Inventor Recognitions with Centurion Plus Utility Patents as of July 11, 2023

Kiyofumi Abe

Development R&D Research at Panasonic.

Patent №: 11700375 (July 11, 2023) – Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method.

This encoder utilizes memory and circuitry to perform the following tasks: (i) encoding an image block, (ii) binarizing coefficient information and deciding whether to apply arithmetic encoding and (iii) employing different syntax structures based on the application of arithmetic encoding and a predetermined condition. Moreover, when arithmetic encoding is not used, the encoder subtracts 1 from the initial non-zero coefficient value during the image block encoding.

Prateek Basu Mallick

Mr. Mallick received his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore in 2011. He started working with Hughes Software Systems, Gurgaon in 2000 after completing his engineering degree in electronics and telecommunication.

Mallick later moved to Samsung India in 2004, where, among other responsibilities, he was involved in the commercialization aspects of many Samsung phone models and afterward represented Samsung in 3GPP RAN2 until 2012.

His focus areas are control plane and user plane aspects of dual connectivity, carrier aggregation, and vehicular communication. In 2017, he joined Lenovo Germany as a member of the research and technology team, representing Lenovo/Motorola Mobility in the 3GPP security group RAN2.

Robert Koch

Bob is an independent consultant who provides consulting services to drive innovation and develop strategies to properly protect, manage, and monetize intellectual property for his clients. He helps individuals and teams of inventors to create robust and visionary invention disclosures using stimulating innovation sessions.

Before starting his consulting business, Bob was a senior leader of the intellectual property business at AT&T for 16 years. He was AVP – Innovation and Patent Development, where he led a team in the development of AT&T’s patent portfolio, leading it to an overall #2 industry ranking by the Wall Street Journal. He also launched a new crowdsourcing innovation ecosystem across all of AT&T’s employees.

He also served as Director – Intellectual Property Strategy & Operations, leading the development and realization of business strategies for a highly-profitable business unit at AT&T.

Patent №: 11700407 (July 11, 2023) – Personal media content insertion.

This technology enables the insertion of personalized or user-related supplementary media content into primary media content being presented to the user. The inserted content is based on the context of the primary media, such as the location or theme of a movie scene. Supplementary media content can be determined for specific groups of frames in the primary media and combined at a presentation position to create modified media content.

Jae Hyun Lim

LG Electronics Chief Research Engineer since January 2005.

Patent №: 11700369 (July 11, 2023) – Image information encoding and decoding method. The encoding method generates a restored block, applies a deblocking filter and Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO) to the block, and transmits SAO application information. Specifically, SAO is applied to chroma pixels. During transmission, additional details including area information, division information, SAO type, and SAO offset are provided.

Zhipin Deng

Zhipin Deng received a B.S. degree and the Ph.D. degree (Hons.) in electronic engineering from the Beijing University of Technology in 2006 and 2012, respectively.

From 2008 to 2012, she was a Joint Ph.D. Student between The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Beijing University of Technology, by the support of the joint Ph.D. supervision program for outstanding Mainland students.

In 2012, she joined Intel China Research Center Ltd., as a Research Scientist, where she worked on developing visual computing algorithms for Intel GPU media pipeline and modelling the video coding techniques of advanced video coding standards, such as HEVC, 3D-HEVC, AV1, MPEG-I, and VVC.