Patents Examined by Nguyen T Truong
  • Patent number: 12167011
    Abstract: A method of video encoding includes determining whether a reference block for a current block is located in a different coding tree unit (CTU) than a CTU of the current block. The method also includes, in response to the reference block being located in the different CTU, (i) determining whether a memory location of a reference sample memory for the reference block is available. The second area is collocated in the different CTU with a position of the first area in the CTU of the current block. In response to the determination that the reference block is located in the different CTU, the method also includes, (ii) in response to a determination that the memory location for the reference block is available, retrieving, from the memory location corresponding to the reference block, one or more samples to encode the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xiaozhong Xu, Shan Liu, Xiang Li
  • Patent number: 12167121
    Abstract: An image capturing apparatus includes a sound collection unit configured to collect a voice, an analysis unit configured to analyze a voice collected by the sound collection unit, an automatic image capturing unit configured to automatically capture an image, and a setting unit configured to set image capturing frequency of the automatic image capturing unit, wherein, in a case where a result of analysis by the analysis unit is a specific voice instruction, the setting unit sets the image capturing frequency higher after an operation is performed according to the instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yosuke Takagi
  • Patent number: 12160672
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes a main body, a first sensor and a second sensor. The first sensor is disposed on a first setting area of the main body. The second sensor is disposed on a second setting area of the main body. The first setting area and the second setting area respectively have a first central point and a second central point, where the first central point and the second central point are disposed on a horizontal axis. There is a first angle between a connection line of the first central point and the first sensor with the horizontal axis, and there is a second angle between a connection line of the second central point and the second sensor with the horizontal axis, where the first angle is different from the second angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Yan-Min Kuo, Jun-Lin Guo, Wei-Chen Chen
  • Patent number: 12146827
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention encompass systems and methods for determining detection limits for various antibody-dye conjugates for flow cytometry. Exemplary techniques involve a linear superpositioning approach of spillover-induced enlargements of normally distributed measurement errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: BECKMAN COULTER, INC.
    Inventor: Michael Kapinsky
  • Patent number: 12149687
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus performs a method of decoding a video signal. The method comprises: receiving the video signal that includes a first component and a second component in a first picture frame; receiving, from the video signal, a plurality of sample offsets associated with the second component in the first picture frame; deriving a first class index for the second component from a first set of one or more samples of the first component relative to each sample of the second component; selecting a first sample offset from the plurality of sample offsets for the second component according to the first class index; and obtaining a cross-component offsetted sample value of the second component based on the first sample offset in the first picture frame. In some embodiments, the first picture frame is divided into a plurality of regions, and a different classifier is used for each of the plurality of regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Che-Wei Kuo, Xiaoyu Xiu, Wei Chen, Xianglin Wang, Yi-Wen Chen, Tsung-Chuan Ma, Hong-Jheng Jhu, Bing Yu
  • Patent number: 12143590
    Abstract: An affine motion estimation (ME) is performed on a current block to determine affine parameters of the current block in a pre-analysis stage. The affine ME is performed based on at least one of (i) a down-scaled current picture and one or more down-scaled reference pictures of the down-scaled current picture, (ii) a simplified configuration, or (iii) a fixed block size of the current block being equal to or larger than a threshold. The affine parameters of the current block determined in the pre-analysis stage are stored. Affine parameters of the current block are determined based on the affine parameters stored in the pre-analysis stage. The current block is reconstructed based on the determined affine parameters of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Guichun Li, Xiang Li, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 12143599
    Abstract: A video decoding apparatus includes matrix reference pixel derivation circuitry that derives reference samples by using top neighboring samples and left neighboring samples of a current block, weight matrix derivation circuitry that derives a weight matrix, matrix prediction image derivation circuitry that derives a prediction image, and matrix prediction image interpolation circuitry that derives a predicted image by using the prediction image. A size index is derived according to a value of a target block width and a value of a target block height. A prediction size is derived using the size index. In a case that a first condition, that both the value of the transform block width and the value of the transform block height are equal to 4, is true, the size index is set equal to 0 and the prediction size is set equal to 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukinobu Yasugi, Eiichi Sasaki, Tomohiro Ikai, Tomoko Aono
  • Patent number: 12137879
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an inference part which is capable of inference by using a first inference model for finding of a specific target object and by using a second inference model for discrimination about the specific target object and a control unit to which a first picked-up image obtained under a first image pickup condition and a second picked-up image obtained under a second image pickup condition different from the first image pickup condition can be inputted and which performs control such that in a case where the first picked-up image is inputted, the inference part is caused to execute inference by using the first inference model, and in a case where the second picked-up image is inputted, the inference part is caused to execute inference by using the second inference model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Manabu Ichikawa, Toshiyuki Fujii, Hiroaki Kagawa, Osamu Nonaka
  • Patent number: 12137235
    Abstract: A method for picture prediction, an encoder, a decoder, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes the following. At least one colour component of a current block in a picture is determined. The at least one colour component of the current block is pre-processed to obtain at least one pre-processed colour component. A prediction model is constructed according to the at least one pre-processed colour component, where the prediction model is used to perform cross-component prediction on the at least one colour component of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuai Wan, Junyan Huo, Yanzhuo Ma, Wei Zhang
  • Patent number: 12136323
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a monitoring system including an edge processing apparatus including a space distinct ID management database, a space distinct ID control unit, a storage unit, an analysis unit, and an abnormality determination unit, and a controller, a transmitter, and a camera with sensor that are installed in a location to be monitored, in which the space distinct ID management database stores a space distinct ID and a transmission time of the space distinct ID in association with the location to be monitored, the space distinct ID control unit acquires the space distinct ID associated with the location to be monitored from the space distinct ID management database and transmits the space distinct ID that is acquired to the controller in the associated location to be monitored, the controller transmits the space distinct ID acquired from the space distinct ID control unit to the transmitter, the transmitter generates a signal based on the space distinct ID acquired from the controller and di
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryota Shiina, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Shinya Tamaki, Kazutaka Hara, Koji Tsuji, Tetsuya Suzuki, Yasutaka Kimura
  • Patent number: 12137245
    Abstract: An image encoding method for encoding an image, includes: a prediction image generation step generating a synthesis-prediction image by performing synthesis processing synthesizing an inter-prediction image and an intra-prediction image to an encoding-target block; and an encoding step encoding a difference between the prediction image generated in the prediction image generation step and a pixel value of an image of the encoding-target block, a plurality of intra prediction types are allowed to be used as the intra prediction used for the synthesis processing, and the plurality of intra prediction types include an in-screen block copy prediction, the synthesis processing includes weighting processing performed to the inter-prediction image and the intra-prediction image, and a weighting parameter of the intra-prediction image in the weighting processing is determined in accordance with an intra prediction type of the encoding-target block and prediction mode combination of a plurality of blocks adjacent to t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: MAXELL, LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12137229
    Abstract: An image decoding method is disclosed in the present specification. An image decoding method according to the present invention may include: determining a position of a co-located block of a current block within a co-located picture (co-located picture); determining a representative motion vector of the current block by using motion information at the position of the co-located block; and deriving motion information on a sub-block included in the current block by using the representative motion vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Ha Hyun Lee, Jung Won Kang, Sung Chang Lim, Jin Ho Lee, Hui Yong Kim
  • Patent number: 12130186
    Abstract: A method and a system method for real-time wide-field dynamic temperature sensing of an object, the method comprising producing wide-field illumination to upconverting nanoparticles at the object plane, collecting a light emitted by the upconverting nanoparticles, dividing a collected light into a reflected component and a transmitted component, imaging the reflected component into a first image, imaging the transmitted component into a second image; processing the images; and reconstruction of the object from resulting proceed images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Jinyang Liang, Xianglei Liu, Artiom Skripka, Fiorenzo Vetrone, Yingming Lai, Miao Liu
  • Patent number: 12126823
    Abstract: A method of decoding implemented by a video decoder is provided. The method includes receiving a bitstream including a coded video sequence start (CVSS) access unit (AU), wherein the CVSS AU contains a picture unit (PU) for each layer, and wherein a coded picture in each PU is a coded layer video sequence start (CLVSS) picture; identifying the coded picture from one of the layers based on a picture order count (POC) value; and decoding the coded picture to obtain a decoded picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ye-Kui Wang
  • Patent number: 12120346
    Abstract: A method performed by a video decoder includes receiving a coded video bitstream that includes a current picture with at least one block located at a boundary of the current picture. The method includes determining whether boundary filtering is enabled for the at least one block based on a syntax element in the received coded video stream. The method further includes, based on a determination that the boundary filtering is enabled: filtering one or more boundary samples corresponding to the at least one block to generate one or more filtered samples, and decoding the at least one block based on the generated one or more filtered samples. The method further includes based on a determination that the boundary filtering is not enabled, decoding the at least one block without filtering the one or more boundary samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xin Zhao, Guichun Li, Lien-fei Chen, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 12120341
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives a video bitstream including a current block, and determines a candidate list that includes a plurality of motion vector (MV) candidates for predicting the current block. The processing circuitry modifies the plurality of MV candidates in the candidate list according to a motion information based diversity assessment of the plurality of MV candidates. The modifying the plurality of MV candidates prioritizes a subset of MV candidates with a larger difference in motion information. The processing circuitry decodes, from the video bitstream, an index indicating a selected MV candidate from the modified candidate list, and reconstructs the current block based on the selected MV candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Guichun Li, Xin Zhao, Lien-Fei Chen, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 12106521
    Abstract: A method for calibrating at least one of the six-degrees-of-freedom of all or part of cameras in a formation positioned for scene capturing, the method comprising a step of initial calibration before the scene capturing. The step comprises creating a reference video frame which comprises a reference image of a stationary reference object. During scene capturing the method further comprises a step of further calibration wherein the position of the reference image of the stationary reference object within a captured scene video frame is compared to the position of the reference image of the stationary reference object within the reference video frame, and a step adapting the at least one of the six-degrees-of-freedom of a multiple cameras of the formation if needed in order to get an improved scene capturing after the further calibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Christiaan Varekamp, Bart Kroon
  • Patent number: 12108049
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus performs a method of decoding video data. The method comprises: receiving the video signal that includes a first component and a second component; receiving a plurality of offsets associated with the second component; utilizing a characteristic measurement of the first component to obtain a classification category associated with the second component; selecting an offset from the plurality of offsets for the second component according to the classification category; and modifying the second component based on the selected offset. In some embodiments, the first component is a luma video component and the second component is a chroma video component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Che-Wei Kuo, Xiaoyu Xiu, Wei Chen, Xianglin Wang, Yi-Wen Chen, Tsung-Chuan Ma, Hong-Jheng Jhu, Bing Yu
  • Patent number: 12106466
    Abstract: A photographing condition determining method includes: photographing a part of a metal structure of a metal material subjected to predetermined sample preparation under a predetermined photographing condition; assigning, to pixels corresponding to one or a plurality of predetermined phases of the metal structure, labels of respective phases for a photographed image; calculating one or more feature values for a pixel to which a label of one of the assigned phases; classifying the phases of the metal structure of the image by inputting a calculated feature value to a model, which has been learned in advance using feature values assigned with labels of respective phases as input and labels of the respective phases as output, and acquiring a label of a phase of a pixel corresponding to the input feature value; and determining a photographing condition when other parts of the metal structure are photographed based on a classification result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Naoya Kiyokane, Yoshie Obata, Shin Ishikawa, Takako Yamashita, Takeshi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 12108078
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise the steps of: when an ISP mode is applied to a current block, remapping an intra prediction mode of the current block to a wide-angle intra prediction mode on the basis of the width and height of a first block or the width and height of a second block; performing prediction on the current block on the basis of the wide-angle intra prediction mode; and remapping the intra prediction mode of the current block to a wide-angle intra prediction mode on the basis of the width and height of the first block or the width and height of the second block, and determining an LFNST set including LFNST matrices on the basis of the wide-angle intra prediction mode, wherein the first block includes a coding block, and the second block includes a partition block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Seunghwan Kim, Mehdi Salehifar, Jaehyun Lim