Patents Examined by Tsion B Owens
  • Patent number: 12149696
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to embodiments of the present document may comprise the steps of: acquiring, via a bitstream, image information including residual information; generating reconstruction samples on the basis of the residual information; and performing an in-loop filtering procedure for the reconstruction samples so as to generate modified reconstruction samples. The step of generating of the modified reconstruction samples may comprise a step of determining whether the in-loop filtering procedure is performed across virtual boundaries. In an example, wherein the image information includes an SPS, and on the basis of whether reference picture resampling is available, whether the SPS includes additional virtual boundary-related information may be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hendry Hendry, Seethal Paluri, Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12146984
    Abstract: A distance measurement device according to the present disclosure includes: a laser irradiation unit that irradiates a measurement target with laser light; and a laser light receiving unit including a light receiving element that receives the laser light reflected by the measurement target on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Furthermore, the pitch of the unit pixels of the light receiving element varies with location in a light receiving pixel area. A mobile apparatus according to the present disclosure is equipped with a distance measurement device having the above configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Hideshi Abe
  • Patent number: 12149684
    Abstract: Devices and methods for Intra prediction are provided. The method includes: obtaining a value of an indication information of a current block. When the value of the indication information indicates the intra prediction mode of the current block is not comprised in the set of most probable modes, deriving the intra prediction mode IntraPredModeY of the current block by the following ordered steps: i. IntraPredModeY is set equal to intra_luma_mpm_remainder[xCb][yCb], ii. The value of IntraPredModeY is incremented by one. The method can improve the efficiency to determine the intra prediction mode of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Biao Wang, Semih Esenlik, Anand Meher Kotra, Han Gao, Jianle Chen
  • Patent number: 12137239
    Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for signaling output layer sets in a coded video stream. Video data having multiple layers is received. One or more syntax elements are identified. The syntax elements specify one or more output layer sets corresponding to output layers from among the multiple layers of the received video data. The one or more output layers corresponding to the specified output layer sets are decoded and displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Byeongdoo Choi, Stephan Wenger, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 12132890
    Abstract: An encoder configured to generate an encoded bitstream for decoding by a compatible decoder, wherein the decoder receives the encoded bitstream with a current picture including a current block having a first partition boundary partitioning the block into first and second non-rectangular regions and a second partition boundary, intersecting the first partition boundary, and partitioning the second non-rectangular region into three portions. Using the encoded bitstream, the decoder determines a first predictor for use within the first non-rectangular region using a first motion vector selected from a first list of motion vector candidates, determines a second predictor for use within the second non-rectangular region using a second motion vector selected from a second list of motion vector candidates; and decodes the current block using the first predictor and the second predictor. Decoding further includes smoothing the first predictor and the second predictor across the first partition boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: OP Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Borivoje Furht, Hari Kalva, Velibor Adzic
  • Patent number: 12117530
    Abstract: A laser beam steering system is disclosed which includes a laser source which produces a pulsed laser light beam with a frequency comb spectrum, a first metasurface configured to i) directly receive the pulsed laser and ii) directly generate a diffracted pulsed laser output at different frequencies with a beam at a center frequency normal to the first metasurface; and a second metasurface configured to i) directly receive the diffracted pulsed laser output and ii) to focus onto different foci at a focal plane, light propagating from the focal plane leads to generation of one or more optical beams that are controlled in space and time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: Purdue Research Foundation, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Amr Mohammad E. A. Shaltout, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Mark L. Brongersma
  • Patent number: 12113980
    Abstract: A video colour component prediction method and apparatus, and a computer storage medium are provided. The prediction method includes: obtaining a first colour component neighboring reference value and a first colour component reconstructed value corresponding to a current coding block, wherein the first colour component neighboring reference value represents a first colour component parameter corresponding to a neighboring reference sample of the current coding block, and the first colour component reconstructed value represents one or more reconstruction parameters of a first colour component corresponding to the current coding block; determining a weight coefficient corresponding to the neighboring reference sample; determining a scale factor according to the weight coefficient and the first colour component neighboring reference value; and obtaining a second colour component predicted value corresponding to the current coded block based on a linear model corresponding to the scale factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Junyan Huo, Xiaoyan Chai, Yanzhuo Ma, Fuzheng Yang
  • Patent number: 12113984
    Abstract: A method for video processing is provided to comprise: dividing a video block of a first color component to obtain a first set sub-blocks of the first color component; dividing a corresponding video block of a second color component to obtain a second set of sub-blocks of a second color component; deriving one or more motion vectors of the first set of sub-blocks based on one or more motion vectors of the second set of sub-blocks; and performing, based on the one or more motion vectors of the first set and second set of sub-blocks, a conversion between the video block and a coded representation of the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 12114020
    Abstract: A video processing method is provided to include: determining, based on a rule, whether to use a 4-tap interpolation filter for a conversion between a current video block of a current video unit of a video and a coded representation of the video, wherein the current video block is coded using intra mode in the coded representation; and performing the conversion based on the determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu
  • Patent number: 12103395
    Abstract: An optical arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a head up display light field emitter that emits a light field. At least one mirror is positioned to reflect the light field such that the light field is again reflected by a windshield of the vehicle, and such that the light field is visible to a driver of the vehicle as a virtual image. The at least one mirror has a transparent section. A driver monitoring camera is positioned to capture an image of a face of the driver through the transparent section of the at least one mirror.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventor: John Avery
  • Patent number: 12108042
    Abstract: An apparatus of decoding video data can include a prediction mode decoding module to derive a luma intra prediction mode and a chroma intra prediction mode; a prediction size determining module to determine a size of a luma transform unit and a size of a chroma transform unit using transform size information; a reference pixel generating module to generate referential pixels if at least one reference pixel is unavailable; and a reference pixel filtering module adaptively filter the reference pixels of a current luma block based on the luma intra prediction mode and the size of the luma transform unit. The apparatus can further include a prediction block generating module to generate prediction blocks of the current luma block and the current chroma block; and a residual bock generating module to generate residual blocks of the current luma block and the current chroma block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: GENSQUARE LLC
    Inventors: Soo Mi Oh, Moonock Yang
  • Patent number: 12101483
    Abstract: An image decoding method is disclosed in the present specification. A method of decoding an image, the method may comprises determining whether to perform a context update for a first syntax element of a current block, updating, on the basis of the determination, a context for entropy decoding of the first syntax element and generating, on the basis of the updated context, a bin for the first syntax element, and wherein whether to perform the context update is determined on the basis of the number of pre-decoded predetermined syntax elements for the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignees: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, CHIPS & MEDIA, INC
    Inventors: Sung Chang Lim, Jung Won Kang, Ha Hyun Lee, Jin Ho Lee, Hui Yong Kim, Dae Yeon Kim, Wook Je Jeong, Hyun Gyu Kim
  • Patent number: 12101482
    Abstract: An encoder, a decoder, and methods for partitioning a picture from a sequence of video pictures into a layout having a plurality of flexible tiles or segments is disclosed. Each tile or segment comprises a single rectangular or square region. The encoder generates a partition structure and encodes the tiles according to the partition structure. The encoder also generates a bitstream comprising a plurality of coded segments and information indicating the partition structure used to partition the picture into the plurality of flexible tiles or segments, and sends the bitstream to the decoder. Upon receipt, the decoder uses the coded segments and information in the bitstream to decode the plurality of coded segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Rickard Sjöberg, Jack Enhorn, Martin Pettersson, Mitra Damghanian
  • Patent number: 12096026
    Abstract: A method of video processing is described. The method includes: determining, based on a coding mode of a current video block of a video, whether a position dependent intra prediction combination (PDPC) method is used for coding the current video block based on a first rule, and performing a conversion between the current video block and a coded representation of the video according to the determining, wherein the PDPC method combines neighboring samples with a prediction signal of the current video block to generate a refined prediction signal of the current video block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Hongbin Liu, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Jizheng Xu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 12095984
    Abstract: Whether one of (i) a boundary of a first reference subblock of a first subblock in a first reference picture is positioned beyond a boundary of the first reference picture and (ii) a boundary of a second reference subblock of the first subblock in a second reference picture is positioned beyond a boundary of the second reference picture is determined. Responsive to (i) the boundary of the first reference subblock of the first subblock in the first reference picture being beyond the boundary of the first reference picture and (ii) the boundary of the second reference subblock of the first subblock in the second reference picture being positioned within the boundary of the second reference picture, the first subblock of a current block is reconstructed based on a uni-prediction mode such that the first subblock is reconstructed based on the second reference subblock of the second reference picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Guichun Li, Xiang Li, Lien-Fei Chen, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 12096018
    Abstract: A method for decoding a video according to the present invention may comprise: decoding information indicating whether a non-zero transform coefficient exists in a current block, when the information indicates that the non-zero transform coefficient exists in the current block, determining a scanning order of the current block, and decoding a transform coefficient included in the current block according to the determined scanning order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventor: Bae Keun Lee
  • Patent number: 12096025
    Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method according to the present disclosure may include parsing, from a bitstream, first information specifying whether block difference pulse code modulation (BDPCM) applies to an intra-predicted current block, determining a prediction direction of BDPCM for the current block and generating a residual block of the current block based on the determined prediction direction of BDPCM, based on the first information specifying that BDPCM applies to the current block, generating a prediction block of the current block, by performing intra prediction based on an intra prediction mode of the current block, and reconstructing the current block based on the residual block and the prediction block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Sunmi Yoo, Jin Heo, Jangwon Choi, Jungah Choi
  • Patent number: 12092736
    Abstract: The present application discloses an optical signal processing circuit for a Lidar. The optical signal processing circuit includes an optical processing circuit, a gain control circuit connected to the optical processing circuit, and a controller connected to the gain control circuit. The optical processing circuit includes an optical sensor and an amplification circuit. The optical sensor is configured to convert an optical signal to a photocurrent signal, and the amplification circuit is configured to convert and amplify the photocurrent signal to a voltage signal. The controller adjusts a gain of the optical processing circuit via the gain control circuit and based on an amplitude of the voltage signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SUTENG INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Letian Liu, Shen Jiang, Chunxin Qiu
  • Patent number: 12081752
    Abstract: Provided is an encoder which includes circuitry and memory. The circuitry encodes an image block using the memory. In encoding the image block, the circuitry: obtains one or more size parameters related to a size of the image block; determines whether the one or more size parameters and one or more thresholds satisfy a determined relationship; encodes a split parameter when the one or more size parameters and the one or more thresholds are determined to satisfy the determined relationship, the split parameter indicating whether the image block is to be split into a plurality of partitions including a non-rectangular partition; and encodes the image block after splitting the image block into the plurality of partitions when the split parameter indicates that the image block is to be split into the plurality of partitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi, Tadamasa Toma, Ryuichi Kanoh, Chong Soon Lim, Ru Ling Liao, Hai Wei Sun, Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar, Han Boon Teo, Jing Ya Li
  • Patent number: 12081781
    Abstract: Disclosed are an image processing method and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, the image processing method comprises the steps of: obtaining an intra prediction mode; obtaining a reference sample using a neighboring sample of the current block; determining whether to perform filtering on the reference sample; filtering the reference sample if it is determined to perform the filtering; and generating a prediction block using the reference sample or the filtered reference sample on the basis of the prediction mode, wherein the current block is a non-square block, the reference sample comprises a left reference sample and a top reference sample, and whether to perform the filtering is determined on the basis of at least one of a current block parameter or a surrounding block parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Rosedale Dynamics LLC
    Inventors: Sunmi Yoo, Hyeongmoon Jang