Nam Ling and Ph.D. student Guichun Li (Computer Engineering) with researchers from Huawei Technologies, filed a regular U.S. Patent (from an earlier Provisional U.S. Patent), "Predictive Adaptive Scan Ordering for Video Coding" (application no. 12/905,872, filed October 15, 2010). (From FYI 11/15/10).
Tokunbo Ogunfunmi (electrical engineering) and former Ph.D. student Obianuju Ndili have filed an application for a provisional patent titled "Hardware Modified Diamond Search Algorithm for Fast Motion Estimation," Sept. 2011. (From The Buzz 11/11/2011).
Nam Ling (computer engineering), Guichun Li (computer engineering Ph.D. student), and Li Song, Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, together with researchers from Huawei Technologies, filed two U.S. provisional patents, "Simplification of Mode Dependent Intra Smoothing" and "Reference Pixel Reduction for Intra LM Prediction," on Jan. 19. (From The Buzz 2/3/2012).
Guichun Li (PhD student) and Nam Ling (computer engineering), together with Drs. Lingzhi Liu, Jianhua Zheng, and Philipp Zhang (researchers from Huawei Technologies), filed a regular (non-provisional) U.S. patent, "Using MPS to encode extended UDI mode numbers for robustness," in February 2012. (From The Buzz 2/24/12).
Guichun Li (computer engineering Ph.D. student) and Nam Ling (computer engineering), together with researchers of Huawei Technologies, filed a regular (non-provisional) U.S. Patent, "Mode Dependent Intra Smoothing Filter Table Mapping Methods for Non-Square Prediction Units," in April 2012. (From The Buzz 4/20/12).
Zhouye Gu, visiting research scholar, and Nam Ling (computer engineering), with Jianhua Zheng (Huawei/Hisilicon), filed a U.S. provisional patent (application no. 61/812,124), "Method of Depth Intra Coding," Apr. 15. (From The Buzz 4/19/13).
Zhouye Gu and Nam Ling (computer engineering), together with Jianhua Zheng and Philipp Zhang (Huawei/Hisilicon) filed two U.S. provisional patents: “On Neighbouring Reference Pixel Selection for Depth Intra Coding,” (application no. 61/923,124) filed Jan. 2, 2014, and “System and Method for Estimating View Synthesis Distortion,” (application no. 61/923,500) filed Jan. 3, 2014. (from the Buzz 1/17/14).
Zhouye Gu and Nam Ling (computer engineering), together with Jianhua Zheng and Chen-Xiong Zhang (Hisilicon/Huawei), filed two provisional U.S. patents, "Method of Intra SDC Coding" (application number 62/017,625) and "Method of Depth Based Block Partitioning" (application number 62/017,637), on June 26, 2014. (from the Buzz 10/3/14).
Zhouye Gu and Nam Ling (computer engineering), together with Jianhua Zheng and Philipp Zhang (Hisilicon/Huawei), filed a U.S. Provisional Patent, "System and Method for Depth Map Coding for Smooth Depth Map Area," Application no. 62/063,305, on Oct. 13, 2014. (from The Buzz 11/7/14)
Zhouye Gu and Nam Ling (computer engineering), together with Jianhua Zheng and Philipp Zhang (Hi-silicon/Huawei), filed a non-provisional U.S. patent (application no. 14/515,930) and a PCT patent application (application no. PCT/SU2014/060873), "Improved Reference Pixel Selection and Filtering for Intra Coding of Depth Map," on Oct. 16, 2014. (from The Buzz 11/21/14)
Zhouye Gu and Nam Ling (both computer engineering), together with Jianhua Zheng and Philipp Zhang (Huawei/Hisilicon), filed a non-provisional U.S. patent, "System and Method for Estimating View Synthesis Distortion," Jan. 2, 2015; application number 14588646. (from the Buzz 1/9/15)
Nam Ling (computer engineering), together with Zhouye Gu (ARRIS) as well as Jianhua Zheng and Philipp Zhang (Huawei/Hisilicon), have filed three non-provisional U.S. patents over the summer and fall: 1) Jianhua Zheng, Zhouye Gu, Philipp Zhang, and Nam Ling, “System and Method for Depth Map Coding for Smooth Depth Map Area,” U.S. Patent filed (application no. 14/882,256) on October 13, 2015. 2) Zhouye Gu, Jianhua Zheng, Nam Ling, and Chen-Xiong Zhang, “Method and Device for Reducing a Computational Load in High Efficiency Video Coding,” U.S. Patent filed (application no. 14/752,043) on June 26, 2015. 3) Zhouye Gu, Jianhua Zheng, Nam Ling, and Chen-Xiong Zhang, “Method and Device for Providing Depth Based Block Partitioning in High Efficiency Video Coding,” U.S. Patent filed (application no. 14/752,072) on June 26, 2015. (from The Buzz 11/13/15)