Patents by Inventor Alfred She

Alfred She has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10368031
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling judder are disclosed. Judder can be introduced locally within a picture, to restore a judder feeling which is normally expected in films. Capture time and display time of frames can be manipulated to obtain a desired amount of judder. Frames can be interpolated to obtain a film with a higher frame rate and localized control of judder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Ning Xu, Kimball Darr Thurston, III, Scott Daly, James E. Crenshaw, Alfred She
  • Publication number: 20170054938
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling judder are disclosed. Judder can be introduced locally within a picture, to restore a judder feeling which is normally expected in films. Capture time and display time of frames can be manipulated to obtain a desired amount of judder. Frames can be interpolated to obtain a film with a higher frame rate and localized control of judder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ning XU, Kimball Darr THURSTON, III, Scott DALY, James E. CRENSHAW, Alfred SHE
  • Patent number: 9554132
    Abstract: Compression transforming video into a compressed representation (which typically can be delivered at a capped pixel rate compatible with conventional video systems), including by generating spatially blended pixels and temporally blended pixels (e.g., temporally and spatially blended pixels) of the video, and determining a subset of the blended pixels for inclusion in the compressed representation including by assessing quality of reconstructed video determined from candidate sets of the blended pixels. Trade-offs may be made between temporal resolution and spatial resolution of regions of reconstructed video determined by the compressed representation to optimize perceived video quality while reducing the data rate. The compressed data may be packed into frames. A reconstruction method generates video from a compressed representation using metadata indicative of at least one reconstruction parameter for spatial regions of the reconstructed video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: James E. Crenshaw, Alfred She, Ning Xu, Limin Liu, Scott Daly, Kevin Stec, Samir Hulyalkar
  • Patent number: 9438849
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transmitting video frames are described. Specifically, frame rate modification techniques such as blending and/or packing processes are used to translate high frame-rate signals into low-frame rate signals, which are transmitted over limited bandwidth transmission media to a video signal receiver. Information pertaining to the blending and/or packing processes is transferred to the video signal receiver in the form of a map that is used to reconstruct the high frame-rate signals from the low-frame rate signals. The high frame-rate signals may be used by certain types of newer equipment designed to use such signals. However, legacy equipment that cannot use the high frame-rate signals may opt to use certain embodiments described herein that are designed to be backward-compatible. When backward-compatible, the video signal receiver generates suitable low frame-rate signals as well as the high frame-rate signals, thereby accommodating both legacy as well as newer equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Limin Liu, Ning Xu, Alfred She, James E. Crenshaw
  • Publication number: 20140104492
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transmitting video frames are described. Specifically, frame rate modification techniques such as blending and/or packing processes are used to translate high frame-rate signals into low-frame rate signals, which are transmitted over limited bandwidth transmission media to a video signal receiver. Information pertaining to the blending and/or packing processes is transferred to the video signal receiver in the form of a map that is used to reconstruct the high frame-rate signals from the low-frame rate signals. The high frame-rate signals may be used by certain types of newer equipment designed to use such signals. However, legacy equipment that cannot use the high frame-rate signals may opt to use certain embodiments described herein that are designed to be backward-compatible. When backward-compatible, the video signal receiver generates suitable low frame-rate signals as well as the high frame-rate signals, thereby accommodating both legacy as well as newer equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Limin Liu, Ning Xu, Alfred She, James E. Crenshaw
  • Publication number: 20140098886
    Abstract: Compression transforming video into a compressed representation (which typically can be delivered at a capped pixel rate compatible with conventional video systems), including by generating spatially blended pixels and temporally blended pixels (e.g., temporally and spatially blended pixels) of the video, and determining a subset of the blended pixels for inclusion in the compressed representation including by assessing quality of reconstructed video determined from candidate sets of the blended pixels. Trade-offs may be made between temporal resolution and spatial resolution of regions of reconstructed video determined by the compressed representation to optimize perceived video quality while reducing the data rate. The compressed data may be packed into frames. A reconstruction method generates video from a compressed representation using metadata indicative of at least one reconstruction parameter for spatial regions of the reconstructed video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: James E. Crenshaw, Alfred She, Ning Xu, Limin Liu, Scott Daly, Kevin Stec, Samir Hulyalkar
  • Publication number: 20070058985
    Abstract: An optical networking module is formed with an integrated module including optical, optical-electrical and protocol processing components, and complementary software. In one embodiment, the integral protocol processing component is a single ASIC and supports multiple protocols. The module is further equipped with support control electronics in support of control functions to manage the optical, optical-electrical as well as the multi-protocol processing component. The integrated module together with the complementary control software present to an optical networking equipment designer/developer a singular component that handles optical to electrical and electrical to optical conversion, as well as data link and physical sub-layer processing for a selected one of a plurality of datacom and telecom protocols, spanning local, regional as well as wide area networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventors: I. Denton, Bruce Murdock, James Gimlett, Edward Hershberg, Scott Lowrey, Richard Booman, Alfred She