Patents by Inventor Simone CROCI

Simone CROCI 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: 11140440
    Abstract: Novel systems and methods are described for creating, compressing, and distributing video or image content graded for a plurality of displays with different dynamic ranges. In implementations, the created content is “continuous dynamic range” (CDR) content—a novel representation of pixel-luminance as a function of display dynamic range. The creation of the CDR content includes grading a source content for a minimum dynamic range and a maximum dynamic range, and defining a luminance of each pixel of an image or video frame of the source content as a continuous function between the minimum and the maximum dynamic ranges. In additional implementations, a novel graphical user interface for creating and editing the CDR content is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Aljoscha Smolic, Alexandre Chapiro, Simone Croci, Tunc Ozan Aydin, Nikolce Stefanoski, Markus Gross
  • Publication number: 20190261049
    Abstract: Novel systems and methods are described for creating, compressing, and distributing video or image content graded for a plurality of displays with different dynamic ranges. In implementations, the created content is “continuous dynamic range” (CDR) content—a novel representation of pixel-luminance as a function of display dynamic range. The creation of the CDR content includes grading a source content for a minimum dynamic range and a maximum dynamic range, and defining a luminance of each pixel of an image or video frame of the source content as a continuous function between the minimum and the maximum dynamic ranges. In additional implementations, a novel graphical user interface for creating and editing the CDR content is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Aljoscha Smolic, Alexandre Chapiro, Simone Croci, Tunc Ozan Aydin, Nikolce Stefanoski, Markus Gross
  • Patent number: 10349127
    Abstract: Novel systems and methods are described for creating, compressing, and distributing video or image content graded for a plurality of displays with different dynamic ranges. In implementations, the created content is “continuous dynamic range” (CDR) content—a novel representation of pixel-luminance as a function of display dynamic range. The creation of the CDR content includes grading a source content for a minimum dynamic range and a maximum dynamic range, and defining a luminance of each pixel of an image or video frame of the source content as a continuous function between the minimum and the maximum dynamic ranges. In additional implementations, a novel graphical user interface for creating and editing the CDR content is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETH Zurich)
    Inventors: Aljoscha Smolic, Alexandre Chapiro, Simone Croci, Tunc Ozan Aydin, Nikolce Stefanoski, Markus Gross
  • Patent number: 9530240
    Abstract: A method including receiving a first image of a scene captured from a first perspective, the first image including an object and a background; segmenting the first image to extract a first two-dimensional contour of the object; approximating a plurality of three-dimensional locations of a plurality of points on the first contour; generating a three-dimensional billboard of the object based on the three-dimensional locations; and projecting the first image onto the three-dimensional billboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Oliver Wang, Simone Croci, Marvin White, Aljoscha Smolic, Michael Gay
  • Publication number: 20160353164
    Abstract: Novel systems and methods are described for creating, compressing, and distributing video or image content graded for a plurality of displays with different dynamic ranges. In implementations, the created content is “continuous dynamic range” (CDR) content—a novel representation of pixel-luminance as a function of display dynamic range. The creation of the CDR content includes grading a source content for a minimum dynamic range and a maximum dynamic range, and defining a luminance of each pixel of an image or video frame of the source content as a continuous function between the minimum and the maximum dynamic ranges. In additional implementations, a novel graphical user interface for creating and editing the CDR content is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: ALJOSCHA SMOLIC, ALEXANDRE CHAPIRO, SIMONE CROCI, TUNC OZAN AYDIN, NIKOLCE STEFANOSKI, MARKUS GROSS
  • Patent number: 9378543
    Abstract: Approaches are described for tone-mapping an image frame in a sequence of image frames. A tone-mapping pipeline applies a spatiotemporal filter to each pixel of the image frame, based on a forward optical flow and a backward optical flow, to produce a base layer image. The tone-mapping pipeline applies a temporal filter to each pixel of the image frame, based on the forward and backward optical flows, to produce a temporally filtered frame. The tone-mapping pipeline produces a detail layer image based on the base layer image and the temporally filtered frame. The tone-mapping pipeline produces a detail layer image based on the base layer image and the temporally filtered frame. The tone-mapping pipeline applies a tone curve to the base and detail layer images to produce a tone-mapped base and detail layer image, respectively, and combines the tone-mapped base and detail layer images to produce a tone-mapped image frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH Zurich (Eldgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zurich)
    Inventors: Tunc Ozan Aydin, Simone Croci, Aljosa Aleksej Andrej Smolic, Nikolce Stefanoski, Markus Gross
  • Patent number: 9361679
    Abstract: Approaches are described for filtering a first image frame in a sequence of image frames. A tone-mapping pipeline applies a spatiotemporal filter to each pixel of the first image frame, based on a forward optical flow and a backward optical flow, to produce a base layer image. The tone-mapping pipeline applies a temporal filter to each pixel of the first image frame, based on the forward optical flow and the backward optical flow, to produce a temporally filtered frame. The tone-mapping pipeline produces a detail layer image based on the base layer image and the temporally filtered frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignees: Disney Enterprises, Inc., ETH Zurich (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zurich)
    Inventors: Tunc Ozan Aydin, Simone Croci, Aljosa Aleksej Andrej Smolic, Nikolce Stefanoski, Markus Gross
  • Publication number: 20160027161
    Abstract: Approaches are described for filtering a first image frame in a sequence of image frames. A tone-mapping pipeline applies a spatiotemporal filter to each pixel of the first image frame, based on a forward optical flow and a backward optical flow, to produce a base layer image. The tone-mapping pipeline applies a temporal filter to each pixel of the first image frame, based on the forward optical flow and the backward optical flow, to produce a temporally filtered frame. The tone-mapping pipeline produces a detail layer image based on the base layer image and the temporally filtered frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Tunc Ozan Aydin, Simone Croci, Aijosa Aleksej Andrej Smolic, Nikolce Stefanoski, Markus Gross
  • Publication number: 20160027160
    Abstract: Approaches are described for tone-mapping an image frame in a sequence of image frames. A tone-mapping pipeline applies a spatiotemporal filter to each pixel of the image frame, based on a forward optical flow and a backward optical flow, to produce a base layer image. The tone-mapping pipeline applies a temporal filter to each pixel of the image frame, based on the forward and backward optical flows, to produce a temporally filtered frame. The tone-mapping pipeline produces a detail layer image based on the base layer image and the temporally filtered frame. The tone-mapping pipeline produces a detail layer image based on the base layer image and the temporally filtered frame. The tone-mapping pipeline applies a tone curve to the base and detail layer images to produce a tone-mapped base and detail layer image, respectively, and combines the tone-mapped base and detail layer images to produce a tone-mapped image frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Tunc Ozan Aydin, Simone Croci, Aljosa Aleksej Andrej Smolic, Nikolce Stefanoski, Markus Gross
  • Publication number: 20150070346
    Abstract: A method including receiving a first image of a scene captured from a first perspective, the first image including an object and a background; segmenting the first image to extract a first two-dimensional contour of the object; approximating a plurality of three-dimensional locations of a plurality of points on the first contour; generating a three-dimensional billboard of the object based on the three-dimensional locations; and projecting the first image onto the three-dimensional billboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Oliver WANG, Simone CROCI, Marvin WHITE, Aljoscha SMOLIC, Michael GAY