Patents by Inventor Yinji Piao

Yinji Piao 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: 20250254294
    Abstract: Provided are video encoding/decoding methods and apparatuses for determining an intra prediction mode of a current block, based on a width and height of the current block. When the current block has a square shape in which the width and height are equal, the intra prediction mode of the current block is determined from among first intra prediction mode candidates including a plurality of predetermined intra prediction directions, and when the current block has a non-square shape in which the width and height are not equal, the intra prediction mode of the current block is determined from among second intra prediction mode candidates configured based on the non-square shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Narae CHOI, Minsoo PARK, Minwoo PARK, Seoungsoo JEONG, Kiho CHOI, Woongil CHOI, Anish TAMSE, Yinji PIAO
  • Patent number: 12368843
    Abstract: Provided are a video decoding method and apparatus which, during video encoding and decoding processes, determine whether a current block is in contact with an upper boundary of a largest coding unit including the current block, when it is determined that the current block is in contact with the upper boundary of the largest coding unit, determine an upper reference line of the current block as one reference line, when it is determined that the current block is not in contact with the upper boundary of the largest coding unit, determine the upper reference line of the current block based on N reference lines, and use the determined upper reference line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Narae Choi, Minsoo Park, Minwoo Park, Seungsoo Jeong, Kiho Choi, Woongil Choi, Anish Tamse, Yinji Piao
  • Publication number: 20250227300
    Abstract: Provided is an image decoding method including: obtaining, from a bitstream, a syntax element regarding multiple transform selection (MTS) with respect to a current coding unit or a current transform unit included in the current coding unit; determining a horizontal transform kernel or a vertical transform kernel with respect to the current transform unit based on the obtained syntax element; obtaining a residual signal by performing inverse transformation on the current transform unit, based on the determined horizontal transform kernel or vertical transform kernel with respect to the current transform unit; and generating a reconstruction block including the current coding unit or the current transform unit based on the residual signal with respect to the current transform unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiho CHOI, Minsoo PARK, Minwoo PARK, Woongil CHOI, Yinji PIAO, Seungsoo JEONG, Narae CHOI, Anish TAMSE
  • Patent number: 12355988
    Abstract: Provided is a video decoding method including obtaining identification information of a first tile and identification information of a last tile from a bitstream, wherein the first and last tiles are included in a first slice, determining an index difference between the first tile and the last tile, based on a result of comparing the identification information of the first tile with the identification information of the last tile, determining the number of tiles included in the first slice, by using the index difference between the first tile and the last tile, and decoding a plurality of tiles included in the first slice according to an encoding order by using the number of tiles included in the first slice, the identification information of the first tile, and the identification information of the last tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woongil Choi, Gahyun Ryu, Minsoo Park, Minwoo Park, Seungsoo Jeong, Kwangpyo Choi, Kiho Choi, Narae Choi, Anish Tamse, Yinji Piao
  • Publication number: 20250220240
    Abstract: Provided is a video decoding method including: determining an inter prediction mode of a current block when the current block is inter-predicted; determining at least one reference sample location to be referred to by the current block, based on the inter prediction mode of the current block; determining filter information to be applied to at least one reconstructed reference sample corresponding to the at least one reference sample location, based on the inter prediction mode of the current block; performing filtering on the at least one reconstructed reference sample, based on the filter information; and decoding the current block by using prediction samples generated via the filtering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., TLD.
    Inventors: Yinji PIAO, Elena Alshina, Alexander Alshin, Anish Tamse
  • Publication number: 20250220241
    Abstract: Provided is a video decoding method including: determining an inter prediction mode of a current block when the current block is inter-predicted; determining at least one reference sample location to be referred to by the current block, based on the inter prediction mode of the current block; determining filter information to be applied to at least one reconstructed reference sample corresponding to the at least one reference sample location, based on the inter prediction mode of the current block; performing filtering on the at least one reconstructed reference sample, based on the filter information; and decoding the current block by using prediction samples generated via the filtering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yinji PIAO, Elena ALSHINA, Alexander ALSHIN, Anish TAMSE
  • Patent number: 12348790
    Abstract: An entropy decoding method may include obtaining, from a bitstream, information about a slice type, based on an occurrence probability of a symbol, performing arithmetic decoding on a current symbol corresponding to a syntax element, when the information about the slice type indicates an I slice, determining a first scaling factor for updating the occurrence probability of the symbol by using a first function, wherein a value of the first function is determined based on a first threshold value, when the information about the slice type indicates a B or P slice, determining the first scaling factor by using a second function, wherein a value of the second function is determined based on a second threshold value, and by using the first scaling factor, updating the occurrence probability of the symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yinji Piao, Kyungah Kim, Minsoo Park, Minwoo Park, Kwangpyo Choi
  • Publication number: 20250203105
    Abstract: Provided is a video decoding method including: determining a prediction mode of a current block to be one of a skip mode and a merge mode; when a motion vector, which is determined from a merge candidate list of the current block, and a merge motion vector difference are to be used, obtaining merge candidate information indicating one candidate in the merge candidate list by performing entropy encoding on a bitstream by applying one piece of context information; determining a base motion vector from one candidate determined from the merge candidate list, based on the merge candidate information; and determining a motion vector of the current block by using a distance index of a merge motion vector difference of the current block and a direction index of the merge motion vector difference to use the base motion vector and the merge motion vector difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seungsoo JEONG, Minsoo PARK, Minwoo PARK, Kiho CHOI, Yinji PIAO
  • Patent number: 12328447
    Abstract: A video decoding method includes predicting a current block according to an intra prediction mode of the current block, determining whether to apply position dependent intra prediction filtering to the current block according to the intra prediction mode of the current block, when the position dependent intra prediction filtering is applied to the current block, determining at least one of an upper reference sample, a left reference sample, an upper weight, and a left weight for the position dependent intra prediction filtering of a current sample of the current block according to the intra prediction mode of the current block, and applying the position dependent intra prediction filtering to the current sample of the current block according to at least one of the upper reference sample, the left reference sample, the upper weight, and the left weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Narae Choi, Minsoo Park, Minwoo Park, Anish Tamse, Seungsoo Jeong, Kiho Choi, Woongil Choi, Yinji Piao
  • Patent number: 12328446
    Abstract: A video decoding method includes predicting a current block according to an intra prediction mode of the current block, determining whether to apply position dependent intra prediction filtering to the current block according to the intra prediction mode of the current block, when the position dependent intra prediction filtering is applied to the current block, determining at least one of an upper reference sample, a left reference sample, an upper weight, and a left weight for the position dependent intra prediction filtering of a current sample of the current block according to the intra prediction mode of the current block, and applying the position dependent intra prediction filtering to the current sample of the current block according to at least one of the upper reference sample, the left reference sample, the upper weight, and the left weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Narae Choi, Minsoo Park, Minwoo Park, Anish Tamse, Seungsoo Jeong, Kiho Choi, Woongil Choi, Yinji Piao
  • Patent number: 12323624
    Abstract: Provided is a video decoding method including: determining an inter prediction mode of a current block when the current block is inter-predicted; determining at least one reference sample location to be referred to by the current block, based on the inter prediction mode of the current block; determining filter information to be applied to at least one reconstructed reference sample corresponding to the at least one reference sample location, based on the inter prediction mode of the current block; performing filtering on the at least one reconstructed reference sample, based on the filter information; and decoding the current block by using prediction samples generated via the filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yinji Piao, Elena Alshina, Alexander Alshin, Anish Tamse
  • Publication number: 20250175623
    Abstract: A method, performed by an electronic device, for artificial intelligence (AI)-based encoding of media includes compressing an input image frame associated with an input video, generating, by an AI-based in-loop filter, a reconstructed image frame corresponding to the input image frame, determining an offset value based on the input image frame and the reconstructed image frame, and encoding the reconstructed image frame based on the offset value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2025
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Aviral AGRAWAL, Anubhav SINGH, Raj Narayana GADDE, Yinji PIAO, Minwoo PARK, Kwangpyo CHOI
  • Publication number: 20250168377
    Abstract: A video decoding method includes, when inter prediction of a current block is performed in an affine merge mode, generating an affine merge candidate list including a control point-based affine merge candidate corresponding to control point motion vectors determined by using motion vectors of neighboring blocks included in a block group of representative neighboring blocks according to corners of the current block, determining an affine motion vector of the current block by using control point motion vectors corresponding to a merge candidate selected from the affine merge candidate list, and obtaining prediction samples of the current block by using the affine motion vector of the current block, wherein when a right block of the current block is available, a representative neighboring block adjacent to a lower right corner of the current block is a block whose available motion information is obtained from among a neighboring block adjacent to the lower right corner of the current block and a right boundary o
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yinji PIAO, Anish TAMSE
  • Publication number: 20250168342
    Abstract: An image encoding and decoding method and apparatus are provided. The image decoding method includes obtaining a difference quantization parameter for a current coding unit from a bitstream, based on an area of a predefined difference quantization parameter signaling unit; obtaining a quantization parameter for the current coding unit by using a predicted quantization parameter for the current coding unit and the difference quantization parameter for the current coding unit; obtaining at least one inverse-quantized coefficient by performing inverse-quantization on at least one coefficient obtained based on residual information of the current coding unit included in the bitstream, based on the quantization parameter for the current coding unit; obtaining a residual block of the current coding unit, based on the inverse-quantized coefficient; and obtaining a reconstructed block of the current coding unit, based on the residual block of the current coding unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minsoo PARK, Woongil Choi, Minwoo Park, Seungsoo Jeong, Kiho Choi, Narae Choi, Anish Tamse, Yinji Piao
  • Publication number: 20250150628
    Abstract: Provided is an image decoding method including: obtaining, from a bitstream, a syntax element regarding multiple transform selection (MTS) with respect to a current coding unit or a current transform unit included in the current coding unit; determining a horizontal transform kernel or a vertical transform kernel with respect to the current transform unit based on the obtained syntax element; obtaining a residual signal by performing inverse transformation on the current transform unit, based on the determined horizontal transform kernel or vertical transform kernel with respect to the current transform unit; and generating a reconstruction block including the current coding unit or the current transform unit based on the residual signal with respect to the current transform unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiho CHOI, Minsoo PARK, Minwoo PARK, Woongil CHOI, Yinji PIAO, Seungsoo JEONG, Narae CHOI, Anish TAMSE
  • Publication number: 20250150630
    Abstract: Provided is an image decoding method including: obtaining, from a bitstream, a syntax element regarding multiple transform selection (MTS) with respect to a current coding unit or a current transform unit included in the current coding unit; determining a horizontal transform kernel or a vertical transform kernel with respect to the current transform unit based on the obtained syntax element; obtaining a residual signal by performing inverse transformation on the current transform unit, based on the determined horizontal transform kernel or vertical transform kernel with respect to the current transform unit; and generating a reconstruction block including the current coding unit or the current transform unit based on the residual signal with respect to the current transform unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiho CHOI, Minsoo PARK, Minwoo PARK, Woongil CHOI, Yinji PIAO, Seungsoo JEONG, Narae CHOI, Anish TAMSE
  • Publication number: 20250150629
    Abstract: Provided is an image decoding method including: obtaining, from a bitstream, a syntax element regarding multiple transform selection (MTS) with respect to a current coding unit or a current transform unit included in the current coding unit; determining a horizontal transform kernel or a vertical transform kernel with respect to the current transform unit based on the obtained syntax element; obtaining a residual signal by performing inverse transformation on the current transform unit, based on the determined horizontal transform kernel or vertical transform kernel with respect to the current transform unit; and generating a reconstruction block including the current coding unit or the current transform unit based on the residual signal with respect to the current transform unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiho CHOI, Minsoo Park, Minwoo Park, Woongil Choi, Yinji Piao, Seungsoo Jeong, Narae Choi, Anish Tamse
  • Patent number: 12294742
    Abstract: A video encoding method includes: based on at least one of first distortion aware information about a current encoding unit and second distortion aware information about a corresponding reference encoding unit, determining a first predicted value of the current encoding unit using at least one interpolation filter, wherein the at least one type of interpolation filter may include an artificial intelligence (AI) interpolation filter; and encoding the current encoding unit based on the first predicted value of the current encoding unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liang Wen, Weijing Shi, Lizhong Wang, Ying Zhang, Yinji Piao, Xiaoyan Lou
  • Patent number: 12289475
    Abstract: An image processing method and an image processing apparatus are provided to obtain input data for deblocking filtering based on deblocking filtering target pixels of at least one line perpendicular to a boundary line of blocks and encoding information about the deblocking filtering target pixels of at least one line, obtain a feature map of the input data by inputting the input data to a first neural network, obtain a deblocking filter coefficient by inputting the feature map to a second neural network, obtain a deblocking filter compensation value by inputting the feature map to a third neural network, obtain a deblocking filter strength by inputting the input data to a fourth neural network, obtain deblocking filtered pixels by performing deblocking filtering on the deblocking filtering target pixels of the at least one line using the deblocking filter coefficient, the deblocking filter compensation value, and the deblocking filter strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Quockhanh Dinh, Kwangpyo Choi, Minwoo Park, Yinji Piao
  • Patent number: 12284388
    Abstract: Provided is a video decoding method including: determining an inter prediction mode of a current block when the current block is inter-predicted; determining at least one reference sample location to be referred to by the current block, based on the inter prediction mode of the current block; determining filter information to be applied to at least one reconstructed reference sample corresponding to the at least one reference sample location, based on the inter prediction mode of the current block; performing filtering on the at least one reconstructed reference sample, based on the filter information; and decoding the current block by using prediction samples generated via the filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yinji Piao, Elena Alshina, Alexander Alshin, Anish Tamse