Patents Examined by Joseph Daniel A Towe
  • Patent number: 10271053
    Abstract: A method of encoding video is provides encoding of panic scenes efficiently. The method includes receiving an input video at an encoder, reviewing lookahead information from a second encoder that processed the input video ahead of the encoder that indicates positions of panic scenes within the input video that caused the second encoder to enter a panic encoding mode during which it skipped the encoding of frames, entering a pre-panic stage with the encoder ahead of said panic scenes, entering a semi-panic stage with the encoder during the panic scenes when it produces a bitstream having a number of bits exceeding a predetermined data size within an encoder buffer, and entering a full panic stage when the semi-panic stage does not bring the number of bits in the bitstream below the predetermined data size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Wei Zhou, Swaroop Chanda, Wayne D. Michelsen, Jane Perera
  • Patent number: 10250900
    Abstract: There is provided systems and methods for embedding data into a video content. A system includes an encoder, a memory storing the encoder, and a hardware processor configured to execute the encoder from the memory. The hardware processor is configured to execute the encoder from the memory to obtain the data, determine a plurality of pixels in the video content, and embed the data into the video content by inverting the plurality of pixels in the video content according to the data. The system further includes a decoder for decoding the video content to obtain the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Malone
  • Patent number: 10244246
    Abstract: A method for decoding a compressed video bit stream in a video decoder to recover a video sequence, the video decoder including a plurality of decoder processing cores is provided. The method includes determining that a picture is encoded in the compressed bit stream as a pre-determined number of independently encoded sub-pictures, and dispatching a first encoded sub-picture of the pre-determined number of sub-pictures to a first decoder processing core of the plurality of decoder processing cores and a second encoded sub-picture of the pre-determined number of sub-pictures to a second decoder processing core of the plurality of decoder processing cores, wherein the first encoded sub-picture and the second encoded sub-picture are independently decoded in parallel on the respective first and second decoder processing cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Minhua Zhou
  • Patent number: 10218980
    Abstract: Provided is a camera. The camera further includes a motion area detection sensor that is configured to receive reflected wave signals by emitting radio frequency electromagnetic wave beam to each of divided areas set in a target capture region, determine whether motion has occurred in each of the divided areas depending on changes of reflection speed of each of the received reflected wave signals, generate motion information data based on the determination result, and input the motion information data into the controller. The controller is configured to compress a series of image frame data from the capturing unit according to the motion information data from the motion area detection sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: HANWHA AEROSPACE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Moon Gyu Choi
  • Patent number: 10205950
    Abstract: An image decoding method includes a constraint information decoding step of decoding constraint information indicating prohibition of reference from a target tile, which is one of a plurality of tiles obtained by partitioning a picture, to another tile, and a list generation step of generating a prediction motion vector list including a plurality of prediction motion vector candidates and a plurality of prediction motion vector indices each associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of prediction motion vector candidates. In the list generating step, a prediction motion vector list not including a temporal motion vector of a block on a lower right side of the target block is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kengo Terada, Hisao Sasai, Satoshi Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 10171809
    Abstract: A video encoding apparatus determines whether to substitute all quantized coefficients in a target coefficient group by zero, on the assumption that the subsequent coefficient groups include one or more quantized coefficients that are not zero, the target coefficient group being sequentially selected from the lowest-frequency among coefficient groups included in a block serving as a unit in orthogonal transform, and determines, for each coefficient group sequentially from the lowest-frequency coefficient group, whether to update, to a first quantized-coefficient candidate that is not zero and corresponding to the highest frequency in the coefficient group on the assumption that all the quantized coefficients in the subsequent coefficient groups are zero, a second quantized-coefficient candidate, which is already obtained, based on comparison between the first candidate and the second candidate in terms of a comparison cost obtained by subtracting a coding error related to the subsequent coefficient groups fro
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Noboru Yoneoka
  • Patent number: 10158888
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for reproducing video data are provided. The method includes the steps of extracting a coded video data stream and video data attribute information from the stored video file, extracting samples relevant to an expanded time layer from the extracted video data stream on the basis of the location information of the sample which allows for temporal layer access contailed in the video data attribute information, and restoring and reproducing the extracted samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., University-Industry Cooperation Group of Kyung Hee University
    Inventors: Sung-Ryeul Rhyu, Kyung-Mo Park, Yiling Xu, Gi-Jun Park, Jang-Won Lee, Kyu-Heon Kim, Gwang-Hoon Park, Doug-Young Suh
  • Patent number: 10154275
    Abstract: There is provided systems and methods for embedding data into a video content. A system includes an encoder, a memory storing the encoder, and a hardware processor configured to execute the encoder from the memory. The hardware processor is configured to execute the encoder from the memory to obtain the data, determine a plurality of pixels in the video content, and embed the data into the video content by inverting the plurality of pixels in the video content according to the data. The system further includes a decoder for decoding the video content to obtain the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: James Malone
  • Patent number: 10129562
    Abstract: The present technique relates to an image processing device and method for preventing increases in the processing load of image encoding and decoding. The image processing device includes: a temporal prediction control unit that controls, in a prediction of a motion vector, whether a temporal prediction is to be performed to predict the motion vector by using the motion vector of a neighbor region temporally adjacent to the current region being processed; and a motion vector encoding unit that predicts the motion vector of the current region by performing only a spatial prediction to predict the motion vector from the motion vector of a neighbor region spatially adjacent to the current region or performing both the spatial prediction and the temporal prediction under the control of the temporal prediction control unit, and encodes the motion vector of the current region by using the predicted value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazushi Sato
  • Patent number: 10097825
    Abstract: A method of coding video data includes receiving video information associated with a first layer and a second layer and determining whether at least one of the first layer and the second layer is a default layer. The method can include at least partially restricting inter-layer prediction when neither the first layer nor the second layer is the default layer. A default layer can be a base layer or an enhancement layer. A flag can be received that indicates that inter-layer prediction is to be restricted. In addition, the method can include determining whether inter-layer prediction is allowed for the video information associated with the first layer, and determining whether inter-layer prediction is partially allowed for the video information associated with the second layer such that motion compensation is not used with the second layer video information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vadim Seregin, Ye-Kui Wang, Ying Chen, Marta Karczewicz