公开(公告)号：US10602182B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-24

申请号：US16386403

申请日：2019-04-17

Applicant: GE Video Compression LLC

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

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

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：US10595027B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-17

申请号：US14995244

申请日：2016-01-14

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Karsten Suehring ,  Thomas Schierl ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Robert Skupin ,  Yago Sanchez De La Fuente ,  Gerhard Tech

IPC: H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/65 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/423 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/85 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/166 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/66 ,  H04N19/89 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/33

Abstract: A signaling of at least one characteristic for layers of a multi-layered video signal such as, for example, for each layer the indication of dependent layers to which the respective layer directly relates via inter-layer prediction, or the signaling of the afore-mentioned second inter-dependency syntax structure, is described. A maximum syntax element is signaled within the multi-layered video signal to indicate a maximally used value of an extension layer-ID field of the packets of the multi-layered video signal, the scope of the maximum syntax element being, for example, a predetermined portion of the multi-layered video signal extending, for example, across several portions of the multi-layered video signal. Accordingly, it is feasible for devices such as decoders or network elements receiving the multi-layered video signal to gain, for a relatively large predetermined portion of the multi-layered video signal, knowledge about the actually consumed portion of the possible domain of possible values.

公开(公告)号：US10575024B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-25

申请号：US13649251

申请日：2012-10-11

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

IPC: H04N19/17 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/53 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/169 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/593

Abstract: Coding schemes for coding a spatially sampled information signal using sub-division and coding schemes for coding a sub-division or a multitree structure are described, wherein representative embodiments relate to picture and/or video coding applications.

公开(公告)号：US10484716B2

公开(公告)日：2019-11-19

申请号：US15928742

申请日：2018-03-22

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Thomas Schierl ,  Valeri George ,  Anastasia Henkel ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Grueneberg ,  Robert Skupin

IPC: H04N19/00 ,  H04N19/68 ,  H04N7/00 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/4728 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/167 ,  H04N19/423 ,  H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/169 ,  H04N19/67 ,  H04N19/55 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04L12/66 ,  G06F15/173 ,  H04L12/54 ,  H04L12/833 ,  H04L12/801

Abstract: Decoder retrieval timing information, ROI information and tile identification information are conveyed within a video data stream at a level which allows for an easy access by network entities such as MANEs or decoder. In order to reach such a level, information of such types are conveyed within a video data stream by way of packets interspersed into packets of access units of a video data stream, In accordance with an embodiment, the interspersed packets are of a removable packet type, i.e. the removal of these interspersed packets maintains the decoder's ability to completely recover the video content conveyed via the video data stream.

公开(公告)号：US10477223B2

公开(公告)日：2019-11-12

申请号：US16198275

申请日：2018-11-21

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

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

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

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：US10477210B2

公开(公告)日：2019-11-12

申请号：US14666600

申请日：2015-03-24

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Tobias Hinz ,  Haricharan Lakshman ,  Jan Stegemann ,  Philipp Helle ,  Mischa Siekmann ,  Karsten Suehring ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Heiko Schwarz ,  Christian Bartnik ,  Ali Atef Ibrahim Khairat Abdelhamid ,  Heiner Kirchhoffer ,  Thomas Wiegand

IPC: H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/33 ,  H04N19/587 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/18 ,  H04N19/48 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/86 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/137 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/503 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/615 ,  H04N19/11 ,  H04N19/463

Abstract: A scalable video decoder is described which is configured to reconstruct a base layer signal from a coded data stream to obtain a reconstructed base layer signal; and reconstruct an enhancement layer signal including spatially or temporally predicting a portion of an enhancement layer signal, currently to be reconstructed, from an already reconstructed portion of the enhancement layer signal to obtain an enhancement layer internal prediction signal; forming, at the portion currently to be reconstructed, a weighted average of an inter-layer prediction signal obtained from the reconstructed base layer signal, and the enhancement layer internal prediction signal to obtain an enhancement layer prediction signal such that a weighting between the inter-layer prediction signal and the enhancement layer internal prediction signal varies over different spatial frequency components; and predictively reconstructing the enhancement layer signal using the enhancement layer prediction signal.

公开(公告)号：US10448055B2

公开(公告)日：2019-10-15

申请号：US15928742

申请日：2018-03-22

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Thomas Schierl ,  Valeri George ,  Anastasia Henkel ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Grueneberg ,  Robert Skupin

IPC: H04N19/00 ,  H04N19/68 ,  H04N7/00 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/4728 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/167 ,  H04N19/423 ,  H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/169 ,  H04N19/67 ,  H04N19/55 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04L12/66 ,  G06F15/173 ,  H04L12/54 ,  H04L12/833 ,  H04L12/801

Abstract: Decoder retrieval timing information, ROI information and tile identification information are conveyed within a video data stream at a level which allows for an easy access by network entities such as MANEs or decoder. In order to reach such a level, information of such types are conveyed within a video data stream by way of packets interspersed into packets of access units of a video data stream, In accordance with an embodiment, the interspersed packets are of a removable packet type, i.e. the removal of these interspersed packets maintains the decoder's ability to completely recover the video content conveyed via the video data stream.

公开(公告)号：US10432940B2

公开(公告)日：2019-10-01

申请号：US16259815

申请日：2019-01-28

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 ,  H04N7/12 ,  H04N11/02 ,  H04N11/04 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/132 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H03M7/42 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/50

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：US10382776B2

公开(公告)日：2019-08-13

申请号：US15890168

申请日：2018-02-06

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

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

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：US10362317B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-23

申请号：US15663256

申请日：2017-07-28

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

IPC: H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/23 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/597

Abstract: Although wedgelet-based partitioning seems to represent a better tradeoff between side information rate on the one hand and achievable variety in partitioning possibilities on the other hand, compared to contour partitioning, the ability to alleviate the constraints of the partitioning to the extent that the partitions have to be wedgelet partitions, enables applying relatively uncomplex statistical analysis onto overlaid spatially sampled texture information in order to derive a good predictor for the bi-segmentation in a depth/disparity map. Thus, in accordance with a first aspect it is exactly the increase of the freedom which alleviates the signaling overhead provided that co-located texture information in form of a picture is present. Another aspect pertains the possibility to save side information rate involved with signaling a respective coding mode supporting irregular partitioning.