Patents by Inventor Karsten Mueller

Karsten Mueller 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: 12700321
    Abstract: Systems and methods for radar-based aircraft maneuver actions are provided. An example computer-implemented method includes transmitting, using one or more transmitters onboard an aircraft, one or more radio signals. Reflected radio data corresponding to one or more radio signals reflected from a plurality of radio detection and ranging (“radar”) reflectors placed at a plurality of locations associated with an aerial facility can be received using one or more radio receivers onboard the aircraft. A location for the aircraft can be computed based on the radio data and the plurality of locations associated with the aerial facility at which the radar reflectors are placed. A maneuver action for the aircraft can be initiated at a particular landing pad of the aerial facility based on the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: JOBY AERO, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Burghardt, Karsten Mueller, Andreas Stelzer, Heinz Haderer, Simon Scott
  • Publication number: 20260220484
    Abstract: A client device and method for participating in federated learning of a neural network are presented. The client device is configured to perform, using a data set and starting from a current state of a parametrization of the neural network, a training of the neural network to obtain an advanced state of the parametrization, and compute a difference between the advanced state of the parametrization or a re-parametrized-domain advanced state thereof derived by means of re-parametrization mapping and the current state of a parametrization or re-parametrized-domain current state thereof to obtain a local difference, to send a differential update to a server, having the local difference and receive an averaged update from the server, having a received averaged difference, and to update the current state of the parametrization to obtain an updated state of the parametrization using a local parametrization, and a further parametrization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2025
    Publication date: July 30, 2026
    Inventors: Daniel BECKING, Paul HAASE, Gerhard TECH, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Karsten MUELLER, Wojciech SAMEK, Heiko SCHWARZ, Detlev MARPE, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Patent number: 12658940
    Abstract: An encoding scheme is provided for arithmetically encoding a sequence of information values into an arithmetic coded bitstream by providing the bitstream with entry point information, allowing for resuming arithmetic decoding of the bitstream from a predetermined entry point onward. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide more efficient encoding in view of the decoding speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Paul Haase, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Karsten Mueller, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 12658941
    Abstract: An encoding scheme is provided for arithmetically encoding a sequence of information values into an arithmetic coded bitstream by providing the bitstream with entry point information, allowing for resuming arithmetic decoding of the bitstream from a predetermined entry point onward. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide more efficient encoding in view of the decoding speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E. V.
    Inventors: Paul Haase, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Karsten Mueller, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 12652385
    Abstract: Wedgelet separation lines of neighboring blocks are predicted from each other by aligning the wedgelet separation lines of such neighboring blocks to each other, thereby reducing the side information coding rate that may be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: Dolby Video Compression, LLC
    Inventors: Philipp Merkle, Christian Bartnik, Haricharan Lakshman, Detlev Marpe, Karsten Mueller, Thomas Wiegand, Gerhard Tech
  • Patent number: 12652060
    Abstract: An encoding scheme is provided for arithmetically encoding a sequence of information values into an arithmetic coded bitstream by providing the bitstream with entry point information, allowing for resuming arithmetic decoding of the bitstream from a predetermined entry point onward. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide more efficient encoding in view of the decoding speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2025
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Paul Haase, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Karsten Mueller, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 12647567
    Abstract: Wedgelet-based coding for coding blocks of varying size is rendered more efficient by the usage of a variable length coded syntax element having a prefix and a suffix, wherein the size of the suffix is dependent on the prefix and the size of the current coding block. By this measure, it is feasible to efficiently adapt the length of the variable-length coded syntax element which controls the bi-partitioning of the current coding block to the actual needs, namely the size, of the current coding block, and the variability of the bi-partitioning by varying the wedglet separation line, respectively. The greater the current coding block is, the longer the variable-length coded syntax element may be. This length dependency may even be sufficiently effective in terms of coding efficiency so that the variable length coded syntax element may be coded without context-adaptive entropy coding, but directly or using fixed-equal-probability binary entropy coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2026
    Assignee: Dolby Video Compression, LLC
    Inventors: Philipp Merkle, Detlev Marpe, Karsten Mueller
  • Patent number: 12621005
    Abstract: An encoding scheme is provided for arithmetically encoding a sequence of information values into an arithmetic coded bitstream by providing the bitstream with entry point information, allowing for resuming arithmetic decoding of the bitstream from a predetermined entry point onward. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide more efficient encoding in view of the decoding speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E. V.
    Inventors: Paul Haase, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Karsten Mueller, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 12580589
    Abstract: An encoding scheme is provided for arithmetically encoding a sequence of information values into an arithmetic coded bitstream by providing the bitstream with entry point information, allowing for resuming arithmetic decoding of the bitstream from a predetermined entry point onward. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide more efficient encoding in view of the decoding speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2025
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Paul Haase, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Karsten Mueller, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 12580588
    Abstract: An encoding scheme is provided for arithmetically encoding a sequence of information values into an arithmetic coded bitstream by providing the bitstream with entry point information, allowing for resuming arithmetic decoding of the bitstream from a predetermined entry point onward. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide more efficient encoding in view of the decoding speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2025
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Paul Haase, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Karsten Mueller, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 12549198
    Abstract: An encoding scheme is provided for arithmetically encoding a sequence of information values into an arithmetic coded bitstream by providing the bitstream with entry point information, allowing for resuming arithmetic decoding of the bitstream from a predetermined entry point onward. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide more efficient encoding in view of the decoding speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2025
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEW ANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Paul Haase, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Karsten Mueller, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 12519916
    Abstract: Findings are described according to which a higher compression rate or better rate/distortion ratio may be achieved by adopting or predicting second coding parameters used for encoding a second view of the multi-view signal from first coding parameters used in encoding a first view of the multi-view signal. In other words, redundancies between views of a multi-view signal may not be restricted to the views themselves, such as the video information thereof, but that the coding parameters in parallelly encoding these views show similarities which may be exploited in order to further improve the coding rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: Dolby Video Compression, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Wiegand, Detlev Marpe, Karsten Mueller, Philipp Merkle, Gerhard Tech, Hunn Rhee, Heiko Schwarz
  • Publication number: 20250384297
    Abstract: Data stream having a representation of a neural network encoded thereinto, the data stream including serialization parameter indicating a coding order at which neural network parameters, which define neuron interconnections of the neural network, are encoded into the data stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2025
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Inventors: Stefan MATLAGE, Paul HAASE, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Karsten MUELLER, Wojciech SAMEK, Simon WIEDEMANN, Detlev MARPE, Thomas SCHIERL, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Robert SKUPIN, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20250384298
    Abstract: Data stream having a representation of a neural network encoded thereinto, the data stream including serialization parameter indicating a coding order at which neural network parameters, which define neuron interconnections of the neural network, are encoded into the data stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2025
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Inventors: Stefan MATLAGE, Paul HAASE, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Karsten MUELLER, Wojciech SAMEK, Simon WIEDEMANN, Detlev MARPE, Thomas SCHIERL, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Robert SKUPIN, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20250384299
    Abstract: Data stream having a representation of a neural network encoded thereinto, the data stream including serialization parameter indicating a coding order at which neural network parameters, which define neuron interconnections of the neural network, are encoded into the data stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2025
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Inventors: Stefan MATLAGE, Paul HAASE, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Karsten MUELLER, Wojciech SAMEK, Simon WIEDEMANN, Detlev MARPE, Thomas SCHIERL, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Robert SKUPIN, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20250384300
    Abstract: Data stream having a representation of a neural network encoded thereinto, the data stream including serialization parameter indicating a coding order at which neural network parameters, which define neuron interconnections of the neural network, are encoded into the data stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2025
    Publication date: December 18, 2025
    Inventors: Stefan MATLAGE, Paul HAASE, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Karsten MUELLER, Wojciech SAMEK, Simon WIEDEMANN, Detlev MARPE, Thomas SCHIERL, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Robert SKUPIN, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Patent number: 12501030
    Abstract: Wedgelet separation lines of neighboring blocks are predicted from each other by aligning the wedgelet separation lines of such neighboring blocks to each other, thereby reducing the side information coding rate that may be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2025
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: Dolby Video Compression, LLC
    Inventors: Philipp Merkle, Christian Bartnik, Haricharan Lakshman, Detlev Marpe, Karsten Mueller, Thomas Wiegand, Gerhard Tech
  • Publication number: 20250365010
    Abstract: An encoding scheme is provided for arithmetically encoding a sequence of information values into an arithmetic coded bitstream by providing the bitstream with entry point information, allowing for resuming arithmetic decoding of the bitstream from a predetermined entry point onward. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide more efficient encoding in view of the decoding speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2025
    Publication date: November 27, 2025
    Inventors: Paul HAASE, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Karsten MUELLER, Heiko SCHWARZ, Detlev MARPE, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20250365011
    Abstract: An encoding scheme is provided for arithmetically encoding a sequence of information values into an arithmetic coded bitstream by providing the bitstream with entry point information, allowing for resuming arithmetic decoding of the bitstream from a predetermined entry point onward. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide more efficient encoding in view of the decoding speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2025
    Publication date: November 27, 2025
    Inventors: Paul HAASE, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Karsten MUELLER, Heiko SCHWARZ, Detlev MARPE, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20250365015
    Abstract: An encoding scheme is provided for arithmetically encoding a sequence of information values into an arithmetic coded bitstream by providing the bitstream with entry point information, allowing for resuming arithmetic decoding of the bitstream from a predetermined entry point onward. A respective decoding scheme is also provided. These encoding and decoding schemes provide more efficient encoding in view of the decoding speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2025
    Publication date: November 27, 2025
    Inventors: Paul HAASE, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Karsten MUELLER, Heiko SCHWARZ, Detlev MARPE, Thomas WIEGAND