Patents by Inventor Fangdong Chen

Fangdong Chen 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: 20240146916
    Abstract: Filtering methods, apparatus, and devices are provided. In one aspect, a filtering method includes: determining whether enhanced adaptive leveling filtering is enabled for a current adaptive leveling filtering unit; if it is determined that the enhanced adaptive leveling filtering is enabled for the current adaptive leveling filtering unit, performing adaptive leveling filtering on the current adaptive leveling filtering unit by using a first filter; if it is determined that the enhanced adaptive leveling filtering is disabled for the current adaptive leveling filtering unit, performing adaptive leveling filtering on the current adaptive leveling filtering unit by using a second filter. The first filter includes a centrosymmetric filter with a 7*7 cross shape plus a 5*5 square shape, and the second filter includes a centrosymmetric filter with a 7*7 cross shape plus a 3*3 square shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Dongping PAN, Yucheng SUN, Fangdong CHEN, Li WANG
  • Patent number: 11968376
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a reference image encoding method, including: encoding sequence, to obtain a reconstructed image of a first and second reference images; determining whether a local area in the second reference image is suitable for updating first reference image; determining whether the first reference image is updated; when the first reference image is not updated, and it is determined the second reference image is suitable for updating the first reference image, replacing a pixel value of a corresponding area or a related area in the first reference image with a pixel value of the local area in the second reference image; and compiling, into the bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., University of Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Feng Wu, Fangdong Chen, Houqiang Li, Zhuoyi Lv, Haitao Yang
  • Patent number: 11962768
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an encoding method, a decoding method, an encoding apparatus, a decoding apparatus and devices thereof. The method may include: in response to determining that an adaptive loop filter (ALF) sequence control enabling flag of a sequence parameter set (SPS) syntax indicates allowing a current sequence to enable an ALF, encoding a cross-component adaptive loop filter (CCALF) sequence control enabling flag in the SPS syntax. The technical solutions of the present disclosure can improve the encoding performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fangdong Chen
  • Publication number: 20240073447
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides encoding and decoding methods, apparatus and devices thereof. The method includes: if the conditions are all satisfied, determining to use a bidirectional prediction compensation mode for a current block; if determining to use the bidirectional prediction compensation mode for the current block, performing motion compensation for the current block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fangdong CHEN
  • Publication number: 20240073437
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an encoding and decoding method, apparatus, and devices. The encoding and decoding method includes the following steps: determining to use a decoder-side motion vector refinement mode for a current block if the conditions are all satisfied; and if it is determined to use the decoder-side motion vector refinement mode for the current block, performing motion compensation on the current block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fangdong CHEN
  • Patent number: 11902563
    Abstract: The application relates to an encoding and decoding method and apparatus, an encoding-side device, and a decoding-side device. The method includes: if characteristic information of a current block meets a specific condition, determining a first reference block corresponding to the current block according to a first original motion vector of the current block, and determining a second reference block corresponding to the current block according to a second original motion vector of the current block; adjusting the first and second original motion vectors according to a first pixel value of the first reference block and a second pixel value of the second reference block to obtain a first target motion vector corresponding to the first original motion vector and a second target motion vector corresponding to the second original motion vector; encoding or decoding the current block according to the first and second target motion vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fangdong Chen
  • Publication number: 20240048695
    Abstract: Method, apparatus, and devices for encoding and decoding are provided. In one aspect, a method includes: if a current pixel point in a current block satisfies an enable condition of an enhanced refinement mode, determining a gradient value of the current pixel point based on an original pixel value of the current pixel point and an original pixel value of a surrounding pixel point of the current pixel point; based on the gradient value of the current pixel point and the original pixel value of the current pixel point, determining a refined pixel value of the current pixel point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Fangdong CHEN, Xiaoqiang CAO, Yucheng SUN
  • Publication number: 20240048726
    Abstract: Decoding methods and encoding methods based on an adaptive intra refresh mechanism and related devices are provided. In one aspect, a decoding method includes: receiving a bit stream of a current frame; and determining whether the current frame supports an adaptive intra refresh technology. The determining comprises one of if there is extension data in the bit stream of the current frame and the extension data carries an adaptive intra refresh video extension identifier (ID), obtaining virtual boundary position information carried in the extension data, and determining whether the current frame supports an adaptive intra refresh technology based on the virtual boundary position information; or if there is no adaptive intra refresh video extension ID in the extension data in the bit stream of the current frame, determining that the current frame does not support the adaptive intra refresh technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Liang WEI, Fangdong CHEN, Li WANG
  • Patent number: 11889072
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a video encoding and decoding method and a video encoding and decoding device. The method includes: partitioning the current block into a first triangular sub-block and a second triangular sub-block when a current block satisfies specific conditions for enabling a geometric partitioning mode with triangular partition and the geometric partitioning mode with triangular partition is determined to be enabled; obtaining first target motion information of the first triangle sub-block and second target motion information of the second triangle sub-block, wherein the first target motion information is different from the second target motion information; and performing an encoding processing or a decoding processing on the current block based on the first target motion information and the second target motion information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fangdong Chen
  • Patent number: 11825082
    Abstract: Provided is a decoding method, including: acquiring coded data of a current block; determining size information of subblocks based on subblock partition information of the current block in response to the current block satisfying a subblock partition condition and determining, based on the coded data of the current block, that the current block activates intra subblock partition; determining, based on the size information of each subblock, a transform pair corresponding to the subblock; and performing an inverse transform on inversely quantized data of the subblocks based on the transform pairs corresponding to the subblocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaoqiang Cao, Liying Xu, Fangdong Chen
  • Publication number: 20230344985
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an encoding and decoding method, apparatus and device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yucheng SUN, Xiaoqiang CAO, Fangdong CHEN, Li WANG
  • Publication number: 20230214969
    Abstract: Provided are a picture enhancement method and apparatus. The picture enhancement method includes: for any one pixel, which meets a first filtering condition, in a current block, determining a first pixel value of the pixel after first filtering; and performing enhancement on a pixel value of the pixel based on the first pixel value and a second pixel value of the pixel point before the first filtering, so as to obtain a third pixel value, which has been subjected to enhancement, of the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fangdong CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230209051
    Abstract: A filtering method and apparatus, and a device are provided. The filtering method includes: when it is determined to enable Wiener filtering for an adaptive leveling filter unit of a current picture, deriving the adaptive leveling filter unit from a current Largest Coding Unit (LCU) of the current picture; obtaining reference pixels of the adaptive leveling filter unit and filter coefficients of a Wiener filter; and according to the reference pixels and the filter coefficients of the Wiener filter, performing the Wiener filtering based on sample pixels of the adaptive leveling filter unit; where the Wiener filter is a centrosymmetric filter with a shape of a 7*7 cross plus a 5*5 square, and values of the reference pixels are derived from pixel values of a reconstructed picture before the Wiener filtering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongping PAN, Yucheng SUN, Fangdong CHEN, Li WANG
  • Publication number: 20230104806
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an encoding method, a decoding method, an encoding apparatus, a decoding apparatus and devices thereof. The method may include: in response to determining that an adaptive loop filter (ALF) sequence control enabling flag of a sequence parameter set (SPS) syntax indicates allowing a current sequence to enable an ALF, encoding a cross-component adaptive loop filter (CCALF) sequence control enabling flag in the SPS syntax. The technical solutions of the present disclosure can improve the encoding performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fangdong CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220345736
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a decoding method and apparatus, an encoding method and apparatus, and a device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fangdong CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220295094
    Abstract: The present application provides an encoding and decoding method, apparatus, and device, the method for encoding and decoding includes: determining prediction values of pixel points of current image block; determining gradient values of pixel points of the current image block based on the prediction values of pixel points of the current image block; determining offset vectors of pixel points of the current image block; determining prediction compensation values of pixel points of the current image block based on the gradient values and the offset vectors of pixel points of the current image block; and determining final prediction values of pixel points of the current image block based on the prediction values and the prediction compensation values of pixel points of the current image block. The method can expand the range of application of the prediction compensation adjustment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fangdong CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220264136
    Abstract: Provided is a method for decoding a prediction mode. In response to determining that a merge mode is enabled for a current block and a current candidate prediction mode is allowed for the current block, the method includes: acquiring enablement states of one or more to-be-traversed prediction modes; decoding indication information of the current candidate prediction mode from a code stream in response to determining that a candidate prediction mode being allowed is present in the to-be-traversed prediction modes; and directly determining that the current candidate prediction mode is used for the current block without decoding the indication information of the current candidate prediction mode from the code stream in response to determining that none of the to-be-traversed prediction modes is allowed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventor: Fangdong CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220232242
    Abstract: An encoding and decoding method, apparatus, and device is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fangdong CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220232248
    Abstract: An encoding and decoding method, apparatus and device is disclosed. The method comprises: dividing, if characteristic information of a current block meets specific conditions, the current block into a first triangle sub-block and a second triangle sub-block; constructing a motion information list for the current block, the motion information list includes multiple pieces of candidate motion information; acquiring first target motion information of the first triangle sub-block and second target motion information of the second triangle sub-block from the motion information list; the first target motion information is different from the second target motion information; performing motion compensation on the first triangle sub-block based on the first target motion information to obtain a prediction value of the first triangle sub-block; performing motion compensation on the second triangle sub-block based on the second target motion information to obtain a prediction value of the second triangle sub-block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: HANGZHOU HIKVISION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Fangdong CHEN
  • Publication number: 20220182624
    Abstract: Provided is a decoding method, including: acquiring coded data of a current block; determining size information of subblocks based on subblock partition information of the current block in response to the current block satisfying a subblock partition condition and determining, based on the coded data of the current block, that the current block activates intra subblock partition; determining, based on the size information of each subblock, a transform pair corresponding to the subblock; and performing an inverse transform on inversely quantized data of the subblocks based on the transform pairs corresponding to the subblocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Xiaoqiang CAO, Liying XU, Fangdong CHEN