Patents by Inventor Cornelius Hellge

Cornelius Hellge 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: 20230239510
    Abstract: Concepts for signaling visual content are described. According to one aspect, a picture representing a projection of a volumetric representation onto a projection plane is provided in a bitstream along with a geometric representation of the projection plane. According to a further aspect, a regions of a composed picture signaled in a bitstream are associated with a number of pictures of a number of projections of objects. According to a further aspect, regions of a composed picture signaled in a bitstream are associated with respective information types of a picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Robert SKUPIN, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Patent number: 11711413
    Abstract: Portion- or tile-based video streaming concepts are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Robert Philipp Skupin, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Dimitri Podborski
  • Patent number: 11711177
    Abstract: A receiver receives a radio signal from a transmitter of a wireless communication system serving a plurality of receivers. The radio signal includes for the plurality of receivers served by the transmitter a plurality of control messages and a redundant control message for at least one of the control messages. The receiver detects a control message from the radio signal, and, responsive to detecting the control message, the receiver detects a signal from another location in the radio signal. The receiver determines the detected control message as a specific control message for the receiver based on the signal detected from the other location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Baris Göktepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Robin Thomas, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl
  • Publication number: 20230232376
    Abstract: Communication devices are provided that facilitate receiving information units and providing feedback to other communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Robin Thomas
  • Publication number: 20230232382
    Abstract: A wireless communication network, has one or more first user devices, UEs, and one or more second user devices, UEs. The wireless communication network is to configure the first UE with one or more bandwidth parts, BWPs, and with a set of control resource sets, CORESETs, within the BWP in the same slot, and the wireless communication network is to configure the second UE with only a subset from the set of CORESETs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Nithin Srinivasan, Baris Göktepe, Jasmina McMenamy, Sarun Selvanesan, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Cornelius Hellge
  • Publication number: 20230224479
    Abstract: An output layer set may describe a video bitstream, or video sequence, which is extractable from a multi-layered video bitstream. Concepts related to output layer sets are described, including a concept for a random-accessible sub-bitstream indication, a concept for handling reference picture alignment, a concept for a bitstream-based OLS determination, a concept for sequence start access units of an extracted video bitstream, a concept for handling temporal sublayers in the extraction process of an output layer set, a concept for handling temporal sublayers in video parameter signaling and a concept for output layer selection in region of interest applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Karsten SÜHRING, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Robert SKUPIN, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Patent number: 11700619
    Abstract: An apparatus for a wireless communication system is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), wherein a size of an SPS interval is based on one or more transmission time intervals (TTIs). A further apparatus for a wireless communication system is described, wherein the apparatus is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling, and wherein the apparatus is configured such that the semi-persistent scheduling is controlled via a configuration message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Bernd Holfeld, Dennis Wieruch, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Thomas Schierl
  • Patent number: 11695965
    Abstract: Interpolation between explicitly signaled CPB (or HRD) parameters at selected bit rates is used to achieve a good compromise between CPB parameter transmission capacity and CPB parametrization effectiveness and may be, particularly, made in an effective manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Benjamin Bross, Robert Skupin, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Thomas Wiegand
  • Publication number: 20230199753
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a transceiver [e.g., UE] of a wireless communication system, wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a first control message [e.g., in a first slot or subframe, such as slot or subframe n] [e.g., comprising a first control information or control configuration], wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a second control message [e.g., in a second slot or subframe, such as slot or subframe n+koff??] [e.g., comprising a second control information or control configuration], wherein the second control message is linked [e.g., refers] to the first control message by an identifier, ID [e.g., DCI/base grant ID], or indication, wherein one out of the first control message, the first control message and the second control message together, the second control message, grant or assign a resource to the transceiver for a communication of the transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Prasanth KARANUKARAN, Julian POPP, Clemens KORN, Josef BERNHARD, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL
  • Publication number: 20230199202
    Abstract: Video coding concepts are described which relate to encoding, decoding, extracting and mixing video data streams having encoded therein pictures in a manner subdivided into independently coded subpictures. The concepts relate to an extraction of subpicture specific video data streams having a layer of subdivided pictures and a layer of un-subdivided pictures, a handling of inter-layer prediction tools and a handling of scaling windows for inter-layer prediction for such video data streams, a determination of decoder capability requirements for such data streams, layer-specific constraints for such data streams, and mixing of subpictures encoded with different types of independent coding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Karsten SÜHRING, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Robert SKUPIN, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Patent number: 11683128
    Abstract: A receiver is described which receives data from a transmitter. The data is included in a data block which includes at least one code block, and the code block has a plurality of parts. A first part of the code block is used for estimating a decodability of the code block at the receiver. The first part of the code block is arranged in the data block ahead of the remaining one or more parts of the code block. The receiver estimates, prior to receiving the entire data block, the decodability of the code block using the first part of the code block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Baris Göktepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Thomas Wirth, Marco Breiling
  • Publication number: 20230189247
    Abstract: Device node of a (cellular) communication system including a base station node and a group of nodes; wherein the device node is configured to determine a field parameter to obtain a field parameter value and to transmit the respective field parameter value to the base station node using type-based multiple access resources; wherein the device node is configured to receive from the base station node information and to enable a type-based multiple access resource communication in response to the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Zoran UTKOVSKI, Johannes DOMMEL, Thomas HAUSTEIN, Lars THIELE, Dennis WIERUCH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20230189120
    Abstract: A base station for a wireless communication network comprising a plurality of logical radio access networks, wherein the base station is configured to communicate with a plurality of users to be served by the base station for accessing one or more of the logical radio access networks, and the base station is configured to selectively control the physical resources of the wireless communication network assigned to the logical radio access networks and/or to control access of the users or user groups to one or more of the logical radio access networks, wherein, during a first operation mode of the wireless communication network, the base station is configured to allow access of users or user groups of one or more of the logical radio access networks (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Lars THIELE, Cornelius Hellge, Eiko Seidel
  • Patent number: 11677529
    Abstract: A receiver is configured is configured to receive a data signal, the data signal having at least one data signal block, the data signal block having a predefined duration in the time domain, a number of symbols in the time domain and a bandwidth in the frequency domain, wherein the data signal block is received over a plurality of transmission intervals, wherein a length of one transmission interval is shorter than the duration of the data signal block so that a subset of the symbols of the data signal block is received over one transmission interval, and wherein the receiver includes a signal processing device configured to process the symbols of the data signal block which have been received over one transmission interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Cornelius Hellge, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Thomas Schierl, Thomas Haustein, Lars Thiele, Thomas Wirth, Martin Kurras, Leszek Raschkowski, Tatiana Rykova
  • Publication number: 20230180301
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, is connectable to two or more of a plurality of network slices of the wireless communication network, wherein a slice specific random access channel, RACH, resource configuration is associated with one or more of the plurality of slices. Responsive to a first RACH event associated with a first slice, the UE is to determine whether there is an ongoing RACH procedure triggered by a second RACH event associated with a second slice. In case of an ongoing RACH procedure, the UE is to prohibit an additional RACH procedure triggered by the first RACH event associated with the first slice, and/or suspend the additional RACH procedure for a certain time, and/or stop the ongoing RACH procedure and start the additional RACH procedure, and/or modify the ongoing RACH procedure, and/or modify the ongoing RACH procedure to start the additional RACH procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Eiko SEIDEL, Sarun Selvanesan, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Schierl, Cornelius Hellge
  • Publication number: 20230180054
    Abstract: A user equipment for a mobile communication network is provided. The mobile communication network has a radio access network including a plurality of cells and being configured to serve the user equipment within a cell. To receive a data packet from the radio access network, the user equipment is configured to receive a plurality of different versions of the data packet transmitted by the radio access network to the user equipment in parallel via different physical resources. To provide a data packet to the radio access network, the user equipment is configured to provide a plurality of different versions of the data packet and to transmit the plurality of different versions of the data packet to the radio access network in parallel via different physical resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE, Eiko SEIDEL
  • Patent number: 11671946
    Abstract: A transceiver for a wireless communication system for serving a plurality of user equipments is provided. A coverage area of the transceiver includes one zone or a plurality of zones, each zone having mapped thereto a resource pool. The transceiver is configured to signal to less than all user equipments assigned to a certain zone to return to the transceiver a zone occupancy report for the certain zone. The zone occupancy report indicates an occupancy status of the resource pool mapped to the certain zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Robin Thomas, Thomas Wirth, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Fehrenbach, Baris Göktepe, Sarun Selvanesan
  • Publication number: 20230171826
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, acta as a relay UE so as to provide functionality to support connectivity between a transmitting entity and one or more receiving entities of the wireless communication network. The UE differentiates a transmission, which is received from the transmitting entity, between a first transmission to be relayed to a receiving entity and a second transmission that is intended for the UE. The UE differentiates the received transmission by control information associated with the transmission and/or resources on which the transmission and/or the associated control information is received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Sarun SELVANESAN, Baris GÖKTEPE, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Nithin SRINIVASAN, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20230171036
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, acts as a relaying entity so as to provide functionality to support connectivity between a transmitting entity and one or more receiving entities of the wireless communication network. Responsive to receiving a transmission from the transmitting entity and to relaying the transmission towards the receiving entity, the UE is to transmit a feedback to the transmitting entity, the feedback indicating a successful and/or non-successful receipt of the transmission at the receiving entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Sarun SELVANESAN, Baris GOEKTEPE, Roya EBRAHIM REZAGAH, Nithin SRINIVASAN, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20230171425
    Abstract: Video/picture coding of improved coding efficiency with supporting varying resolution and/or efficiently handling region-wise packing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Robert SKUPIN, Cornelius HELLGE, Valeri GEORGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Karsten SÜHRING, Thomas WIEGAND