Bit (epo) Patents (Class 375/E7.184)
  • Patent number: 12126944
    Abstract: A holographic projector comprises an image processing engine, a hologram engine, a display engine and a light source. The image processing engine is arranged to receive a source image for projection and generate a plurality of secondary images from a primary image based on the source image. The source image comprises pixels. Each secondary image may comprise fewer pixels than the source image. The plurality of secondary images are generated by sampling the primary image. The hologram engine is arranged to determine, such as calculate, a hologram corresponding to each secondary image to form a plurality of holograms. The display engine is arranged to display each hologram on the display device. The light source is arranged to Illuminate each hologram during display to form a holographic reconstruction corresponding to each secondary image on a replay plane. The primary image is selected from the group comprising: the source image and an intermediate image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Dualitas Ltd
    Inventors: Jamieson Christmas, Michal Wengierow, Nicu Gavrila
  • Patent number: 12068925
    Abstract: In the present invention, a first communication device, on the basis of a portion of a first command inputted from an external device, predicts an address and instruction contents for the first command, and outputs the same as a second command. The first communication device outputs first flag information indicating whether a second communication device needs to wait to send the second command, and sends the second command and the first flag information to the second communication device. The second communication device receives the second command and the first flag information, and, if the first flag information indicates that the second communication device does not need to wait to send the second command, sends the second command to a second external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Shinomiya
  • Patent number: 12047575
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for multi-symbol equiprobable mode entropy coding, An example apparatus includes equiprobabie bypass control circuitry to determine whether an input value associated with the one or more blocks is greater than a reference value. The example apparatus also includes interval control circuitry to, based on the determination, adjust at least one of an upper limit or a lower limit based on an approximate value approximating a product of (1) a quotient of (a) a difference between the alphabet size and one and (b) the alphabet size and (2) the upper limit, the upper limit and the lower limit forming a range of values within which the input value is to be encoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Alshin, Jill Boyce, Zhijun Lei, Miroslav Goncharenko, Vasily Aristarkhov
  • Patent number: 12028549
    Abstract: Methods of video streaming are generally described. In some examples, a camera device periodically captures an image, communicates encoded frame data representing that image to a server, and decodes and stores the previously encoded frame data as a background picture. The server receives the encoded frame data, decodes it, and stores the decoded frame in a buffer for future use. Subsequently, upon initiation of a streaming session, the camera device captures another image and encodes a predicted key frame based on differences between the captured image and the background picture. The camera device sends the predicted key frame to the server, which receives it and reconstructs a facsimile of the captured image utilizing the previously decoded frame stored in the buffer. Methods of acknowledging successfully decoded frames for use in selecting background pictures is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Keith Wang, Ramin Ghorashi, Stephen John Bannister, Ilya Brailovskiy
  • Patent number: 12003852
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus comprises a display unit that displays a captured image, an output unit that outputs the image to an external device, a processing unit capable of switching and executing a plurality of operations that include a first operation of capturing the image with an image capturing mode setting during shooting standby, and a second operation of capturing the image with the same image capturing mode setting regardless of whether it is during shooting standby or during shooting, and a control unit that, when an output of the image to the external device is not being performed, permits the processing unit to perform the first operation, and when an output of the image to the external device is being performed, prohibits the processing unit to perform the first operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daiyu Ueno, Yoichiro Imai, Hiroshi Toriumi, Tomoyuki Shiozaki
  • Patent number: 11917163
    Abstract: A video recording method and a video recording device are provided. The method includes: obtaining video data to be recorded; dividing, based on the video data, each frame of the video data into a region of interest and a background region by using a preset neural network model; and encoding the region of interest of the video data based on a first encoding bit rate, and the background region based on a second bit rate, and storing the encoded video data into a storage device through a video buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Huang, Xianghu Chen, Yong Zhang, Junheng Wu
  • Patent number: 11902542
    Abstract: This application relates to video encoding and decoding, and specifically to tools and techniques for using and providing supplemental enhancement information in bitstreams. Among other things, the detailed description presents innovations for bitstreams having supplemental enhancement information (SEI). In particular embodiments, the SEI message includes picture source data (e.g., data indicating whether the associated picture is a progressive scan picture or an interlaced scan picture and/or data indicating whether the associated picture is a duplicate picture). The SEI message can also express a confidence level of the encoder's relative confidence in the accuracy of this picture source data. A decoder can use the confidence level indication to determine whether the decoder should separately identify the picture as progressive or interlaced and/or a duplicate picture or honor the picture source scanning information in the SEI as it is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gary J. Sullivan, Yongjun Wu
  • Patent number: 11831342
    Abstract: A method of converting 10-bit pixel data (e.g. 10:10:10:2 data) into 8-bit pixel data involves converting the 10-bit values to 8-bits using a technique that is selected dependent upon the values of the MSBs of the 10-bit values and setting the value of an HDR flag dependent upon the values of the MSBs. The HDR flag is appended to the 3-bit channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Imagination Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Simon Fenney, Linling Zhang
  • Patent number: 11800113
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a video encoding and decoding method. A video decoding method for the same may include: obtaining granularity information; determining a sharing region based on the granularity information; and generating a prediction block of a current block by using motion information of the sharing region when the current block corresponds to the sharing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung Chang Lim, Jung Won Kang, Hyun Suk Ko, Jin Ho Lee, Ha Hyun Lee, Dong San Jun, Seung Hyun Cho, Hui Yong Kim, Jin Soo Choi
  • Patent number: 11758104
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for the out-of-order predictive streaming of elements from a three-dimensional (“3D”) image file so that a recipient device is able to produce a first visualization of at least a first streamed element from a particular perspective, similar to the instant transfer of two-dimensional (“2D”) images, while the additional elements and perspectives of the 3D image are streamed. The sending device prioritizes the 3D image elements based on a predicted viewing order, streams a particular element from a particular perspective with a priority that is greater than a priority associated with other elements and other perspectives, determines a next element to stream after the particular element based on the next element being positioned adjacent to the particular element and having a priority that is greater than adjacent elements, and streams the next element to the recipient device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Illuscio, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Monaghan
  • Patent number: 11741873
    Abstract: To enable a better and more adjustable manner of HDR video display adaptation, applicants inventor contributed an image pixel luminance adaptation apparatus (500), comprising: a connection (501) to a comprised or connectable video decoder (207), which video decoder is arranged to receive an encoded high dynamic range image (Im_COD), which is encoded according to a first maximum codeable luminance (PB H), and which video decoder is arranged to receive metadata specifying at least one luma mapping function (F_ct; FL_50t1_1), which at least one luma mapping function specifies the offsets of luminances of a secondary image corresponding to the encoded high dynamic range image compared to the luminances of the same pixel positions as encoded in the encoded high dynamic range image, which secondary image has a second maximum codeable luminance (PB_S) which preferably is at least 4× smaller or larger than the first maximum codeable luminance (PB_H), and the video decoder being arranged to output a decoded high dynam
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Rutger Nijland
  • Patent number: 11722652
    Abstract: A method for generating encoded depth data includes receiving digital fringe projection (DFP) data corresponding to a three-dimensional structure of a physical object, and generating first and second fringe encodings for a first predetermined wavelength based on the DFP data at a first coordinate. The method further includes generating third and fourth fringe encodings for a second predetermined wavelength based on the DFP data at the first coordinate, the second wavelength being longer than the first wavelength, and generating a combined fringe encoding based on the third fringe encoding and the fourth fringe encoding. The method further includes storing the first, second, and combined fringe encoding data in a pixel of two-dimensional image data at a pixel coordinate in the two-dimensional image data corresponding to the first coordinate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Song Zhang, Tyler Bell
  • Patent number: 11683532
    Abstract: According to embodiments of the present document, the subjective/objective quality of an image can be improved through image coding on the basis of subpictures and/or virtual boundaries, and consumption of hardware resources required for coding can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hendry Hendry, Seethal Paluri, Seunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11651716
    Abstract: A display device includes: an image display having at least one first display area and a second display area; a memory configured to store image data; and a timing controller configured to store first image data for the first display area in the memory after first image data for the first display area and the second display area is received from a host device, wherein the timing controller is configured to control the image display unit so as to display a first image in the first display area by loading the first image data for the first display area from the memory and to display a preset second image in the second display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong Ho Bae, Jong Gil Kim, Moon Sang Hwang
  • Patent number: 11622106
    Abstract: The controller is configured to receive a request that causes transferring of a reference pixel block of a video, wherein the video is being encoded using the reference pixel block. The controller is configured to determine whether the reference pixel block has at least a portion that is outside a frame of the video. In response to the determination of the reference pixel block having at least a portion outside the frame of the video, the controller is configured to cause a portion of the reference pixel block of the video inside the frame of the video to be fetched from a memory storage and stored in a cache storage, pad a remaining missing portion of the reference pixel block of the video outside the frame of the video with padding pixel data to form the reference pixel block, and transfer the reference pixel block in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Kameswara Kishore Sriadibhatla, Yunqing Chen, Prasanth Jampani, Srikanth Alaparthi, Adrian Stafford Lewis, Shiyan Pan
  • Patent number: 11531589
    Abstract: A decoding method, a memory storage device, and a memory control circuit unit are provided. The decoding method includes: respectively performing a single-frame decoding on a plurality of first data frames read from a physical unit set, the physical unit set contains a plurality of first physical units in a rewritable non-volatile memory module; in response to an entire decoding result of the first data frames meeting a first condition, obtaining error evaluation information related to the physical unit set, and the error evaluation information reflects a bit error status of the physical unit set; obtaining reliability information according to the error evaluation information; and performing the single-frame decoding on a second data frame read from one of the first physical units according to the reliability information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: PHISON ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventor: Yu-Hsiang Lin
  • Patent number: 11386644
    Abstract: An example preprocessor circuit includes: a first buffer configured to store rows of image data and output a row thereof; a second buffer, coupled to the first buffer, including storage locations to store respective image samples of the row output by the first buffer; shift registers; an interconnect network including connections, each connection coupling a respective one of the shift registers to more than one of the storage locations, one or more of the storage locations being coupled to more than one of the connections; and a control circuit configured to load the shift registers with the image samples based on the connections and shift the shift registers to output streams of image samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Elliott Delaye, Ashish Sirasao, Aaron Ng, Yongjun Wu, Jindrich Zejda
  • Patent number: 11323713
    Abstract: A wireless video transmission system includes: a coarse compression module to compress a video sub-frame and to generate coarse data of the video sub-frame: a coarse decompression module to generate a coarse sub-frame from the coarse data; an error frame extractor to generate an error sub-frame from the coarse sub-frame and from the video sub-frame; a refinement data encoder to generate a set of transform coefficients from the error sub-frame, and to select a subset of transform coefficients from the set of transform coefficients according to an end-of-block (EOB) indication in the coarse data; and a data combining and modulation module to combine and transmit the coarse data and a refinement data including the subset of transform coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AMIMON LTD.
    Inventor: Zvi Reznic
  • Patent number: 10199043
    Abstract: The present invention provides for methods and apparatuses for processing audio data. In one embodiment, there is provided a method for achieving bitstream scalability in a multi-channel audio encoder, said method comprising receiving audio input data; organizing said input data by a Code Excited Linear Predictor (CELP) processing module for further encoding by arranging said data according to significance of data, where more significant data is placed ahead of less significant data; and providing a scalable output bitstream; a higher bitrate bitstream is scaled to lower bitrate by discarding less significant data from frame ends. The organized CELP data comprises of a first part and a second part. The first part comprises a frame header, sub frame parameters and innovation vector quantization data from the first frame from all channels. The innovation vector quantization data from the first frames from all channels is arranged according to channel number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: DTS, Inc.
    Inventors: Dmitry V. Shmunk, Dmitry Rusanov
  • Patent number: 9761232
    Abstract: A multi-decoding method, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving a plurality of bitstreams, dividing decoding modules for decoding the plurality of bitstreams according to a data amount of an instruction cache, and cross-decoding the plurality of bitstreams using each of the divided decoding modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: SAMUSNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seok-hwan Jo, Chang-yong Son, Do-hyung Kim, Kang-eun Lee, Si-hwa Lee