Patents Examined by Jerry T Jean Baptiste
  • Patent number: 12368849
    Abstract: Systems and methods may provide flexible picture partitioning, a method includes receiving a bitstream, that includes a picture, the picture partitioned into a plurality of coding tree units (CTUs), wherein at least one row or column of CTUs, among the plurality of CTUs of the picture, that is adjacent to a boundary of the picture has a size dimension that is smaller than a corresponding size dimension of each CTU among the plurality of CTUs that is not adjacent to any boundary of the picture; and encoding the bitstream based on the plurality of CTUs, wherein the at least one row or column of CTUs includes a first CTU row or a first CTU column of the picture that is adjacent to a top boundary or left boundary of the picture, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Liang Zhao, Xin Zhao, Yixin Du, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 12356017
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for video processing are described. The video processing may include video encoding, video decoding, or video transcoding. One example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video comprising one or more pictures comprising one or more slices and a bitstream of the video. The bitstream conforms to a predefined order between a position of a first network abstraction layer (NAL) unit in a picture unit carrying an adaptation parameter set information and a second NAL unit that is a last video coding layer (VCL) NAL unit in the picture unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDNCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Li Zhang, Ye-Kui Wang, Kai Zhang
  • Patent number: 12355988
    Abstract: Provided is a video decoding method including obtaining identification information of a first tile and identification information of a last tile from a bitstream, wherein the first and last tiles are included in a first slice, determining an index difference between the first tile and the last tile, based on a result of comparing the identification information of the first tile with the identification information of the last tile, determining the number of tiles included in the first slice, by using the index difference between the first tile and the last tile, and decoding a plurality of tiles included in the first slice according to an encoding order by using the number of tiles included in the first slice, the identification information of the first tile, and the identification information of the last tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woongil Choi, Gahyun Ryu, Minsoo Park, Minwoo Park, Seungsoo Jeong, Kwangpyo Choi, Kiho Choi, Narae Choi, Anish Tamse, Yinji Piao
  • Patent number: 12356010
    Abstract: A video signal processor is configured to obtain a secondary transform kernel for a current block based on an intra prediction mode of the current block to which a secondary transform is applied, to obtain a secondary inverse transformed block by performing a secondary inverse transform on a top-left specific region of the current block using the secondary transform kernel, wherein the secondary inverse transform is an inverse transform of the secondary transform, and the secondary transform is a low frequency non-separable transform, to obtain a residual block of the current block by performing a primary inverse transform on the secondary inverse transformed block, wherein one or more coefficients of the top-left specific region of the current block are derived in a preset scan order and the preset scan order is a 4×4 up-right diagonal scan order regardless of a size of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: HUMAX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jaehong Jung, Dongcheol Kim, Juhyung Son, Geonjung Ko, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 12348742
    Abstract: Signalling of syntax elements in a sequence parameter set of a video bitstream is addressed. Particularly, it is provided a method of decoding a video bitstream wherein a sequence parameter set, SPS, is coded that contains syntax elements that apply to a video sequence, the method comprising obtaining a value of a first syntax element from the SPS used to specify whether a decoded picture buffer, DPB, parameters syntax structure is present in the SPS and obtaining a value of a second syntax element from the SPS, at least when determining that the value of the first syntax element specifies that the DPB parameters syntax structure is present in the SPS, used to specify the presence of a DPB syntax element in the DPB parameters syntax structure, wherein the DPB syntax element is applied to a temporal sublayer except for the highest temporal sublayer in the video sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Biao Wang, Semih Esenlik, Anand Meher Kotra, Elena Alexandrovna Alshina, Han Gao
  • Patent number: 12348783
    Abstract: A video decoding method performed by a video decoding apparatus according to the present document comprises: parsing number information about the number of slices for which height is explicitly signaled in a tile of a current picture from a bitstream; parsing height information about the height of the slices for which height is explicitly signaled from the bitstream based on the number information; and decoding the current picture based on the number information and the height information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hendry Hendry, Seethal Paluri, Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12348785
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for processing video content using motion compensation interpolation. The methods include: encoding or decoding a picture block by applying one or more filters to a reference picture, wherein the applying of the one or more filters generates a sample at a fractional sample position, and wherein the one or more filters comprise an 8-tap filter that has a plurality of coefficients [p0, p1, . . . , p7] for each 1/16 fractional sample position p.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventors: Jiancong Luo, Yan Ye, Mohammed Golam Sarwer
  • Patent number: 12348752
    Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, slices included in a current picture are decoded, a picture output flag for the current picture is derived after decoding of all the slices in the current picture is completed, and an output for the current picture may be determined on the basis of the picture output flag. The current picture may be displayed as “not needed for output” on the basis of the value of the picture output flag being 0, and the current picture may be displayed as “needed for output” on the basis of the value of the picture output flag being 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hendry Hendry, Junghak Nam, Hyeongmoon Jang
  • Patent number: 12348772
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for partial access support in SOBMFF containers for video-based point cloud streams. A video encoding device may partition a 3D space into a first spatial region and a second spatial region, The video encoding device may map the first spatial region to a first set of V-PCC tiles and the second spatial region to a second set of V-PCC tiles. The video encoding device may determine a first track to carry first mapping information associated with the first spatial region that is mapped to the first set of V-PCC tiles. The video encoding device may determine a second track to carry second mapping information associated with the second spatial region that is mapped to the second set of V-PCC files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventor: Ahmed Hamza
  • Patent number: 12341976
    Abstract: Methods for determining a prediction value, an encoder and a decoder are provided. A bitstream is parsed to obtain a size and a coding mode of a current block. Reconstructed values of neighboring samples are acquired and the reconstructed values of the neighboring samples are filtered. A second constant value is calculated according to a bit depth value of a luma component of a sample in the current block. A difference between the second constant value and a first reference value in the reference value set is assigned as a first prediction input value in a prediction input value set. Other prediction input values in the prediction input value set other than the first prediction input value are determined. Prediction values of samples at specific positions in the current block are calculated. The prediction values are filtered to obtain prediction values of all samples in the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Junyan Huo, Yanzhuo Ma, Shuai Wan, Fuzheng Yang, Wei Zhang, Haixin Wang, Yu Sun
  • Patent number: 12326570
    Abstract: An eyewear device comprises a left lens assembly and a right lens assembly. The left lens assembly includes a left focus tunable lens and a left focus fixed lens. A right lens assembly includes a right focus tunable lens and a right focus fixed lens. The eyewear device may be used in 3D display applications, virtual reality applications, augmented reality applications, remote presence applications, etc. The eyewear device may also be used as vision correction glasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Ajit Ninan, Chaitanya Atluru, James Thomas Triplett, Chun Chi Wan
  • Patent number: 12327384
    Abstract: An example device for filtering decoded video data includes one or more processors configured to execute a neural network filtering unit to: receive data from one or more other units of the device, the data from the one or more other units of the device being different than data for a decoded picture of video data, and wherein to receive the data from the one or more other units of the device, the one or more processors are configured to execute the neural network filtering unit to receive boundary strength data from a deblocking unit of the device; determine one or more neural network models to be used to filter a portion of the decoded picture; and filter the portion of the decoded picture using the one or more neural network models and the data from the one or more other units of the device, including the boundary strength data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hongtao Wang, Venkata Meher Satchit Anand Kotra, Jianle Chen, Marta Karczewicz
  • Patent number: 12323632
    Abstract: According to the embodiments of the present document, information necessary to control in-loop filtering performed across virtual boundaries can be efficiently signaled by a coding device. In one example, information related to whether in-loop filtering is available across virtual boundaries can be signaled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hendry Hendry, Seethal Paluri, Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12301789
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a region-based reference management system using in video frame encoding. Source content, such as video game streaming or remote desktop sharing, that includes scene changes or significant instantaneous changes in a region from one frame to the next can present encoding challenges. Techniques disclosed herein use hints about changes in regional frame content, dissect frame content into regions, and associate the dissected regions with stored reference frame data using the hints and information about the regions to more efficiently encode frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Ahmed M. Abdelkhalek, Ihab M. A. Amer, Khaled Mammou
  • Patent number: 12301881
    Abstract: Video coding tools can be controlled by including syntax in a video bitstream that makes better use of video decoding resources. An encoder inserts syntax into a video bitstream to enable a decoder to parse the bitstream and easily control which tools combinations are enabled, which combinations are not permitted, and which tools are activated for various components in a multiple component bitstream, leading to potential parallelization of bitstream decoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Edouard Francois, Pierre Andrivon, Franck Galpin, Fabrice Leleannec, Michel Kerdranvat
  • Patent number: 12294726
    Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, LMCS may also be applied to a block having a dual tree structure. In addition, the number of LMCS APS may be limited. Therefore, an LMCS procedure may be efficiently performed, and the complexity of LMCS may be reduced. As the performance of LMCS is improved, the video/image coding efficiency may be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jie Zhao, Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12294716
    Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for signaling a high level syntax (HLS) and a method of transmitting a bitstream are provided. An image decoding method according to the present disclosure may include obtaining first information indicating whether to constrain luma mapping with chroma scaling (LMCS), obtaining second information indicating whether LMCS for a current video sequence is allowed, and reconstructing a current picture within the current video sequence based on the second information. A value of the second information may be determined based on a value of the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hendry Hendry, Seung Hwan Kim, Seethal Paluri, Jie Zhao
  • Patent number: 12289447
    Abstract: A method and decoder is provided for decoding at least one current picture from a bitstream. An indicator value is decoded from the bitstream specifying at least one rule of a plurality of rules, the at least one rule applied to ordering of segments coded in the bitstream, wherein the segments are segments in a segment partition layout. A set of syntax elements from the bitstream specifying a segment partition layout is decoded. A segment partition layout based on the set of syntax elements is derived. The at least one current picture in the bitstream is decoded using the segment partition layout, wherein the ordering of the segments complies with the at least one rule specified. An encoder and corresponding method define the segment partition layout, selects the at least one rule from a set of rules, and encodes the segment partition layout and the indicator value into the bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Mitra Damghanian, Rickard Sjöberg, Martin Pettersson
  • Patent number: 12284338
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method according to the present invention may comprise acquiring transform coefficients distribution information of a neighboring block from a bitstream; direction-adaptively determining an intra prediction mode of a current block to be decoded, according to the transform coefficients distribution information of the neighboring block; and reconstructing the current block, based on the determined intra prediction mode, wherein the direction-adaptively determining includes determining similarity flag information corresponding to the neighboring block, based on the transform coefficients distribution information of the neighboring block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, CHIPS & MEDIA, INC, Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University
    Inventors: Jin Ho Lee, Jung Won Kang, Ha Hyun Lee, Sung Chang Lim, Hui Yong Kim, Dae Yeon Kim, Yung Lyul Lee
  • Patent number: 12284372
    Abstract: A method of encoding video streams includes, at an encoding device, receiving a first video stream frame from a first server device at the encoding device at a first receipt time; receiving a second video stream frame from a second server device at the encoding device at a second receipt time; encoding the first video stream frame with the encoding device; determining a delay duration based at least partially on a first encoding duration of the first video stream frame and the second receipt time; and transmitting a delay instruction based at least partially on the delay duration to the second server device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Scott David Mosier