Patents by Inventor Jitesh Arora
Jitesh Arora 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).
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Publication number: 20170195706Abstract: A method and device for ranking video feeds provide a user with the best feed depending on what the user wishes to see. The method includes obtaining one or more video feeds and ranking the video feeds. The ranking is based, at least in part, upon input from a viewer indicating an object of interest. The ranking can consider things such as video stream resolution and signal strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2017Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Jitesh Arora, Gagandeep Singh Chabbewal, Randall A. Brown, Jamin Islam
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Patent number: 9648357Abstract: A method and device for ranking video feeds provide a user with the best feed depending on what the user wishes to see. The method includes obtaining one or more video feeds and ranking the video feeds. The ranking is based, at least in part, upon input from a viewer indicating an object of interest. The ranking can consider things such as video stream resolution and signal strength.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2012Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: ATI Technologies ULCInventors: Jitesh Arora, Gagandeep Singh Chabbewal, Randall A. Brown, Jamin Islam
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Patent number: 9118928Abstract: A method and system for producing a single view video signal based on a multiview video coding (MVC) signal stream. A MVC signal stream representing multiple spatially related views of a scene, including a base view and at least one dependent view, is decoded to provide multiple decoded video signals representing the spatially related views, with respective portions of the MVC signal stream representing one of multiple temporally adjacent video frames, and the MVC signal stream representing multiple sequences of spatially adjacent video frames. The decoded video signals are processed to provide a processed video signal representing one of the spatially related views using image information from more than one of the decoded video signals. As a result, more image data is used during processing, thereby improving the spatial and temporal image quality.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2011Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: ATI Technologies ULCInventors: Gabor Sines, Pavel Siniavine, Jitesh Arora, Alexander Zorin, Xingping Cao, Mohamed Cherif, Edward Callway
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Patent number: 9060162Abstract: A system and method for providing viewer preferences on a display device are presented. An embodiment includes a storage medium for storing preset viewer preferences, each preference being categorized based on one of a plurality of viewers, a processor that accesses the storage medium and acquires the stored preset viewer preference for a given one of the plurality of viewers, and a display device that provides content to the viewer in accordance with the viewer's preferences using at least one optical element.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: ATI Technologies ULCInventors: Randall A. Brown, Cheng He, Jitesh Arora, Sung Kwan Heo
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Publication number: 20140176580Abstract: A system and method for providing viewer preferences on a display device are presented. An embodiment includes a storage medium for storing preset viewer preferences, each preference being categorized based on one of a plurality of viewers, a processor that accesses the storage medium and acquires the stored preset viewer preference for a given one of the plurality of viewers, and a display device that provides content to the viewer in accordance with the viewer's preferences using at least one optical element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: ATI Technologies ULCInventors: Randall A. Brown, Cheng He, Jitesh Arora, Sung Kwan Heo
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Publication number: 20140130079Abstract: A method and device for ranking video feeds provide a user with the best feed depending on what the user wishes to see. The method includes obtaining one or more video feeds and ranking the video feeds. The ranking is based, at least in part, upon input from a viewer indicating an object of interest. The ranking can consider things such as video stream resolution and signal strength.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: ATI TECHNOLOGIES, ULCInventors: Jitesh Arora, Gagandeep Singh Chabbewal, Randall A. Brown, Jamin Islam
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Publication number: 20140098296Abstract: A method and apparatus provides for changing a perspective of a video such as a display perspective of an object displayed in the video. In one example, the method and apparatus changes the display perspective of an object displayed in the video based on information indicating an orientation and/or position of the recording device that captures the object on the video. To do so, the method and apparatus may determine a current display perspective for an object displayed in the video based on information indicating an orientation and/or position of the recording device. By comparing the current display perspective to a desired display perspective for the object, the method and apparatus determines an amount of display perspective adjustment for the object and selects appropriate perspective adjustment methods to carry out the adjustment. Accordingly, the display perspective adjustment is made to the video automatically for the object displayed in the video without user intervention.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2012Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: ATI Technologies ULCInventors: Jitesh Arora, Cheng He, Jianfei Ye, Mir Ahsan
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Patent number: 8677416Abstract: A method, system, and software for improved display of multiple media channels are disclosed herein. A system may be used to select, independent of direct user input, a subset of a plurality of media channels based on a user's viewing pattern. The system can include one or more media sources, a media processing system, and a display device, as well as a method for its use. The media processing system receives a plurality of media channels from the one or more media sources. One or more attributes associated with each media channel are compared with a user's viewing pattern determined independent of direct user input by the media processing system. A surf list is generated from the plurality of media channels, where the surf list includes a subset of the plurality of media channels having one or more attributes that are congruent with the user's viewing pattern. A portion, such as a still image, of each media channel in the surf list is output to an output device, such as a display device or storage device.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2001Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: ATI Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Jitesh Arora
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Publication number: 20140071159Abstract: A method and apparatus provides for controlling presentation of multimedia content. In one example, the method and apparatus changes a display perspective of a multimedia presenting system that presents the multimedia content by determining an amount of display perspective adjustment based on a relative position between a user and the multimedia presenting system. According to the determined amount of display perspective adjustment, the method and apparatus issues one or more control commands that instruct the multimedia presenting system to change the display perspective. The display perspective may be changed for example by moving a display or portion thereof and/or by changing the perspective of the displayed image on the display while leaving the position of the display alone.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2012Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: ATI TECHNOLOGIES, ULCInventors: Jianfei Ye, Mir Ahsan, Chi Hing, Jitesh Arora
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Patent number: 8467528Abstract: A system on a chip including a bus, a bootup module coupled to the bus and configured to cause the system on a chip to bootup in accordance with a selected security mode, an input module coupled to the bus and configured to receive an input signal and to provide the input signal to the bus, a processor coupled to the bus and configured to process the input signal to provide an intermediate signal, in accordance with a type of content protection associated with the input signal, an encryption module coupled to the bus and configured to cause at least a portion of the intermediate signal to be encrypted to produce an encrypted signal, in accordance with the type of the content protection, and an output module coupled to the bus and configured to output the encrypted signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2007Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.Inventors: Richard K. Sita, Kunal K. Dave, Jitesh Arora, Michael J. Erwin
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Publication number: 20130050414Abstract: A method and system are provided for navigating and selecting objects within a 3D video image by computing a depth coordinate based upon two-dimensional (2D) image information from left and right views of such objects. In accordance with preferred embodiments, commonly available computer navigation devices and input devices can be used to achieve such navigation and object selection.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: ATI Technologies ULCInventors: Pavel Siniavine, Jitesh Arora, Alexander Zorin, Gabor Sines, Xingping Cao, Philip L. Swan, Mohamed K. Cherif, Edward Callway
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Publication number: 20120223938Abstract: A system and method for providing user control of the projection of two-dimensional (2D) image information within the three-dimensional (3D) display space of a 3D-capable display device. Advantageously, the system and method disclosed herein allow a user to view 3D video even when the source video includes 2D content, by allowing the user to adjust the z-axis position of the 2D content, thereby causing the 2D content to be projected at a user-specified image depth within 3D space. The user can adjust the z-axis position of the 2D content in real time while contemporaneously viewing the imagery, e.g., via a remote control, and such adjustment can be stored for later use when similar or other 2D content is being viewed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2011Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: ATI Technologies ULCInventors: Gabor Sines, Pavel Siniavine, Jitesh Arora, Alexander Zorin, Xingping Cao, Philip Swan
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Publication number: 20120224642Abstract: A method and system for producing a single view video signal based on a multiview video coding (MVC) signal stream. A MVC signal stream representing multiple spatially related views of a scene, including a base view and at least one dependent view, is decoded to provide multiple decoded video signals representing the spatially related views, with respective portions of the MVC signal stream representing one of multiple temporally adjacent video frames, and the MVC signal stream representing multiple sequences of spatially adjacent video frames. The decoded video signals are processed to provide a processed video signal representing one of the spatially related views using image information from more than one of the decoded video signals. As a result, more image data is used during processing, thereby improving the spatial and temporal image quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2011Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: ATI Technologies ULCInventors: Gabor Sines, Pavel Siniavine, Jitesh Arora, Alexander Zorin, Xingping Cao, Mohamed Cherif, Edward Callway
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Patent number: 8065614Abstract: A system and method for providing playback of multiple video streams simultaneously is shown and described. A priority is assigned to individual windows of a plurality of windows used for playback of the video streams. A current window being accessed by a user is assigned a higher priority than nonactive, or background, windows. Playback characteristics, such as video resolution, transparency, and audio volume, are reduced in the playback of videos presented in nonactive windows in relation to video played in the active window. Accordingly, a user's attention may be drawn more to the active window than to the nonactive windows, while allowing the video and audio data in the nonactive windows to be provided to the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2003Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: ATI Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tsang Fai Ma, Jitesh Arora
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Patent number: 7869699Abstract: A mechanism is presented for editing a video stream as the stream is received, allowing real-time displaying and storing of the edited video stream without requiring the received video stream to first be recorded. The mechanism allows the selection of editing options prior to starting or during the record process. The mechanism can monitor the input video stream for specific characteristics and edit the video stream according to predefined editing options based on those characteristics and/or user inputs. Special effects can be intelligently selected based upon internal and external information about the video stream, for example, user actions, input source, and content information.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2003Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: ATI Technologies ULCInventors: Elena Mate, Jitesh Arora
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Patent number: 7689099Abstract: A program information player automatically skips over any intermediate channel changes as a result of interrupting a prior recording of a selected program. The program information player includes a program sequence playback information generator. The program sequence playback information generator analyzes selected program identifier information and recorded program history log information and, in response, generates program sequence playback information without user intervention. The program sequence playback information includes a sequence of time stamp information associated with the selected program identifier information. According to one embodiment, the program sequence playback information directs memory to play back the selected program corresponding to the selected program identifier information by, for example, skipping over any intermediate channel changes. For example, the program sequence playback information may represent a read pointer in memory during playback.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2004Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: ATI Technologies ULCInventor: Jitesh Arora
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Patent number: 7483080Abstract: A first set of display information is received at a device driver. The first set of display information indicates a portion of the video image to be displayed in a first window of a first monitor. An aspect ratio of the video image is determined based on the first set of display information. Based on the determined aspect ratio, the display driver determines a location on a second display device where the video image is to also be displayed.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2003Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: ATI Technologies ULCInventors: Jitesh Arora, Peter X. Cao
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Publication number: 20080168266Abstract: A system on a chip including a bus, a bootup module coupled to the bus and configured to cause the system on a chip to bootup in accordance with a selected security mode, an input module coupled to the bus and configured to receive an input signal and to provide the input signal to the bus, a processor coupled to the bus and configured to process the input signal to provide an intermediate signal, in accordance with a type of content protection associated with the input signal, an encryption module coupled to the bus and configured to cause at least a portion of the intermediate signal to be encrypted to produce an encrypted signal, in accordance with the type of the content protection, and an output module coupled to the bus and configured to output the encrypted signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2007Publication date: July 10, 2008Inventors: Richard K. Sita, Kunal K. Dave, Jitesh Arora, Michael J. Erwin
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Patent number: 7187415Abstract: Video is received at a standard aspect ratio. The video includes video content having an alternate aspect ratio. The video content is provided in a letterboxed format with black bars to make up the standard aspect ratio. The video is analyzed to identify portions of the video related to changing video content. A boundary for the changing video content is identified as the alternate aspect ratio. The alternate aspect ratio is then applied to the video to present the video at the alternate aspect ratio. Extraneous portions of the video, such as the black bars, are then discarded from the video to present the video at the alternate aspect ratio.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2002Date of Patent: March 6, 2007Assignee: ATI Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Jitesh Arora
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Publication number: 20060104601Abstract: A video information recorder receives video information including multiple scenes, and associates an automatic start marker with at least one of the scenes in response to receiving user-provided begin scene information. According to one embodiment, during playback the video information recorder stops recording in response to receiving the user provided begin scene information and resumes recording in response to receiving the user provided end scene information. According to an alternative embodiment, during playback the video information recorder skips, erases or overwrites the video information between the start and stop markers. The video information recorder also associates an automatic stop marker with at least one of the scenes without user intervention in response to receiving user-provided end scene information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2004Publication date: May 18, 2006Applicant: ATI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Jitesh Arora, Syed Hasnain