Alias cancelling during audio coding mode transitions
Granted: January 23, 2024
Patent Number:
RE49813
An apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving, by an audio processing apparatus, an audio signal including a first data of a first block encoded with rectangular coding scheme and a second data of a second block encoded with non-rectangular coding scheme; receiving a compensation signal corresponding to the second block; estimating a prediction of an aliasing part using the first data; and, obtaining a reconstructed…
Processing object-based audio signals
Granted: January 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11877140
An audio processing system and method which calculates, based on spatial metadata of the audio object, a panning coefficient for each of the audio objects in relation to each of a plurality of predefined channel coverage zones. Converts the audio signal into submixes in relation to the predefined channel coverage zones based on the calculated panning coefficients and the audio objects. Each of the submixes indicating a sum of components of the plurality of the audio objects in relation…
Canvas size scalable video coding
Granted: January 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11877000
Methods and systems for canvas size scalability across the same or different bitstream layers of a video coded bitstream are described. Offset parameters for a conformance window, a reference region of interest (ROI) in a reference layer, and a current ROI in a current layer are received. The width and height of a current ROI and a reference ROI are computed based on the offset parameters and they are used to generate a width and height scaling factor to be used by a reference picture…
Video encoder and encoding method
Granted: January 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11876987
An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel belonging to one of N subframes each characterized by (a) a same exposure-time sequence that includes a short exposure-time alternating with a long exposure-time, and (b) a respective temporal offset equal to a multiple of the short exposure-time. A method for encoding a video stream captured by the image sensor includes (i) for each subframe, linearly combining a long-exposure image, captured at the long exposure-time, and a…
Methods and apparatus for determining for decoding a compressed HOA sound representation
Granted: January 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11875803
When compressing an HOA data frame representation, a gain control (15, 151) is applied for each channel signal before it is perceptually encoded (16). The gain values are transferred in a differential manner as side information. However, for starting decoding of such streamed compressed HOA data frame representation absolute gain values are required, which should be coded with a minimum number of bits. For determining such lowest integer number (?e) of bits the HOA data frame…
Metameric stabilization via custom viewer color matching function
Granted: January 16, 2024
Patent Number:
11875719
Two corresponding color patches are displayed on two image displays until adjusted by a viewer to match visually to a common color. Two sets of code values rendered on the two corresponding color patches on the two image displays are identified. Two sets of tristimulus values for the viewer are determined based on the two sets of code values rendered on the two corresponding color patches on the two image displays. The viewer's color matching function are generated based on the two sets…
Picture metadata for variable frame-rate video
Granted: January 9, 2024
Patent Number:
11870948
Metadata and methods for variable-frame rate (VFR) video playback are presented. Proposed metadata include syntax parameters related to the presentation time duration, picture source type (e.g., original, duplicate, or interpolated), picture position in a scene (e.g., first, last, or in the middle), and motion-related information with respect to a previous picture. A decoder may use these metadata to apply appropriate frame-rate conversion techniques to reduce artifacts during VFR…
Frame-rate scalable video coding
Granted: January 9, 2024
Patent Number:
11871015
Methods and systems for frame rate scalability are described. Support is provided for input and output video sequences with variable frame rate and variable shutter angle across scenes, or for input video sequences with fixed input frame rate and input shutter angle, but allowing a decoder to generate a video output at a different output frame rate and shutter angle than the corresponding input values. Techniques allowing a decoder to decode more computationally-efficiently a specific…
Method and system for selectively breaking prediction in video coding
Granted: January 9, 2024
Patent Number:
11871000
Described are techniques in video coding and/or decoding that allow for selectively breaking prediction and/or in loop filtering across segment boundaries between different segments of a video picture. A high layer syntax element, such as a parameter set or a slice header, may contain one or more indications signalling to an encoder and/or decoder whether an associated prediction or loop filtering tool may be applied across the segment boundary. In response to such one or more…
Video coding method and apparatus using any types of block partitioning
Granted: January 9, 2024
Patent Number:
11870990
The present invention relates to a block partitioning structure in video coding technology, and a video encoding and decoding method and apparatus using the same, wherein the video encoding and decoding method includes the steps of: acquiring quad-partitioning information of a block; acquiring bi-partitioning information of the block when the acquired quad-partitioning information of the block does not indicate four partitions; acquiring partitioning direction information for…
Method and apparatus for decoding a bitstream including encoded higher order ambisonics representations
Granted: January 9, 2024
Patent Number:
11869523
Higher Order Ambisonics represents three-dimensional sound independent of a specific loudspeaker set-up. However, transmission of an HOA representation results in a very high bit rate. Therefore compression with a fixed number of channels is used, in which directional and ambient signal components are processed differently. For coding, portions of the original HOA representation are predicted from the directional signal components. This prediction provides side information which is…
Systems and methods for ambient light compensation using PQ shift
Granted: January 9, 2024
Patent Number:
11869455
Novel methods and systems for compensating for ambient light around displays are disclosed. A shift in the PQ curve applied to an image can compensate for sub-optimal ambient light conditions for a display, with the PQ shift being either an addition to a compensation value in PQ space followed by a subtraction of the compensation value in linear space, or an addition to the compensation value in linear space followed by a subtraction of the compensation value in PQ space. Further…
Projector and method for increasing projected light intensity
Granted: January 9, 2024
Patent Number:
11868032
A projector includes a light source, an integrating rod, an image panel, a beam shaper, and an actuator mechanically connected to the beam shaper. The image panel is configured to display an image at a displayed aspect ratio. The beam shaper includes multiple prisms shaped and oriented such that when the beam shaper intersects an optical path of the illumination between the integrating rod and the image panel, the illumination transmitted by the beam shaper is collinear with the…
Methods and apparatus for decoding encoded HOA signals
Granted: January 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11863958
There are two representations for Higher Order Ambisonics denoted HOA: spatial domain and coefficient domain. The invention generates from a coefficient domain representation a mixed spatial/coefficient domain representation, wherein the number of said HOA signals can be variable. An aspect of the invention further relates to methods and apparatus decoding multiplexed and perceptually encoded HOA signals, including transforming a vector of PCM encoded spatial domain signals of the HOA…
Sound capture for mobile devices
Granted: January 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11863952
Audio signals from microphones of a mobile device are received. Each audio signal is generated by a respective microphone of the microphones. First microphones are selected from among the microphones to generate a front audio signal. Second microphones are selected from among the microphones to generate a back audio signal. A first audio signal portion, which is determined based at least in part on the back audio signal, is removed from the front audio signal to generate a modified front…
Personalized sensitivity measurements and playback factors for adaptive and personalized media coding and delivery
Granted: January 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11863839
A method for delivering media to a playback device including outputting first test media to be viewed by a first user. The method further includes receiving a first user input related to a first perception of the first test media by the first user and indicating a first personalized quality of experience of the first user with respect to the first test media. The method further includes generating a first personalized sensitivity profile including one or more viewing characteristics of…
Image encoding and decoding apparatus, and image encoding and decoding method using contour mode based intra prediction
Granted: January 2, 2024
Patent Number:
11863750
According to the present invention, an adaptive scheme is applied to an image encoding apparatus that includes an inter-predictor, an intra-predictor, a transformer, a quantizer, an inverse quantizer, and an inverse transformer, wherein input images are classified into two or more different categories, and two or more modules from among the inter-predictor, the intra-predictor, the transformer, the quantizer, and the inverse quantizer are implemented to perform respective operations in…
Acoustic transducer having drop ring connected at resonant node
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11856382
An acoustic transducer that includes a housing, a diaphragm, a spider, a motor, and a drop ring. The motor includes a backplate, a frontplate, a magnet, and a voice coil. The drop ring connects the diaphragm to the spider at a circumference of the spider. The drop ring extends parallel with respect to a central axis of the housing. The circumference of the spider is spaced away from the motor and connects to the diaphragm at a resonant node of the diaphragm.
Quantization parameter signaling
Granted: December 26, 2023
Patent Number:
11856232
A quantization parameter signalling mechanism for both SDR and HDR content in video coding is described using two approaches. The first approach is to send the user-defined QpC table directly in high level syntax. This leads to more flexible and efficient QP control for future codec development and video content coding. The second approach is to signal luma and chroma QPs independently. This approach eliminates the need for QpC tables and removes the dependency of chroma quantization…
Method for encoding and decoding image using adaptive deblocking filtering, and apparatus therefor
Granted: December 19, 2023
Patent Number:
11849152
Disclosed is an encoding/decoding method and apparatus related to adaptive deblocking filtering. There is provided an image decoding method performing adaptive filtering in inter-prediction, the method including: reconstructing, from a bitstream, an image signal including a reference block on which block matching is performed in inter-prediction of a current block to be encoded; obtaining, from the bitstream, a flag indicating whether the reference block exists within a current picture…
