Patents by Inventor Christopher Sigurd Fougner

Christopher Sigurd Fougner 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).

  • Publication number: 20230336739
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for encoding video comprising a sequence of video frames. In one aspect, a method comprises for one or more of the video frames: obtaining a feature embedding for the video frame; processing the feature embedding using a rate control machine learning model to generate a respective score for each of multiple quantization parameter values; selecting a quantization parameter value using the scores; determining a cumulative amount of data required to represent: (i) an encoded representation of the video frame and (ii) encoded representations of each preceding video frame; determining, based on the cumulative amount of data, that a feedback control criterion for the video frame is satisfied; updating the selected quantization parameter value; and processing the video frame using an encoding model to generate the encoded representation of the video frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Chenjie Gu, Hongzi Mao, Ching-Han Chiang, Cheng Chen, Jingning Han, Ching Yin Derek Pang, Rene Andre Claus, Marisabel Guevara Hechtman, Daniel James Visentin, Christopher Sigurd Fougner, Charles Booth Schaff, Nishant Patil, Alejandro Ramirez Bellido
  • Patent number: 11419197
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for adaptive display brightness adjustment, the method comprising: obtaining current state data characterizing a current state of a device having a display with an adjustable brightness; providing the current state data as input to a brightness prediction machine learning model, wherein the model is configured to process the current state data in accordance with current values of a set of model parameters to generate as output a proposed display brightness for the display of the device; setting the brightness of the display to a brightness that is lower than the proposed display brightness in accordance with an exploration policy; determining whether a user of the device manually adjusts the display brightness; and in response to determining that the user did not manually adjust the display brightness, using the lower brightness as a target output for adjusting the current values of the set of model parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Degris, Benjamin Hal Murdoch, Norman Casagrande, Peeyush Agarwal, Christopher Gamble, Christopher Sigurd Fougner
  • Publication number: 20210368604
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for adaptive display brightness adjustment, the method comprising: obtaining current state data characterizing a current state of a device having a display with an adjustable brightness; providing the current state data as input to a brightness prediction machine learning model, wherein the model is configured to process the current state data in accordance with current values of a set of model parameters to generate as output a proposed display brightness for the display of the device; setting the brightness of the display to a brightness that is lower than the proposed display brightness in accordance with an exploration policy; determining whether a user of the device manually adjusts the display brightness; and in response to determining that the user did not manually adjust the display brightness, using the lower brightness as a target output for adjusting the current values of the set of model parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Degris, Benjamin Hal Murdoch, Norman Casagrande, Peeyush Agarwal, Christopher Gamble, Christopher Sigurd Fougner
  • Patent number: 11096259
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for adaptive display brightness adjustment, the method comprising: obtaining current state data characterizing a current state of a device having a display with an adjustable brightness; providing the current state data as input to a brightness prediction machine learning model, wherein the model is configured to process the current state data in accordance with current values of a set of model parameters to generate as output a proposed display brightness for the display of the device; setting the brightness of the display to a brightness that is lower than the proposed display brightness in accordance with an exploration policy; determining whether a user of the device manually adjusts the display brightness; and in response to determining that the user did not manually adjust the display brightness, using the lower brightness as a target output for adjusting the current values of the set of model parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Degris, Benjamin Hal Murdoch, Norman Casagrande, Peeyush Agarwal, Christopher Gamble, Christopher Sigurd Fougner
  • Publication number: 20200314985
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for adaptive display brightness adjustment, the method comprising: obtaining current state data characterizing a current state of a device having a display with an adjustable brightness; providing the current state data as input to a brightness prediction machine learning model, wherein the model is configured to process the current state data in accordance with current values of a set of model parameters to generate as output a proposed display brightness for the display of the device; setting the brightness of the display to a brightness that is lower than the proposed display brightness in accordance with an exploration policy; determining whether a user of the device manually adjusts the display brightness; and in response to determining that the user did not manually adjust the display brightness, using the lower brightness as a target output for adjusting the current values of the set of model parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Degris, Benjamin Hal Murdoch, Norman Casagrande, Peeyush Agarwal, Christopher Gamble, Christopher Sigurd Fougner