公开(公告)号：US11368688B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-21

申请号：US16807879

申请日：2020-03-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexandros Tourapis

IPC: H04N19/17 ,  H04N19/12 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/625 ,  H04N19/186

Abstract: An encoder system may include an analyzer that analyzes a current image area in an input video to select a transform. A selectable residue transformer, controlled by the analyzer, may perform the selectable transform on a residue image generated from the current image area and a predicted current image area, to generate a transformed residue image. An encoder may encode the transformed residue image to generate output data. The analyzer controls the encoder to encode information to identify the selectable transform and to indicate that the selectable transform for the current image area is different from a transform of a previous image area of the input video. A decoder system may include components appropriate for decoding the output data from the encoder system.

公开(公告)号：US11367224B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-21

申请号：US16591530

申请日：2019-10-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Khaled Mammou ,  Alexandros Tourapis ,  Yeping Su ,  Jungsun Kim ,  Fabrice A Robinet ,  Valery G. Valentin

IPC: G06T9/00 ,  H04N19/597

Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial information for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. The encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. The encoder packs patch images into an image frame and fills empty spaces in the image frame with a padding. Various compression strategies may be used to encode an occupancy map and related block-to-patch information indicating which portions of the image frame correspond to which packed patches. Packed image frames comprising patches and padding, along with an encoded occupancy map and related block-to-patch information are sent to a decoder. The decoder is configured to generate a decompressed point cloud based on the packed image frames, compressed occupancy map, and related block-to-patch information.

公开(公告)号：US11361471B2

公开(公告)日：2022-06-14

申请号：US15931349

申请日：2020-05-13

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Khaled Mammou ,  Yeping Su ,  David W. Singer ,  Alexandros Tourapis ,  Fabrice A. Robinet ,  Hsi-Jung Wu

IPC: G06T7/50 ,  G06T9/00 ,  G06T7/70 ,  G06T7/20 ,  A01C3/02 ,  G08B1/00 ,  G09B1/00 ,  G06T1/00 ,  G11B7/002

Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. To compress the attribute and/or spatial information, the encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. Also, the decoder is configured to generate a decompressed point cloud based on an image based representation of a point cloud. A block/sub-block organization scheme is used to encode blocks and sub-blocks of an occupancy map used in compressing the point cloud. Binary values are assigned to blocks/sub-blocks based on whether they contain patches projected on the point cloud. A traversal path is chosen that takes advantage of run-length encoding strategies to reduce a size of an encoded occupancy map. Also, auxiliary information is used to further improve occupancy map compression.

公开(公告)号：US11323730B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-03

申请号：US16561478

申请日：2019-09-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mei Guo ,  Jun Xin ,  Yeping Su ,  Hsi-Jung Wu ,  Alexandros Tourapis

IPC: G01R31/34 ,  H02P29/024 ,  H01H71/70 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/177 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/46

Abstract: Techniques for video exchange are disclosed in which a video source sends redundant copies of video coded at a given presentation time. A decoder may determine, from metadata stored with a first decoded frame, whether other decoded frames have been designated as correlated to the first decoded frame. If so, the decoder may fetch other decoding frames using time indicator values of other decoded frames in metadata stored with the first decoded frame. When other decoded frame(s) are found, the decoder may blend content of the first coded frame and the other decoded frame(s). The decoder may render the blended frame. When one such coded frame is an intra-coded frame, the proposed technique may alleviate beating artifacts by blending recovered data of the intra-coded frame with recovered data of another frame, which may be inter-coded.

公开(公告)号：US20220109857A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-07

申请号：US17554587

申请日：2021-12-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexandros Tourapis ,  Athanasios Leontaris

IPC: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/86

Abstract: Video coding schemes may include one or more filters to reduce coding artifacts and improve video quality. These filters may be applied to decode video data in a predetermined sequence. The output from one or more of these filters may be selected for different images, blocks, or sets of video data and then copied and/or routed to a display or a buffer storing reference data that is used to decode other video data in a data stream. Providing the ability to select which filter output is used for display and as a reference may result in better video quality for multiple types of video data. The filters that are selected for display and for reference may be different and may vary for different images, blocks, and data sets.

公开(公告)号：US20220070493A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-03

申请号：US17523826

申请日：2021-11-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Khaled Mammou ,  Yeping Su ,  Jungsun Kim ,  Valery G. Valentin ,  David W. Singer ,  Fabrice A. Robinet ,  Hsi-Jung Wu ,  Alexandros Tourapis

IPC: H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/85 ,  H04N19/463

Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute and/or spatial information for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. To compress the attribute and/or spatial information, the encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. Also, the decoder is configured to generate a decompressed point cloud based on an image based representation of a point cloud. In some embodiments, an encoder performs downscaling of an image frame prior to video encoding and a decoder performs upscaling of an image frame subsequent to video decoding.

公开(公告)号：US11202078B2

公开(公告)日：2021-12-14

申请号：US17031782

申请日：2020-09-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexandros Tourapis ,  Jungsun Kim ,  Khaled Mammou ,  Liviu Traian Christian Tulvan ,  Marius Preda

IPC: H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/107 ,  G06T9/00 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/147 ,  H04N19/172

Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information for a dynamic point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute information for a dynamic point cloud. The dynamic point cloud may include multiple versions of the point cloud at multiple moments in time Attribute values for the point cloud may be compressed at a reference frame using an intra-prediction process and may be compressed at one or more reference frames using an inter-prediction process that takes advantage of temporal relationships between different frames (e.g. versions) of the dynamic point cloud at the different moments in time.

公开(公告)号：US20210211724A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-08

申请号：US17145192

申请日：2021-01-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jungsun Kim ,  Khaled Mammou ,  Alexandros Tourapis

IPC: H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/124

Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial information for volumetric visual content and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the volumetric visual content. The encoder is configured to convert a 3D representation of the visual volumetric content into a 2D image based representation. The encoder is further configured to scale the patch in 2D space independent of any scaling in 3D space. Auxiliary information is signaled for use in identifying 2D scaled or unscaled patches in an image frame, mapping the patches into 3D space, and adjusting for any scaling factors applied at the encoder.

公开(公告)号：US11017566B1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-25

申请号：US16459483

申请日：2019-07-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexandros Tourapis ,  Khaled Mammou ,  Yeping Su ,  Jungsun Kim ,  Valery G. Valentin ,  David W. Singer ,  Fabrice A. Robinet ,  Hsi-Jung Wu

IPC: G06T9/00 ,  G06T3/40 ,  H03M7/30 ,  G06T17/20

Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. To compress the attribute and/or spatial information, the encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. Also, the decoder is configured to generate a decompressed point cloud based on an image based representation of a point cloud. A processing/filtering element utilizes occupancy map information and/or auxiliary patch information to determine relationships between patches in image frames and adjusts encoding/decoding and/or filtering or pre/post-processing parameters based on the determined relationships.

公开(公告)号：US20210136370A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-06

申请号：US16834611

申请日：2020-03-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexandros Tourapis ,  David W. Singer ,  Dominik Mehlem ,  Krishnakanth Rapaka

IPC: H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/573 ,  H04N19/543

Abstract: Techniques for coding and decoding video may include predicting picture regions defined by a time-varying tessellation and/or by a tessellation that varies spatially within a picture. These techniques improve decoded video quality, for example, by reducing block-based visual artifacts. Tessellation patterns may be irregular spatially to prevent alignment of some prediction region boundaries within a picture. Tessellation patterns may vary over time based on a spatial offset value, and the spatial offset value may be determined via a modulo function. Tessellation patterns may include overlapped shapes, for example when used in conjunction with overlapped block motion compensation.