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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 11736705
    Abstract: An apparatus (200) for receiving an input video data stream according to an embodiment is provided. The input video data stream has a video encoded thereinto. The apparatus (200) is configured to generate an output video data stream from the input video data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLC
    Inventors: Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Karsten Sühring, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Robert Skupin, Thomas Wiegand
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11722190
    Abstract: In a communication system, a transmitter is configured to change a transmission characteristic used for the communication with a receiver, wherein a receiver is configured to determine a reception quality of a communication link between the transmitter and the receiver and to transmit a feedback information to the transmitter indicating whether a reception quality has changed or in which direction the reception quality has changed, or whether a transmission characteristic should be maintained, wherein the transmitter is configured to further change the transmission characteristic used for the communication with the receiver in dependence on the feedback information received from the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Martin Kurras, Shady Ibrahim, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Haustein, Lars Thiele, Cornelius Hellge, Baris Goektepe, Tatiana Rykova, Thomas Schierl, Yago Sánchez
  • Patent number: 11721103
    Abstract: A concept for a video data stream extraction is presented which is more efficient namely which is, for example, able to more efficiently deal with video content of a type unknown to the recipient with videos of different type differing, for instance, in view-port-to-picture-plane projection, etc., or which lessens the extraction process complexity. Further, a concept is described using which a juxtaposition of different versions of a video scene, the versions differing in scene resolution, may be provided more efficiently to a recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Skupin, Cornelius Hellge, Benjamin Bross, Thomas Schierl, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Karsten Suehring, Thomas Wiegand
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11711177
    Abstract: A receiver receives a radio signal from a transmitter of a wireless communication system serving a plurality of receivers. The radio signal includes for the plurality of receivers served by the transmitter a plurality of control messages and a redundant control message for at least one of the control messages. The receiver detects a control message from the radio signal, and, responsive to detecting the control message, the receiver detects a signal from another location in the radio signal. The receiver determines the detected control message as a specific control message for the receiver based on the signal detected from the other location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Baris Göktepe, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Robin Thomas, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Schierl
  • Patent number: 11711413
    Abstract: Portion- or tile-based video streaming concepts are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Robert Philipp Skupin, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Dimitri Podborski
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11700619
    Abstract: An apparatus for a wireless communication system is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling (SPS), wherein a size of an SPS interval is based on one or more transmission time intervals (TTIs). A further apparatus for a wireless communication system is described, wherein the apparatus is configured to perform semi-persistent scheduling, and wherein the apparatus is configured such that the semi-persistent scheduling is controlled via a configuration message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Bernd Holfeld, Dennis Wieruch, Thomas Wirth, Thomas Fehrenbach, Cornelius Hellge, Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Thomas Schierl
  • Patent number: 11695965
    Abstract: Interpolation between explicitly signaled CPB (or HRD) parameters at selected bit rates is used to achieve a good compromise between CPB parameter transmission capacity and CPB parametrization effectiveness and may be, particularly, made in an effective manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Benjamin Bross, Robert Skupin, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, 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