Patents by Inventor Jie Zhao

Jie Zhao 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: 20250150612
    Abstract: An image decoding method performed by a decoding device, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: obtaining image information; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the image information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Seethal PALURI, Seunghwan KIM, Jie ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20250150607
    Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, chroma quantization parameter offset-related information can be signaled through palette syntax coding, and index information for a chroma quantization parameter offset list can be efficiently parsed/signaled on the basis of information about the number of entries in the chroma quantization parameter offset list. Accordingly, bits that are required to be signaled in order to code a video/image can be reduced, and the coding efficiency can be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hendry HENDRY, Seunghwan KIM, Jie ZHAO
  • Patent number: 12294726
    Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, LMCS may also be applied to a block having a dual tree structure. In addition, the number of LMCS APS may be limited. Therefore, an LMCS procedure may be efficiently performed, and the complexity of LMCS may be reduced. As the performance of LMCS is improved, the video/image coding efficiency may be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jie Zhao, Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12294716
    Abstract: An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for signaling a high level syntax (HLS) and a method of transmitting a bitstream are provided. An image decoding method according to the present disclosure may include obtaining first information indicating whether to constrain luma mapping with chroma scaling (LMCS), obtaining second information indicating whether LMCS for a current video sequence is allowed, and reconstructing a current picture within the current video sequence based on the second information. A value of the second information may be determined based on a value of the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hendry Hendry, Seung Hwan Kim, Seethal Paluri, Jie Zhao
  • Patent number: 12294713
    Abstract: According to disclosure of the present document, an LMCS procedure can be used for blocks having various block tree structures, and memories used in the LMCS procedure can be reduced (limited).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jie Zhao, Seunghwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20250142052
    Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, scaling list data transmitted from an adaptation parameter set (APS) can be signaled through a hierarchical structure. In addition, by setting a limit on the scaling list data transmitted from the APS, it is possible to reduce the amount of data which has to be signaled for video/image coding, and facilitate implementation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Seethal PALURI, Seunghwan KIM, Jie ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20250129175
    Abstract: A platform technology for enhancing a CDC effect. Specifically, the present invention relates to an antibody having antigen binding activity and CDC activity, or a fusion protein or fragment thereof; said antibody or the fusion protein or fragment thereof comprises a heavy chain Fc region element and a binding domain targeting a predetermined antigen, where said heavy chain Fc region element: (1) comprises an amino acid residue at position 309 of the Fc region that is selected from the following group: W, Y, E, F, H, C, D, N, Q, R, S, T, or K, and preferably further comprises R at position 345 of the Fc region; and/or (2) has a tail-piece element at a C-terminus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: SUNSHINE GUOJIAN PHARMACEUTICAL (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jie Zhao, Xuesai Zhang, Haomin Huang, Zhenping Zhu
  • Patent number: 12284392
    Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, an image decoding method performed by a decoding device comprises the steps of: acquiring, through a bitstream, image information including prediction mode information and residual information; deriving a prediction mode of a current block on the basis of the prediction mode information; deriving prediction samples on the basis of the prediction mode; deriving residual samples on the basis of the residual information; generating reconstruction samples on the basis of the prediction samples and the residual samples; deriving filter coefficients for an adaptive loop filter (ALF) procedure for the reconstruction samples; and generating modified reconstruction samples on the basis of the reconstruction samples and the filter coefficients, wherein the image information includes a first adaptation parameter set (APS) including an ALF data field, and the ALF data field includes ALF parameters used to derive the filter coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Jie Zhao, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
  • Patent number: 12284370
    Abstract: An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: acquiring image information comprising a flag indicating whether or not one chroma quantization parameter table is to be applied with respect to chroma components, and prediction information and residual information regarding the chroma components; on the basis of the flag, deriving a chroma quantization parameter for the chroma components; deriving residual samples for the chroma components on the basis of the residual information and the chroma quantization parameter; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of prediction samples, which have been derived on the basis of the prediction information, and the residual samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Seunghwan Kim, Jie Zhao
  • Patent number: 12284369
    Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, by explicitly signaling information relating to a value(s) of a chroma residual scaling factor, accuracy in an LMCS procedure can be increased, and therefore a subjective/objective image quality of a coded image/video can be further improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jie Zhao, Seunghwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20250126240
    Abstract: According to a present disclosure, an image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, the image decoding method comprising obtaining image information including inter prediction-related information of a current block from a bitstream; configuring at least one of a merge list of the current block and an advanced motion vector prediction (AMVP) list of the current block for inter prediction; deriving motion information of the current block on the basis of the at least one of the merge list of the current block and the AMVP list of the current block; generating prediction samples for the current block based on the motion information of the current block; and generating reconstruction samples for the current block based on the prediction samples for the current block, wherein the merge list includes at least one of a primary merge list and a secondary merge list (SML).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Seunghwan KIM, Seethal PALURI, Jie ZHAO
  • Patent number: 12278979
    Abstract: An image decoding method performed by a decoding device, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: deriving a chroma quantization parameter table on the basis of quantization parameter data; deriving a quantization parameter for combined chroma coding on the basis of the chroma quantization parameter table; deriving prediction samples of a current chroma block on the basis of prediction information; deriving transform coefficients of the current chroma block on the basis of residual information; deriving residual samples by dequantizing the transform coefficients on the basis of the quantization parameter; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the prediction samples and the residual samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Seunghwan Kim, Jie Zhao
  • Patent number: 12278963
    Abstract: A method for decoding an image performed by a decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: obtaining image information; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Seunghwan Kim, Jie Zhao
  • Patent number: 12269886
    Abstract: Provided are an antibody that binds to human PD-L1, and a tetravalent bispecific antibody against PD-1 and PD-L1 constructed based on the antibody that binds to human PD-L1. The tetravalent bispecific antibody requires no Fc modification, has no mismatch problems, and the preparation method thereof is simple. The biological activities and physical and chemical properties of the tetravalent bispecific antibody are similar with or even better than those of the monoclonal antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Sunshine Guojian Pharmaceutical (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenping Zhu, Jie Zhao, Haomin Huang, Mengying Xia
  • Patent number: 12273549
    Abstract: A video decoding method by a video decoding apparatus includes: parsing, from a picture parameter set of a bitstream, a first flag related to whether a weighted prediction is applied to slices referring to the picture parameter set; parsing, from the picture parameter set, a second flag related to whether information about the weighted prediction is present in a picture header of the bitstream or is present in a slice header of the bitstream based on the first flag; parsing a prediction weighted table syntax from the picture header or the slice header based on the first flag and the second flag; generating prediction samples for the current block by performing weighted prediction for the current block in a current picture based on syntax elements in the prediction weighted table syntax; and generating reconstructed samples based on the prediction samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Hendry Hendry, Jie Zhao, Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12267485
    Abstract: A video decoding method performed by a video decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: parsing, from a bitstream, flags associated with weighted prediction; parsing a prediction weighted table syntax from a picture header of the bitstream on the basis of the flags; generating prediction samples regarding a current block in a current picture on the basis of syntax elements in the prediction weighted table syntax; and generating reconstructed samples on the basis of the prediction samples, wherein the flags comprise a first flag associated with whether the weighted prediction is applied to slices referring to a picture parameter set of the bitstream, and a second flag associated with whether information related to the weighted prediction is present in the picture header, and the second flag may be parsed from the picture parameter set on the basis of the first flag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Hendry Hendry, Jie Zhao, Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12267501
    Abstract: A video decoding method performed by a video decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: obtaining image information from a bitstream, wherein the image information includes a picture header associated with a current picture, and the current picture includes a plurality of slices; parsing at least one of a first flag and a second flag from the picture header; generating prediction samples by performing at least one of intra prediction and inter prediction on a current block in the current picture on the basis of at least one of the first flag and the second flag; generating reconstructed samples on the basis of the prediction samples; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the reconstructed samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Hendry Hendry, Seunghwan Kim, Jie Zhao
  • Publication number: 20250106406
    Abstract: According to a disclosure of the present document, information/parameter related to splitting of a picture can be signaled on the basis of a no-picture partition flag, information related to a tile, and information related to a slice, unnecessary redundant signaling can be removed accordingly, and the number of bits assigned to the signaling can be reduced, thereby deriving an effect of increasing an overall coding efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hendry HENDRY, Seethal PALURI, Seunghwan KIM, Jie ZHAO
  • Patent number: 12262012
    Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, chroma quantization parameter offset-related information may be signaled via a palette coding syntax, and index information about a chroma quantization parameter offset list may be efficiently parsed/signaled on the basis of information about the number of entries within the chroma quantization parameter offset list. Accordingly, bits that need to be signaled for video/image coding can be reduced, and coding efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hendry Hendry, Seunghwan Kim, Jie Zhao
  • Patent number: 12262033
    Abstract: According to the disclosure of the present document, scaling list data and scaling list-related information may be signaled hierarchically, thereby reducing the amount of data to be signaled for video/image coding and increasing coding efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seethal Paluri, Seunghwan Kim, Jie Zhao