Patents Examined by Neil R Mikeska
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Patent number: 11960007Abstract: A lidar system, preferably including one or more transmit modules, beam directors, and/or receive modules, and optionally including one or more processing modules. A method of lidar system operation, preferably including: emitting light beams, receiving reflected light beams, and/or analyzing data associated with the received light beams.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Red Leader Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Jacob Hillard, Rebecca Wong, Jhoneldrick Millares, Logan Herrera
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Patent number: 11954889Abstract: The embodiment of the disclosure discloses a method for processing data, a device for processing data, a system for processing data, a system controller and a mudure controller. The method includes: receiving input image data; storing the image data into a memory; reading target image data from the memory according to loaded area information of at least one output portal, wherein the output portal is electrically connected with a display screen, and the loaded area information of the output portal characterizes a target display area of the display screen; compressing the target image data to reduce the data volume of the target image data to meet a output bandwidth of the output portal to obtain compressed image data characterized by a plurality of image data packets; and outputting the compressed image data through the output portal.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: XI'AN NOVASTAR TECH CO., LTD.Inventors: Mengting Liu, Guifeng Wei
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Patent number: 11949914Abstract: An image decoding apparatus including a header decoder configured to decode, from coded data, a flag indicating whether dependent quantization is enabled and a flag prohibiting transform skip residual quantization, and a TU decoder configured to decode a transform coefficient in a TU block in an RRC mode in which a LAST position is coded, the LAST position corresponding to a decoding start position for the transform coefficient, or a TSRC mode in which the LAST position is not coded. The TU decoder performs dependent quantization in the RRC mode in a case that the transform coefficient for transform skip is decoded in the TSRC mode, and does not perform dependent quantization in the RRC mode in a case that the transform coefficient for transform skip is decoded in the RRC mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomonori Hashimoto, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono
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Patent number: 11949877Abstract: Innovations in adaptive encoding of screen content based on motion type are described. For example, a video encoder system receives a current picture of a video sequence. The video encoder system determines a current motion type for the video sequence and, based at least in part on the current motion type, sets one or more encoding parameters. Then, the video encoder system encodes the current picture according to the encoding parameter(s). The innovations can be used in real-time encoding scenarios when encoding screen content for a screen sharing application, desktop conferencing application, or other application. In some cases, the innovations allow a video encoder system to adapt compression to different characteristics of screen content at different times within the same video sequence.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Satya Sasikanth Bendapudi, Ming-Chieh Lee, Yan Lu, Bin Li, Jizhe Jin, Jiahao Li, Shao-Ting Wang
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Patent number: 11949862Abstract: An apparatus for video decoding includes receiving and processing circuitry. The circuitry is configured to receive a bitstream including a syntax element associated with a parent coding unit (CU) in a picture indicating the parent CU is partitioned into a predefined set of child CUs without performing a recursive tree-structure-based partitioning, and process the child CUs according to the indication of the syntax element to reconstruct the picture. In an embodiment, at least two subdivisions need to be performed when the parent CU is partitioned using the recursive tree-structure-based partitioning in order to obtain the same set of child CUs. In an embodiment, at least one of the child CUs has a size larger than a minimum allowed CU size for partitioning the parent CU and includes no syntax element to indicate whether the at least one of the child CUs is to be further subdivided.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Shan Liu, Zhenzhong Chen, Sijia Chen, Yiming Li
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Patent number: 11930214Abstract: A method of utilizing an 8-bit primary transform core matrix to decode compressed video or image data or encode uncompressed video or image data. The method may include determining whether to use a first transform core matrix that is of a first size type or a second transform core matrix that is of a second size type that is smaller than the first size type. When a result of the determination is to use the first transform core matrix, encoding or decoding the target file using the 8-bit primary transform core matrix that has the size that is 64-point or larger. If not, the method may include extracting the second transform core matrix of the second size type from the first transform matrix and encoding or decoding the target file using the extracted second transform core matrix.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Xin Zhao, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
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Patent number: 11930224Abstract: A method of decoding coding blocks of a coding tree unit in an image. The method comprises obtaining the coding tree unit in the image from a bitstream, the coding tree unit having chroma channels and a luma channel; and determining luma split options for the luma channel of the coding tree unit according to dimensions of a region of the coding tree unit. The method also comprises determining chroma split options for the chroma channels of the coding tree unit according to dimensions of a region of the coding tree unit, the chroma split options being different to the luma split options, the allowable chroma split options resulting in chroma intra predicted blocks with a minimum size of 16 samples; and decoding the coding blocks by determining flags from the bitstream to select one of the determined luma split options and one of the determined chroma split options.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Christopher James Rosewarne
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Patent number: 11928852Abstract: A system for digitizing gauges, lights and other human-readable machine gauges and functions and status without interfering with the operation of the machine or requiring re-working or interfering with the existing machine wiring, signaling, electrical or mechanical elements or operating modes, or adding new digitizing equipment to the machine.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Theia Group, IncorporatedInventor: Erlend Olson
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Patent number: 11924473Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for decoding a video including determining a coding unit to be decoded by block partitioning, decoding prediction syntaxes for the coding unit, the prediction syntaxes including a skip flag indicating whether the coding unit is encoded in a skip mode, after the decoding of the prediction syntaxes, decoding transform syntaxes including a transformation/quantization skip flag and a coding unit cbf, wherein the transformation/quantization skip flag indicates whether inverse transformation, inverse quantization, and at least part of in-loop filterings are skipped, and the coding unit cbf indicates whether all coefficients in a luma block and two chroma blocks constituting the coding unit are zero, and reconstructing the coding unit based on the prediction syntaxes and the transform syntaxes.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.Inventors: Sun Young Lee, Jeong-yeon Lim, Tae Young Na, Gyeong-taek Lee, Jae-seob Shin, Se Hoon Son, Hyo Song Kim
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Patent number: 11920919Abstract: An apparatus includes a display screen that includes OLED pixels disposed at a particular pitch in a first plane. A light projector includes light emitting elements disposed in a second plane parallel to the first plane. The light emitting elements are disposed at the same pitch as the OLED pixels or at an integer multiple of the pitch of the plurality of OLED pixels. The light emitting elements are operable to produce light at a wavelength for transmission through the display screen, and the first and second planes are separated from one another by a distance D such that d2=2*(?)*(D)/(N), where d is the pitch of the OLED pixels, ? is the wavelength, and N is a positive integer.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: ams Sensors Asia Pte. LtdInventor: Nicolino Stasio
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Patent number: 11917199Abstract: Image encoding/decoding methods and apparatuses according to the present invention may generate a prediction block of a current block based on a pre-defined prediction mode, generate a transform block of the current block through predetermined transformation, and reconstruct the current block based on the prediction block and the transform block.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY CO., LTD.Inventors: Bae Keun Lee, Dong San Jun
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Patent number: 11910027Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to video coding and picture partitioning methods. In particular, the disclosure is concerned with relations between partition constraint elements, by setting partitioning rules for different picture partitioning methods. The disclosure provides devices and corresponding methods for generating or processing a bitstream including encoded pictures, particularly for setting and including partition constraint element into the bitstream. One of the devices is configured to determine a minimum luma size of a leaf block resulting from quadtree splitting (MinQtSizeY), determine a maximum luma size of a coding block where partitioning using a binary tree splitting is allowed (MaxBtSizeY) based on the MinQtSizeY, and include information for the determined MinQtSizeY into the bitstream.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Han Gao, Semih Esenlik, Jianle Chen, Anand Meher Kotra, Biao Wang, Zhijie Zhao
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Patent number: 11910028Abstract: A method of decoding coding blocks of a coding tree unit in an image. The method comprises obtaining the coding tree unit in the image from a bitstream, the coding tree unit having chroma channels and a luma channel; and determining luma split options for the luma channel of the coding tree unit according to dimensions of a region of the coding tree unit. The method also comprises determining chroma split options for the chroma channels of the coding tree unit according to dimensions of a region of the coding tree unit, the chroma split options being different to the luma split options, the allowable chroma split options resulting in chroma intra predicted blocks with a minimum size of 16 samples; and decoding the coding blocks by determining flags from the bitstream to select one of the determined luma split options and one of the determined chroma split options.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Christopher James Rosewarne
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Patent number: 11902501Abstract: An apparatus includes a controller coupled to a stereoscopic image viewer. The stereoscopic image viewer includes a viewing lens, an image capture unit, and a plurality of light sources. The image capture unit is configured to capture image frames. The controller receives the captured image frames. The controller is configured to switch light output from one of the plurality of light sources to another one of the plurality of light sources if a corneal reflection in a captured image frame intersects a fixed reflection in the captured image frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Heath Feather, Randal P. Goldberg, Alexandre V. Matveev
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Method and device for signaling information related to slice in image/video encoding/decoding system
Patent number: 11902528Abstract: A method by which a video decoding device decodes a video, according to the present document, can comprise the steps of: parsing, from a bitstream, number information related to the number of slices of which the height within a tile of a current picture is explicitly signaled; parsing, from the bitstream, on the basis of the number information, height information related to the height of the slices of which the height is explicitly signaled; deriving the number of slices in the tile on the basis of the number information and the height information; generating prediction samples by predicting the current block of the current picture on the basis of the slices within the tile; generating reconstructed samples on the basis of the prediction samples; and generating a reconstructed picture for the current picture on the basis of the reconstructed samples.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Hendry Hendry, Seethal Paluri, Seunghwan Kim -
Patent number: 11902587Abstract: An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: acquiring syntax elements for a first transform coefficient through an n-th transform coefficient of a current block, wherein the syntax elements are syntax elements according to a first residual data coding structure of TSRC; and acquiring syntax elements for an n+1st transform coefficient through a last transform coefficient of the current block, wherein the syntax elements are syntax elements according to a second residual data coding structure of the TSRC, wherein the number of context-coded syntax elements for the first transform coefficient through the n-th transform coefficient is equal to the maximum number of context-coded bins of the current block, and the syntax elements according to the second residual data coding structure include coefficient level information and a sign flag for a transform coefficient.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jungah Choi, Jin Heo, Sunmi Yoo, Jaehyun Lim, Jangwon Choi, Seunghwan Kim
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Patent number: 11892801Abstract: Systems and methods for simultaneous multi-channel off-axis holography are described. Multi-channel imaging systems can include a light system including a plurality of light sources configured to generate illumination and reference beams at a plurality of wavelengths, an illumination system configured to illuminate a target object with the illumination beams, an optical assembly configured to receive a reflected target beam and condition the target beam for recording at an optical imaging system, and a reference system configured to propagate the reference beams to the optical imaging system. The reference beams are interfered with the target beam at the optical imaging system to create interference patterns, which can be recorded in a collective image having a plurality of side lobes. Holographic information in the side lobes can be combined to generate 3D images having a substantially reduced signal to noise ratio.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: KBR Wyle Services, LLCInventor: James A Georges, III
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Patent number: 11889091Abstract: The present disclose provides methods and systems for processing chroma signals. According to some embodiments, the method can include: receiving a sequence parameter set (SPS); and determining, based on a first flag signaled in the SPS, whether chroma residual scaling is enabled or disabled for a slice associated with the SPS.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding LimitedInventors: Mohammed Golam Sarwer, Jiancong Luo, Yan Ye
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Patent number: 11876964Abstract: Block-based coding of a picture is done by providing an intra-prediction coding concept according to which a certain block of the picture is intra-prediction coded using a certain intra-coding mode by partitioning the predetermined block into partitions which are, for reconstruction purposes, sequentially subject to spatial prediction using the intra-prediction coding mode signaled for the certain block followed by correcting the thus obtained predictor using a prediction residual so that for preceding partitions a reconstruction of the samples is available to the decoder at the time of processing the next, then current, partition.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Santiago De Luxán Hernández, Philipp Merkle, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
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Patent number: 11863773Abstract: A method and apparatus for decoding multiple semantically independent picture parts into a single video picture includes decoding unique picture order count values for each coded picture, coded slice, or coded tile in a coded video sequence, with multiple decoded pictures, cycles, and tiles belonging to a same access unit representing a frame of the video. A value representing the amount of pictures, cycles, or tiles, is then assigned to each access unit for assigning sequential access unit count values to the access units. As a result, each access unit, which represents multiple pictures, slices, or tiles to be combined into a single frame, is decoded for display processing.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLCInventors: Byeongdoo Choi, Stephan Wenger, Shan Liu