公开(公告)号：US20210028794A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-28

申请号：US17039204

申请日：2020-09-30

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Detlev MARPE ,  Tung NGUYEN ,  Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H03M7/00 ,  H03M7/46 ,  H03M7/40

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：US20200267389A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-20

申请号：US16867149

申请日：2020-05-05

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Valeri GEORGE ,  Benjamin BROSS ,  Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Tung NGUYEN ,  Matthias PREISS ,  Mischa SIEKMANN ,  Jan STEGEMANN ,  Thomas WIEGAND ,  Christian BARTNIK

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

Abstract: A decoder for decoding a data stream into which media data is coded has a mode switch configured to activate a low-complexity mode or a high-efficiency mode depending on the data stream, an entropy decoding engine configured to retrieve each symbol of a sequence of symbols by entropy decoding using a selected one of a plurality of entropy decoding schemes, a desymbolizer configured to desymbolize the sequence of symbols to obtain a sequence of syntax elements, a reconstructor configured to reconstruct the media data based on the sequence of syntax elements, selection depending on the activated low-complexity mode or the high-efficiency mode. In another aspect, a desymbolizer is configured to perform desymbolization such that the control parameter varies in accordance with the data stream at a first rate in case of the high-efficiency mode being activated and the control parameter is constant irrespective of the data stream or changes depending on the data stream, but at a second lower rate in case of the low-complexity mode being activated.

公开(公告)号：US20200252658A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-06

申请号：US16855266

申请日：2020-04-22

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Martin WINKEN ,  Philipp HELLE ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Thomas WIEGAND

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

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：US20200244959A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-30

申请号：US16850588

申请日：2020-04-16

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: H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/137 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/503 ,  H04N19/48 ,  H04N19/86 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/18 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/615 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/33 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/587 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/11 ,  H04N19/463

Abstract: Information available from coding/decoding the base layer, i.e. base-layer hints, is exploited to render the motion-compensated prediction of the enhancement layer more efficient by more efficiently coding the enhancement layer motion parameters.

公开(公告)号：US20200169740A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-28

申请号：US16774880

申请日：2020-01-28

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：US20200128260A1

公开(公告)日：2020-04-23

申请号：US16720054

申请日：2019-12-19

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp MERKLE ,  Christian BARTNIK ,  Haricharan LAKSHMAN ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Thomas WIEGAND ,  Gerhard TECH

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

公开(公告)号：US20200092560A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-19

申请号：US16693886

申请日：2019-11-25

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Valeri GEORGE ,  Benjamin BROSS ,  Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Tung NGUYEN ,  Matthias PREISS ,  Mischa SIEKMANN ,  Jan STEGEMANN ,  Thomas WIEGAND ,  Christian BARTNIK

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

Abstract: A decoder for decoding a data stream into which media data is coded has a mode switch configured to activate a low-complexity mode or a high-efficiency mode depending on the data stream, an entropy decoding engine configured to retrieve each symbol of a sequence of symbols by entropy decoding using a selected one of a plurality of entropy decoding schemes, a desymbolizer configured to desymbolize the sequence of symbols to obtain a sequence of syntax elements, a reconstructor configured to reconstruct the media data based on the sequence of syntax elements, selection depending on the activated low-complexity mode or the high-efficiency mode. In another aspect, a desymbolizer is configured to perform desymbolization such that the control parameter varies in accordance with the data stream at a first rate in case of the high-efficiency mode being activated and the control parameter is constant irrespective of the data stream or changes depending on the data stream, but at a second lower rate in case of the low-complexity mode being activated.

公开(公告)号：US20200014939A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-09

申请号：US16572669

申请日：2019-09-17

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：US20200007869A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-02

申请号：US16459940

申请日：2019-07-02

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: H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/176

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：US20190268609A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-29

申请号：US16411308

申请日：2019-05-14

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Tung NGUYEN ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Thomas WIEGAND

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

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.