Patents Examined by Yulin Sun
  • Patent number: 12163776
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and a method for measuring a three dimensional shape with improved accuracy. The apparatus includes a stage, at least one lighting unit, a plurality of image pickup units and a control unit. The stage supports an object to be measured. The lighting unit includes a light source and a grid, and radiates grid-patterned light to the object to be measured. The image pickup units capture, in different directions, grid images reflected from the object to be measured. The control unit calculates a three dimensional shape of the object from the grid images captured by the image pickup units. The present invention has advantages in capturing grid images through a main image pickup portion and sub-image pickup portions, enabling the measurement of the three dimensional shape of the object in a rapid and accurate manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: KOH YOUNG TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Seung-Jun Lee, Kwangill Koh, Moon-Young Jeon, Sang-Kyu Yun, Hong-Min Kim, Jung Hur
  • Patent number: 12149689
    Abstract: The present invention provides an image encoding method and an image decoding method. The image decoding method, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: determining a transformation performing region; segmenting the determined transformation performing region into at least one sub-transform block by using at least one of quadtree segmentation and binary tree segmentation; and performing inverse transformation on the at least one sub-transform block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Joo Hee Moon, Dong Jae Won, Sung Won Lim
  • Patent number: 12143591
    Abstract: A video encoder for encoding a video into a data stream using motion compensated prediction for inter predicted blocks, comprising a hypothesis number control, configured to control a number of prediction hypotheses of the inter predicted blocks within a predetermined portion of the video to meet a predetermined criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Martin Winken, Christian Bartnik, Philipp Helle, Mischa Siekmann, Jonathan Pfaff, Detlev Marpe, Heiko Schwarz, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 12143563
    Abstract: Detection of scaling of compressed videos or images is provided. A frequency domain transformation is applied along both horizontal and vertical directions of input video or images to generate frequency domain data. Statistics in the frequency domain data are computed for each of the horizontal and vertical directions to extract features. The features are modeled to scores along each of the horizontal and vertical directions. An original resolution of the input video or images in the horizontal and vertical directions is identified according to the scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: IMAX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vladimir Sireaev, Jiheng Wang, Ahmed Badr
  • Patent number: 12133019
    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 that includes one or more tracks that store one or more bitstreams of the visual media data according to a format rule; wherein the visual media file includes a base track that references one or more subpicture tracks that store coded information for one or more subpictures of the visual media data, and wherein the format rule specifies a process used to reconstruct a video unit from a sample in the base track and the one or more subpicture tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Inventor: Ye-Kui Wang
  • Patent number: 12126916
    Abstract: A camera array for a mediated-reality system includes a plurality of hexagonal cells arranged in a honeycomb pattern in which a pair of inner cells include respective edges adjacent to each other and a pair of outer cells are separated from each other by the inner cells. A plurality of cameras are mounted within each of the plurality of hexagonal cells. The plurality of cameras include at least one camera of a first type and at least one camera of a second type. The camera of the first type may have a longer focal length than the camera of the second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Proprio, Inc.
    Inventors: James Andrew Youngquist, David Julio Colmenares, Adam Gabriel Jones
  • Patent number: 12120359
    Abstract: A system processing hardware executes a machine learning (ML) model-based video compression encoder to receive uncompressed video content and corresponding motion compensated video content, compare the uncompressed and motion compensated video content to identify an image space residual, transform the image space residual to a latent space representation of the uncompressed video content, and transform, using a trained image compression ML model, the motion compensated video content to a latent space representation of the motion compensated video content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH Zürich (EIDGENÖSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZÜRICH)
    Inventors: Abdelaziz Djelouah, Leonhard Markus Helminger, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo, Scott Labrozzi, Christopher Richard Schroers, Yuanyi Xue
  • Patent number: 12120306
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to: obtain a three-dimensional model comprising at least one patch, at least one geometry component, at least one occupancy component, and zero or more texture components; subsample the at least one geometry component of the at least one patch of a three-dimensional object at occupied positions using a subsampling criterion; define respective search windows around the respective occupied positions; select respective salient points relative to the respective occupied positions within the respective search windows; triangulate the salient points to approximate a shape of the three-dimensional object; detect zero or more triangles that overlap with at least one unoccupied pixel; split the zero or more triangles that overlap with at least one unoccupied pixel until no triangle overlaps with the unoccupied pixels; and add zero or more additional triangles close to a border of the three-dimensional object to generate a resulting mesh signaled to a decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Patrice Rondao Alface, Aleksei Martemianov, Lukasz Kondrad, Lauri Aleksi Ilola, Sebastian Schwarz
  • Patent number: 12108091
    Abstract: Provided in embodiments of the present disclosure are a media data processing method, an apparatus and a system. The method comprises: obtaining an optical signal of a sampling point by a collection device at the source end in an acquisition of media data; acquiring an optical signal intensity of the optical signal of the sampling point and a display brightness of a display device at destination end; determining an opto-electronic transfer control parameter according to the optical signal intensity of the optical signal of the sampling point and the display brightness; performing opto-electronic transfer on the optical signal of the sampling point according to the opto-electronic transfer control parameter to obtain a transferred electrical signal; and encoding the electrical signal and the opto-electronic transfer control parameter to obtain a bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheolkon Jung, Qiaozhou Lin, Shengtao Yu, Ming Li, Guoqiang Shang, Zhao Wu
  • Patent number: 12101492
    Abstract: A method of image compression, including, receiving at least one unprocessed image frame, transforming a domain of the at least one unprocessed image frame to output a transformed domain dataset, block processing the transformed domain dataset to yield a blocked dataset, quantizing the blocked dataset to produce a quantized dataset and entropy encoding the quantized dataset to construct at least one compressed image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventors: Bin Chen, Donghui Wu
  • Patent number: 12096002
    Abstract: Disclosed are an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The method and apparatus select at least one reference pixel line from among multiple reference pixel lines and derive a predicted value of a pixel within a current block by using the value of at least one pixel within the selected reference pixel line(s). Alternatively, the method and apparatus derive an intra prediction mode of a reconstructed pixel region on the basis of a reference pixel region of at least one reconstructed pixel region, derive an intra prediction mode of a current block on the basis of the derived intra prediction mode of the reconstructed pixel region, obtain an intra prediction block of the current block by using the derived intra prediction mode, and reconstruct the current block by summing the obtained intra prediction block and a residual block of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University
    Inventors: Joo Hee Moon, Sung Won Lim, Dong Jae Won
  • Patent number: 12096015
    Abstract: A decoder configuration method includes: acquiring at least two compatibility grade configurations for configuring decoding parameters of a decoder, the different compatibility grade configurations being different in priority level, decoding property and decoder compatibility; selecting one compatibility grade configuration from the compatibility grade configurations according to the priority levels from high to low; configuring the decoder according to the compatibility grade configuration; starting the decoder, and performing decoding abnormality detection processing on the decoder to obtain an abnormality detection result; and performing hardware decoding processing on a to-be-decoded video according to the compatibility grade configuration to obtain a decoding processing result based on the abnormality detection result indicating that the decoder is normal, and determining that the current compatibility grade configuration is applicable to the decoder according to the decoding processing result in respons
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hongbin Cao, Sijia Chen
  • Patent number: 12088835
    Abstract: A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream comprising a sub-picture partitioned from a picture and a sequence parameter set (SPS) comprising a sub-picture size and a sub-picture location. The SPS is parsed to obtain the sub-picture size of the sub-picture and the sub-picture location of the sub-picture. The sub-picture is decoded based on the sub-picture size and the sub-picture location to create a video sequence. The video sequence is forwarded for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ye-Kui Wang, Fnu Hendry
  • Patent number: 12088811
    Abstract: Several methods and systems for encoding pictures associated with video data are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes determining by a processing module, whether a picture is to be encoded based on at least one of a skip assessment associated with the picture and an encoding status of a pre-selected number of pictures preceding the picture in an encoding sequence. The method further includes encoding by the processing module, a plurality of rows of video data associated with the picture upon determining that the picture is to be encoded, wherein the plurality of rows are encoded based on a pre-selected maximum encoded picture size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Naveen Srinivasamurthy, Soyeb Nagori, Manoj Koul
  • Patent number: 12069306
    Abstract: This invention provides an apparatus comprising an acquisition unit which acquires information representing optical compression ratios in a horizontal direction and in a vertical direction at a time of image capturing by an image capturing unit; a transform unit which wavelet transforms the image data to generate a plurality of sub-band data; a determination unit which determines quantization parameters for transform coefficients in a plurality of sub-bands obtained by the transform unit; and an encoding unit which quantizes the transform coefficients in the sub-band data obtained by the transform unit in accordance with the quantization parameters determined by the determination unit and to encode the quantized transform coefficients, wherein the determination unit performs weighting for each sub-band based on the information representing the compression ratios acquired by the acquisition unit to determine the quantization parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takafumi Murata, Shigeki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 12069251
    Abstract: An apparatus including an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive pixel data generated by a capture device. The processor may be configured perform computer vision operations on the video frames to detect objects, perform a classification of the objects detected based on characteristics of the objects, determine whether the classification of the objects corresponds to an event, generate a full video stream in response to all of the video frames and generate encoded video frames. The full video stream may be recorded to a storage medium local to the apparatus. The encoded video frames may be communicated to a cloud service. The encoded video frames may comprise a first sample of the video frames selected at a first rate when the event is not detected and a second sample of the video frames selected at a second rate while the event is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Ambarella International LP
    Inventors: Jian Tang, Ruian Xu
  • Patent number: 12058369
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for decoding a video signal are disclosed. A method for decoding a video signal includes obtaining block type information of a current block, confirming a prediction mode of the current block based on the block type information, obtaining, if the prediction mode of the current block is an intra prediction mode according to the prediction mode, at least one correlation parameter information using at least one neighboring pixel of the current block, obtaining an intra prediction value of the current block using the correlation parameter information, and reconstructing the current block using the intra prediction value of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Won Sung, Seung Wook Park, Yong Joon Jeon, Jung Sun Kim, Young Hee Choi, Byeong Moon Jeon, Joon Young Park
  • Patent number: 12047619
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a technique for effectively processing a large amount of video data which are generated by cameras (e.g., CCTV cameras). Particularly, the present invention relates to a video processing technique of image quality compensation, in which a compensation of image quality is periodically performed by high-resolution image switching when video streams of a plurality of resolution (e.g., 4K, 1K (Full-HD)) are provided from a camera, thereby maintaining storage capacity for storing videos at the level of low-resolution video and maintaining an object identification effect in video search at the level of high-resolution video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: KORDIO INC.
    Inventors: Sang Ho Ahn, Kyu Mock Jung
  • Patent number: 12028550
    Abstract: A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for coding video data. Video data is received. One or more transform cores corresponding to a transform associated with the video data are identified. The one or more transform cores include one or more of a line graph transform (LGT) and a discrete sine transform (DST) The video data is decoded based on the identified transform core. The transform cores correspond to one or more from among an 8-bit transform core and a 10-bit transform core. The transform corresponds to one or more from among a 2-point transform, a 4-point transform, an 8-point transform, and a 16-point transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Madhu Peringassery Krishnan, Xin Zhao, Shan Liu
  • Patent number: 12022111
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing a video signal, which can increase the accuracy of the motion vector prediction through motion vector scaling which takes a difference in the temporal distance between reference pictures into consideration. To this end, the present invention provides a video signal processing method and a video signal processing apparatus using the same, and the method comprises the steps of: scaling at least one neighboring partition motion vector for a motion vector prediction of the current partition; scaling the neighboring partition motion vector, which has been selected, when the reference picture of the neighboring partition motion vector is different from the reference picture of the current partition; acquiring a motion vector prediction value of the current partition using the scaled motion vector; and acquiring a motion vector of the current partition using the motion vector prediction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Joonyoung Park, Seungwook Park, Jaehyun Lim, Jungsun Kim, Younghee Choi, Jaewon Sung, Byeongmoon Jeon, Yongjoon Jeon