Patents by Inventor Liqiang Wang

Liqiang 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: 20240080495
    Abstract: A processing method includes generating first training data through a kth updated video coding application, the first training data including a sample original video frame as a training label, and a first sample to-be-filtered reconstructed frame output from the kth updated video coding application and corresponding to the sample original video frame. The method further includes, based on the sample original video frame and the first sample to-be-filtered reconstructed frame, training a second filtering model in the kth updated video coding application to obtain the second filtering model in a training convergence state, and integrating the second filtering model in the training convergence state into the kth updated video coding application to obtain a (k+1)th updated video coding application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Liqiang WANG
  • Publication number: 20240078777
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a control method of a virtual object, a control apparatus, a device and a medium. The method displays a target virtual scene in a target interactive interface, under the condition that there is a target virtual object in the plurality of virtual objects, displays a target control, the target virtual object being a virtual object controllable by the virtual subject in a non-contact manner; in response to receiving a trigger operation on the target control, causes the virtual subject to perform non-contact control on the target virtual object according to a control mode corresponding to the target control, wherein the target virtual scene includes a plurality of virtual objects and a virtual subject controlled by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Haixing ZHENG, Xiao CHEN, Liqiang WANG, Songyun DING, Chuanzan LI
  • Patent number: 11909956
    Abstract: Systems and methods for deep neural network (DNN)-based cross component prediction are provided. A method includes inputting a reconstructed luma block of an image or video into a DNN; and predicting, by the DNN, a reconstructed chroma block of the image or video based on the reconstructed luma block that is input. Luma and chroma reference information and side information may also be input into the DNN to predict the reconstructed chroma block. The various inputs may also be generated using processes such as downsampling and transformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Sheng Lin, Wei Jiang, Wei Wang, Liqiang Wang, Shan Liu, Xiaozhong Xu
  • Publication number: 20240015336
    Abstract: A deep learning-based filtering method includes obtaining a reconstructed image of luma component corresponding to an encoded image and chroma component information corresponding to the encoded image; generating an input parameter of a deep learning filter according to the reconstructed image of luma component and the chroma component information; and generating, based on the input parameter to the deep learning filter, a filtered image corresponding to the reconstructed image of luma component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventor: Liqiang WANG
  • Publication number: 20230157839
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of medical supplies, in particular to a fusion cage. The fusion cage comprises a main body, which is a flat-shaped porous structural body and composed of a plurality of structural units. The fusion cage provided by the present disclosure is the flat-shaped porous structural body composed of the plurality of structural units, the porosity of the whole structure of the fusion cage is controlled by using the parametrization design, so the elastic modulus of a fusion body is effectively reduced, and then each structural unit comprises the basal body and the plurality of extension portions extending from the surface of the basal body, the surfaces of the basal body and/or the extension portions are composed of the plurality of curved surfaces through smooth connection, and such design effectively reduces the problem of stress concentration, and improving the postoperative recovery effect of patients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Yujin TANG, Jia LIU, Yuting LV, Guohao LIU, Binghao WANG, Liqiang WANG
  • Publication number: 20230104359
    Abstract: A video encoding method includes: acquiring a coding block of a video image frame; determining a partitioning mode available to the coding block according to a size of the coding block and an allowable maximum sub-block size ratio in response to a determination that sub-block transform (SBT) is to be performed on the coding block; determining, based on the partitioning mode available to the coding block, a target partitioning mode used during the SBT performed on the coding block; and partitioning the coding block based on the target partitioning mode, and decoding a plurality of sub-blocks obtained through the partitioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventor: Liqiang WANG
  • Publication number: 20230097724
    Abstract: A video encoding method includes: determining current coefficients to-be-decoded in a coding block of a video image frame; obtaining a flag combination corresponding to the current coefficients, the flag combination including at least two coefficient absolute level threshold flags; decoding the coefficient absolute level threshold flags in the flag combination to obtain values of the coefficient absolute level threshold flags; and determining the coefficient absolute levels of the current coefficients according to the values of the coefficient absolute level threshold flags.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Ye HU, Liqiang WANG
  • Publication number: 20230077935
    Abstract: Provided are a video encoding method and apparatus, a video decoding method and apparatus, a computer-readable medium, and an electronic device, The video decoding method includes: decoding a coded block of a video image frame to obtain a target intra prediction mode corresponding to the coded block (510); in response to the target intra prediction mode belonging to a set of specified intra prediction modes, updating statistical values of the set of specified intra prediction modes, a number of the set of specified intra prediction modes being less than a total number of intra prediction modes (520); updating a most probable intra prediction mode list according to the updated statistical values of the set of specified intra prediction modes (530); and decoding another coded block of the video image frame based on the updated most probable intra prediction mode list (540).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Liqiang WANG
  • Publication number: 20230065748
    Abstract: A video decoding method is provided. In the method, a coding block of a video image frame and a derived tree adopted by the coding block are acquired. A plurality of sub-blocks in the coding block is decoded, according to a target division mode corresponding to the derived tree, to obtain a plurality of sub-coefficient blocks. The target division mode is one of a plurality of additional division modes corresponding to the derived tree. The plurality of additional division modes is configured to divide a designated prediction block in the coding block with a side length that is not an integer power of 2 into sub-blocks with side lengths that are integer powers of 2. Reconstructed images are generated according to the derived tree adopted by the coding block and the plurality of sub-coefficient blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Liqiang WANG
  • Publication number: 20230061939
    Abstract: A video decoding method includes obtaining a size of a coding block of a video image frame, and decoding a bitstream of the coding block to obtain a value of a range variable associated with a SRCC scan region of the coding block. The range variable includes a width range variable and a height range variable. Each of the width range variable and the height range variable are obtained by comparing a prefix value to one or more predefined value intervals. The method further includes determining a horizontal coordinate of boundary coordinates of the SRCC scan region according to a difference between the width of the coding block and the width range variable and determining a vertical coordinate of the boundary coordinates of the SRCC scan region according to a difference between the height of the coding block and the height range variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Ye HU, Liqiang WANG
  • Patent number: 11586544
    Abstract: A data prefetching method and a terminal device are provided. The CPU core cluster is configured to deliver a data access request to a first cache of the at least one level of cache, where the data access request carries a first address, and the first address is an address of data that the CPU core cluster currently needs to access in the memory. The prefetcher in the terminal device provided in embodiments of this application may generate a prefetch-from address, and load data corresponding to the generated prefetch-from address to the first cache. When needing to access the data, the CPU core cluster can read from the first cache, without a need to read from the memory. This helps increase an operating rate of the CPU core cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gongzheng Shi, Jianliang Ma, Liqiang Wang
  • Publication number: 20230050468
    Abstract: A video encoding method includes: decoding a target coding unit to obtain a quantization coefficient matrix corresponding to the target coding unit; determining first reference information according to a quantization coefficient in the quantization coefficient matrix; obtaining a value of a target flag bit corresponding to the first reference information, the target flag bit being a flag bit of a target sub-block position, the target sub-block position being a position of a sub-block that requires processing of residual data in a coding unit; and determining the target sub-block position of the target coding unit according to the value of the target flag bit. A flag bit of a sub-block transform position or a transform skip sub-block position in a target coding unit is implicitly indicated using a quantization coefficient in a quantization coefficient matrix corresponding to a coding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventor: Liqiang WANG
  • Publication number: 20230053118
    Abstract: A video decoding method includes: performing entropy decoding on a coding block of a video image frame to obtain a quantization coefficient block of residual data corresponding to the coding block; inversely quantizing the quantization coefficient block to obtain an inverse quantization coefficient matrix; inversely rearranging the inverse quantization coefficient matrix to obtain a processed coefficient matrix, non-zero coefficients in the processed coefficient matrix being concentrated in left, upper and upper left regions of the coefficient matrix; and generating the residual data according to the processed coefficient matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventor: Liqiang WANG
  • Publication number: 20230024834
    Abstract: A video decoding method includes: performing entropy decoding processing on an encoding block of a video image frame to obtain a quantized coefficient block of residual data corresponding to the encoding block; calculating quantization coefficients in the quantized coefficient block to obtain an implicitly derived index value; determining a transformation mode of the encoding block according to the implicitly derived index value and a value of an index identifier included in the encoding block; and performing inverse transformation processing on an inverse quantization result of the quantized coefficient block based on the transformation mode of the encoding block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Liqiang WANG
  • Publication number: 20230007254
    Abstract: A video decoding method includes performing entropy decoding processing on a code block of a video image frame of a video image frame sequence, to obtain a quantization coefficient block of residual data corresponding to the code block; collecting statistics of quantization coefficients in a target region in the quantization coefficient block, to obtain a quantization coefficient statistical value; selecting a transform matrix combination corresponding to the quantization coefficient statistical value; and performing inverse transform processing on an inverse quantization result of the quantization coefficient block based on the selected transform matrix combination, to obtain reconstructed residual data, the reconstructed residual data being used for video image reconstruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Liqiang WANG, Xiaozhong XU, Shan LIU
  • Publication number: 20220400249
    Abstract: Systems and methods for deep neural network (DNN)-based cross component prediction are provided. A method includes inputting a reconstructed luma block of an image or video into a DNN; and predicting, by the DNN, a reconstructed chroma block of the image or video based on the reconstructed luma block that is input. Luma and chroma reference information and side information may also be input into the DNN to predict the reconstructed chroma block. The various inputs may also be generated using processes such as downsampling and transformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Applicant: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Sheng LIN, Wei JIANG, Wei WANG, Liqiang WANG, Shan LIU, Xiaozhong XU
  • Publication number: 20220394265
    Abstract: A video decoding method and apparatus, a video coding method and apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device. The video decoding method includes: performing entropy decoding on a coding block of a video image frame to obtain a quantization coefficient block of residual data corresponding to the coding block; calculating quantization coefficients in a specified region in the quantization coefficient block to obtain a quantization coefficient statistics value; and determining, according to the quantization coefficient statistics value, whether to skip an inverse transform process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Liqiang WANG, Xiaozhong XU, Shan LIU
  • Patent number: 11483561
    Abstract: The present disclosure provide a transform method in picture block encoding, an inverse transform method in picture block decoding, and an apparatus. The inverse transform method includes: determining, in a target transform set, a corresponding transform pair of each region of at least two regions that constitute a to-be-decoded current block; inverse transforming each region based on the corresponding transform pair of each region to obtain an inverse transform result of each region; and obtaining an inverse transform result of the current block based on the inverse transform result of each region and a position of each region in the current block, where the at least two regions do not overlap each other, the target transform set includes a correspondence between a transform pair and a position of a region in the current block, and the transform pair includes a horizontal transform core and a vertical transform core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignees: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Liqiang Wang, Jianhua Zheng, Quanhe Yu, Yongbing Lin, Yun He
  • Publication number: 20220301180
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose an image processing method and an electronic device, to improve an image compositing effect obtained after foreground image processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Liqiang WANG, Henghui LU
  • Patent number: 11263627
    Abstract: A card use system includes a first client configured to send a card use request including card information of a card, and display a payment code including a first resource account number corresponding to the first client; a second client configured to send a payment request to transfer a first quantity of resources from the first resource account number to a second resource account number corresponding to the second client; a card server configured to validate the card according to the card information; and in response to successfully validating the card, send a confirmation indication to the payment server; and a payment server configured to, in response to receiving the confirmation indication from the card server, transfer a second quantity of resources in the first resource account number corresponding to the first client to the second resource account number corresponding to the second client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wa Ye, Jun Zhang, Yingchao Liu, Zhenyu Xu, Yadi Xiao, Liqiang Wang, Chengwei Lin, Kangyi Lin, Dacheng Zhuo, Zeqi Lian, Haixia Rao, Rui Tang, Junxian Zhang, Yong Lin, Jiandong Lin, Mengsha Zhou, Hongyang Wang, Xin Huang, Weifeng Zhu, Zheng Wang, Cunjin Li