Patents by Inventor Karsten Müller

Karsten Müller 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: 12719501
    Abstract: An encoding scheme for encoding a sequence of integer values comprises first using encoding a value at a predetermined position and then consecutively calculating and encoding differences between neighboring values. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide a more efficient encoding concept.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Paul Haase, Karsten Müller, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Detlev Marpe, Heiko Schwarz, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 12719502
    Abstract: An encoding scheme for encoding a sequence of integer values comprises first using encoding a value at a predetermined position and then consecutively calculating and encoding differences between neighboring values. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide a more efficient encoding concept.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2025
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Paul Haase, Karsten Müller, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Detlev Marpe, Heiko Schwarz, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 12719503
    Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a method, a decoder and/or an encoder for entropy coding of parameters of neural networks and their incremental updates, and in particular to reduced value set coding and history depended significance coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2026
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gerhard Tech, Paul Haase, Daniel Becking, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Jonathan Pfaff, Karsten Müller, Wojciech Samek, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
  • Publication number: 20260012194
    Abstract: The invention describes an encoding scheme for encoding a sequence of integer values, particularly by first using encoding a value at a predetermined position and then consecutively calculating and encoding differences between neighboring values. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide a more efficient encoding concept.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2025
    Publication date: January 8, 2026
    Inventors: Paul HAASE, Karsten MÜLLER, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Detlev MARPE, Heiko SCHWARZ, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20260012195
    Abstract: The invention describes an encoding scheme for encoding a sequence of integer values, particularly by first using encoding a value at a predetermined position and then consecutively calculating and encoding differences between neighboring values. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide a more efficient encoding concept.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2025
    Publication date: January 8, 2026
    Inventors: Paul HAASE, Karsten MÜLLER, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Detlev MARPE, Heiko SCHWARZ, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20260012193
    Abstract: The invention describes an encoding scheme for encoding a sequence of integer values, particularly by first using encoding a value at a predetermined position and then consecutively calculating and encoding differences between neighboring values. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide a more efficient encoding concept.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2025
    Publication date: January 8, 2026
    Inventors: Paul HAASE, Karsten MÜLLER, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Detlev MARPE, Heiko SCHWARZ, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20260012192
    Abstract: The invention describes an encoding scheme for encoding a sequence of integer values, particularly by first using encoding a value at a predetermined position and then consecutively calculating and encoding differences between neighboring values. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide a more efficient encoding concept.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2025
    Publication date: January 8, 2026
    Inventors: Paul HAASE, Karsten MÜLLER, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Detlev MARPE, Heiko SCHWARZ, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20250385690
    Abstract: The invention describes an encoding scheme for encoding a sequence of integer values, particularly by first using encoding a value at a predetermined position and then consecutively calculating and encoding differences between neighboring values. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide a more efficient encoding concept.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2025
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Inventors: Paul HAASE, Karsten MÜLLER, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Detlev MARPE, Heiko SCHWARZ, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20250385688
    Abstract: The invention describes an encoding scheme for encoding a sequence of integer values, particularly by first using encoding a value at a predetermined position and then consecutively calculating and encoding differences between neighboring values. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide a more efficient encoding concept.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2025
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Inventors: Paul HAASE, Karsten MÜLLER, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Detlev MARPE, Heiko SCHWARZ, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20250385689
    Abstract: The invention describes an encoding scheme for encoding a sequence of integer values, particularly by first using encoding a value at a predetermined position and then consecutively calculating and encoding differences between neighboring values. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide a more efficient encoding concept.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2025
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Inventors: Paul HAASE, Karsten MÜLLER, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Detlev MARPE, Heiko SCHWARZ, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20250385691
    Abstract: The invention describes an encoding scheme for encoding a sequence of integer values, particularly by first using encoding a value at a predetermined position and then consecutively calculating and encoding differences between neighboring values. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide a more efficient encoding concept.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2025
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Inventors: Paul HAASE, Karsten MÜLLER, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Detlev MARPE, Heiko SCHWARZ, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20250385692
    Abstract: The invention describes an encoding scheme for encoding a sequence of integer values, particularly by first using encoding a value at a predetermined position and then consecutively calculating and encoding differences between neighboring values. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide a more efficient encoding concept.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2025
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Inventors: Paul HAASE, Karsten MÜLLER, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Detlev MARPE, Heiko SCHWARZ, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Patent number: 12431916
    Abstract: An encoding scheme for encoding a sequence of integer values comprises encoding a value at a predetermined position and then consecutively calculating and encoding differences between neighboring values. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide a more efficient encoding concept.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Paul Haase, Karsten Müller, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Detlev Marpe, Heiko Schwarz, Thomas Wiegand
  • Publication number: 20250045973
    Abstract: Embodiments according to the invention relate to a decoder for providing decoded parameters of a neural network on the basis of an encoded representation, wherein the decoder is configured to obtain a first multi-dimensional array comprising a plurality of neural network parameter values using a decoding of neural network parameters and wherein the decoder is configured to obtain a re-ordered multidimensional array using a reordering, in which a first dimension of the first multi-dimensional array is rearranged to a different dimension in the re-ordered multidimensional array. Furthermore, encoders, methods and computer programs using a reordering are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Paul HAASE, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Daniel BECKING, Karsten MÜLLER, Wojciech SAMEK, Heiko SCHWARZ, Detlev MARPE, Thomas WIEGAND, Gerhard TECH
  • Publication number: 20250030852
    Abstract: In an encoder and a decoder for Region Based Intra Block Copy, the encoder may be configured for block-based encoding a picture into a data stream, and the decoder may be configured for block-based decoding a picture from a data stream. The encoder and decoder may further be configured to determine for a current block of the picture a difference between a first predetermined block and a second predetermined block inside a block search area. The encoder may encode the difference into the data stream and the decoder may derive the difference from the data stream. According to the innovative principle, the encoder and the decoder may be configured to partition the block search area into multiple block search regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Gayathri VENUGOPAL, Santiago DE LUXÁN HERNÁNDEZ, Karsten MÜLLER, Benjamin BROSS, Heiko SCHWARZ, Detlev MARPE, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20240364362
    Abstract: Some embodiments relate to a method, a decoder and/or an encoder for entropy coding of parameters of neural networks and their incremental updates, and in particular to reduced value set coding and history depended significance coding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gerhard TECH, Paul HAASE, Daniel BECKING, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Jonathan PFAFF, Karsten MÜLLER, Wojciech SAMEK, Heiko SCHWARZ, Detlev MARPE, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Patent number: 12095989
    Abstract: In an encoder and a decoder for Region Based Intra Block Copy, the encoder may be configured for block-based encoding a picture into a data stream, and the decoder may be configured for block-based decoding a picture from a data stream. The encoder and decoder may further be configured to determine for a current block of the picture a difference between a first predetermined block and a second predetermined block inside a block search area. The encoder may encode the difference into the data stream and the decoder may derive the difference from the data stream. According to the innovative principle, the encoder and the decoder may be configured to partition the block search area into multiple block search regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Gayathri Venugopal, Santiago De Luxán Hernández, Karsten Müller, Benjamin Bross, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
  • Publication number: 20240046093
    Abstract: Disclosed is a decoder for decoding parameters of a neural network, configured to obtain a plurality of neural network parameters of the neural network on the basis of an encoded bitstream, to obtain, e.g. to receive; e.g. to extract from an encoded bitstream, a node information describing a node of a parameter update tree, wherein the node information has a parent node identifier, which is, for example, a unique parent node identifier, for example an integer number, a string, and/or a cryptographic hash, and wherein the node information has a parameter update information, e.g. one or more update instructions, for example a difference signal between initial neural network parameters and a newer version thereof, e.g. corresponding to a child node of the update tree, and to derive one or more neural network parameters using parameter information of a parent node identified by the parent node identifier and using the parameter update information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Karsten MÜLLER, Paul HAASE, Daniel BECKING, Gerhard TECH, Wojciech SAMEK, Heiko SCHWARZ, Detlev MARPE, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20230141029
    Abstract: A decoder for decoding weight parameters of a neural network, wherein the decoder is configured to obtain a plurality of neural network parameters of the neural network on the basis of an encoded bitstream. Furthermore, the decoder is configured to decode the neural network parameters of the neural network using a context-dependent arithmetic decoding Moreover, the decoder is configured to obtain a probability estimate for a decoding of a bin of a number representation of a neural network parameter using one or more probability estimation parameters. In addition, the decoder is configured to use different probability estimation parameter values for a decoding of different neural network parameters and/or to use different probability estimation parameter values for a decoding of bins associated with different context models. Some embodiments are configured to use different probability estimation parameter values for a decoding of neural network parameters of different layers of the neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Paul HAASE, Karsten MÜLLER, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Heiko SCHWARZ, Detlev MARPE, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20230117869
    Abstract: The invention describes an encoding scheme for encoding a sequence of integer values, particularly by first using encoding a value at a predetermined position and then consecutively calculating and encoding differences between neighboring values. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide a more efficient encoding concept.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Paul HAASE, Karsten MÜLLER, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Detlev MARPE, Heiko SCHWARZ, Thomas WIEGAND