Patents Examined by Marnie Matt
  • Patent number: 11743476
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Do-Kyoung Kwon, Madhukar Budagavi
  • Patent number: 11736684
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 11729427
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: LEMON INC.
    Inventor: Ye-Kui Wang
  • Patent number: 11722776
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: NEARMAP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.
    Inventors: James Austin Besley, Mark Harold Tarlinton, David Arnold Bleads
  • Patent number: 11716486
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Chujoh, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomonori Hashimoto, Tianyang Zhou, Yukinobu Yasugi
  • Patent number: 11711516
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Hongbin Liu, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Jizheng Xu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11706461
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Xin Zhao, Yixin Du, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11700367
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Kai Zhang, Jizheng Xu
  • Patent number: 11688162
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kentaro Ichikawa, Toshiki Kindo, Katsuhiro Sakai, Masahiro Harada, Hiromitsu Urano
  • Patent number: 11683494
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Yukinobu Yasugi, Tomohiro Ikai
  • Patent number: 11683522
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bin Li, Jizheng Xu, Feng Wu
  • Patent number: 11683480
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jangwon Choi, Seunghwan Kim, Jin Heo
  • Patent number: 11675079
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Hak Soon Kim, Han Sang Kim, Jeong Eun Song, Min Seok Shin
  • Patent number: 11671612
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Guichun Li, Xiang Li, Xiaozhong Xu, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11671631
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Xin Zhao, Yixin Du, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 11659187
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Junyan Huo, Yanzhuo Ma, Jianglin Wang, Shuai Wan, Fuzheng Yang
  • Patent number: 11657613
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Raka Singh, Anil M Sripadarao
  • Patent number: 11659200
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Jo Ahn, Ho Chan Ryu
  • Patent number: 11659164
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Kai Zhang, Jizheng Xu
  • Patent number: 11659207
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yong He, Yao-Jen Chang, Vadim Seregin, Muhammed Zeyd Coban