Patents Examined by Stuart D Bennett
  • Patent number: 12720115
    Abstract: An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: obtaining image information; and updating a decoded picture buffer (DPB) on the basis of the image information, wherein the step of obtaining the image information comprises the steps of: obtaining an output layer set (OLS) DPB parameter index for a target OLS; and obtaining DPB parameter information relating to the target OLS on the basis of the OLS DPB parameter index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Hendry Hendry
  • Patent number: 12720089
    Abstract: An encoder which encodes a video including a plurality of pictures includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry performs: encoding a first picture among the plurality of pictures; and performing (i) a first operation for encoding a parameter set for a second picture which follows the first picture in coding order among the plurality of pictures after encoding the first picture, and encoding the second picture after encoding the parameter set, or (ii) a second operation for encoding the second picture without encoding the parameter set after encoding the first picture. The circuitry performs the first operation when the second picture is a determined picture, in the performing of the first operation or the second operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Kiyofumi Abe, Ryuichi Kanoh
  • Patent number: 12707065
    Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for performing intra prediction are provided. An image decoding method of the present invention comprises deriving an intra prediction mode for a current block, selecting at least one reconstructed sample line neighboring to the current block, constructing a reference sample using at least one reconstructed sample included in the at least one reconstructed sample line, and performing intra prediction for the current block based on the intra prediction mode and the reference sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Dong San Jun, Jin Ho Lee, Jung Won Kang, Hyun Suk Ko, Sung Chang Lim, Ha Hyun Lee, Seung Hyun Cho, Hui Yong Kim, Jin Soo Choi
  • Patent number: 12707097
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. An example method of video decoding includes receiving a video bitstream and reconstructing a first sample of the video bitstream using a non-linear mapping-based filter with a first filter shape configuration of a plurality of filter shape configurations. The plurality of filter shape configurations includes at least two filter shape configurations that are based on a same geometric shape and include a same number of filter taps, and the filter taps of the at least two filter shape configurations are located at different positions. The method further includes selecting a second filter shape configuration of the plurality of filter shape configurations, and reconstructing a second sample in the video based on the non-linear mapping-based filter with the second filter shape configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2026
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Yixin Du, Xin Zhao, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 12700522
    Abstract: Systems for inspecting pipes or cavities including a camera head, a coaxial push-cable, and a video signal transmitter and a communicatively coupled camera control unit (CCU) are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: SeeScan, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark S. Olsson, Alexander L. Warren, Stephanie M. Bench, Ray Merewether
  • Patent number: 12701225
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to implement adaptive loop filter classification and selection for video coding are disclosed. Examples disclosed herein determine whether a collection of available adaptive loop filter sets associated with luma components of the input picture is empty. When the collection of available adaptive loop filter sets is not empty, disclosed examples also enable adaptive loop filtering for the luma components of the input picture, and select at least one of the collection of available adaptive loop filter sets to include in a selection of adaptive loop filter sets for the input picture, with the selection based on an order in which ones of the available adaptive loop filter sets in the collection were derived. Some disclosed examples additionally or alternatively perform block classification to determine accumulated class statistics for derivation of an adaptive loop filter set associated with the input picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ximin Zhang, Yi-Jen Chiu, Keith Rowe
  • Patent number: 12693223
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a detection method for optical signals in a three-dimensional region of a sample, and a detection method for marked antibodies and/or antigens on a biological surface. In the process, signals with a depth of field that is extended in relation to an original depth of field are captured and evaluated. Also, an apparatus includes an optical element in a detection beam path, a depth of field that is extended in relation to an original depth of field being generated by the effect of said optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Kalkbrenner
  • Patent number: 12695867
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to adaptive loop filtering (ALF) for cross-component sample offset (CCSO) and local sample offset (LSO). ALF uses reconstructed samples of a first color component as input (e.g., Y or Cb or Cr). For CCSO, the output is applied on a second color component which is a different color component of the first color component. For LSO, the output is applied on the first color component. A combined ALF may be generalized for CCSO and LSO by considering a delta value between neighboring samples of a collocated (or current) sample and also considering a level value of the collocated (or current) sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Xin Zhao, Madhu Perringassery Krishnan, Liang Zhao, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 12689752
    Abstract: A picture encoding method includes: determining a reference frame number of a current picture based on channel feedback information, where the channel feedback information indicates information about a picture frame received by a decoder side; obtaining a first reference layer number set of a first picture frame corresponding to the reference frame number, where the first reference layer number set includes layer numbers of N1 layers, 1?N1<L1, and L1 indicates a total quantity of layers of the first picture frame; determining a reference layer number of the current picture based on the channel feedback information and the first reference layer number set; and performing video encoding on the current picture based on the reference frame number and the reference layer number to obtain a bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi Song, Yixuan Zhang, Peiyun Di, Shaolin Chen
  • Patent number: 12676004
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a security system may generate a first record including first data about detection of a first person in a first image and a second record including second data about detection of a second person in a second image. The security system may determine, based at least in part on first and second data, priorities for the first and second records, and may determine, based at least in part on the priorities, an order in which to process the first and second records. Based at least in part on the order, the security system may process the first record via a first monitoring application prior to processing the second record via a second monitoring application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2026
    Assignee: SimpliSafe, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Reid Sundell, Jordan Theodore Thayer
  • Patent number: 12647620
    Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method, a method of transmitting a bitstream and a recording medium storing a bitstream are provided. The image decoding method may comprise receiving a neural-network post-filter (NNPF) related supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message to be applied to a current picture, reconstructing NNPF related information based on the NNPF related SEI message, and applying an NNPF to the current picture based on the NNPF related information. The NNPF related SEI message may include a neural-network post-filter characteristics (NNPFC) SEI message including filter identification information and filter property present information, and the NNPFC SEI message may further include base filter present information specifying whether the NNPFC SEI message includes a base neural-network post-processing filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hendry Tan, Jung Hak Nam, Hyeong Moon Jang, Jaehyun Lim, Seung Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12647608
    Abstract: A source video is encoded in a streaming protocol comprising a normal stream and a companion stream. The normal stream contains I-frames and predicted frames at high resolution. The companion stream contains frames at a lower resolution. When needed, an I-frame from the companion stream may be decoded and upscaled from the second resolution to the first resolution and injected into a decoded picture buffer. At an interval corresponding to an amount of time that is shorter than an interval between I-frames in the normal stream, a first frame is downscaled to the second resolution and then upscaled again to the first resolution. The next frame is then encoded with reference to the upscaled frame such that an output stream recovers to the first resolution based on the second frame prior to receipt of the next I-frame in the normal stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: Adeia Guides Inc.
    Inventor: Tao Chen
  • Patent number: 12638584
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, devices, software, and method for item scanner distance-enabled functioning. One such embodiment is in the form of a method and includes receiving a distance measurement from a first TOF sensor co-located with a first camera of an item scanner of a terminal and determining further data processing activity to perform or initiate based on a current state of the terminal and the received distance measurement. This method embodiment may then perform or initiate the determined further data processing activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: NCR Voyix Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth Joseph Fabian
  • Patent number: 12634519
    Abstract: An encoding device 1 includes: a transformer 13 configured to calculate an orthogonal transform coefficient by performing an orthogonal transformation process on a residual image indicating a difference between the input image and a predicted image of the input image; a quantizer 14 configured to generate quantization coefficient by quantizing the orthogonal transform coefficient based on a quantization parameter; an entropy encoder 24 configured to generate encoded data by encoding the quantization coefficient; an image decoder 10 configured to restore an orthogonal transform coefficient from the quantization coefficient based on the quantization parameter and generate a pre-filtering image by adding the predicted image to a residual image restored by performing inverse orthogonal transformation on the orthogonal transform coefficient; and a deblocking filter 18 configured to perform a filtering process on the pre-filtering image and control a filtering strength depending on a result of comparison between a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2026
    Assignee: NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI
    Inventors: Atsuro Ichigaya, Shunsuke Iwamura, Shimpei Nemoto, Kazuhisa Iguchi
  • Patent number: 12627782
    Abstract: A method for deriving at least one item of information from images of a stereo camera. A resource-saving and at the same time accurate derivation of information from the images is achieved by alternately using and processing the images with methods of monocular image processing and deriving at least one item of information from the results. A motor vehicle comprising a stereo camera and comprising a control device which carries out the method, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Moritz Michael Knorr
  • Patent number: 12574559
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of decoding a coded video bitstream, the method comprising: obtaining a picture-level syntax element included in a picture header of the current picture by parsing the video bitstream, wherein the picture-level syntax element is used to specify whether an adaptive loop filter (ALF) is enabled for the current picture; in case that the picture-level syntax element specifies the adaptive loop filter is enabled for the current picture, obtaining a parameter set identifier included in the picture header, wherein the parameter set identifier is used to indicate a first parameter set comprising a set of ALF parameters, and wherein a temporal identifier of the first parameter set is less than or equal to a temporal identifier of the current picture; performing the adaptive loop filter on at least one slice of the current picture based on the first parameter set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2026
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiang Ma, Haitao Yang
  • Patent number: 12568300
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a display control unit configured to display an input image, a first GUI image, and a second GUI image at a display; a first detecting unit configured to detect a position of a predetermined object in the input image; and a second detecting unit configured to detect a viewpoint of a user in the input image, wherein the display control unit displays the first GUI image in a position corresponding to the position of the predetermined object detected by the first detecting unit and the second GUI image in a position corresponding to the viewpoint detected by the second detecting unit, and in a case where the first GUI image and the second GUI image overlap, the display control unit makes the second GUI image less noticeable than in a case where the first GUI image and the second GUI image do not overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuma Sakato, Hiroyasu Katagawa
  • Patent number: 12563191
    Abstract: In a method for filtering in video decoding, a first combination of filter tap values is determined based on reconstructed sample values of reconstructed samples of a first color component within a filter support region. Based on a lookup table (LUT) indicating a mapping that associates offset values with different combinations of filter tap values, a first offset value of the offset values in the mapping that is associated with the first combination of filter tap values is determined. The first offset value on a to-be filtered sample of a second color component in the filter support region is applied to determine a filtered sample of the second color component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: Tencent America LLC
    Inventors: Yixin Du, Xin Zhao, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 12542934
    Abstract: A zero-delay panoramic video bit rate control method that considers distortion temporal propagation aims to optimize target bit allocation and achieve global rate-distortion optimization in coding. It encompasses coding tree unit (CTU)-level bit rate control and temporal global rate-distortion optimization. CTU-level bit rate control involves optimizing target bit allocation and updating bit rate control parameters. Temporal global rate-distortion optimization utilizes the reconstruction error and motion compensation prediction error information of the previous coded frame to estimate the temporal dependence between CTUs in the current coding frame and those in the previous coded frame to adjust the coding parameters of the current CTU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA
    Inventors: Ce Zhu, Xu Yang, Lei Luo, Hongwei Guo, Chang Duan, Jin Du, Jingjing Hou
  • Patent number: 12542925
    Abstract: The multi sample prediction method of the present invention comprises the steps of: determining a sample group consisting of a plurality of samples inside a decoding target block; determining a representative position corresponding to the sample group, inside the decoding target block; determining a representative prediction value for the sample group, on the basis of the determined representative position; and determining the determined representative prediction value as the final prediction value for each of the plurality of samples making up the sample group. The present invention enhances efficiency in encoding/decoding and reduces complexity thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jin Ho Lee, Hui Yong Kim, Sung Chang Lim, Jong Ho Kim, Ha Hyun Lee, Jin Soo Choi, Jin Woong Kim