Centurion Patentors as of January 14, 2025

Hanbyul Seo

Senior research fellow (VP) at LG Electronics.

Hanbyul Seo, an esteemed expert in the field of telecommunications, has extensive research and system design experience for the physical and medium access control layers of LTE and NR.

Actively involved in 3GPP RAN WG1 standardization activities since 2008, he has served as Rapporteur for LTE and NR standard items related to Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X).

Recognized for exceptional contributions to the industry, he received the 2016 3GPP Excellence Award and was selected as one of the 100 technology leaders of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea for 2025.

Patent №: 12200762 – Method and apparatus for selecting resources based on partial sensing in NR V2X. A wireless communication method selects Y sidelink slots, performs partial sensing, and determines resources based on sensing. Re-evaluation is limited to slots before the last selected one.

Patent №: 12200757 – Method and device for occupying resources in new radio (NR) vehicle-to-everything (V2X). A method involves a device determining candidate resources based on a threshold, selecting a resource within a specific time interval, and transmitting sidelink information on the selected resource.

Patent №: 12200674 – Method for operating sidelink UE in slot aggregation in wireless communication system. An embodiment describes a method for an RX UE in wireless communication, involving performing automatic gain control (AGC) in an aggregation set and receiving a sidelink signal based on the AGC. The aggregation set starts from a predefined slot based on the number of slots in the set.

Patent №: 12200659 – Method for transmitting and receiving uplink reference signal for positioning, and device therefor. A terminal receives a cell list and downlink signals, then determines the transmission power for a positioning reference signal based on the reception power of a specific signal. The reference signal is transmitted using the calculated power.

Patent №: 12200581 – Positioning method in wireless communication system, and device therefor. The method includes selecting a nearby vehicle for positioning, exchanging sidelink control information, reselecting an antenna group based on received signals, and performing positioning using the reselected group.

Patent №: 12200518 – Signal transmitting and receiving method in wireless communication system. The method involves selecting a nearby vehicle and exchanging sidelink control information for positioning. An antenna group is reselected based on received signals, and positioning is performed using the reselected group.

Patent №: 12199771 – Method and device for determining resource selection window on basis of information related to sidelink HARQ feedback in wireless communication system. An operating method in a wireless communication system involves determining a region for selecting resources for sidelink information transmission. The region is adjusted based on sidelink HARQ feedback.

Shan Liu

Distinguished Scientist and General Manager.

Patent №: 12200259 – Method and device using high layer syntax architecture for coding and decoding.

A method and device decode a coded picture by processing a Picture Header with transient information and references to a PPS. The decoder activates the PPS to access syntax elements for decoding.

Patent №: 12200250 – Method and apparatus for video coding. Methods for video encoding involve encoding prediction information, generating transform coefficient blocks, adjusting sizes to match the secondary transform core, and encoding the block using secondary transform coefficients.

Patent №: 12200204 – On intra mode propagation. A method encodes and decodes motion vectors. It identifies the JOINT_NEWMV mode from a video bitstream. A joint delta motion vector is extracted. Separate motion vectors are derived. The block is decoded using these vectors.

Patent №: 12200196 – Joint signaling method for motion vector difference. A method encodes and decodes motion vector differences. It identifies the JOINT_NEWMV mode, extracts a joint delta motion vector, derives separate motion vectors, and decodes the block.

Patent №: 12200195 – Multiple lists for block based weighting factors. Video coding involves determining weighted bi-prediction (WBP) for a coding block, selecting a weighting factor, and reconstructing the block by combining bi-prediction blocks.

Patent №: 12200192 – Method and apparatus for bi-prediction with sample adaptive weights. A method involves receiving a current picture and two reference pictures, selecting a weighting pattern, and deriving weights for sub-blocks in the reference pictures. The weights are applied to the sub-blocks, and the current block is decoded using weighted bi-prediction.

Patent №: 12200191 – On geometric partition mode with intra and inter prediction.A coding unit (CU) is partitioned using a geometric partition mode (GPM). Prediction modes are determined for each partition, which are then reconstructed accordingly.

Patent №: 12197532 – Method and apparatus for neural network optimized matrix-matrix multiplication (NNMM). A method for neural network optimized matrix-matrix multiplication (NNMM) involves determining an input matrix and a weight matrix with a trained uniform pattern of repeated values. The matrices are multiplied to produce output coefficients.