Patents by Inventor Giovanni Puglisi

Giovanni Puglisi 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: 9100573
    Abstract: A method and system for filtering an image frame of a video sequence from spurious motion, comprising the steps of dividing the image frame and a preceding image frame of the video sequence into blocks of pixels; determining motion vectors for the blocks of the image frame; determining inter-frame transformation parameters for the image frame based on the determined motion vectors; and generating a filtered image frame based on the determined inter-frame transformation parameters; wherein the image frame is dived into overlapping blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Spampinato, Arcangelo Ranieri Bruna, Giovanni Puglisi, Sebastiano Battiato
  • Publication number: 20130286241
    Abstract: A method and system for filtering an image frame of a video sequence from spurious motion, comprising the steps of dividing the image frame and a preceding image frame of the video sequence into blocks of pixels; determining motion vectors for the blocks of the image frame; determining inter-frame transformation parameters for the image frame based on the determined motion vectors; and generating a filtered image frame based on the determined inter-frame transformation parameters; wherein the image frame is dived into overlapping blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Giuseppe Spampinato, Arcangelo Ranieri Bruna, Giovanni Puglisi, Sebastiano Battiato
  • Patent number: 8150181
    Abstract: According to the novel method, roto-translational and zooming parameters describing spurious motion effects are determined by exploiting any of the many block matching algorithms commonly used for motion estimation for calculating a motion vector for all or for a selected number of blocks of pixels of the current frame that is processed. Some of the so calculated motion vectors are not taken into account for estimating spurious motion effects. The roto-translational and zooming parameters describing what is considered to be spurious global motion between a current frame and the precedent frame of the sequence, are calculated by processing the selected motion vectors of blocks of pixels of the frame through a recursive procedure that includes computing error values and readjusting the roto-translational and zooming parameters based on the error values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Arcangelo Ranieri Bruna, Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Puglisi
  • Publication number: 20100124379
    Abstract: According to the novel method, roto-translational and zooming parameters describing spurious motion effects are determined by exploiting any of the many block matching algorithms commonly used for motion estimation for calculating a motion vector for all or for a selected number of blocks of pixels of the current frame that is processed. Some of the so calculated motion vectors are not taken into account for estimating spurious motion effects. The roto-translational and zooming parameters describing what is considered to be spurious global motion between a current frame and the precedent frame of the sequence, are calculated by processing the selected motion vectors of blocks of pixels of the frame through a recursive procedure that includes computing error values and readjusting the roto-translational and zooming parameters based on the error values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Arcangelo Ranieri Bruna, Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Puglisi