Patents by Inventor Hubert Koepfer

Hubert Koepfer 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: 10237552
    Abstract: Inter-color image prediction is based on multi-channel multiple regression (MMR) models. Image prediction is applied to the efficient coding of images and video signals of high dynamic range. MMR models may include first order parameters, second order parameters, and cross-pixel parameters. MMR models using extension parameters incorporating neighbor pixel relations are also presented. Using minimum means-square error criteria, closed form solutions for the prediction parameters are presented for a variety of MMR models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Sheng Qu, Hubert Koepfer, Yufei Yuan, Samir Hulyalkar
  • Publication number: 20180278930
    Abstract: Inter-color image prediction is based on multi-channel multiple regression (MMR) models. Image prediction is applied to the efficient coding of images and video signals of high dynamic range. MMR models may include first order parameters, second order parameters, and cross-pixel parameters. MMR models using extension parameters incorporating neighbor pixel relations are also presented. Using minimum means-square error criteria, closed form solutions for the prediction parameters are presented for a variety of MMR models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guan-Ming SU, Sheng QU, Hubert KOEPFER, Yufei YUAN, Samir HULYALKAR
  • Patent number: 10021390
    Abstract: Inter-color image prediction is based on multi-channel multiple regression (MMR) models. Image prediction is applied to the efficient coding of images and video signals of high dynamic range. MMR models may include first order parameters, second order parameters, and cross-pixel parameters. MMR models using extension parameters incorporating neighbor pixel relations are also presented. Using minimum means-square error criteria, closed form solutions for the prediction parameters are presented for a variety of MMR models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Sheng Qu, Hubert Koepfer, Yufei Yuan, Samir Hulyalkar
  • Patent number: 9924171
    Abstract: Techniques use multiple lower bit depth (e.g., 8 bits) codecs to provide higher bit depth (e.g., 12+ bits) high dynamic range images from an upstream device to a downstream device. Multiple layers comprising a base layer and one or more enhancement layers may be used to carry video signals comprising image data compressed by lower bit depth encoders to a downstream device, wherein the base layer cannot be decoded and viewed on its own. Lower bit depth input image data to base layer processing may be generated from higher bit depth high dynamic range input image data via advanced quantization to minimize the volume of image data to be carried by enhancement layer video signals. The image data in the enhancement layer video signals may comprise residual values, quantization parameters, and mapping parameters based in part on a prediction method corresponding to a specific method used in the advanced quantization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Sheng Qu, Samir N. Hulyalkar, Tao Chen, Walter C. Gish, Hubert Koepfer
  • Publication number: 20170264898
    Abstract: Inter-color image prediction is based on multi-channel multiple regression (MMR) models. Image prediction is applied to the efficient coding of images and video signals of high dynamic range. MMR models may include first order parameters, second order parameters, and cross-pixel parameters. MMR models using extension parameters incorporating neighbor pixel relations are also presented. Using minimum means-square error criteria, closed form solutions for the prediction parameters are presented for a variety of MMR models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Guan-Ming SU, Sheng QU, Hubert KOEPFER, Yufei YUAN, Samir HULYALKAR
  • Patent number: 9699483
    Abstract: Inter-color image prediction is based on multi-channel multiple regression (MMR) models. Image prediction is applied to the efficient coding of images and video signals of high dynamic range. MMR models may include first order parameters, second order parameters, and cross-pixel parameters. MMR models using extension parameters incorporating neighbor pixel relations are also presented. Using minimum means-square error criteria, closed form solutions for the prediction parameters are presented for a variety of MMR models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Sheng Qu, Hubert Koepfer, Yufei Yuan, Samir Hulyalkar
  • Patent number: 9628808
    Abstract: Input VDR images are received. A candidate set of function parameter values for a mapping function is selected from multiple candidate sets. A set of image blocks of non-zero standard deviations in VDR code words in at least one input VDR image is constructed. Mapped code values are generated by applying the mapping function with the candidate set of function parameter values to VDR code words in the set of image blocks in the at least one input VDR image. Based on the mapped code values, a subset of image blocks of standard deviations below a threshold value in mapped code words is determined as a subset of the set of image blocks. Based at least in part on the subset of image blocks, it is determined whether the candidate set of function parameter values is optimal for the mapping function to map the at least one input VDR image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Qian Chen, Hubert Koepfer
  • Publication number: 20170019670
    Abstract: Techniques use multiple lower bit depth (e.g., 8 bits) codecs to provide higher bit depth (e.g., 12+ bits) high dynamic range images from an upstream device to a downstream device. Multiple layers comprising a base layer and one or more enhancement layers may be used to carry video signals comprising image data compressed by lower bit depth encoders to a downstream device, wherein the base layer cannot be decoded and viewed on its own. Lower bit depth input image data to base layer processing may be generated from higher bit depth high dynamic range input image data via advanced quantization to minimize the volume of image data to be carried by enhancement layer video signals. The image data in the enhancement layer video signals may comprise residual values, quantization parameters, and mapping parameters based in part on a prediction method corresponding to a specific method used in the advanced quantization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Guan-Ming SU, Sheng QU, Samir N. HULYALKAR, Tao CHEN, Walter C. GISH, Hubert KOEPFER
  • Patent number: 9497456
    Abstract: Techniques use multiple lower bit depth codecs to provide higher bit depth, high dynamic range, images from an upstream device to a downstream device. A base layer and one or more enhancement layers may be used to carry video signals, wherein the base layer cannot be decoded and viewed on its own. Lower bit depth input image data to base layer processing may be generated from higher bit depth high dynamic range input image data via advanced quantization to minimize the volume of image data to be carried by enhancement layer video signals. The image data in the enhancement layer video signals may comprise residual values, quantization parameters, and mapping parameters based in part on a prediction method corresponding to a specific method used in the advanced quantization. Adaptive dynamic range adaptation techniques take into consideration special transition effects, such as fade-in and fade-outs, for improved coding performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Sheng Qu, Samir N. Hulyalkar, Tao Chen, Walter C. Gish, Hubert Koepfer
  • Publication number: 20160269756
    Abstract: Inter-color image prediction is based on multi-channel multiple regression (MMR) models. Image prediction is applied to the efficient coding of images and video signals of high dynamic range. MMR models may include first order parameters, second order parameters, and cross-pixel parameters. MMR models using extension parameters incorporating neighbor pixel relations are also presented. Using minimum means-square error criteria, closed form solutions for the prediction parameters are presented for a variety of MMR models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Guan-Ming SU, Sheng QU, Hubert KOEPFER, Yufei YUAN, Samir HULYALKAR
  • Patent number: 9386313
    Abstract: Inter-color image prediction is based on multi-channel multiple regression (MMR) models. Image prediction is applied to the efficient coding of images and video signals of high dynamic range. MMR models may include first order parameters, second order parameters, and crosspixel parameters. MMR models using extension parameters incorporating neighbor pixel relations are also presented. Using minimum means-square error criteria, closed form solutions for the prediction parameters are presented for a variety of MMR models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Sheng Qu, Hubert Koepfer, Yufei Yuan, Samir Hulyalkar
  • Publication number: 20160014420
    Abstract: Input VDR images are received. A candidate set of function parameter values for a mapping function is selected from multiple candidate sets. A set of image blocks of non-zero standard deviations in VDR code words in at least one input VDR image is constructed. Mapped code values are generated by applying the mapping function with the candidate set of function parameter values to VDR code words in the set of image blocks in the at least one input VDR image. Based on the mapped code values, a subset of image blocks of standard deviations below a threshold value in mapped code words is determined as a subset of the set of image blocks. Based at least in part on the subset of image blocks, it is determined whether the candidate set of function parameter values is optimal for the mapping function to map the at least one input VDR image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guan-Ming SU, Qian CHEN, Hubert KOEPFER
  • Patent number: 9219916
    Abstract: An encoder receives one or more input pictures of enhanced dynamic range (EDR) to be encoded in a coded bit stream comprising a base layer and one or more enhancement layer. The encoder comprises a base layer quantizer (BLQ) and an enhancement layer quantizer (ELQ) and selects parameters of the BLQ and the ELQ by a joint BLQ-ELQ adaptation method which given a plurality of candidate sets of parameters for the BLQ, for each candidate set, computes a joint BLQ-ELQ distortion value based on a BLQ distortion function, an ELQ distortion function, and at least in part on the number of input pixels to be quantized by the ELQ. The encoder selects as the output BLQ parameter set the candidate set for which the computed joint BLQ-ELQ distortion value is the smallest. Example ELQ, BLQ, and joint BLQ-ELQ distortion functions are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Qian Chen, Hubert Koepfer, Sheng Qu
  • Publication number: 20140307796
    Abstract: Inter-color image prediction is based on multi-channel multiple regression (MMR) models. Image prediction is applied to the efficient coding of images and video signals of high dynamic range. MMR models may include first order parameters, second order parameters, and crosspixel parameters. MMR models using extension parameters incorporating neighbor pixel relations are also presented. Using minimum means-square error criteria, closed form solutions for the prediction parameters are presented for a variety of MMR models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guan-Ming SU, Sheng QU, Hubert KOEPFER, Yufei YUAN, Samir HULYALKAR
  • Patent number: 8837825
    Abstract: Inter-color image prediction is based on color grading modeling. Prediction is applied to the efficient coding of images and video signals of high dynamic range. Prediction models may include a color transformation matrix that models hue and saturation color changes and a non-linear function modeling color correction changes. Under the assumption that the color grading process uses a slope, offset, and power (SOP) operations, an example non linear prediction model is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Sheng Qu, Hubert Koepfer, Yufei Yuan, Samir Hulyalkar, Walter Gish
  • Publication number: 20140247869
    Abstract: Techniques use multiple lower bit depth codecs to provide higher bit depth, high dynamic range, images from an upstream device to a downstream device. A base layer and one or more enhancement layers may be used to carry video signals, wherein the base layer cannot be decoded and viewed on its own. Lower bit depth input image data to base layer processing may be generated from higher bit depth high dynamic range input image data via advanced quantization to minimize the volume of image data to be carried by enhancement layer video signals. The image data in the enhancement layer video signals may comprise residual values, quantization parameters, and mapping parameters based in part on a prediction method corresponding to a specific method used in the advanced quantization. Adaptive dynamic range adaptation techniques take into consideration special transition effects, such as fade-in and fade-outs, for improved coding performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Sheng Qu, Samir N. Hulyalkar, Tao Chen, Walter C. Gish, Hubert Koepfer
  • Patent number: 8811490
    Abstract: Inter-color image prediction is based on multi-channel multiple regression (MMR) models. Image prediction is applied to the efficient coding of images and video signals of high dynamic range. MMR models may include first order parameters, second order parameters, and cross-pixel parameters. MMR models using extension parameters incorporating neighbor pixel relations are also presented. Using minimum means-square error criteria, closed form solutions for the prediction parameters are presented for a variety of MMR models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Sheng Qu, Hubert Koepfer, Yufei Yuan, Samir Hulyalkar
  • Publication number: 20140185930
    Abstract: Inter-color image prediction is based on color grading modeling. Prediction is applied to the efficient coding of images and video signals of high dynamic range. Prediction models may include a color transformation matrix that models hue and saturation color changes and a non-linear function modeling color correction changes. Under the assumption that the color grading process uses a slope, offset, and power (SOP) operations, an example non linear prediction model is presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Sheng Qu, Hubert Koepfer, Yufei Yuan, Samir Hulyalkar, Walter Gish
  • Patent number: 8731287
    Abstract: Inter-color image prediction is based on color grading modeling. Prediction is applied to the efficient coding of images and video signals of high dynamic range. Prediction models may include a color transformation matrix that models hue and saturation color changes and a non-linear function modeling color correction changes. Under the assumption that the color grading process uses a slope, offset, and power (SOP) operations, an example non linear prediction model is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Sheng Qu, Hubert Koepfer, Yufei Yuan, Samir Hulyalkar, Walter Gish
  • Publication number: 20140037205
    Abstract: Inter-color image prediction is based on color grading modeling. Prediction is applied to the efficient coding of images and video signals of high dynamic range. Prediction models may include a color transformation matrix that models hue and saturation color changes and a non-linear function modeling color correction changes. Under the assumption that the color grading process uses a slope, offset, and power (SOP) operations, an example non linear prediction model is presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guan-Ming Su, Sheng Qu, Hubert Koepfer, Yufei Yuan, Samir Hulyalkar, Walter Gish