Patents by Inventor Torsten Palfner
Torsten Palfner 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).
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Patent number: 10375401Abstract: A moving picture coding method includes partitioning a picture into blocks each of which includes pixels, selecting a scanning scheme from among plural scanning schemes, scanning the blocks according to the selected scanning scheme, and coding the blocks in an order in which the blocks are scanned. In the partitioning, the picture is partitioned into rows and columns of macroblocks each of which is partitioned into the blocks. The plural scanning schemes include a first scanning scheme for scanning the blocks in the marcroblock per row of blocks.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Torsten Palfner, Thomas Wedi
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Publication number: 20190014328Abstract: A moving picture coding method includes partitioning a picture into blocks each of which includes pixels, selecting a scanning scheme from among plural scanning schemes, scanning the blocks according to the selected scanning scheme, and coding the blocks in an order in which the blocks are scanned. In the partitioning, the picture is partitioned into rows and columns of macroblocks each of which is partitioned into the blocks. The plural scanning schemes include a first scanning scheme for scanning the blocks in the marcroblock per row of blocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Torsten PALFNER, Thomas WEDI
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Patent number: 10104381Abstract: A moving picture coding method includes partitioning a picture into blocks each of which includes pixels, selecting a scanning scheme from among plural scanning schemes, scanning the blocks according to the selected scanning scheme, and coding the blocks in an order in which the blocks are scanned. In the partitioning, the picture is partitioned into rows and columns of macroblocks each of which is partitioned into the blocks. The plural scanning schemes include a first scanning scheme for scanning the blocks in the marcroblock per row of blocks.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2015Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUSTInventors: Torsten Palfner, Thomas Wedi
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Publication number: 20150350651Abstract: A moving picture coding method includes partitioning a picture into blocks each of which includes pixels, selecting a scanning scheme from among plural scanning schemes, scanning the blocks according to the selected scanning scheme, and coding the blocks in an order in which the blocks are scanned. In the partitioning, the picture is partitioned into rows and columns of macroblocks each of which is partitioned into the blocks. The plural scanning schemes include a first scanning scheme for scanning the blocks in the marcroblock per row of blocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Torsten PALFNER, Thomas WEDI
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Patent number: 9137538Abstract: A moving picture coding method includes partitioning a picture into blocks each of which includes pixels, selecting a scanning scheme from among plural scanning schemes, scanning the blocks according to the selected scanning scheme, and coding the blocks in an order in which the blocks are scanned. In the partitioning, the picture is partitioned into rows and columns of macroblocks each of which is partitioned into the blocks. The plural scanning schemes include a first scanning scheme for scanning the blocks in the macroblock per row of blocks.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Torsten Palfner, Thomas Wedi
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Patent number: 8971652Abstract: An image coding method performs intra prediction with a higher coding efficiency by coding image data on a block-by-block basis. The method generates a predicted block by predicting a current block; computes a difference between the current block and the predicted block; codes the difference computed in the computing; decodes the difference coded in the coding; and adds the difference decoded in the decoding to the predicted block to generate a decoded block. The generating of the predicted block includes detecting an edge in a previously decoded block corresponding to a block adjacent to the current block; and extrapolating or interpolating previously decoded image data corresponding to a pixel included in the block adjacent to the current block, along a direction of the edge detected in the detecting to generate the predicted block.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Virginie Drugeon, Thomas Wedi, Torsten Palfner, Hisao Sasai
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Publication number: 20130251039Abstract: Provided is an image coding method for performing intra prediction achieving higher coding efficiency. The method for coding image data on a block-by-block basis includes; generating a predicted block by predicting a current block; computing a difference between the current block and the predicted block; coding the difference computed in the computing; decoding the difference coded in the coding; and adding the difference decoded in the decoding to the predicted block to generate a decoded block, wherein the generating includes: detecting an edge in a previously decoded block corresponding to a block adjacent to the current block; and extrapolating or interpolating previously decoded image data corresponding to a pixel included in the block adjacent to the current block, along a direction of the edge detected in the detecting to generate the predicted block.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Virginie DRUGEON, Thomas WEDI, Torsten PALFNER, Hisao SASAI
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Patent number: 8442334Abstract: Provided is an image coding method for performing intra prediction achieving higher coding efficiency. The method for coding image data on a block-by-block basis includes: generating a predicted block by predicting a current block; computing a difference between the current block and the predicted block; coding the difference computed in the computing; decoding the difference coded in the coding; and adding the difference decoded in the decoding to the predicted block to generate a decoded block, wherein the generating includes: detecting an edge in a previously decoded block corresponding to a block adjacent to the current block; and extrapolating or interpolating previously decoded image data corresponding to a pixel included in the block adjacent to the current block, along a direction of the edge detected in the detecting to generate the predicted block.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Virginie Drugeon, Thomas Wedi, Torsten Palfner, Hisao Sasai
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Publication number: 20120307896Abstract: A moving picture coding method includes partitioning a picture into blocks each of which includes pixels, selecting a scanning scheme from among plural scanning schemes, scanning the blocks according to the selected scanning scheme, and coding the blocks in an order in which the blocks are scanned. In the partitioning, the picture is partitioned into rows and columns of macroblocks each of which is partitioned into the blocks. The plural scanning schemes include a first scanning scheme for scanning the blocks in the macroblock per row of blocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventors: Torsten PALFNER, Thomas WEDI
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Patent number: 8295351Abstract: A moving picture coding method includes partitioning a picture into blocks each of which includes pixels, selecting a scanning scheme from among plural scanning schemes, scanning the blocks according to the selected scanning scheme, and coding the blocks in an order in which the blocks are scanned. In the partitioning, the picture is partitioned into rows and columns of macroblocks each of which is partitioned into the blocks. The plural scanning schemes include a first scanning scheme for scanning the blocks in the macroblock per row of blocks.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2006Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Torsten Palfner, Thomas Wedi
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Patent number: 8115864Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of video data de-interlacing, and in particular to a method for reconstructing full-resolution frames from a line-skipped-sequence of fields and a corresponding apparatus. It is the particular approach of the present invention to substitute missing lines of a block of a reconstructed full-resolution frame by lines from another field, e.g. the preceding field, and translating the substitute lines vertically and horizontally so as to optimized a smoothness measure computed for the thus reconstructed block. In this manner, an error-prone a priori determination of motion vectors based an interpolation of the interlaced images in the vertical direction can be avoided. The present invention may also be applied to sequences generated from a full-resolution sequence by a line-skipping operation that keeps only every Kth line and discards the other K?1 lines.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2007Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Torsten Palfner
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Publication number: 20110305388Abstract: The image processing device includes: a specular reflection detector (1110) configured to detect, in a first image, an enlarged region including a saturated region and an adjacent region, the saturated region being a pixel region having a pixel value equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, and the adjacent region at least partially surrounding the saturated region; and a replacement unit (1130) configured to replace a pixel value of a pixel included at least in the adjacent region, with one of (i) a pixel value of a pixel in a region of a second image that is located at a position corresponding to a position of the enlarged region in the first image and (ii) a pixel value of a pixel adjacent to the pixel in the second image, the adjacent region being included in the enlarged region detected by the specular reflection detector (1110).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2010Publication date: December 15, 2011Inventors: Thomas Wedi, Florian Knicker, Torsten Palfner, Steffen Wittmann
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Publication number: 20100128995Abstract: Provided is an image coding method for performing intra prediction achieving higher coding efficiency. The method for coding image data on a block-by-block basis includes: generating a predicted block by predicting a current block; computing a difference between the current block and the predicted block; coding the difference computed in the computing; decoding the difference coded in the coding; and adding the difference decoded in the decoding to the predicted block to generate a decoded block, wherein the generating includes: detecting an edge in a previously decoded block corresponding to a block adjacent to the current block; and extrapolating or interpolating previously decoded image data corresponding to a pixel included in the block adjacent to the current block, along a direction of the edge detected in the detecting to generate the predicted block.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2009Publication date: May 27, 2010Inventors: Virginie Drugeon, Thomas Wedi, Torsten Palfner, Hisao Sasai
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Publication number: 20090122864Abstract: A moving picture coding method according to the present invention is a moving picture coding method for coding a moving picture which includes pictures, the method including: partitioning a picture into blocks each of which includes pixels; selecting a scanning scheme from among plural scanning schemes; scanning the blocks according to the selected scanning scheme; and coding the blocks in an order in which the blocks are scanned. In doing so, in the partitioning, the picture is partitioned into rows and columns of macroblocks each of which is partitioned into the blocks. The plural scanning schemes include a first scanning scheme for scanning the blocks in the macroblock per row of blocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2006Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Torsten Palfner, Thomas Wedi
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Publication number: 20080136963Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of video data de-interlacing, and in particular to a method for reconstructing full-resolution frames from a line-skipped-sequence of fields and a corresponding apparatus. It is the particular approach of the present invention to substitute missing lines of a block of a reconstructed full-resolution frame by lines from another field, e.g. the preceding field, and translating the substitute lines vertically and horizontally so as to optimized a smoothness measure computed for the thus reconstructed block. In this manner, an error-prone a priori determination of motion vectors based an interpolation of the interlaced images in the vertical direction can be avoided. The present invention may also be applied to sequences generated from a full-resolution sequence by a line-skipping operation that keeps only every Kth line and discards the other K?1 lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2007Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventor: Torsten PALFNER