公开(公告)号：US09894368B2

公开(公告)日：2018-02-13

申请号：US13648538

申请日：2012-10-10

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Heiner Kirchhoffer ,  Heiko Schwarz ,  Tung Nguyen ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Thomas Wiegand

IPC: H04N7/32 ,  H04N19/18 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/59

CPC classification number: H04N19/18 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/91

Abstract: A higher coding efficiency for coding a significance map indicating positions of significant transform coefficients within a transform coefficient block is achieved by the scan order by which the sequentially extracted syntax elements indicating, for associated positions within the transform coefficient block, as to whether at the respective position a significant or insignificant transform coefficient is situated, are sequentially associated to the positions of the transform coefficient block, among the positions of the transform coefficient block depends on the positions of the significant transform coefficients indicated by previously associated syntax elements. Alternatively, the first-type elements may be context-adaptively entropy decoded using contexts which are individually selected for each of the syntax elements dependent on a number of significant transform coefficients in a neighborhood of the respective syntax element, indicated as being significant by any of the preceding syntax elements.

公开(公告)号：US09877008B2

公开(公告)日：2018-01-23

申请号：US15363378

申请日：2016-11-29

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Gerhard Tech ,  Karsten Mueller ,  Thomas Wiegand

IPC: H04N13/00 ,  G06T15/20

CPC classification number: H04N13/161 ,  G06T15/205 ,  H04N13/111 ,  H04N13/122 ,  H04N13/128

Abstract: An apparatus for determining a measure for a distortion change of a first view synthesized from a second view, caused by a modification of a depth map of the second view from a first state to a second state, is configured—starting from a current synthesis state of the first view corresponding to a synthesis from the second view having the depth map modified to the second state in an already processed portion of the depth map and having the depth map unmodified at the first state in a yet to be processed portion of the depth map—to compute a possible successor synthesis state corresponding to a synthesis of the first view from the second view having the depth map modified to the second state in an already processed portion plus a currently processed portion and having the depth map unmodified at the first state in the yet to be processed portion without the currently processed portion; and to determine a distortion change of a distortion of the current synthesis state of the first view relative to an undistorted version of the first view to a distortion of the possible successor synthesis state of the first view relative to the undistorted version of the first view.

公开(公告)号：US09788009B2

公开(公告)日：2017-10-10

申请号：US15195609

申请日：2016-06-28

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Heiko Schwarz ,  Heiner Kirchhoffer ,  Philipp Helle ,  Simon Oudin ,  Jan Stegemann ,  Benjamin Bross ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Thomas Wiegand

IPC: H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/184

CPC classification number: H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/70

Abstract: A coding efficiency increase is achieved by using a common signalization within the bitstream with regard to activation of merging and activation of the skip mode. One possible state of one or more syntax elements within the bitstream may signalize for a current sample set of a picture that the sample set is to be merged and has no prediction residual encoded and inserted into the bitstream. A common flag may signalize whether the coding parameters associated with a current sample set are to be set according to a merge candidate or to be retrieved from the bitstream, and whether the current sample set of the picture is to be reconstructed based on a prediction signal depending on the coding parameters associated with the current sample set, without any residual data, or to be reconstructed by refining the prediction signal depending on the coding parameters associated with the current sample set by means of residual data within the bitstream.

公开(公告)号：US09749651B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-29

申请号：US14273600

申请日：2014-05-09

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Philipp Merkle ,  Christian Bartnik ,  Haricharan Lakshman ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Mueller ,  Thomas Wiegand ,  Gerhard Tech

IPC: H04N7/12 ,  H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/14

CPC classification number: H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/96

Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect, the intra prediction direction of a neighboring, intra-predicted block is used in order to predict the extension direction of the wedgelet separation line of a current block, thereby reducing the side information rate necessitated in order to convey the partitioning information. In accordance with a second aspect, the idea is that previously reconstructed samples, i.e. reconstructed values of blocks preceding the current block in accordance with the coding/decoding order allow for at least a prediction of a correct placement of a starting point of the wedgelet separation line, namely by placing the starting point of the wedgelet separation line at a position of a maximum change between consecutive ones of a sequence of reconstructed values of samples of a line of samples extending adjacent to the current block along a circumference thereof. Both aspects may be used individually or in combination.

公开(公告)号：US09749622B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-29

申请号：US14273603

申请日：2014-05-09

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Philipp Merkle ,  Christian Bartnik ,  Haricharan Lakshman ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Mueller ,  Thomas Wiegand ,  Gerhard Tech

IPC: H04N7/12 ,  H04N19/126 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/14

CPC classification number: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/126 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/96

Abstract: The way of predicting a current block by assigning constant partition values to the partitions of a bi-partitioning of a block is quite effective, especially in case of coding sample arrays such as depth/disparity maps where the content of these sample arrays is mostly composed of plateaus or simple connected regions of similar value separated from each other by steep edges. The transmission of such constant partition values would, however, still need a considerable amount of side information which should be avoided. This side information rate may be further reduced if mean values of values of neighboring samples associated or adjoining the respective partitions are used as predictors for the constant partition values.

公开(公告)号：US09729883B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-08

申请号：US15238523

申请日：2016-08-16

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Valeri George ,  Benjamin Bross ,  Heiner Kirchhoffer ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Tung Nguyen ,  Matthias Preiss ,  Mischa Siekmann ,  Jan Stegemann ,  Thomas Wiegand

IPC: H04B1/66 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H03M7/42 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/91

CPC classification number: H04N19/13 ,  H03M7/42 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/132 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/91

Abstract: An entropy decoder is configured to, for horizontal and vertical components of motion vector differences, derive a truncated unary code from the data stream using context-adaptive binary entropy decoding with exactly one context per bin position of the truncated unary code, which is common for horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences, and an Exp-Golomb code using a constant equi-probability bypass mode to obtain the binarizations of the motion vector differences. A desymbolizer is configured to debinarize the binarizations of the motion vector difference syntax elements to obtain integer values of the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences. A reconstructor is configured to reconstruct a video based on the integer values of the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences.

公开(公告)号：US09544567B2

公开(公告)日：2017-01-10

申请号：US14272690

申请日：2014-05-08

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Gerhard Tech ,  Karsten Mueller ,  Thomas Wiegand

IPC: H04N13/00 ,  G06T15/20

CPC classification number: H04N13/161 ,  G06T15/205 ,  H04N13/111 ,  H04N13/122 ,  H04N13/128

Abstract: An apparatus for determining a measure for a distortion change of a first view synthesized from a second view, caused by a modification of a depth map of the second view from a first state to a second state, is configured—starting from a current synthesis state of the first view corresponding to a synthesis from the second view having the depth map modified to the second state in an already processed portion of the depth map and having the depth map unmodified at the first state in a yet to be processed portion of the depth map—to compute a possible successor synthesis state corresponding to a synthesis of the first view from the second view having the depth map modified to the second state in an already processed portion plus a currently processed portion and having the depth map unmodified at the first state in the yet to be processed portion without the currently processed portion; and to determine a distortion change of a distortion of the current synthesis state of the first view relative to an undistorted version of the first view to a distortion of the possible successor synthesis state of the first view relative to the undistorted version of the first view.

Abstract translation: 一种用于确定由第二视图从第一状态到第二状态的深度图的修改引起的从第二视点合成的第一视图的失真变化的测量装置，从当前合成状态开始 所述第一视图对应于在所述深度图的已处理部分中具有修改为所述第二状态的所述深度图的第二视图的合成，并且在所述深度的未处理部分中在所述第一状态下未修改所述深度图 映射 - 从已经处理部分加上当前处理部分的深度图修改为第二状态的第二视图的第一视图的合成对应的可能的后继合成状态，并且在第一状态下未修改深度图 在尚未被处理的部分中，没有当前处理的部分; 并且确定第一视图的当前合成状态相对于第一视图的未失真版本的失真的失真变形，以相对于第一视图的未失真版本的第一视图的可能的后继合成状态的失真。

公开(公告)号：US09252806B2

公开(公告)日：2016-02-02

申请号：US14734407

申请日：2015-06-09

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Detlev Marpe ,  Tung Nguyen ,  Heiko Schwarz ,  Thomas Wiegand

IPC: H03M7/40 ,  H03M7/46

CPC classification number: H03M7/00 ,  H03M7/40 ,  H03M7/4006 ,  H03M7/46

Abstract: Decomposing a value range of the respective syntax elements into a sequence of n partitions with coding the components of z laying within the respective partitions separately with at least one by VLC coding and with at least one by PIPE or entropy coding is used to greatly increase the compression efficiency at a moderate coding overhead since the coding scheme used may be better adapted to the syntax element statistics. Accordingly, syntax elements are decomposed into a respective number n of source symbols si with i=1 . . . n, the respective number n of source symbols depending on as to which of a sequence of n partitions into which a value range of the respective syntax elements is sub-divided, a value z of the respective syntax elements falls into, so that a sum of values of the respective number of source symbols si yields z, and, if n>1, for all i=1 . . . n−1, the value of si corresponds to a range of the ith partition.

公开(公告)号：US09118897B2

公开(公告)日：2015-08-25

申请号：US13739365

申请日：2013-01-11

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Thomas Wiegand ,  Karsten Mueller ,  Philipp Merkle

IPC: H04N7/32 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/11 ,  H04N19/109 ,  H04N19/17 ,  H04N13/00

CPC classification number: H04N19/597 ,  H04N13/111 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/109 ,  H04N19/11 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/17 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/177 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/521 ,  H04N19/567 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/80 ,  H04N2013/0081

Abstract: Hybrid video decoder supporting intermediate view synthesis of an intermediate view video from a first- and a second-view video which are predictively coded into a multi-view data signal with frames of the second-view video being spatially subdivided into sub-regions and the multi-view data signal having a prediction mode is provided, having: an extractor configured to respectively extract, from the multi-view data signal, for sub-regions of the frames of the second-view video, a disparity vector and a prediction residual; a predictive reconstructor configured to reconstruct the sub-regions of the frames of the second-view video, by generating a prediction from a reconstructed version of a portion of frames of the first-view video using the disparity vectors and a prediction residual for the respective sub-regions; and an intermediate view synthesizer configured to reconstruct first portions of the intermediate view video.

Abstract translation: 混合视频解码器支持来自第一和第二视点视频的中间视图合成的中间视图合成，其被预测编码为多视图数据信号，其中第二视点视频的帧被空间细分为子区域，并且 提供具有预测模式的多视点数据信号，具有：提取器，被配置为分别从多视点数据信号提取第二视点视频的帧的子区域，视差矢量和预测残差 ; 预测重建器，被配置为通过使用所述视差矢量从所述第一视频视频的一部分帧的重构版本生成预测，以及针对所述视差矢量的预测残差来重构所述二维视频的帧的子区域 子区域 以及中间视图合成器，被配置为重建中间视图视频的第一部分。

公开(公告)号：US12120316B2

公开(公告)日：2024-10-15

申请号：US18345541

申请日：2023-06-30

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Martin Winken ,  Heiner Kirchhoffer ,  Heiko Schwarz ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Thomas Wiegand

IPC: H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/147 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/186 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/96

CPC classification number: H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/147 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/186 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/96

Abstract: A better rate distortion ratio is achieved by making interrelationships between coding parameters of different planes available for exploitation for the aim of redundancy reduction despite the additional overhead resulting from the need to signal the inter-plane prediction information to the decoder. In particular, the decision to use inter plane prediction or not may be performed for a plurality of planes individually. Additionally or alternatively, the decision may be done on a block basis considering one secondary plane.