Patents Examined by Leron Beck
  • Patent number: 11770548
    Abstract: A method of encoding video data by an electronic device is provided. A block unit is determined from an image frame according to the video data. A line index is encoded in a bitstream based on a selected reference line of the block unit and is compared with a first predefined value to determine whether to encode a mode flag in the bitstream. A mode index is directly encoded in the bitstream for indicating a prediction mode of the block unit from a most probable mode (MPM) list of the block unit when the mode flag is not encoded. The mode flag is compared to a second predefined value for encoding the mode index when the mode flag is encoded in the bitstream to indicate whether the prediction mode is selected from the MPM list. The block unit is predicted based on the selected reference line and the prediction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Hui-Yu Jiang, Yao-Jen Chang
  • Patent number: 11770559
    Abstract: An image decoding apparatus decodes a transform coefficient on a transform unit basis, decodes a flag scaling_matrix_for_lfnst_disabled_flag indicating whether to apply a quantization matrix during a non-separable transform, scales the transform coefficient by utilizing a scaling list, and performs a non-separable transform in accordance with a non-separable transform index lfnst_idx. In a case that scaling_matrix_for_lfnst_disabled_flag==1 and lfnst_idx!=0 and a size of a transform block is equal to or greater than a prescribed size, instead of scaling using the quantization matrix according to a position of the transform coefficient, uniform quantization not depending on the position of the transform coefficient is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomonori Hashimoto, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono
  • Patent number: 11763420
    Abstract: A virtual shockwave creation system comprises an eyewear device that includes a frame, a temple connected to a lateral side of the frame, and a depth-capturing camera. Execution of programming by a processor configures the virtual shockwave creation system to generate, for each of multiple initial depth images, a respective shockwave image by applying a transformation function to the initial three-dimensional coordinates. The virtual shockwave creation system creates a warped shockwave video including a sequence of the generated warped shockwave images. The virtual shockwave creation system presents, via an image display, the warped shockwave video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Sagi Katz, Eyal Zak
  • Patent number: 11765372
    Abstract: Techniques for emulating frequency coefficients of film grain for video (e.g., frame) encoding are described. According to some embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a request to encode a video with film grain at a content delivery service, performing a film grain synthesis on a frame of the video with film grain to generate film grain metadata for the frame and generate a degrained frame from the frame, determining film grain emulation frequency coefficients based at least in part on the film grain metadata for the frame, performing a frequency transform on the degrained frame to generate frequency coefficients for the degrained frame, encoding the frame into an encoded frame, by the content delivery service, based at least in part on the frequency coefficients for the degrained frame and the film grain emulation frequency coefficients, and transmitting the encoded frame from the content delivery service to a viewer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Benjamin Waggoner, Hai Wei
  • Patent number: 11765370
    Abstract: A video residual decoding apparatus includes a residual decoding circuit and a neighbor storage device. The residual decoding circuit applies residual decoding to a transform block, wherein the transform block is divided into M sub-blocks, M is a positive integer, and the M sub-blocks are processed by the residual decoding in a diagonal scan order. The neighbor storage device stores neighbor data that belong to neighboring sub-blocks and are referenced by the residual decoding of a current sub-block, wherein neighbor data belonging to a sub-block is derived from a residual decoding result of the sub-block, and a storage size of the neighbor storage device is not larger than a maximum data amount of neighbor data derived from residual decoding results of N sub-blocks, where N is a positive integer, and N is smaller than M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Sheng-Jen Wang, Ming-Long Wu
  • Patent number: 11758176
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: generating a merge candidate list in a current block; specifying one of a plurality of merge candidates included in the merge candidate list; deriving a first affine seed vector and a second affine seed vector of the current block on the basis of a first affine seed vector and a second affine seed vector of the specified merge candidate; deriving an affine vector for a subblock in the current block, using the first affine seed vector and the second affine seed vector of the current block; and performing motion compensation prediction for the subblock on the basis of the affine vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Bae Keun Lee
  • Patent number: 11758140
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal device capable of efficiently performing communication in a communication system in which a base station device and the terminal device communicate with each other. The terminal device that communicates with the base station device by using a plurality of aggregated cells recognizes that a serving cell is stopped in a first state, recognizes that the serving cell is started in a second state, and switches from the first state to the second state based on a received PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Velos Media, LLC
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ikai, Takeshi Tsukuba
  • Patent number: 11758093
    Abstract: An enhanced broadcast data service with reports locations of traffic enforcement camera locations (e.g., red light cameras and speed cameras) to users. Traffic enforcement camera information is aggregated, verified (e.g., particularly as to traffic enforcement camera type) and stored (e.g., at a server). A broadcast signal comprising program channels and at least one data channel having traffic enforcement camera information is transmitted to a plurality of receivers. Receivers store at least a subset of the traffic enforcement camera information available from the server and synchronize to it using periodic transmitted updates. Receivers compare receiver location data with stored camera location data, and display or generate audible alerts when the receiver is within a selected geographic range of a traffic enforcement camera. Alerts can be filtered as to camera type. A alerts can employ different color camera icons superimposed on a screen map depending on camera type or whether the camera is newly added.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Sirius XM Radio Inc.
    Inventors: William Carl Stumphauzer, II, Todd Darrell Van Zandt
  • Patent number: 11750803
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an intra prediction mode mapping method and a device using the method. The intra prediction mode includes: decoding flag information providing information regarding whether an intra prediction mode of a plurality of candidate intra prediction modes for the current block is the same as the intra prediction mode for the current block, and decoding a syntax component including information regarding the intra prediction mode for the current block in order to induce the intra prediction mode for the current block if the intra prediction mode from among the plurality of candidate intra prediction modes for the current block is not the same as the intra prediction mode for the current block. Thus, it is possible to increase the efficiency with which are images are decoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventor: Sun Young Lee
  • Patent number: 11736691
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is video encoding or decoding for efficiently encoding video. The techniques of the present disclosure are related to various split shapes of a block, syntaxes representing various split types of blocks, and syntax elements represented at a high level therefor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeong-yeon Lim, Sun-young Lee, Hyeong-duck Kim, Hyo Song Kim, Se-hoon Son, Jae-seob Shin, Gyeong-taek Lee
  • Patent number: 11729391
    Abstract: A method of decoding of a picture from a video bitstream is disclosed. The video bitstream includes a slice header of a current slice and data representing the current slice. The method comprises: obtaining a parameter used to derive a number of tiles in the current slice from the slice header when a slice address of the current slice is not an address of a last tile in the picture where the current slice located; and reconstructing the current slice using the number of tiles in the current slice and the data representing the current slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Semih Esenlik, Biao Wang, Anand Meher Kotra, Elena Alexandrovna Alshina
  • Patent number: 11722689
    Abstract: An encoder includes circuitry and memory connected to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: stores MV information and correction processing information into a FIFO buffer for an HMVP mode in association, the MV information being derived for a processed block and correction processing information being related to correction processing of a prediction image of the processed block; registers, in a prediction candidate list for a merge mode, one or more prediction candidates each being a combination of MV information and correction processing information, the prediction candidates including a prediction candidate which is a combination of the motion vector information and the correction processing information stored in the FIFO buffer; and selects a prediction candidate from the prediction candidate list when a current block is to be processed in the merge mode, and performs correction processing of a prediction image of the current block, based on the correction processing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 11716491
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for luma mapping with chroma scaling for video and image coding are disclosed. An example method of video processing includes performing, for a current region comprising a luma block, a first chroma block, and a second chroma block, a conversion between the current region of a video and a bitstream representation of the video according to a rule that specifies an order in which, during decoding, the first chroma block and the second chroma block are processed based on mapped sample values of the luma block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kui Fan, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11716492
    Abstract: An image decoder performs a first partitioning including using a first partition mode, without parsing first splitting information indicative of the first partition mode, to split a first block into a plurality of second blocks in response to that the first block is located adjacent to an edge of a picture and that the dimensions of the first block satisfy a first condition; and performs a second partitioning on the second block by parsing second splitting information indicative of a second partition mode, wherein the second partition mode allows at least one of a quad tree splitting and a binary splitting, and using the second partition mode to split the second block into a plurality of coding units (CUs), wherein the second partition mode prohibits the quad tree splitting of the second block in response to that the second block is located adjacent to the edge of the picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Ryuichi Kanoh, Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma
  • Patent number: 11716550
    Abstract: An imaging arrangement comprising: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix; and a signal processing arrangement. A first and a second line of the matrix each comprise a light-receiving pixel and a reference pixel, the light-receiving pixels each receive incident light and output a light signal based on the incident light, and each reference pixel outputs a pixel signal for forming an address signal. The processing arrangement provides a first address signal and a second address signal, wherein: the first address signal indicates the position of the first line and comprises a signal value based on the pixel signal from the first line; and the second address signal indicates the position of the second line and comprises a signal value based on the pixel signal from the second line; and the signal value of the first address signal is different to the signal value of the second address signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noriyuki Shikina, Kentaro Tsukida, Yasushi Iwakura, Yoichi Wada
  • Patent number: 11716479
    Abstract: A method comprising obtaining a bitstream, the bitstream comprises a transform unit syntax and a coding unit syntax, the transform unit syntax includes a value of a first flag and a value of a second flag related to, respectively, a first chroma transform block and a second chroma transform block of a current transform unit or a current sub-transform unit within the current transform unit, the first or second flag specifies whether the first or second chroma transform block contains at least one transform coefficient levels not equal to 0, the coding unit syntax includes a value of a third flag specifying whether a transform tree structure is present or not; and deriving a value of a fourth flag based on the values of the first, second, and third flags, the fourth flag specifies whether a luma transform block contains at least one transform coefficient levels not equal to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Roman Igorevich Chernyak, Yin Zhao, Sergey Yurievich Ikonin, Jianle Chen
  • Patent number: 11716483
    Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus may comprise parsing weight information specifying a weight for a reference sample from a bitstream according to a weight parameter syntax structure, and decoding a current block by performing inter prediction based on the weight information. The parsing according to the weight parameter syntax structure may comprise obtaining weight number information specifying the number of weight information obtained from the bitstream according to the weight parameter syntax structure and obtaining weight information from the weight parameter syntax structure based on the weight number information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Seung Hwan Kim, Jie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11711592
    Abstract: A stereoscopic production solution, e.g., for live events, that provides 3D video asset distribution to multiple devices and networks is described. In some embodiments, live or recorded 3D video content may be accessible by different service providers with different subscribers/users and protocols across a network of the content provider. A first video signal corresponding to a first video feed for one eye of a viewer may be received and a second video signal corresponding to a second video feed for the second eye of the viewer may be received. The first video signal and the second video signal may be encoded. The encoded first video signal and the encoded second video signal may be transmitted independently over a network. The two video signals may be received and frame synced at an off-site location for eventual rendering to a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Danial E. Holden, Austin Vrbas, Mark Francisco, Mike Harrell, Robert Baker
  • Patent number: 11711598
    Abstract: A vehicular camera for a vehicular vision system includes a housing having a front housing portion and a rear housing portion, with the front housing portion including a lens barrel for accommodating a lens. A heating device is disposed at an outermost lens element of the lens. The heating device includes a pair of electrically conductive elements that are routed along the lens barrel for electrical connection to circuitry at a printed circuit board. An outer end of each of the electrically conductive elements is disposed at and in contact with a heating element at and in contact with the inner surface of the outermost lens element. When powered, the heating element heats the outermost lens element to evaporate moisture or condensation thereat. The camera is configured to be disposed at an exterior portion of a vehicle so as to have a field of view exterior of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Zhongyao Liu, Yuesheng Lu, Jonathan D. Conger
  • Patent number: 11706454
    Abstract: A method of partitioning a coding unit (CU) into one or more transform units (TUs) for encoding a video sequence using at least one processor includes determining a height of the CU; determining a width of the CU; determining a TU size of each of the one or more TUs based on the height of the CU and the width of the CU; determining one or more TU positions of the one or more TUs based on the height of the CU and the width of the CU; and partitioning the CU into the one or more TUs based on the determined size of the one or more TUs and the one or more positions of the one or more TUs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xin Zhao, Liang Zhao, Xiang Li, Shan Liu