Patents by Inventor Mehdi Salehifar

Mehdi Salehifar 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: 20240146965
    Abstract: An image decoding method performed by means of a decoding device according to the present invention comprises the steps of: deriving quantized transform coefficients with respect to a target block from a bitstream; performing inverse quantization with respect to the quantized transform coefficients with respect to the target block and deriving transform coefficients; deriving residual samples with respect to the target block on the basis of reduced inverse transform with respect to the transform coefficients; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the residual samples with respect to the target block and prediction samples with respect to the target block. The reduced inverse transform is performed on the basis of a reduced inverse transform matrix. The reduced inverse transform matrix is a non-square matrix of which the number of columns is smaller than the number of rows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Mehdi SALEHIFAR, Seunghwan KIM, Moonmo KOO, Jaehyun LIM
  • Patent number: 11973963
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present disclosure includes deriving transform coefficients through dequantization based on the quantized transform coefficients for the target block; deriving modified transform coefficients based on an inverse reduced secondary transform (RST) for the transform coefficients; deriving residual samples for the target block based on an inverse primary transform for the modified transform coefficients; and generating a reconstructed samples based on the residual samples, and prediction samples derived based on an intra prediction mode for the target block, wherein the inverse RST is performed based on a transform kernel matrix selected from a transform set including a plurality of transform kernel matrices, the transform set is determined based on a mapping relationship according to the intra prediction mode applied to the target block, and a plurality of intra prediction modes including the intra prediction mode of the target block are mapped to one transform set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Mehdi Salehifar, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
  • Patent number: 11968398
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of reconstructing a video signal based on a reduced secondary transform, which includes: obtaining a secondary transform index from the video signal; deriving a secondary transform corresponding to the secondary transform index, wherein the secondary transform represents a reduced secondary transform, and the reduced secondary transform represents a transform outputting L (L<N) transform coefficient data (L×1 transform coefficient vectors) based on inputted N residual data (N×1 residual vectors); obtaining a transform coefficient block by performing an entropy decoding and a dequantization for a current block (N×N); performing an inverse secondary transform for the transform coefficient block using the reduced secondary transform; performing an inverse primary transform for a block which the inverse secondary transform is applied to; and reconstructing the current block using a block which the inverse primary transform is applied to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Mehdi Salehifar, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
  • Publication number: 20240129467
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for reconstructing a video signal, which includes: obtaining a transform coefficient block by performing an entropy decoding and a dequantization for a current block; deriving a secondary transform corresponding to a specific area in the transform coefficient block, wherein the specific area represents an area including a top-left block of the transform coefficient block; performing an inverse secondary transform for each of subblocks within the specific area using the secondary transform; performing an inverse primary transform for a block which the inverse secondary transform is applied to; and reconstructing the current block using a block which the primary inverse transform is applied to.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Moonmo KOO, Mehdi SALEHIFAR, Seunghwan KIM, Jaehyun LIM
  • Patent number: 11962779
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: deriving flag information indicating whether valid coefficients are present in a second area excluding a first area of the upper left corner of the current block; parsing an MTS index from a bitstream on the basis of the flag information indicating the absence of valid coefficients in the second area; and deriving residual samples for the current block by applying a conversion kernel derived on the basis of the MTS index to conversion coefficients of the first area, wherein the flag information may be derived by determining, for each scan sub-block in which the valid coefficients are scanned, whether the valid coefficients are present in the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Seunghwan Kim, Mehdi Salehifar, Jaehyun Lim
  • Publication number: 20240121394
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document may be characterized by including the steps of: determining whether to parse an MTS index for applying MTS to the current block; and applying the MTS to the current block on the basis of the MTS index to derive residual samples for the current block, wherein whether to parse the MTS index is determined on the basis of a flag value indicating whether a transform coefficient for a luma component of the current block is present, and the MTS index is not parsed when the flag value is 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Moonmo KOO, Jaehyun LIM, Seunghwan KIM, Mehdi SALEHIFAR
  • Publication number: 20240114166
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and device for processing a video signal. A method for decoding an image signal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: determining a non-separable transform set index indicating a non-separable transform set used for a non-separable transform of a current block from among non-separable transform sets predefined on the basis of an intra-prediction mode of the current block; determining. as a non-separable transform matrix, a transform kernel indicated by a non-separable transform index for the current block from among transform kernels included in the non-separable transform set indicated by the non-separable transform set index; and applying the non-separable transform matrix to an upper left region which of the current block, which is determined according to the width and height of the current block, wherein each of the predefined non-separable transform sets includes two transform kernels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Moonmo KOO, Mehdi Salehifar, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
  • Publication number: 20240114159
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a video signal decoding method based on a Multiple Transform Selection (MTS).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Mehdi Salehifar, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
  • Patent number: 11949873
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document comprises a step of applying an inverse primary transform to a transform coefficient so as to derive residual samples for a current block, wherein: the inverse primary transform is performed on the basis of an MTS index received from a bitstream; the MTS index is parsed on the basis of an effective coefficient not existing in a second area that excludes the left top first area of the current block; and the first area is a left top 16×16 area of the current block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Seunghwan Kim, Mehdi Salehifar, Jaehyun Lim
  • Publication number: 20240098258
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for processing a video signal. A method for decoding an image signal according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: for a current block having a width and a height different from each other, determining a modified intra prediction mode from an intra prediction mode, on the basis of a ratio between the width and the height of the current block and the intra prediction mode; determining an inverse non-separable transform set on the basis of the modified intra prediction mode; and applying an inverse non-separable transform matrix selected from the inverse non-separable transform set with respect to the top-left region of the current block, which is determined according to the width and the height of the current block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Moonmo KOO, Mehdi SALEHIFAR, Seunghwan KIM, Jaehyun LIM
  • Publication number: 20240098305
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present specification comprises the steps of: deriving transform coefficients through inverse quantization on the basis of quantized transform coefficient for a target block; deriving modified transform coefficients on the basis of inverse reduced secondary transform (RST) of the transform coefficients; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of residual samples for the target block on the basis of an inverse primary transform of the modified transform coefficients, wherein the step of deriving the modified transform coefficients is characterized in deriving 16 modified transform coefficients by applying a transform kernel matrix to 8 transform coefficients in a 4×4 region of the target block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Moonmo KOO, Jaehyun LIM, Seunghwan KIM, Mehdi SALEHIFAR
  • Publication number: 20240089434
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for processing video signals. An image signal decoding method according to an embodiment of the disclosure comprises the steps of: determining, on the basis of the height and width of a current block, an input length and output length of a non-separable transform; determining a non-separable transform matrix corresponding to the input length and output length of the non-separable transform; and applying the non-separable transform matrix to the current block, wherein, when the height and width of the current block are 4 each, the input length and output length of the non-separable transform are determined to be 8 and 16 respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Moonmo KOO, Mehdi SALEHIFAR, Seunghwan KIM, Jaehyun LIM
  • Publication number: 20240089463
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise the steps of: receiving flag information indicating whether or not matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) is to be used for a current block; receiving matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) mode information on the basis of the flag information; generating intra prediction samples for the current block on the basis of the MIP mode information; and generating reconstructed samples for the current block on the basis of the intra prediction samples, wherein a syntax element bin string for the MIP mode information is binarized by using a truncated binarization method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Mehdi SALEHIFAR, Seunghwan KIM
  • Publication number: 20240064310
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document can comprise the steps of: on the basis of first flag information indicating whether or not matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) can be applied to a current block, receiving second flag information indicating whether or not the MIP is used for the current block; receiving matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) mode information on the basis of the second flag information; generating intra prediction samples for the current block on the basis of the MIP mode information; and generating reconstructed samples for the current block on the basis of the intra prediction samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Mehdi Salehifar, Seunghwan Kim
  • Publication number: 20240064337
    Abstract: An image decoding method, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: determining whether to parse an MTS index for applying an MTS to the current block; deriving residual samples for the current block by applying the MTS to the current block on the basis of the MTS index; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the residual samples, wherein the step of determining whether to parse the MTS index includes determining the tree type of the current block, the division type of the current block, and whether zero-out for the MTS has been performed in the current block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Moonmo KOO, Jaehyun LIM, Seunghwan KIM, Mehdi SALEHIFAR
  • Publication number: 20240048702
    Abstract: An image decoding method according to the present document can comprise the steps of: deriving a transform coefficient for a current block on the basis of residual information; determining whether an effective coefficient is in a second area that excludes the upper left first area of the current block; parsing an MTS index from a bitstream if the effective coefficient is not in the second area; and deriving a residual sample by applying, to transform coefficients of the first area, an MTS kernel derived on the basis of the MTS index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Moonmo KOO, Jaehyun LIM, Seunghwan KIM, Mehdi SALEHIFAR
  • Patent number: 11895334
    Abstract: An image decoding method performed by means of a decoding device according to the present invention comprises the steps of: deriving quantized transform coefficients with respect to a target block from a bitstream; performing inverse quantization with respect to the quantized transform coefficients with respect to the target block and deriving transform coefficients; deriving residual samples with respect to the target block on the basis of reduced inverse transform with respect to the transform coefficients; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the residual samples with respect to the target block and prediction samples with respect to the target block. The reduced inverse transform is performed on the basis of a reduced inverse transform matrix. The reduced inverse transform matrix is a non-square matrix of which the number of columns is smaller than the number of rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Mehdi Salehifar, Seunghwan Kim, Moonmo Koo, Jaehyun Lim
  • Publication number: 20240040121
    Abstract: An image decoding method performed by means of a decoding device according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: deriving transform coefficients of a target block from a bitstream; deriving a non-separable secondary transform (NSST) index with respect to the target block; performing inverse transform with respect to the transform coefficients of the target block on the basis of the NSST index and thus deriving residual samples of the target block; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the residual samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Mehdi SALEHIFAR, Seunghwan KIM, Jaehyun LIM, Moonmo KOO
  • Patent number: 11889080
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for reconstructing a video signal, which include: obtaining a transform coefficient block by performing an entropy decoding and a dequantization for a current block; deriving a secondary transform corresponding to a specific area in the transform coefficient block, wherein the specific area represents an area including a top-left block of the transform coefficient block; performing an inverse secondary transform for each of subblocks within the specific area using the secondary transform; performing an inverse primary transform for a block which the inverse secondary transform is applied to; and reconstructing the current block using a block which the primary inverse transform is applied to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Moonmo Koo, Mehdi Salehifar, Seunghwan Kim, Jaehyun Lim
  • Publication number: 20240031573
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for video signal processing. A method for decoding an image signal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include determining an input length and an output length of a non-separable transform based on a height and a width of a current block; determining a non-separable transform matrix corresponding to the input length and the output length of a non-separable transform; and applying the non-separable transform matrix to coefficients by a number of the input length in the current block, wherein the height and the width of a current block is greater than or equal to 8, wherein, if each of the height and the width of a current block is equal to 8, the input length of the non-separable transform is determined as 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Moonmo KOO, Mehdi SALEHIFAR, Seunghwan KIM, Jaehyun LIM