Patent Applications
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)
Patents/SCU Connections
- Aeroplane831,173 - Granted September 18, 1906 to John J. Montgomery - who was also awarded a PhD at Santa Clara College in 1901.
- Air re-circulation effect reduction system7,568,360 - Monem Beitelmal, Former Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering. (Co-inventor)
- Control of vent tiles correlated with a rack7,995,339 - Monem Beitelmal, Former Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering. (Co-inventor)
- Electrosurgical devices for tonsillectomy and adenoidectomyPaul Davison (bioengineering adjunct and advisory board member) had his tenth medical device patent issue on 1/21/2014, No. 8632537.
- Energy efficient CRAC unit operation8,019,477 - Monem Beitelmal, Former Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering. (Co-inventor)
- Energy efficient CRAC unit operation using heat transfer levels7,010,392 - Monem Beitelmal, Former Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering. (Co-inventor)
- Energy efficient CRAC unit operation using heat transfer levels7,584,021 - Monem Beitelmal, Former Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering. (Co-inventor)
- Healthcare privacy breach prevention through integrated audit and access controlRafae Bhatti (formerly in computer engineering) and Paul D. Martin were granted a patent by the USPTO for their method of preventing healthcare privacy breaches by using integrated audit and access control. Patent number 8,984 583. (From The Buzz 4/2/15)
- Method and apparatus of depth prediction mode selectionNam Ling (computer engineering), with Jianhua Zheng, Philipp Zhang (both Huawei/Hisilicon), and Zhouye Gu (Qualcomm), have a U.S. patent granted, patent number 9641853 on May 2, 2017. (From The Buzz, 6/15/17).
- Method and apparatus of derivation for a binary partition patternNam Ling (computer engineering), with Zhouye Gu (Arris), Jianhua Zheng, and Philipp Zhang (both Huawei/Hisilicon), were awarded a U.S. patent: publication number US9571858 B2, application number US 14/335,403, patent granted Feb. 14. (From The Buzz, 4/20/17).
- Method and Device for Reducing a Computational Load in High Efficiency Video CodingNam Ling (computer engineering) with Zhouye Gu (Apple), Jianhua Zheng, and Chen-Xiong Zhang (both HiSilicon/FutureWei Technologies) was awarded a U.S. Patent Publication Number US10085028B2, on Sept. 25, 2018. (From The Buzz - 1/17/2019).
- Method for predicting airflow rates7,558,649 - Monem (Abdimonem) H. Beitelmal, Former Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering. (Co-inventor)
- Microcontroller for controlling an actuator7,902,966 - Monem Beitelmal, Former Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering. (Co-inventor)
- Multiple predictor set for intra coding with intra mode predictionGuichun Li and Nam Ling (computer engineering), along with colleages from Huawei/Hisilicon had a patent awarded on Dec. 1, 2015: Lingzhi Liu, Guichun Li, Nam Ling, Jianhua Zheng, and Chengxiong Zhang, “Multiple Predictor Set for Intra Coding with Intra Mode Prediction,” U.S. patent granted and awarded (patent no. 9,204,155) (US9204155 B2). The provisional patent was originally filed in 2010, with the non-provisional U.S. patent filed a year later—a 4+ year process for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to complete the review. (from The Buzz 1/22/16).
- Reference pixel reduction for intra LM predictionGuichun Li and Nam Ling (computer engineering), together with colleagues from Huwei/Hisilicon and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, were awarded a U.S. patent: US patent #US9307237 B2, Apr. 5. They have also filed European and PCT patents for the invention. (From the School of Engineering Five10 Report, April 28, 2016).
- Refrigeration system with parallel evaporators and variable speed compressorMonem Beitelmal (formerly in mechanical engineering) is listed as a co-inventor on his 51st patent, no. 8,561,418, granted on Oct. 22, 2013.
- Refrigeration system with parallel evaporators and variable speed compressor7,895,854 - Monem Beitelmal, Former Adjunct Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering. (Co-inventor)
- SCU policy on inventions and patentsTo establish title of inventions and patents
- Security for cloud systems and virtualization cloud systems, mobile cloud systems and mobile virtualization cloud systems, and computer clusters and mobile device clustersVictoria K. Teng ’99 (MS, Engineering Management and Leadership), and researchers from her company I-Linke Inc., had a U.S. patent granted and awarded (Patent no. 9,509,689). (From The Buzz, 1/12/17).
- Silicon substrate having an epitaxial superconducting layer thereon and method of making same5,173,474 One of assignees is the President and Board of Trustees of Santa Clara College.
- Simplification of depth modeling modelZhouye Gu and Nam Ling (SCU Computer Engineering) Provisional U.S. patent - Filed August 16, 2013. Application number 61/866,941. From "The Buzz" Friday, October 25, 2013.
- Simplified bilateral intra smoothing filterGuichun Li and Nam Ling (computer engineering), together with researchers from Huawei/Hisilicon, had a U.S. patent granted and awarded: Guichun Li, Lingzhi Liu, Changcai Lai, Nam Ling, Jianhua Zheng, and Philipp Zhang, “Simplified Bilateral Intra Smoothing Filter,” U.S. patent granted and awarded (Patent no. 9,179,148) on Nov. 3, 2015. (from The Buzz, 12/4/2015)
- Simplified DC predictor for depth intra modesZhouye Gu and Nam Ling (SCU Computer Engineering) Provisional U.S. patent - Filed October 17, 2013. Application number 61/892,342. From "The Buzz" Friday, October 25, 2013.
- Using multiple prediction sets to encode extended unified display interface mode numbers for robustnessDr. Nam Ling and Guichun Li, computer engineering Ph.D. student, together with researchers of Huawei Technologies, filed this provisional U.S. patent, June 2011. (From The Buzz, Friday, June 3, 2011).
- White paper on the subject of the AC coupled diode discovery methodWhite paper referenced in patent above: Local area network with electrochemical power source.
