公开(公告)号：US20160080742A1

公开(公告)日：2016-03-17

申请号：US14944012

申请日：2015-11-17

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

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

IPC: H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/18 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/136

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：US20250097453A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-20

申请号：US18895939

申请日：2024-09-25

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 ,  H04N19/172 ,  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：US20250047821A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-06

申请号：US18804447

申请日：2024-08-14

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H04N13/161 ,  H04N13/128 ,  H04N19/194 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/895

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to coding a multi-view signal, which includes processing a list of plurality of motion vector candidates associated with a coding block of a current picture in a dependent view of the multi-view signal. Such processing includes estimating a first motion vector based on a second motion vector associated with a reference block in a current picture of a reference view of the multi-view signal, the reference block corresponding to the coding block of the current picture in the dependent view. The first motion vector is added into the list, and an index is used that specifies at least one candidate from the list to be used for motion-compensated prediction. The coding block in the current picture is coded by performing the motion-compensated prediction based on the at least one candidate indicated by the index.

公开(公告)号：US20240146954A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-02

申请号：US18363057

申请日：2023-08-01

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 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/70

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：US20240106997A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-28

申请号：US18534932

申请日：2023-12-11

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Thomas WIEGAND ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Philipp MERKLE ,  Gerhard TECH ,  Hunn RHEE ,  Heiko SCHWARZ

IPC: H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/61

CPC classification number: H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/197 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/61

Abstract: Embodiments are described which exploit a finding, according to which a higher compression rate or better rate/distortion ratio may be achieved by adopting or predicting second coding parameters used for encoding a second view of the multi-view signal from first coding parameters used in encoding a first view of the multi-view signal. In other words, the inventors found out that the redundancies between views of a multi-view signal are not restricted to the views themselves, such as the video information thereof, but that the coding parameters in parallelly encoding these views show similarities which may be exploited in order to further improve the coding rate.

公开(公告)号：US20240031585A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-25

申请号：US18364973

申请日：2023-08-03

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

CPC classification number: 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：US20230421806A1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-28

申请号：US18344329

申请日：2023-06-29

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Thomas WIEGAND ,  Martin WINKEN

IPC: H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/80 ,  H04N19/33 ,  H04N19/36 ,  H04N19/82

CPC classification number: H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/80 ,  H04N19/33 ,  H04N19/36 ,  H04N19/82

Abstract: To increase efficiency of a bit-depth scalable data-stream an inter-layer prediction is obtained by mapping samples of the representation of the picture or video source data with a first picture sample bit-depth from a first dynamic range corresponding to the first picture sample bit-depth to a second dynamic range greater than the first dynamic range and corresponding to a second picture sample bit-depth being higher than the first picture sample bit-depth by use of one or more global mapping functions being constant within the picture or video source data or varying at a first granularity, and a local mapping function locally modifying the one or more global mapping functions and varying at a second granularity smaller than the first granularity, with forming the quality-scalable data-stream based on the local mapping function such that the local mapping function is derivable from the quality-scalable data-stream.

公开(公告)号：US20230099885A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-30

申请号：US18052491

申请日：2022-11-03

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp HELLE ,  Simon OUDIN ,  Martin WINKEN ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: G06Q30/02 ,  G06F16/00 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/147 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/186 ,  G06Q30/06

Abstract: A favorable merging or grouping of simply connected regions into which the array of information samples is sub-divided, is coded with a reduced amount of data. To this end, a predetermined relative locational relationship is defined enabling an identifying, for a predetermined simply connected region, of simply connected regions within the plurality of simply connected regions which have the predetermined relative locational relationship to the predetermined simply connected region. Namely, if the number is zero, a merge indicator for the predetermined simply connected region may be absent within the data stream. In other embodiments, spatial sub-division is preformed depending on a first subset of syntax elements, followed by combining spatially neighboring simply connected regions depending on a second subset of syntax elements, to obtain an intermediate sub-division.

公开(公告)号：US20230092331A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-23

申请号：US17981969

申请日：2022-11-07

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Yago SANCHEZ DE LA FUENTE ,  Karsten SÜHRING ,  Cornelius HELLGE ,  Thomas SCHIERL ,  Robert SKUPIN ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H04N19/169 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/44

Abstract: An apparatus (200) for receiving an input video data stream according to an embodiment is provided. The input video data stream has a video encoded thereinto. The apparatus (200) is configured to generate an output video data stream from the input video data stream.

公开(公告)号：US20230089318A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-23

申请号：US18052616

申请日：2022-11-04

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

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

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.