Patents by Inventor Kai Zhang

Kai Zhang 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: 11870974
    Abstract: A method, a video processing apparatus and computer-readable program medium for video process is disclosed. The method of video processing includes deriving, during a conversion between a current block of video and a bitstream representation of the current block, a new affine model using multiple original affine models with control point motion vectors; and performing the conversion by using the new affine model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11871023
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for multi-motion model based video coding and decoding are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes determining, for a video block, a candidate for decoding using, for one or more target motion models from a number of motion models, one or more motion candidates from corresponding non-adjacent spatial or temporal blocks or motion information derived from previously coded blocks based on their associated motion models, and performing further processing of the video block using the candidate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11871039
    Abstract: Several techniques for video encoding and video decoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video including a video unit and a bitstream of the video according to a rule, wherein the rule specifies whether a transform skip residual coding operation is enabled for the video unit, and wherein one or more syntax elements are included in the bitstream at a video segment level indicative of whether the transform skip residual coding operation is enabled for the video unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Jizheng Xu, Li Zhang, Ye-kui Wang, Kai Zhang, Zhipin Deng
  • Publication number: 20240007628
    Abstract: A mechanism for processing video data implemented by a video coding apparatus is disclosed. The mechanism determines usage of one or more of a separate tree coding and a partitioning beyond a minimum size threshold for a video unit. The mechanism also disables a cross-component coding tool for the video unit based on the determination. A conversion between a visual media data and a bitstream is performed in accordance with the coding tool being disabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Xi Xie, Junru Li, Meng Wang
  • Publication number: 20240007664
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for asymmetric weighted bi-predictive merging in video coding are described. In a representative aspect, a method for decoding video data includes determining that a current video block of the video data is predicted from an asymmetric bi-predictive merge candidate, where different weights are used for a first reference block and a second reference block, and making, based on the determination, a determination between enabling and disabling a coding tool for the current video block. In a case that the current video block is predicted from an asymmetric bi-predictive merge candidate, the coding tool is not applied to the current video block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Hongbin LIU, Li ZHANG, Kai ZHANG, Yue WANG
  • Publication number: 20240005130
    Abstract: A method for constructing a design concept generation network (DCGN) and a method for automatically generating a conceptual scheme are provided. A DCGN includes a Transformer encoder, a Transformer decoder, an importance constraint matrix generation module, an importance constraint embedding layer, a cross-attention (CA) layer, and an optimization module. A word importance constraint is ingeniously introduced based on an attention mechanism of a Transformer to record input word constraint information contained in a generated text sequence. This can effectively ensure the reliability and effectiveness of a generated conceptual scheme and is conducive to capturing potential semantic importance information and implementing semantic knowledge reasoning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: SICHUAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Wu ZHAO, Miao YU, Xin GUO, Kai ZHANG, Qian ZHAO, Hui YU, Jun LI, Bing LAI, Chong JIANG, Yiwei JIANG, Bo WU, Xingyu CHEN
  • Patent number: 11863793
    Abstract: A method includes performing a conversion between a video including at least one video picture and a bitstream of the video according to a rule, wherein the at least one video picture includes one or more slices and one or more subpictures, and wherein the rule specifies that an order of slice indices of the one or more slices in the at least one video picture is indicated responsive to a syntax element associated with the at least one picture indicative of whether a single slice is included per subpicture of the at least one video picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Ye-kui Wang, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang
  • Patent number: 11863766
    Abstract: An exemplary method for visual media processing includes performing a conversion between a current video block of a visual media data and a bitstream representation of the visual media data in accordance with a conditional signalling rule, wherein the current video block is disabled from using an intra sub-block partitioning (ISP) split mode which divides the current video block into sub-blocks depending on dimensions of the current video block, wherein, in case that the conversion is associated with disabling use of the ISP split mode, the conditional signalling rule specifies selectively including in the bitstream representation a first syntax element indicating that a luma component of a sub-block of the current video block includes non-zero coefficient values, and further wherein the selectively including is based at least on one or more other syntax elements having non-zero coefficient values of one or more previous sub-blocks included in the bitstream representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHONOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11862084
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, a driving method, a display substrate, and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes a driving circuit, a first light-emitting control circuit, a light-emitting element, a first initialization circuit, and a second initialization circuit. The first initialization circuit writes, under the control of a first initialization control signal, an initialization voltage provided by an initialization voltage line, to a control terminal of the driving circuit; the second initialization circuit writes, under the control of a second initialization control signal provided by a second initialization control line, an initial data voltage provided by an initial data line, to an anode of the light-emitting element. Light emission of the light-emitting element from a leakage current and lateral leakage at low gray scales caused when initializing the anode of the light-emitting element can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Erlong Song, Kai Zhang, Xingrui Cai, Yagui Gao, Hailong Yan, Xinyu Wei, Qiang Fu
  • Patent number: 11863762
    Abstract: Embodiments for video processing, including video coding, video decoding and video transcoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video having one or more layers having one or more video pictures having one or more subpictures and a bitstream of the video according to a rule, wherein the rule defines network abstraction layer (NAL) units to be extracted from a bitstream during a sub-bitstream extraction process to output a sub-bitstream, wherein the rule further specifies that one or more inputs to the sub-bitstream extraction process include a target output layer set (OLS) index (targetOlsIdx) that identifies an OLS index of a target OLS and is equal to an index to a list of OLSs specified by a video parameter set, and wherein the one or more inputs satisfy a set of conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Ye-kui Wang, Zhipin Deng, Kai Zhang, Li Zhang
  • Patent number: 11863794
    Abstract: A method includes performing a conversion between a video including a video picture and a bitstream of the video according to a rule, wherein the video picture including a subpicture, a tile, and a slice, and wherein the rule specifies that, due to the subpicture including the slice that is partitioned from the tile, the conversion is performed by refraining from counting a height of the subpicture using a number of tiles of the video picture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Ye-Kui Wang, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang
  • Patent number: 11863784
    Abstract: Sub-table for history-based affine mode is described. In an exemplary aspect, a method for video processing includes deriving, deriving, for a conversion between a current block of video and a bitstream representation of the current block, an affine model for the current block based on affine related information, wherein the affine related information is stored in at least one first affine history motion vector prediction (HMVP) buffer of M first affine HMVP buffers or at least one affine sub-buffer of M affine sub-buffers (HB0, HB1, . . . HBM-1) into which a second affine HMVP buffer is divided, wherein the first affine HMVP buffer or affine HMVP sub-buffer being used to store affine related information of blocks coded prior the current block, M being an integer larger than 1; and performing the conversion by using the derived affine model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Jizheng Xu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11864100
    Abstract: This application relates to the field of communications, and provides an information configuration method to configure an association relationship between an AMF group and network slice information for an NSSF, a default AMF, or an NRF, so that the NSSF, the default AMF, or the NRF can select an AMF group meeting a service requirement. The method includes: determining, by a first management unit, an association relationship between information about an AMF group and network slice information, where the association relationship is used to instruct to select the network slice information based on the information about the AMF group or select the information about the AMF group based on the network slice information; and sending, by the first management unit, the association relationship to a first network unit or a management unit of a first network unit; or storing, by the first management unit, the association relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoqian Jia, Ruiyue Xu, Kai Zhang
  • Patent number: 11863771
    Abstract: A method for processing a video includes maintaining one or more tables, wherein each table includes motion candidates derived from previously processed video blocks that are processed prior to a first video block of a video; deriving motion information for the first video block; applying refinement to the motion information when at least one decoder side motion vector derivation (DMVD) technologies is enabled; performing a conversion between a bitstream representation of the first video block and the first video block using the refined motion information; and determining, whether to use the refined motion information or un-refined motion information for updating one or more tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Jizheng Xu, Yue Wang
  • Publication number: 20230415863
    Abstract: Disclosed is a particle algorithm-based method for underwater detection and operation positioning of a reservoir dam system. A water body is stimulated by adopting a smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method, the ROV is simulated by adopting a discrete element method (DEM) unit formed by a series of particles, an umbilical cable between the ROV and a water surface control unit are simulated by a spring unit, dynamic interaction among the ROV, water flow and the cable are calculated by combining the SPH method and the DEM, and real-time motion positions of the ROV and the cable in complex environments are calculated and obtained; and a relative position between the ROV and the surface control unit can be calculated through the real-time position of the cable, and the real-time underwater positioning of the ROV is realized in combination with an absolute coordinate position of the surface control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: NANJING HYDRAULIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yan Xiang, Zhengyang Su, Hailiang Yang, Xin Yang, Chengdong Liu, Kai Zhang, Bo Dai, Yakun Wang, Siyu Chen, Ying Meng, Liushan Tang
  • Publication number: 20230418311
    Abstract: A method for detecting landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle includes: acquiring a current ground clearance of each supporting vertical rod; acquiring a current height above ground of the unmanned aerial vehicle when receiving a landing instruction; determining whether a fuselage of the unmanned aerial vehicle is horizontal; when the fuselage of the unmanned aerial vehicle is horizontal, adjusting a length of the supporting vertical rod according to the current ground clearance of the supporting vertical rod to keep the fuselage horizontal when the unmanned aerial vehicle lands; and controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle to descend for landing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: AUTEL ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kai ZHANG, Yanfeng DANG
  • Patent number: 11856218
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for the simplification of sub-block motion candidate lists for video coding are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video processing includes determining, during a conversion between a current block and a bitstream representation of the current block, a temporal motion vector prediction candidate for a sub-block of the current block. The temporal motion vector prediction candidate is completely determined based on K neighboring blocks of the current block, K being a positive integer. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the temporal motion vector prediction candidate for the sub-block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11856211
    Abstract: Usage for History-based affine parameters is described. In an exemplary aspect, a method for video processing includes deriving, for a conversion between a current block of video and a bitstream representation of the current block, affine related information associated with affine model for the current block based on affine parameters stored in a buffer for storing affine related information of blocks coded prior the current block; and performing the conversion by using the affine related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Jizheng Xu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11856185
    Abstract: Techniques for video encoding and decoding are described. A method of video processing is disclosed. The method includes, determining, based on a video characteristic of a first video block, an enabling or disabling of a pruning process for a table updating process; updating one or multiple tables, based on the determination and motion information of the first video block, the one or multiple motion tables being History-based Motion Vector Prediction HMVP (HMVP) tables; and performing a conversion between a subsequent video block of the video and bitstream representation of the subsequent video block based on the updated tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD, BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Hongbin Liu, Jizheng Xu, Yue Wang
  • Patent number: 11856235
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for video processing are described. One example video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video including a video region and a bitstream of the video according to a rule, wherein the rule specifies that an adaptive loop filtering operation is allowed for the video region in response to an absence of one or more adaptation parameter set (APS) network abstraction layer (NAL) units that include adaptive loop filtering data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BYTEDANCE INC.
    Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Ye-Kui Wang, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang