Patents Examined by Marnie Matt
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Patent number: 11743476Abstract: In examples, a method comprises receiving, by a decoder, a scalable bitstream including a plurality of layers of bitstreams The method comprises determining, by the decoder, a target layer of the plurality of layers of bitstreams to be decoded. The method also comprises demultiplexing, by the decoder, the plurality of layers of bitstreams from the scalable bitstream. The method further includes decoding, by the decoder, each of the plurality of layers of bitstreams that is at or below the target layer and associated with the target layer. The method also comprises outputting, by the decoder, a video based on each of the plurality of layers of bitstreams that is at or below the target layer and associated with the target layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Do-Kyoung Kwon, Madhukar Budagavi
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Patent number: 11736684Abstract: According to an aspect of an invention, a method for signaling reference pictures in video coding is disclosed. The method comprises: decoding a number of entries in a reference picture list syntax structure; decoding a number of reference index active minus one syntax in a slice header, if the number of entries is greater than one; and deriving an active variable by using the number of reference index active minus one syntax.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
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Patent number: 11729427Abstract: 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 including one or more tracks storing one or more bitstreams of the visual media data according to a format rule; wherein the format rule specifies whether a first element indicative of whether a track contains a bitstream corresponding to a specific output layer set controls whether a second element indicative of a chroma format of the track and/or a third element indictive of a bit depth information of the track is included in a configuration record of the track.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: LEMON INC.Inventor: Ye-Kui Wang
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Patent number: 11722776Abstract: An imaging system can include a first and second camera configured to capture first and second sets of oblique images along first and second scan paths, respectively, on an object area. A drive is coupled to a scanning mirror structure, having at least one mirror surface, and configured to rotate the structure about a scan axis based on a scan angle. The first and second cameras each have an optical axis set at an oblique angle to the scan axis and include a respective lens to focus first and second imaging beams reflected from the mirror surface to an image sensor located in each of the cameras. The first and second imaging beams captured by their respective cameras can vary according to the scan angle. Each of the image sensors captures respective sets of oblique images by sampling the imaging beams at first and second values of the scan angle.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: NEARMAP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.Inventors: James Austin Besley, Mark Harold Tarlinton, David Arnold Bleads
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Patent number: 11716486Abstract: A video decoding apparatus is provided. The video decoding apparatus includes a parameter decoding circuit, a prediction parameter derivation circuit, a motion compensation circuit, and a weighted prediction circuit to derive weight coefficients.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi Chujoh, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomonori Hashimoto, Tianyang Zhou, Yukinobu Yasugi
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Patent number: 11711516Abstract: A method for video processing includes performing a conversion between a current video block and a bitstream representation of the current video block using an intra-prediction coding scheme based on an n-order polynomial model using at least one variable associated with the current video block, where n is an integer greater than or equal to zero, wherein the conversion includes generating the current video block from the bitstream representation or generating the bitstream representation from the current video block.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.Inventors: Hongbin Liu, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Jizheng Xu, Yue Wang
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Patent number: 11706461Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatus for video decoding. Processing circuitry of the apparatus decodes coded information for a reconstructed sample of a current component in a current picture from a coded video bitstream. The coded information indicates a sample offset filter to be applied to the reconstructed sample. A filter shape of the sample offset filter is one of a plurality of filter shapes. Each of the plurality of filter shapes includes first reconstructed samples of a first component in the current picture. A filtered sample value of the reconstructed sample is determined based on the first reconstructed samples in the filter shape. The sample offset filter is an in-loop filter by which the output value is applied to the reconstructed sample as an offset to filter out coding artifacts while retaining details of the current component in the current picture.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Tencent America LLCInventors: Xin Zhao, Yixin Du, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 11700367Abstract: A method for visual media processing, including: computing, during a conversion between a current video block of visual media data and a bitstream representation of the current video block, a cross-component linear model (CCLM) and/or a chroma residual scaling (CRS) factor for the current video block based, at least in part, on neighboring samples of a corresponding luma block which covers a top-left sample of a collocated luma block associated with the current video block, wherein one or more characteristics of the current video block are used for identifying the corresponding luma block.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Kai Zhang, Jizheng Xu
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Patent number: 11688162Abstract: A method and device is provided for detecting a state change in an environment around a vehicle, and providing a notification in response to detecting a state change, wherein the detection involves determining a portion of the environment to capture, capturing a portion of the environment, detecting a state change in the captured portion, and the production of a notification in response to the change in the captured environment. Certain embodiments include traffic signal detection, vehicle detection, vehicle speed detection, and user adjustment of the detection.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kentaro Ichikawa, Toshiki Kindo, Katsuhiro Sakai, Masahiro Harada, Hiromitsu Urano
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Patent number: 11683494Abstract: The present invention includes: a CCLM prediction derivation portion, for deriving a first parameter and a second parameter by using a sampled luminance value downsampled according to a chrominance format and an intra-frame prediction mode; and a CCLM prediction filter portion, for deriving a prediction image by using the first parameter and the second parameter, wherein the CCLM prediction derivation portion derives the first parameter by deriving a logarithmic value of a luminance difference value, deriving a first value by right-shifting a second value related to the luminance difference value by the logarithmic value, and using a third value acquired by multiplying a fourth value by a chrominance difference value and derives the second parameter by using the first parameter. The fourth value is determined from a reference table by using the first value.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company LimitedInventors: Yukinobu Yasugi, Tomohiro Ikai
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Patent number: 11683522Abstract: Innovations in adaptive encoding and decoding for units of a video sequence can improve coding efficiency. For example, some of the innovations relate to encoding/decoding that includes adaptive switching of color spaces between units within a video sequence. Other innovations relate encoding/decoding that includes adaptive switching of color sampling rates between units within a video sequence. Still other innovations relate encoding/decoding that includes adaptive switching of bit depths between units within a video sequence.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Bin Li, Jizheng Xu, Feng Wu
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Patent number: 11683480Abstract: An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises: a step for deriving the number of samples of upper peripheral chroma samples and left peripheral chroma samples of a current chroma block on the basis of a specific value and the width and height of the current chroma block; a step for deriving said number of upper peripheral chroma samples and said number of left peripheral chroma samples; and a step for deriving CCLM parameters on the basis of the upper peripheral chroma samples, the left peripheral chroma samples, and down-sampled peripheral luma samples, wherein, when the specific value is derived as 2 and the width and the height of the current chroma block are larger than the specific value, the number of samples is derived as the specific value.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jangwon Choi, Seunghwan Kim, Jin Heo
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Patent number: 11675079Abstract: An image sensing device includes an optical emitter outputting a modulated signal to a target object; an optical receiver generating, according to a phase control signal, pixel signals corresponding to a reflected signal from the target object; an image processor calculating a depth phase based on the pixel signals and compensating for the depth phase according to a phase offset signal to output a depth information signal; a driving control circuit generating the phase control signal corresponding to a phase of the modulated signal and setting an initial phase difference between the modulated signal and the phase control signal according to the phase offset signal; and an offset calculating circuit setting a plurality of reference phases, selecting a reference phase closest to the depth phase among the set reference phases and generating the phase offset signal representing a phase difference between the selected reference phase and the depth phase.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: SK hynix Inc.Inventors: Hak Soon Kim, Han Sang Kim, Jeong Eun Song, Min Seok Shin
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Patent number: 11671612Abstract: A method for video encoding includes encoding prediction information of a current block in a current picture into a coded video bitstream, the prediction information being indicative of a symmetric motion vector difference (SMVD) mode for bi-prediction from a pair of forward and backward reference pictures. The method further includes, when searching for the pair of the forward and backward reference pictures, skipping a reference picture associated with a weighted prediction without checking a picture order count (POC) of the reference picture. The method also includes determining a first reference block for the current block in the forward reference picture and a second reference block for the current block in the backward reference picture, and reconstructing the current block according to the first reference block and the second reference block.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Tencent America LLCInventors: Guichun Li, Xiang Li, Xiaozhong Xu, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 11671631Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatus for video decoding. Processing circuitry of the apparatus decodes coded information for a reconstructed sample of a current component in a current picture from a coded video bitstream. The coded information indicates a sample offset filter to be applied to the reconstructed sample. A filter shape of the sample offset filter is one of a plurality of filter shapes. Each of the plurality of filter shapes includes first reconstructed samples of a first component in the current picture. A filtered sample value of the reconstructed sample is determined based on the first reconstructed samples in the filter shape. The sample offset filter is an in-loop filter by which the output value is applied to the reconstructed sample as an offset to filter out coding artifacts while retaining details of the current component in the current picture.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Tencent America LLCInventors: Xin Zhao, Yixin Du, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 11659187Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method for determining a prediction direction, a decoder and a computer storage medium. The method is implemented by a decoder. The method includes that: a Direct Mode (DM) in a chroma intra prediction mode of a block to be decoded is acquired (S101); and an index number of a prediction direction in a DM derived mode is determined based on an offset N and an index number M of a prediction direction in the DM to determine the DM derived mode (S102).Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventors: Junyan Huo, Yanzhuo Ma, Jianglin Wang, Shuai Wan, Fuzheng Yang
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Patent number: 11657613Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques to count objects across multiple zones of arbitrary shapes. The techniques include operations comprising: detecting an object in a first zone of a plurality of zones of an area; determining that the object has moved from the first zone to a second zone of the plurality of zones; determining that movement of the object from the first zone to the second zone fails to satisfy a zone transition criterion for updating a count value and time criterion; and in response to determining that the movement of the object from the first zone to the second zone fails to satisfy the zone transition criterion, preventing the count value from being updated.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited CompanyInventors: Raka Singh, Anil M Sripadarao
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Patent number: 11659200Abstract: The present invention relates to block merging according to block split among video coding techniques, and a method and an apparatus for coding and decoding a video, in which in generating and modifying a block merging list, spatial merging candidate blocks of the block merging list are changed according to a split type and order of a current coding unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yong Jo Ahn, Ho Chan Ryu
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Patent number: 11659164Abstract: A method for visual media processing, including: computing, during a conversion between a current video block of visual media data and a bitstream representation of the current video block, a cross-component linear model (CCLM) and/or a chroma residual scaling (CRS) factor for the current video block based, at least in part, on neighboring samples of a corresponding luma block which covers a top-left sample of a collocated luma block associated with the current video block, wherein one or more characteristics of the current video block are used for identifying the corresponding luma block.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Kai Zhang, Jizheng Xu
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Patent number: 11659207Abstract: An example method includes decoding, from a coded video bitstream, a first syntax element that specifies a constraint for a second syntax element that specifies whether subpicture information is present in the coded video bitstream and whether more than one subpicture is allowed to be present in the coded video bitstream; and decoding, based on the constraint specified by the first syntax element, the second syntax element.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Yong He, Yao-Jen Chang, Vadim Seregin, Muhammed Zeyd Coban