Patents by Inventor Kui Wang

Kui Wang 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: 20230038287
    Abstract: A video coding mechanism for viewpoint dependent video coding is disclosed. The mechanism includes mapping a spherical video sequence into a plurality of sub-picture video sequences. The mechanism further includes encoding the plurality of sub-picture video sequences as sub-picture bitstreams to support merging of the plurality of sub-picture bitstreams, the encoding ensuring that each sub-picture bitstream is self-referenced and two or more of the sub-picture bitstreams can be merged to generate a single video bitstream using a lightweight bitstream rewriting process that does not involve changing of any block-level coding results. A mergeable indication is encoded to indicate that the sub-picture bitstream containing the indication is compatible with a multi-bitstream merge function for reconstruction of the spherical video sequence. A set of the sub-picture bitstreams and the mergeable indication are transmitted toward the decoder to support decoding and displaying a virtual reality video viewport.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Ye-Kui Wang, Huameng Fang, Yuqun Fan, Jianle Chen
  • Patent number: 11575886
    Abstract: A video coding mechanism for viewpoint dependent video coding is disclosed. The mechanism includes mapping a spherical video sequence into a plurality of sub-picture video sequences. The mechanism further includes encoding the plurality of sub-picture video sequences as sub-picture bitstreams to support merging of the plurality of sub-picture bitstreams, the encoding ensuring that each sub-picture bitstream is self-referenced and two or more of the sub-picture bitstreams can be merged to generate a single video bitstream using a lightweight bitstream rewriting process that does not involve changing of any block-level coding results. A mergable indication is encoded to indicate that the sub-picture bitstream containing the indication is compatible with a multi-bitstream merge function for reconstruction of the spherical video sequence. A set of the sub-picture bitstreams and the mergable indication are transmitted toward the decoder to support decoding and displaying a virtual reality video viewport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ye-Kui Wang, Huameng Fang, Yuqun Fan, Jianle Chen
  • Publication number: 20230029791
    Abstract: Several techniques for video encoding and video decoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a subpicture in a video picture of a video and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that multiple syntax elements are used to specify usage of a reference picture resampling tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Ye-kui Wang, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Zhipin Deng
  • Publication number: 20230034923
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for processing of video are described. The processing includes video encoding, decoding, or transcoding. A video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video including one or more pictures including one or more subpictures and a bitstream of the video. The bitstream conforms to a format rule that specifies that a trailing subpicture that is associated with an intra random access point subpicture or a gradual decoding refresh subpicture follows the intra random access point subpicture or the gradual decoding refresh subpicture in an order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventor: Ye-kui Wang
  • Publication number: 20230034593
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for video processing are described. The video processing may include video encoding, video decoding or video transcoding. One example video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video comprising a picture in a video unit and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule. The format rule specifies that, responsive to a width of a picture being equal to a maximum allowed picture width in the video unit and a height of the picture being equal to a maximum allowed picture height in the video unit, a conformance window flag in a picture parameter set corresponding to the picture is set to a zero value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Ye-kui Wang, Li Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230023220
    Abstract: Several techniques for video encoding and video decoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a subpicture in a video picture of a video and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that, in in case a subpicture is treated as a video picture for the conversion, a cross-layer alignment restriction is applied to less than all of the multiple layers including a current layer that includes the subpicture and a subset of layers associated with the current layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Ye-kui Wang, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Zhipin Deng
  • Publication number: 20230025260
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for video processing, including coding and decoding, are described. One example video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video having one or more video layers and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule, and wherein the format rule specifies that a value of a variable indicating whether to output a picture in an access unit is determined based on a flag indicating whether to output another picture in the access unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Ye-kui Wang
  • Publication number: 20230023356
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for video processing, including coding and decoding, are described. One example video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video having one or more video layers and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule, and wherein the format rule specifies that a value of a flag that indicates whether to remove pictures previously decoded and stored in a decoded picture buffer from the decoded picture buffer when decoding an access unit of a certain type is included in the bitstream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Ye-kui Wang
  • Publication number: 20230027555
    Abstract: Techniques for video processing, including video coding, video decoding and video transcoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video including a video picture including a video tile including one or more slices and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that a second slice in a tile that includes a first slice in a picture has a height that is represented in a unit of coding tree units. The first slice has a first slice index, and the second slice has a second slice index that is determined based on the first slice index and a number of explicitly provided slice heights in the video tile. The height of the second slice is determined based on the first slice index and the second slice index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Kai Zhang, Li Zhang, Ye-kui Wang, Zhipin Deng, Kui Fan, Jizheng Xu, Hongbin Liu
  • Publication number: 20230028609
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for video processing, including coding and decoding, are described. One example video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule, wherein the bitstream includes one or more output layer sets (OLSs), each OLS comprising one or more coded layer video sequences, and wherein the format rule specifies that a video parameter set indicates, for each of the one or more OLSs, a greatest allowed value of a chroma format indicator and/or a greatest allowed value of a bit depth used to represent pixels of the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Ye-kui Wang
  • Publication number: 20230027478
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses for video processing are described. A method for processing video includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule, and wherein the format rule specifies to include, in a general constraint syntax structure associated with the video, one or more general constraint flags indicating whether corresponding syntax elements are included in a sequence parameter set (SPS) and/or a picture parameter set (PPS) and/or a picture header (PH) and/or a slice header (SH) or to constrain values of the syntax elements in the SPS and/or the PPS and/or the PH and/or the SH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Ye-kui Wang, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Kui Fan
  • Publication number: 20230021488
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus for video processing are described. A method for processing video includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule, and wherein the format rule specifies whether a syntax element in a sequence parameter set (SPS) based on a value of a general constraint flag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Zhipin Deng, Ye-kui Wang, Li Zhang, Kai Zhang, Kui Fan
  • Publication number: 20230021827
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for processing of video are described. The processing may include video encoding, decoding or transcoding. One example video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video including a current picture including a current subpicture including a current slice and a bitstream of the video. The bitstream conforms to a format rule that disallows an active entry in a reference picture list of the current slice from including a first picture that precedes in a decoding order a second picture that includes a step-wise temporal sublayer access subpicture in response to conditions associated with at least the first picture and the current subpicture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Ye-kui Wang
  • Publication number: 20230022497
    Abstract: A video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video having one or more video layers including one or more video pictures and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule. The format rule specifies that a first video picture is an associated intra random access point picture of a second picture and that the second picture are constrained to belong to a same video layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Ye-kui WANG
  • Publication number: 20230022078
    Abstract: A video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video having one or more video layers comprising a current picture comprising a current slice and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies a condition under which a reference picture list for the current slice is disallowed to have an active entry that refers to a picture that precedes, in a decoding order or an output order, an intra random access point picture associated with the current picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Ye-kui WANG
  • Publication number: 20230026922
    Abstract: A video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video that includes a picture with two neighboring subpictures and a bitstream of the video. The bitstream conforms to a format rule that specifies that the two neighboring subpictures with different types of network abstraction layer (NAL) units have syntax elements with a same first value that indicates whether each of the two neighboring subpictures in a coded layer video sequence is treated as a picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Ye-kui Wang
  • Patent number: 11563983
    Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus for processing image data are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a visual media file and a bitstream. The visual media file comprises image items each comprising a sequence of one or more pictures according to a media file format, and the bitstream includes access units each consisting of one or more pictures each belonging to a layer according to a video coding format. The media file format specifies that image items comprising pictures originated from the bitstream are allowed to be associated with different instances of a property descriptor that indicates high-level characteristics of the bitstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: LEMON, INC.
    Inventors: Ye-Kui Wang, Li Zhang
  • Patent number: 11560545
    Abstract: Provided are methods of controlling disassociation of cells from a carrier, compositions, and methods of collecting cells. The methods of controlling disassociation of cells from a carrier may include contacting a polymeric carrier with one or more digesting agents to disassociate at least a portion of a plurality of cells from the polymeric carrier. The polymeric carrier may be crosslinked with a crosslinker including at least one of a redox sensitive moiety, a UV light sensitive moiety, a pH sensitive moiety, and a temperature sensitive moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: Lonza Walkersville Inc., The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yi Zhang, Natalie Artzi, Kui Wang, Eytan Abraham, Yonatan Levinson
  • Patent number: 11563967
    Abstract: A method of encoding a video bitstream implemented by a video encoder is disclosed. The method includes storing, in a memory of the video encoder, a set of less than five network abstraction layer (NAL) unit types available for video data; selecting, by a processor of the video encoder, a NAL unit type from the set of less than five NAL unit types for a picture from the video data; generating, by the processor of the video encoder, a video bitstream containing a NAL unit corresponding to the NAL unit type selected and containing an identifier identifying the NAL unit type selected; and transmitting, by a transmitter of the video encoder, the video bitstream toward a video decoder. A corresponding method of decoding the video bitstream is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: F N U Hendry, Ye-Kui Wang
  • Publication number: 20230019913
    Abstract: A method of processing media data. The method includes determining, for a conversion between the media data and a media data file, whether a size and a position of a target picture-in-picture region in a main video are present in the media data file, wherein a supplementary video appears to be overlaid on the target picture-in-picture region when the main video is displayed; and performing the conversion between the media data and the media data file based on the size and the position determined. A corresponding video coding apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventor: Ye-kui Wang