Patents by Inventor Thomas Schierl

Thomas Schierl 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: 20230302699
    Abstract: The application relates to a plasticizing unit with a cylinder and a screw that is rotatably mounted in the cylinder and has a screw section which is designed as a shearing section and in which a blocking web encircling the screw core in a helical manner and a main screw thread enclosed by the blocking web are provided. A shearing web runs in the main screw thread parallel to the blocking web at a lower height than the blocking web. In this manner, two screw threads are produced which run parallel to each other and are separated by the shearing web. The threads are designed in the form of wave screw threads. Each wave screw thread is equipped with one or more wave peaks with a surface which is designed in the form of a plateau and forms a wave peak shearing surface, wherein the wave peak shearing surface is located at the same height as the surface of the shearing web in the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Stefan SCHIERL, Andreas BIERBAUMER, Thomas DROGI, Martin WÜRTELE, Lazlo GIESGEN
  • Publication number: 20230283409
    Abstract: A receiver is described which receives data from a transmitter. The data is included in a data block which includes at least one code block, and the code block has a plurality of parts. A first part of the code block is used for estimating a decodability of the code block at the receiver. The first part of the code block is arranged in the data block ahead of the remaining one or more parts of the code block. The receiver estimates, prior to receiving the entire data block, the decodability of the code block using the first part of the code block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Thomas WIRTH, Marco BREILING
  • Publication number: 20230284267
    Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network is described. A set of resources is provided for a communication in the wireless communication network. The UE is to operate, e.g., carry out sensing, only on one or more subsets of frequency resources of the set of resources, wherein a number of frequency resources of the subset of frequency resources is less than a total number of frequency resources of the set of resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Sarun SELVANESAN, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Publication number: 20230275732
    Abstract: A receiver is configured is configured to receive a data signal, the data signal having at least one data signal block, the data signal block having a predefined duration in the time domain, a number of symbols in the time domain and a bandwidth in the frequency domain, wherein the data signal block is received over a plurality of transmission intervals, wherein a length of one transmission interval is shorter than the duration of the data signal block so that a subset of the symbols of the data signal block is received over one transmission interval, and wherein the receiver includes a signal processing device configured to process the symbols of the data signal block which have been received over one transmission interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Cornelius HELLGE, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Thomas SCHIERL, Thomas HAUSTEIN, Lars THIELE, Thomas WIRTH, Martin KURRAS, Leszek RASCHKOWSKI, Tatiana RYKOVA
  • Publication number: 20230276047
    Abstract: Video codec for supporting temporal inter-prediction, configured to perform padding of an area of a referenced portion of a reference picture which extends beyond a border of the reference picture, which referenced portion is referenced by an inter predicted block of a current picture by selecting one of a plurality of intra-prediction modes, and padding the area using the selected intra-prediction mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Jens BRADENBURG, Tobias HINZ, Adam WIECKOWSKI, Jackie MA, Valeri GEORGE, Christian LEHMANN, Heiko SCHWARZ, Detlev MARPE, Thomas WIEGAND, Robert SKUPIN, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Thomas SCHIERL
  • Publication number: 20230260215
    Abstract: A data stream having volumetric video data encoded therein in a scene description language, the data stream representing a scene comprising one or more objects is disclosed, wherein the data stream comprises for at least one object first mesh data, second mesh data and correspondence information, wherein the first mesh data describes the at least one object with a first mesh, the second mesh data describes the at least one object with a second mesh, and wherein the correspondence information indicates a mapping between the first and second mesh. Devices, Methods and a computer program product are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Peter EISERT, Anna HILSMANN, Robert SKUPIN, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Wieland MORGENSTERN, Gurdeep Singh BHULLAR
  • Publication number: 20230254495
    Abstract: A signaling of the layer ID is described which each of the packets of a multi-layered video signal is associated with. In particular, an efficient way of signaling this layer association is achieved, with nevertheless maintaining the backward compatibility with codecs according to which a certain value of the base layer-ID field is restricted to be non-extendable such as base layer-ID value 0 in the base layer-ID field. Instead of circumventing this restriction specifically with respect to this non-extendable base layer-ID value, the layer-ID of portions of the multi-layer data stream is signaled in an extendable manner by sub-dividing the base layer-ID field into a first sub-field and a second sub-field: whenever the first sub-field of the base layer-ID field fulfills a predetermined criterion, an extension layer-ID field is provided, and if the first sub-field of the base layer-ID field does not fulfill the predetermined criterion, the extension layer-ID field is omitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Karsten SUEHRING, Thomas SCHIERL, Detlev MARPE, Robert SKUPIN, Yago SANCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Gerhard TECH
  • Publication number: 20230246762
    Abstract: A receiver receives and processes a data signal having at least one data signal block. The data signal block has a number of symbols in the time domain and a number of sub-carriers in the frequency domain. The data signal block includes a control region to provide control data to the receiver and a payload region to provide payload data to the receiver. Payload data is allocated to the control region of the data signal block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas FEHRENBACH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Dennis WIERUCH, Bernd HOLFELD, Thomas WIRTH, Thomas HAUSTEIN, Lars THIELE, Martin KURRAS
  • Publication number: 20230247596
    Abstract: Abstract: A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network is described. The wireless communication network provides a set of resources for a communication, and the UE carries out sensing on one or more subsets of time resources of the set of resources. A number of time resources of the one or more subsets is less than the total number of resources within the set of resources provided by the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Sarun Selvanesan, Baris Göktepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Schierl, Cornelius Hellge
  • Publication number: 20230239510
    Abstract: Concepts for signaling visual content are described. According to one aspect, a picture representing a projection of a volumetric representation onto a projection plane is provided in a bitstream along with a geometric representation of the projection plane. According to a further aspect, a regions of a composed picture signaled in a bitstream are associated with a number of pictures of a number of projections of objects. According to a further aspect, regions of a composed picture signaled in a bitstream are associated with respective information types of a picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Robert SKUPIN, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20230232376
    Abstract: Communication devices are provided that facilitate receiving information units and providing feedback to other communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Robin Thomas
  • Publication number: 20230232382
    Abstract: A wireless communication network, has one or more first user devices, UEs, and one or more second user devices, UEs. The wireless communication network is to configure the first UE with one or more bandwidth parts, BWPs, and with a set of control resource sets, CORESETs, within the BWP in the same slot, and the wireless communication network is to configure the second UE with only a subset from the set of CORESETs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Nithin Srinivasan, Baris Göktepe, Jasmina McMenamy, Sarun Selvanesan, Thomas Fehrenbach, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Cornelius Hellge
  • Publication number: 20230224479
    Abstract: An output layer set may describe a video bitstream, or video sequence, which is extractable from a multi-layered video bitstream. Concepts related to output layer sets are described, including a concept for a random-accessible sub-bitstream indication, a concept for handling reference picture alignment, a concept for a bitstream-based OLS determination, a concept for sequence start access units of an extracted video bitstream, a concept for handling temporal sublayers in the extraction process of an output layer set, a concept for handling temporal sublayers in video parameter signaling and a concept for output layer selection in region of interest applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Karsten SÜHRING, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Robert SKUPIN, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20230199753
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a transceiver [e.g., UE] of a wireless communication system, wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a first control message [e.g., in a first slot or subframe, such as slot or subframe n] [e.g., comprising a first control information or control configuration], wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a second control message [e.g., in a second slot or subframe, such as slot or subframe n+koff??] [e.g., comprising a second control information or control configuration], wherein the second control message is linked [e.g., refers] to the first control message by an identifier, ID [e.g., DCI/base grant ID], or indication, wherein one out of the first control message, the first control message and the second control message together, the second control message, grant or assign a resource to the transceiver for a communication of the transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Prasanth KARANUKARAN, Julian POPP, Clemens KORN, Josef BERNHARD, Baris GÖKTEPE, Thomas FEHRENBACH, Thomas WIRTH, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL
  • Publication number: 20230199202
    Abstract: Video coding concepts are described which relate to encoding, decoding, extracting and mixing video data streams having encoded therein pictures in a manner subdivided into independently coded subpictures. The concepts relate to an extraction of subpicture specific video data streams having a layer of subdivided pictures and a layer of un-subdivided pictures, a handling of inter-layer prediction tools and a handling of scaling windows for inter-layer prediction for such video data streams, a determination of decoder capability requirements for such data streams, layer-specific constraints for such data streams, and mixing of subpictures encoded with different types of independent coding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Yago SÁNCHEZ DE LA FUENTE, Karsten SÜHRING, Cornelius HELLGE, Thomas SCHIERL, Robert SKUPIN, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Patent number: 11683128
    Abstract: A receiver is described which receives data from a transmitter. The data is included in a data block which includes at least one code block, and the code block has a plurality of parts. A first part of the code block is used for estimating a decodability of the code block at the receiver. The first part of the code block is arranged in the data block ahead of the remaining one or more parts of the code block. The receiver estimates, prior to receiving the entire data block, the decodability of the code block using the first part of the code block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Baris Göktepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Thomas Wirth, Marco Breiling
  • Patent number: 11683485
    Abstract: Video codec for supporting temporal inter-prediction, configured to perform padding of an area of a referenced portion of a reference picture which extends beyond a border of the reference picture, which referenced portion is referenced by an inter predicted block of a current picture by selecting one of a plurality of intra-prediction modes, and padding the area using the selected intra-prediction mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Jens Brandenburg, Tobias Hinz, Adam Wieckowski, Jackie Ma, Valeri George, Christian Lehmann, Heiko Schwarz, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand, Robert Skupin, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Thomas Schierl
  • Publication number: 20230189120
    Abstract: A base station for a wireless communication network comprising a plurality of logical radio access networks, wherein the base station is configured to communicate with a plurality of users to be served by the base station for accessing one or more of the logical radio access networks, and the base station is configured to selectively control the physical resources of the wireless communication network assigned to the logical radio access networks and/or to control access of the users or user groups to one or more of the logical radio access networks, wherein, during a first operation mode of the wireless communication network, the base station is configured to allow access of users or user groups of one or more of the logical radio access networks (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl, Lars THIELE, Cornelius Hellge, Eiko Seidel
  • Publication number: 20230189247
    Abstract: Device node of a (cellular) communication system including a base station node and a group of nodes; wherein the device node is configured to determine a field parameter to obtain a field parameter value and to transmit the respective field parameter value to the base station node using type-based multiple access resources; wherein the device node is configured to receive from the base station node information and to enable a type-based multiple access resource communication in response to the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Zoran UTKOVSKI, Johannes DOMMEL, Thomas HAUSTEIN, Lars THIELE, Dennis WIERUCH, Baris GOEKTEPE, Thomas SCHIERL, Cornelius HELLGE
  • Patent number: 11677529
    Abstract: A receiver is configured is configured to receive a data signal, the data signal having at least one data signal block, the data signal block having a predefined duration in the time domain, a number of symbols in the time domain and a bandwidth in the frequency domain, wherein the data signal block is received over a plurality of transmission intervals, wherein a length of one transmission interval is shorter than the duration of the data signal block so that a subset of the symbols of the data signal block is received over one transmission interval, and wherein the receiver includes a signal processing device configured to process the symbols of the data signal block which have been received over one transmission interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Cornelius Hellge, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Thomas Schierl, Thomas Haustein, Lars Thiele, Thomas Wirth, Martin Kurras, Leszek Raschkowski, Tatiana Rykova