luong Pham Van, Geert Van der Auwera, Adarsh Krishnan Ramasubramonian, Han Huang, Marta Karczewicz
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Patent number: 11668917Abstract: A system and method for using a microscope to at least haptically observe a specimen in a fluid is provided. In one embodiment of the present invention, an audio frequency modulation sensing (AFMS) device is used to convert an optical signal from the specimen into an electrical signal. A haptic feedback device is then used to convert the electrical signal in at least vibrations, thereby providing a user with haptic feedback associated with the optical signal from the specimen. In another embodiment, a second electrical signal can be provided to a second haptic feedback (e.g., shaker, piezo electric, electric current inducing, etc.) device in the fluid, thereby allowing for bidirectional haptic feedback between the user and the specimen. In other embodiments, aural data can be extracted from the electrical signal and presented to the user either alone in in synchronization with video data (e.g., from a video camera).Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Inventor: Dan Slater
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Patent number: 11671622Abstract: A coding tool is provided to improve the compression performance of inter prediction and is used at the encoder/decoder side to adjust the correction of a motion vector based on a high level syntax. In addition, a method is provided for simply performing an integer sample search step of searching for an integer offset and a fractional sample refinement step of searching for a sub-pixel offset in relation to motion vector refinement among coding tools.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Ewha University-Industry Collaboration FoundationInventors: Je Won Kang, Sang Hyo Park, Seung Wook Park, Wha Pyeong Lim
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Patent number: 11665371Abstract: A method for deriving a value for a first syntax element, Syntax_A. The method comprises determining whether Syntax_A is present in a bitstream. The method comprises, as a result of determining that Syntax_A is not present in the bitstream, deriving the value for Syntax_A to be equal to a first value, B, if a first condition is satisfied, or deriving the value for Syntax_A to be equal to a second value, C, if a second condition is satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Rickard Sjöberg, Martin Pettersson, Mitra Damghanian, Jacob Ström, Zhi Zhang, Kenneth Andersson, Jack Enhorn