Patents by Inventor Tung Nguyen

Tung Nguyen 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: 20160227210
    Abstract: The coding efficiency of a multi-component picture or video coding concept is improved by reconstructing a third component signal relating to a third component of the multi-component video using inter-component prediction from both a reconstructed first component signal and a reconstructed second component signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Tung NGUYEN, Ali Atef Ibrahim KHAIRAT ABDELHAMID, Detlev MARPE
  • Patent number: 9357217
    Abstract: A higher coding efficiency for coding a significance map indicating positions of significant transform coefficients within a transform coefficient block is achieved by the scan order by which the sequentially extracted syntax elements indicating, for associated positions within the transform coefficient block, as to whether at the respective position a significant or insignificant transform coefficient is situated, are sequentially associated to the positions of the transform coefficient block, among the positions of the transform coefficient block depends on the positions of the significant transform coefficients indicated by previously associated syntax elements. Alternatively, the first-type elements may be context-adaptively entropy decoded using contexts which are individually selected for each of the syntax elements dependent on a number of significant transform coefficients in a neighborhood of the respective syntax element, indicated as being significant by any of the preceding syntax elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC
    Inventors: Heiner Kirchhoffer, Heiko Schwarz, Tung Nguyen, Detlev Marpe, Thomas Wiegand
  • Publication number: 20160149588
    Abstract: Decomposing a value range of the respective syntax elements into a sequence of n partitions with coding the components of z laying within the respective partitions separately with at least one by VLC coding and with at least one by PIPE or entropy coding is used to greatly increase the compression efficiency at a moderate coding overhead since the coding scheme used may be better adapted to the syntax element statistics. Accordingly, syntax elements are decomposed into a respective number n of source symbols si with i=1 . . . n, the respective number n of source symbols depending on as to which of a sequence of n partitions into which a value range of the respective syntax elements is sub-divided, a value z of the respective syntax elements falls into, so that a sum of values of the respective number of source symbols si yields z, and, if n>1, for all i=1 . . . n?1, the value of si corresponds to a range of the ith partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Detlev MARPE, Tung NGUYEN, Heiko SCHWARZ, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20160080742
    Abstract: A higher coding efficiency for coding a significance map indicating positions of significant transform coefficients within a transform coefficient block is achieved by the scan order by which the sequentially extracted syntax elements indicating, for associated positions within the transform coefficient block, as to whether at the respective position a significant or insignificant transform coefficient is situated, are sequentially associated to the positions of the transform coefficient block, among the positions of the transform coefficient block depends on the positions of the significant transform coefficients indicated by previously associated syntax elements. Alternatively, the first-type elements may be context-adaptively entropy decoded using contexts which are individually selected for each of the syntax elements dependent on a number of significant transform coefficients in a neighborhood of the respective syntax element, indicated as being significant by any of the preceding syntax elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Heiko SCHWARZ, Tung NGUYEN, Detlev MARPE, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Patent number: 9252806
    Abstract: Decomposing a value range of the respective syntax elements into a sequence of n partitions with coding the components of z laying within the respective partitions separately with at least one by VLC coding and with at least one by PIPE or entropy coding is used to greatly increase the compression efficiency at a moderate coding overhead since the coding scheme used may be better adapted to the syntax element statistics. Accordingly, syntax elements are decomposed into a respective number n of source symbols si with i=1 . . . n, the respective number n of source symbols depending on as to which of a sequence of n partitions into which a value range of the respective syntax elements is sub-divided, a value z of the respective syntax elements falls into, so that a sum of values of the respective number of source symbols si yields z, and, if n>1, for all i=1 . . . n?1, the value of si corresponds to a range of the ith partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC
    Inventors: Detlev Marpe, Tung Nguyen, Heiko Schwarz, Thomas Wiegand
  • Publication number: 20160029035
    Abstract: Reconstructing a second component signal relating to a second component of a multi-component picture from a spatially corresponding portion of a reconstructed first component signal and a correction signal derived from a data stream for the second component promises increased coding efficiency over a broader range of multi-component picture content. By including the spatially corresponding portion of the reconstructed first component signal into the reconstruction of the second component signal, any remaining inter-component redundancies/correlations present such as still present despite a possibly a priori performed component space transformation, or present because of having been introduced by such a priori performed component space transformation, for example, may readily be removed by way of the inter-component redundancy/correlation reduction of the second component signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Tung NGUYEN, Ali Atef Ibrahim KHAIRAT ABDELHAMID, Detlev MARPE
  • Publication number: 20160018827
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fluid control apparatus which allows installation of a thermal sensor for temperature control by a simple work by an effective utilization of a space in the fluid control apparatus, and a thermal sensor installation structure with respect to the fluid control apparatus. The fluid control apparatus 1 includes a first fluid control instrument 3 and a second fluid control instrument 4 adjacent to each other and the thermal sensor 17 configured to measure a temperature of a fluid flowing in the first fluid control instrument 3. The fluid control apparatus 1 further includes a supporting member 19 configured to support the thermal sensor 17 attached to the second fluid control instrument 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Jun Yokota, Takahiro Yoshida, Thanh Tung Nguyen, Takahiro Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20150361781
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for implementing sliders 44 in a downhole tool. The tool includes a pad 24c having a pad base 32 and a pad cover 34 substantially encompassing electronic components in the pad. The pad cover 34 and pad base 32 may be sealed, and sliders 44 may be used to reduce negative effects from relative movements between the pad base 32 and the pad cover 34. In some embodiments, the sliders 44 may be shaped and positioned to guide relative movements between the pad base 32 and pad cover 34, and the sliders 44 may reduce stresses on the pad base, pad cover, and/or the electronic components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Sihar MARPAUNG, Viet Tung NGUYEN, Gautier COURT
  • Publication number: 20150330517
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to access and align sealing discs are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a cage of a fluid regulator, where the cage has a central aperture, and a valve stem to be received by the central aperture. The example apparatus also includes a diaphragm coupled to the valve stem, where an integral protrusion of the cage is to constrain a peripheral edge of the diaphragm against a removable portion of a valve body when the cage is coupled to the valve body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Chun Lin, G. Glynn Crutsinger, Jeffrey Sanders, Tung Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20150270850
    Abstract: Decomposing a value range of the respective syntax elements into a sequence of n partitions with coding the components of z laying within the respective partitions separately with at least one by VLC coding and with at least one by PIPE or entropy coding is used to greatly increase the compression efficiency at a moderate coding overhead since the coding scheme used may be better adapted to the syntax element statistics. Accordingly, syntax elements are decomposed into a respective number n of source symbols si with i=1 . . . n, the respective number n of source symbols depending on as to which of a sequence of n partitions into which a value range of the respective syntax elements is sub-divided, a value z of the respective syntax elements falls into, so that a sum of values of the respective number of source symbols si yields z, and, if n>1, for all i=1 . . . n?1, the value of si corresponds to a range of the ith partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Detlev MARPE, Tung NGUYEN, Heiko SCHWARZ, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Patent number: 9083374
    Abstract: Decomposing a value range of the respective syntax elements into a sequence of n partitions with coding the components of z laying within the respective partitions separately with at least one by VLC coding and with at least one by PIPE or entropy coding is used to greatly increase the compression efficiency at a moderate coding overhead since the coding scheme used may be better adapted to the syntax element statistics. Accordingly, syntax elements are decomposed into a respective number n of source symbols si with i=1 . . . n, the respective number n of source symbols depending on as to which of a sequence of n partitions into which a value range of the respective syntax elements is sub-divided, a value z of the respective syntax elements falls into, so that a sum of values of the respective number of source symbols si yields z, and, if n>1, for all i=1 . . . n?1, the value of si corresponds to a range of the ith partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLC
    Inventors: Detlev Marpe, Tung Nguyen, Heiko Schwarz, Thomas Wiegand
  • Patent number: 8947273
    Abstract: An encoder for encoding a sequence of symbols is described which has an assigner configured to assign a number of parameters to each symbol of the sequence of symbols based on information contained within previous symbols of the sequence of symbols; a plurality of entropy encoders each of which is configured to convert the symbols forwarded to the respective entropy encoder into a respective bitstream; and a selector configured to forward each symbol to a selected one of the plurality of entropy encoders, the selection depending on the number of parameters assigned to the respective symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Christian Bartnik, Benjamin Bross, Valeri George, Anastasia Henkel, Tobias Hinz, Heiner Kirchhoffer, Detlev Marpe, Tung Nguyen, Matthias Preiss, Thomas Schierl, Heiko Schwarz, Mischa Siekmann, Jan Stegemann, Thomas Wiegand
  • Publication number: 20140362925
    Abstract: An idea used herein is to use the same function for the dependency of the context and the dependency of the symbolization parameter on previously coded/decoded transform coefficients. Using the same function—with varying function parameter—may even be used with respect to different transform block sizes and/or frequency portions of the transform blocks in case of the transform coefficients being spatially arranged in transform blocks. A further variant of this idea is to use the same function for the dependency of a symbolization parameter on previously coded/decoded transform coefficients for different sizes of the current transform coefficient's transform block, different information component types of the current transform coefficient's transform block and/or different frequency portions the current transform coefficient is located within the transform block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Tung NGUYEN, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Detlev MARPE
  • Patent number: 8795167
    Abstract: Minimally invasive surgical techniques including techniques and implants for provision of therapy to a spine from a lateral approach. Implants that may be used with other approaches to the spine are disclosed. Minimally invasive surgical techniques using one or more extended retractors to create an extended access route such as the non-limiting example of lateral access to the spine. Minimally invasive surgical techniques using internal retractors that may be reversibly expanded with a removable retractor inserter to create an extended access route. A linkage jack to expand a set of two or more extended retractors to create an extended access route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Baxano Surgical, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen D. Ainsworth, Brandon B. Arthurs, Gary Fleischer, Leighton J. LaPierre, Tung Nguyen, Thomas Matthew Womble
  • Publication number: 20140210652
    Abstract: An encoder for encoding a sequence of symbols is described which has an assigner configured to assign a number of parameters to each symbol of the sequence of symbols based on information contained within previous symbols of the sequence of symbols; a plurality of entropy encoders each of which is configured to convert the symbols forwarded to the respective entropy encoder into a respective bitstream; and a selector configured to forward each symbol to a selected one of the plurality of entropy encoders, the selection depending on the number of parameters assigned to the respective symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Christian BARTNIK, Benjamin BROSS, Valeri GEORGE, Anastasia HENKEL, Tobias HINZ, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Detlev MARPE, Tung NGUYEN, Matthias PREISS, Thomas SCHIERL, Heiko SCHWARZ, Mischa SIEKMANN, Jan STEGEMANN, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20140198841
    Abstract: A decoder includes an entropy decoder configured to derive a number of bins of the binarizations from the data stream using binary entropy decoding by selecting a context among different contexts and updating probability states associated with the different contexts, dependent on previously decoded portions of the data stream; a desymbolizer configured to debinarize the binarizations of the syntax elements to obtain integer values of the syntax elements; a reconstructor configured to reconstruct the video based on the integer values of the syntax elements using a quantization parameter, wherein the entropy decoder is configured to distinguish between 126 probability states and to initialize the probability states associated with the different contexts according to a linear equation of the quantization parameter, wherein the entropy decoder is configured to, for each of the different contexts, derive a slope and an offset of the linear equation from first and second four bit parts of a respective 8 bit initial
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Inventors: Valeri GEORGE, Benjamin BROSS, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Detlev MARPE, Tung NGUYEN, Matthias PREISS, Mischa SIEKMANN, Jan STEGEMANN, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20140177707
    Abstract: An entropy decoder is configured to, for horizontal and vertical components of motion vector differences, derive a truncated unary code from the data stream using context-adaptive binary entropy decoding with exactly one context per bin position of the truncated unary code, which is common for horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences, and an Exp-Golomb code using a constant equi-probability bypass mode to obtain the binarizations of the motion vector differences. A desymbolizer is configured to debinarize the binarizations of the motion vector difference syntax elements to obtain integer values of the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences; A reconstructor is configured to reconstruct a video based on the integer values of the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Valeri GEORGE, Benjamin BROSS, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Detlev MARPE, Tung NGUYEN, Matthias PREISS, Mischa SIEKMANN, Jan STEGEMANN, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Publication number: 20140140400
    Abstract: A decoder for decoding a data stream into which media data is coded has a mode switch configured to activate a low-complexity mode or a high-efficiency mode depending on the data stream, an entropy decoding engine configured to retrieve each symbol of a sequence of symbols by entropy decoding using a selected one of a plurality of entropy decoding schemes, a desymbolizer configured to desymbolize the sequence of symbols to obtain a sequence of syntax elements, a reconstructor configured to reconstruct the media data based on the sequence of syntax elements, selection depending on the activated low-complexity mode or the high-efficiency mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Inventors: Valeri GEORGE, Benjamin BROSS, Heiner KIRCHHOFFER, Detlev MARPE, Tung NGUYEN, Matthias PREISS, Mischa SIEKMANN, Jan STEGEMANN, Thomas WIEGAND
  • Patent number: 8616521
    Abstract: A fail safe retaining plug assembly for a slam-shut safety device includes a reset pin, a retaining plug attached to the reset pin at a proximal portion, and a safety disk attached to the reset pin at a distal portion. The retaining plug assembly is sufficiently long to prevent the safety disk from falling off of the distal portion before the safety disk contacts a valve seat. The retaining plug assembly is also sufficiently long to prevent the retaining plug from falling off of the reset pin before the safety disk contacts the valve seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Emerson Process Management Regulator Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David E. Woollums, Tung Nguyen, James C. Hawkins, Roman Alexandru-Vlad
  • Publication number: 20130300591
    Abstract: Decomposing a value range of the respective syntax elements into a sequence of n partitions with coding the components of z laying within the respective partitions separately with at least one by VCL coding and with at least one by PIPE or entropy coding is used to greatly increase the compression efficiency at a moderate coding overhead since the coding scheme used may be better adapted to the syntax element statistics. Accordingly, syntax elements are decomposed into a respective number n of source symbols si with i=1 . . . n, the respective number n of source symbols depending on as to which of a sequence of n partitions into which a value range of the respective syntax elements is sub-divided, a value z of the respective syntax elements falls into, so that a sum of values of the respective number of source symbols si yields z, and, if n>1, for all i=1 . . . n?1, the value of si corresponds to a range of the ith partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Detlev MARPE, Tung NGUYEN, Heiko SCHWARZ, Thomas WIEGAND