Patents by Inventor Polin Lai

Polin Lai 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: 9420310
    Abstract: Implementations are provided that relate, for example, to view tiling in video encoding and decoding. A particular implementation accesses a video picture that includes multiple pictures combined into a single picture, and accesses additional information indicating how the multiple pictures in the accessed video picture are combined. The accessed information includes spatial interleaving information and sampling information. Another implementation encodes a video picture that includes multiple pictures combined into a single picture, and generates information indicating how the multiple pictures in the accessed video picture are combined. The generated information includes spatial interleaving information and sampling information. A bitstream is formed that includes the encoded video picture and the generated information. Another implementation provides a data structure for transmitting the generated information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Dong Tian, Polin Lai, Jiancong Luo, Peng Yin
  • Publication number: 20150222928
    Abstract: Implementations are provided that relate, for example, to view tiling in video encoding and decoding. A particular implementation accesses a video picture that includes multiple pictures combined into a single picture, and accesses additional information indicating how the multiple pictures in the accessed video picture are combined. The accessed information includes spatial interleaving information and sampling information. Another implementation encodes a video picture that includes multiple pictures combined into a single picture, and generates information indicating how the multiple pictures in the accessed video picture are combined. The generated information includes spatial interleaving information and sampling information. A bitstream is formed that includes the encoded video picture and the generated information. Another implementation provides a data structure for transmitting the generated information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: DONG TIAN, Polin LAI, Jiancong LUO, Peng YIN
  • Patent number: 9036714
    Abstract: Implementations are provided that relate, for example, to view tiling in video encoding and decoding. A particular implementation accesses a video picture that includes multiple pictures combined into a single picture, and accesses additional information indicating how the multiple pictures in the accessed video picture are combined. The accessed information includes spatial interleaving information and sampling information. Another implementation encodes a video picture that includes multiple pictures combined into a single picture, and generates information indicating how the multiple pictures in the accessed video picture are combined. The generated information includes spatial interleaving information and sampling information. A bitstream is formed that includes the encoded video picture and the generated information. Another implementation provides a data structure for transmitting the generated information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Dong Tian, Polin Lai, Jiancong Luo, Peng Yin
  • Patent number: 8964844
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for motion skip mode in multi-view coded video using regional disparity vectors are provided. An image block of a picture corresponding to a view of multi-view video content is encoded by obtaining motion information for the image block based upon disparity information for a first region of plural regions of another picture. The other picture corresponds to another view of the multi-view video content, and each region corresponds to less than an entirety of the other picture. Each region includes multiple image blocks, with each region having been determined based on a similarity among disparity vectors of the multiple image blocks. The disparity information for the first region includes a regional disparity vector determined from the disparity vectors of the multiple image blocks of the first region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: PoLin Lai, Peng Yin, Purvin Bibhas Pandit
  • Patent number: 8625672
    Abstract: There are provided methods and apparatus for video coding. Using the method, a video encoder (100) performs filtering of at least one reference picture to obtain at least one filtered reference picture (310), and predictively codes the picture using the at least one filtered reference picture (315). In an exemplary embodiment, the filtering is done using parametric filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: PoLin Lai, Purvin Bibhas Pandit, Peng Yin
  • Patent number: 8270472
    Abstract: There are provided methods and apparatus for adaptive reference filtering of bi-predictive pictures in multi-view coded video. An apparatus includes an encoder (100) for encoding a current picture as a bi-predictive picture. The encoder (100) performs adaptive filtering of at least one reference picture to respectively obtain at least one filtered reference picture, and bi-predictively codes the current picture using the at least one filtered reference picture. The at least one reference picture is a picture wherein at least one sample thereof is used for inter-prediction either of subsequent to the least one sample being applied to an in-loop filter or in an absence of the at least one sample being applied to an in-loop filter. Reference filter coefficients for the adaptive filtering are determined responsive to at least one of luma values and chroma values of pixels grouped based on at least one of depth and disparity and motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Polin Lai, Purvin Bibhas Pandit, Peng Yin
  • Publication number: 20110286530
    Abstract: Implementations are provided that relate, for example, to view tiling in video encoding and decoding. A particular implementation accesses a video picture that includes multiple pictures combined into a single picture, and accesses additional information indicating how the multiple pictures in the accessed video picture are combined. The accessed information includes spatial interleaving information and sampling information. Another implementation encodes a video picture that includes multiple pictures combined into a single picture, and generates information indicating how the multiple pictures in the accessed video picture are combined. The generated information includes spatial interleaving information and sampling information. A bitstream is formed that includes the encoded video picture and the generated information. Another implementation provides a data structure for transmitting the generated information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Inventors: Dong Tian, Polin Lai, Jiancong Luo, Peng Yin
  • Publication number: 20100278267
    Abstract: There are provided methods and apparatus for video coding. Using the method, a video encoder (100) performs filtering of at least one reference picture to obtain at least one filtered reference picture (310), and predictively codes the picture using the at least one filtered reference picture (315). In an exemplary embodiment, the filtering is done using parametric filtering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: PoLin Lai, Purvin Bibhas Pandit, Peng Yin
  • Publication number: 20100158129
    Abstract: There are provided methods and apparatus for motion skip mode in multi-view coded video using regional disparity vectors. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding an image block of a picture corresponding to at least one view of multi-view video content by obtaining motion information for the image block based upon disparity information for a region of another picture corresponding to at least one other view of the multi-view video content. The disparity information for the region of the other picture corresponds to less than an entirety of the other picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Polin Lai, Peng Yin, Purvin Bibhas Pandit
  • Publication number: 20090129465
    Abstract: There are provided methods and apparatus for adaptive reference filtering of bi-predictive pictures in multi-view coded video. An apparatus includes an encoder (100) for encoding a current picture as a bi-predictive picture. The encoder (100) performs adaptive filtering of at least one reference picture to respectively obtain at least one filtered reference picture, and bi-predictively codes the current picture using the at least one filtered reference picture. The at least one reference picture is a picture wherein at least one sample thereof is used for inter-prediction either of subsequent to the least one sample being applied to an in-loop filter or in an absence of the at least one sample being applied to an in-loop filter. Reference filter coefficients for the adaptive filtering are determined responsive to at least one of luma values and chroma values of pixels grouped based on at least one of depth and disparity and motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Applicant: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: POLIN LAI, Purvin Bibhas Pandit, Peng Yin