公开(公告)号：US20190037221A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-31

申请号：US16149906

申请日：2018-10-02

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

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

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：US20190020883A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-17

申请号：US16123184

申请日：2018-09-06

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Karsten SUEHRING ,  Thomas SCHIERL ,  Valeri GEORGE ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Robert SKUPIN

IPC: H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/80 ,  H04N19/102 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/12 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/174

Abstract: Scalable coding concepts are described. One aspect improves parallel decoding of inter-dependent layers of a multi-layer video data stream by introducing a long-term syntax element structure for guaranteeing that during a predetermined time period the pictures of the dependent layer are subdivided so that borders of the spatial segments of the pictures of the second layer and the spatial segments of the first layer overlay. Another aspect concerns upsampling from base layer to enhancement layer. Another aspect introduces a long-term syntax element structure allowing the decoder to determine the inter-layer offset for a predetermined time period. Another aspect introduces a type indicator field changing a way a layer indicator field within the NAL unit headers is to be interpreted. Another aspect allows different codecs/standards to be used for the different layers. Another aspect concerns a syntax element structure which indicates the inter-layer offset in units of the base layer blocks.

公开(公告)号：US20190013822A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-10

申请号：US16109953

申请日：2018-08-23

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

IPC: H03M7/00

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：US20180295369A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-11

申请号：US16003183

申请日：2018-06-08

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 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/176 ,  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：US20180255306A1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-06

申请号：US15972372

申请日：2018-05-07

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 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/176 ,  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：US20180220164A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-02

申请号：US15940879

申请日：2018-03-29

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

IPC: H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/42 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/53 ,  H04N19/13

CPC classification number: H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/439 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/53 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/70

Abstract: A better compromise between encoding complexity and achievable rate distortion ratio, and/or to achieve a better rate distortion ratio is achieved by using multitree sub-divisioning not only in order to subdivide a continuous area, namely the sample array, into leaf regions, but using the intermediate regions also to share coding parameters among the corresponding collocated leaf blocks. By this measure, coding procedures performed in tiles—leaf regions—locally, may be associated with coding parameters individually without having to, however, explicitly transmit the whole coding parameters for each leaf region separately. Rather, similarities may effectively exploited by using the multitree subdivision.

公开(公告)号：US20180220137A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-02

申请号：US15940820

申请日：2018-03-29

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 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/176 ,  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：US20180167640A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-14

申请号：US15890820

申请日：2018-02-07

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Thomas SCHIERL ,  Valeri GEORGE ,  Karsten GRUENEBERG ,  Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Anastasia HENKEL ,  Detlev MARPE

IPC: H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/169 ,  H04N19/65

Abstract: A raw byte sequence payload describing a picture in slices, WPP substreams or tiles and coded using context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding is subdivided into tranches with continuing the context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding probability adaptation across tranche boundaries. Thereby, tranche boundaries additionally introduced within slices, WPP substreams or tiles do not lead to a reduction in the entropy coding efficiency of these entities. However, the tranches are smaller than the original slices, WPP substreams or tiles and accordingly they may be transmitted earlier, i.e. with lower delay, than the un-chopped original entities. According to another aspect combinable with the first aspect, substream marker NAL units are used within a sequence of NAL units of a video bitstream to enable a transport demultiplexer to assign data of slices within NAL units to the corresponding substreams or tiles so as to be able to, in parallel, serve a multi-threaded decoder with the corresponding substreams or tiles.

公开(公告)号：US20180084267A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-22

申请号：US15824196

申请日：2017-11-28

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Valeri GEORGE ,  Anastasia HENKEL ,  Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Thomas SCHIERL

IPC: H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/167

CPC classification number: H04N19/44 ,  H03M7/3071 ,  H03M7/4037 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/167 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/503 ,  H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/91

Abstract: The entropy coding of a current part of a predetermined entropy slice is based on, not only, the respective probability estimations of the predetermined entropy slice as adapted using the previously coded part of the predetermined entropy slice, but also probability estimations as used in the entropy coding of a spatially neighboring, in entropy slice order preceding entropy slice at a neighboring part thereof. Thereby, the probability estimations used in entropy coding are adapted to the actual symbol statistics more closely, thereby lowering the coding efficiency decrease normally caused by lower-delay concepts. Temporal interrelationships are exploited additionally or alternatively.

公开(公告)号：US20170302969A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-19

申请号：US15642085

申请日：2017-07-05

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

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

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

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.