Patents by Inventor Sean Thomas

Sean Thomas 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: 20240171760
    Abstract: Methods and systems for frame rate scalability are described. Support is provided for input and output video sequences with variable frame rate and variable shutter angle across scenes, or for input video sequences with fixed input frame rate and input shutter angle, but allowing a decoder to generate a video output at a different output frame rate and shutter angle than the corresponding input values. Techniques allowing a decoder to decode more computationally-efficiently a specific backward compatible target frame rate and shutter angle among those allowed are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Robin Atkins, Peng Yin, Taoran Lu, Fangjun Pu, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Walter J. Husak, Tao Chen, Guan-Ming Su
  • Publication number: 20240163485
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and bitstream syntax are described for the entropy modeling of latent features in image and video coding using a combination of probability density functions. Using high-level syntax elements, an encoder may signal to compliant decoders the multi-distribution entropy model using: the number of one or more PDFs being used, an identifier of each PDF being used among a list of available PDFs, the number of PDF parameters in each PDF, and syntax elements indicating which PDF parameters across two or more PDFs being used are being shared.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Arunkumar MOHANANCHETTIAR, Jay Nitin SHINGALA, Peng YIN, Sean Thomas MCCARTHY
  • Publication number: 20240155207
    Abstract: A method for delivering media to a playback device including outputting first test media to be viewed by a first user. The method further includes receiving a first user input related to a first perception of the first test media by the first user and indicating a first personalized quality of experience of the first user with respect to the first test media. The method further includes generating a first personalized sensitivity profile including one or more viewing characteristics of the first user based on the first user input, and determining, based at least in part on the first personalized sensitivity profile, a first media parameter. The first media parameter is determined in order to increase an efficiency of media delivery to the first playback device over a network while preserving the first personalized quality of experience of the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Doh-Suk KIM, Sean Thomas MCCARTHY, Scott DALY, Jeffrey RIEDMILLER, Ludovic Christophe MALFAIT, Raphael Marc ULLMANN, Jason Michael CLOUD
  • Patent number: 11979589
    Abstract: Methods and systems for frame rate scalability are described. Support is provided for input and output video sequences with variable frame rate and variable shutter angle across scenes, or for input video sequences with fixed input frame rate and input shutter angle, but allowing a decoder to generate a video output at a different output frame rate and shutter angle than the corresponding input values. Techniques allowing a decoder to decode more computationally-efficiently a specific backward compatible target frame rate and shutter angle among those allowed are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Robin Atkins, Peng Yin, Taoran Lu, Fangjun Pu, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Walter J. Husak, Tao Chen, Guan-Ming Su
  • Patent number: 11979588
    Abstract: Methods and systems for frame rate scalability are described. Support is provided for input and output video sequences with variable frame rate and variable shutter angle across scenes, or for input video sequences with fixed input frame rate and input shutter angle, but allowing a decoder to generate a video output at a different output frame rate and shutter angle than the corresponding input values. Techniques allowing a decoder to decode more computationally-efficiently a specific backward compatible target frame rate and shutter angle among those allowed are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robin Atkins, Peng Yin, Taoran Lu, Fangjun Pu, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Walter J. Husak, Tao Chen, Guan-Ming Su
  • Publication number: 20240121424
    Abstract: Methods and systems for canvas size scalability across the same or different bitstream layers of a video coded bitstream are described. Offset parameters for a conformance window, a reference region of interest (ROI) in a reference layer, and a current ROI in a current layer are received. The width and height of a current ROI and a reference ROI are computed based on the offset parameters and they are used to generate a width and height scaling factor to be used by a reference picture resampling unit to generate an output picture based on the current ROI and the reference ROI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Taoran Lu, Fangjun Pu, Peng Yin, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Tao Chen
  • Publication number: 20240103622
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to user interface control of a head-worn computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Nicholas Benjamin PELIS, Preston Douglas BROWN, Sean Thomas Mostajo O'HARA, Robert Michael LOHSE, Andrew Carl HEISEY
  • Patent number: 11939076
    Abstract: An aircraft includes an airframe defining a first enclosed space, an engine bay disposed within the first enclosed space, and a cooling system. The engine bay includes a firebox defining a second enclosed space and an engine disposed at least partially within the second enclosed space. The cooling system is configured to selectively fluidly couple the first enclosed space with the second enclosed space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Giuseppe S. Alberti, Adriano Cirioli, Sean Thomas Barrows, Nolan John Birtwell, Michael Alexander, Nicholas Scott Coury
  • Patent number: 11936888
    Abstract: Methods and systems for frame rate scalability are described. Support is provided for input and output video sequences with variable frame rate and variable shutter angle across scenes, or for input video sequences with fixed input frame rate and input shutter angle, but allowing a decoder to generate a video output at a different output frame rate and shutter angle than the corresponding input values. Techniques allowing a decoder to decode more computationally-efficiently a specific backward compatible target frame rate and shutter angle among those allowed are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robin Atkins, Peng Yin, Taoran Lu, Fangjun Pu, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Walter J. Husak, Tao Chen, Guan-Ming Su
  • Publication number: 20240089474
    Abstract: Methods and systems for frame rate scalability are described. Support is provided for input and output video sequences with variable frame rate and variable shutter angle across scenes, or for input video sequences with fixed input frame rate and input shutter angle, but allowing a decoder to generate a video output at a different output frame rate and shutter angle than the corresponding input values. Techniques allowing a decoder to decode more computationally-efficiently a specific backward compatible target frame rate and shutter angle among those allowed are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robin Atkins, Peng Yin, Taoran Lu, Fangjun Pu, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Walter J. Husak, Tao Chen, Guan-Ming Su
  • Publication number: 20240080489
    Abstract: A quantization parameter signalling mechanism for both SDR and HDR content in video coding is described using two approaches. The first approach is to send the user-defined QpC table directly in high level syntax. This leads to more flexible and efficient QP control for future codec development and video content coding. The second approach is to signal luma and chroma QPs independently. This approach eliminates the need for QpC tables and removes the dependency of chroma quantization parameter on luma QP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Fangjun PU, Taoran LU, Peng YIN, Sean Thomas MCCARTHY
  • Publication number: 20240080465
    Abstract: Methods and systems for frame rate scalability are described. Support is provided for input and output video sequences with variable frame rate and variable shutter angle across scenes, or for input video sequences with fixed input frame rate and input shutter angle, but allowing a decoder to generate a video output at a different output frame rate and shutter angle than the corresponding input values. Techniques allowing a decoder to decode more computationally-efficiently a specific backward compatible target frame rate and shutter angle among those allowed are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Robin Atkins, Peng Yin, Taoran Lu, Fangjun Pu, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Walter J. Husak, Tao Chen, Guan-Ming Su
  • Publication number: 20240040243
    Abstract: A photography system includes a camera having a geofenced region associated therewith, and a web server to provide a website to communicate with the camera and to access coordinates defining the geofenced region. A mobile device includes a processor to access the website via the web server, allow the website to access location of the mobile device, and receive video from the camera via the website in response to the location of the mobile device being within the geofenced region. A display is coupled to the processor to display the received video along with a user-selected input for a user to operate the camera to take a photo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Henry Tyson, Bryan Wilkins, Jeffrey Jonathan Douglas, Jason Stanford PINDER, Sean Thomas Karp
  • Patent number: 11886638
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to user interface control of a head-worn computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Benjamin Pelis, Preston Douglas Brown, Sean Thomas Mostajo O'Hara, Robert Michael Lohse, Andrew Carl Heisey
  • Publication number: 20240031587
    Abstract: Methods and systems for frame rate scalability are described. Support is provided for input and output video sequences with variable frame rate and variable shutter angle across scenes, or for input video sequences with fixed input frame rate and input shutter angle, but allowing a decoder to generate a video output at a different output frame rate and shutter angle than the corresponding input values. Techniques allowing a decoder to decode more computationally-efficiently a specific backward compatible target frame rate and shutter angle among those allowed are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Robin Atkins, Peng Yin, Taoran Lu, Fangjun Pu, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Walter J. Husak, Tao Chen, Guan-Ming Su
  • Patent number: 11877000
    Abstract: Methods and systems for canvas size scalability across the same or different bitstream layers of a video coded bitstream are described. Offset parameters for a conformance window, a reference region of interest (ROI) in a reference layer, and a current ROI in a current layer are received. The width and height of a current ROI and a reference ROI are computed based on the offset parameters and they are used to generate a width and height scaling factor to be used by a reference picture resampling unit to generate an output picture based on the current ROI and the reference ROI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Taoran Lu, Fangjun Pu, Peng Yin, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Tao Chen
  • Publication number: 20240015315
    Abstract: Methods and systems for frame rate scalability are described. Support is provided for input and output video sequences with variable frame rate and variable shutter angle across scenes, or for input video sequences with fixed input frame rate and input shutter angle, but allowing a decoder to generate a video output at a different output frame rate and shutter angle than the corresponding input values. Techniques allowing a decoder to decode more computationally-efficiently a specific backward compatible target frame rate and shutter angle among those allowed are also presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robin Atkins, Peng Yin, Taoran Lu, Fangjun Pu, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Walter J. Husak, Tao Chen, Guan-Ming Su
  • Patent number: 11871015
    Abstract: Methods and systems for frame rate scalability are described. Support is provided for input and output video sequences with variable frame rate and variable shutter angle across scenes, or for input video sequences with fixed input frame rate and input shutter angle, but allowing a decoder to generate a video output at a different output frame rate and shutter angle than the corresponding input values. Techniques allowing a decoder to decode more computationally-efficiently a specific backward compatible target frame rate and shutter angle among those allowed are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Robin Atkins, Peng Yin, Taoran Lu, Fangjun Pu, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Walter J. Husak, Tao Chen, Guan-Ming Su
  • Patent number: 11860918
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure are directed to providing remote access to electronic documents stored in a server system using a virtual secure room, and include actions of authenticating a user at least partially based on credentials the user, at least partially in response to authenticating the user, providing a secure connection between a computing device of the user and the server system, transmitting at least one electronic document for display to the user on the computing device, monitoring the user, while the at least one electronic document is displayed to the user on the computing device, and selectively closing the secure connection in response to one or more of at least one activity and at least one state of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Thomas Bret Buckingham, Bryan Osterkamp, Orlando Coleman, Brady Justice, Jonathan Neuse, Sean Thomas, Michael Slaugh, Christopher Thomas Wilkinson, Peter Babcock, Justin Ray White, Peter Bradley Sheeran, Angel Ninette Cade
  • Patent number: 11863839
    Abstract: A method for delivering media to a playback device including outputting first test media to be viewed by a first user. The method further includes receiving a first user input related to a first perception of the first test media by the first user and indicating a first personalized quality of experience of the first user with respect to the first test media. The method further includes generating a first personalized sensitivity profile including one or more viewing characteristics of the first user based on the first user input, and determining, based at least in part on the first personalized sensitivity profile, a first media parameter. The first media parameter is determined in order to increase an efficiency of media delivery to the first playback device over a network while preserving the first personalized quality of experience of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Doh-Suk Kim, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Scott Daly, Jeffrey Riedmiller, Ludovic Christophe Malfait, Raphael Marc Ullmann, Jason Michael Cloud