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公开(公告)号:US10939139B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-02
申请号:US16204792
申请日:2018-11-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Xiaohua Yang , Alexandros Tourapis , Dazhong Zhang , Hang Yuan , Hsi-Jung Wu , Jae Hoon Kim , Jiefu Zhai , Ming Chen , Xiaosong Zhou
IPC: H04N19/52 , H04N19/90 , H04N19/597 , H04N21/2343 , G06F3/01
Abstract: In communication applications, aggregate source image data at a transmitter exceeds the data that is needed to display a rendering of a viewport at a receiver. Improved streaming techniques that include estimating a location of a viewport at a future time. According to such techniques, the viewport may represent a portion of an image from a multi-directional video to be displayed at the future time, and tile(s) of the image may be identified in which the viewport is estimated to be located. In these techniques, the image data of tile(s) in which the viewport is estimated to be located may be requested at a first service tier, and the other tile in which the viewport is not estimated to be located may be requested at a second service tier, lower than the first service tier.
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公开(公告)号:US20200296426A1
公开(公告)日:2020-09-17
申请号:US16890245
申请日:2020-06-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Jiefu Zhai , Dazhong Zhang , Xiaosong Zhou , Chris Y. Chung , Hsi-Jung Wu , Peikang Song , David R. Conrad , Jae Hoon Kim , Yunfei Zheng
IPC: H04N19/82 , H04N19/186
Abstract: Chroma deblock filtering of reconstructed video samples may be performed to remove blockiness artifacts and reduce color artifacts without over-smoothing. In a first method, chroma deblocking may be performed for boundary samples of a smallest transform size, regardless of partitions and coding modes. In a second method, chroma deblocking may be performed when a boundary strength is greater than 0. In a third method, chroma deblocking may be performed regardless of boundary strengths. In a fourth method, the type of chroma deblocking to be performed may be signaled in a slice header by a flag. Furthermore, luma deblock filtering techniques may be applied to chroma deblock filtering.
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公开(公告)号:US10757428B2
公开(公告)日:2020-08-25
申请号:US16156193
申请日:2018-10-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Mei Guo , Jun Xin , Jun Xu , Yeping Su , Chris Chung , Xiaosong Zhou , Hsi-Jung Wu
IPC: H04N19/33 , H04N19/186 , H04N19/51 , H04N19/136 , H04N19/12
Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for reshaping HDR video content to improve compression efficiency while using standard encoding/decoding techniques. Input HDR video frames, e.g., represented in an IPT color space, may be reshaped before the encoding/decoding process and the corresponding reconstructed HDR video frames may then be reverse reshaped. The disclosed reshaping methods may be combinations of scene-based or segment-based methods.
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公开(公告)号:US10708623B2
公开(公告)日:2020-07-07
申请号:US16050744
申请日:2018-07-31
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Jiefu Zhai , Dazhong Zhang , Xiaosong Zhou , Chris Y. Chung , Hsi-Jung Wu , Peikang Song , David R. Conrad , Jae Hoon Kim , Yunfei Zheng
IPC: H04N19/82 , H04N19/186
Abstract: Chroma deblock filtering of reconstructed video samples may be performed to remove blockiness artifacts and reduce color artifacts without over-smoothing. In a first method, chroma deblocking may be performed for boundary samples of a smallest transform size, regardless of partitions and coding modes. In a second method, chroma deblocking may be performed when a boundary strength is greater than 0. In a third method, chroma deblocking may be performed regardless of boundary strengths. In a fourth method, the type of chroma deblocking to be performed may be signaled in a slice header by a flag. Furthermore, luma deblock filtering techniques may be applied to chroma deblock filtering.
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公开(公告)号:US20200092571A1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-19
申请号:US16132219
申请日:2018-09-14
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Alexandros Tourapis , Dazhong Zhang , Hang Yuan , Hsi-Jung Wu , Jae Hoon Kim , Jiefu Zhai , Ming Chen , Xiaosong Zhou
IPC: H04N19/29 , H04N21/44 , G09G5/14 , H04N19/103
Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for reducing latency and improving image quality of a viewport extracted from multi-directional video communications. According to such techniques, first streams of coded video data are received from a source. The first streams include coded data for each of a plurality of tiles representing a multi-directional video, where each tile corresponding to a predetermined spatial region of the multi-directional video, and at least one tile of the plurality of tiles in the first streams contains a current viewport location at a receiver. The techniques include decoding the first streams and displaying the tile containing the current viewport location. When the viewport location at the receiver changes to include a new tile of the plurality of tiles, retrieving and decoding first streams for the new tile, displaying the decoded content for the changed viewport location, and transmitting the changed viewport location to the source.
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公开(公告)号:US10462420B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-29
申请号:US15725868
申请日:2017-10-05
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Elizabeth C. Cranfill , Stephen O. Lemay , Joe S. Abuan , Hsi-Jung Wu , Xiaosong Zhou , Roberto Garcia, Jr.
IPC: H04N7/14 , H04N7/15 , G06F3/0484 , G09G5/14 , H04N5/262 , H04N5/272 , H04N5/225 , G06F9/451 , H04M1/725 , G06F3/0488 , G06F3/0481
Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method for initiating a video conference using a first mobile device. The method presents, during an audio call through a wireless communication network with a second device, a selectable user-interface (UI) item on the first mobile device for switching from the audio call to the video conference. The method receives a selection of the selectable UI item. The method initiates the video conference without terminating the audio call. The method terminates the audio call before allowing the first and second devices to present audio and video data exchanged through the video conference.
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公开(公告)号:US10432961B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-01
申请号:US15067041
申请日:2016-03-10
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Alexandros Michael Tourapis , Yeping Su , David William Singer , Hsi-Jung Wu
IPC: H04N19/117 , H04N19/82 , H04N19/169 , H04N19/517 , H04N19/70 , H04N19/61 , H04N19/132 , H04N19/182 , H04N19/59 , H04N19/147 , H04N19/152 , H04N19/40 , H04N19/44 , H04N19/86
Abstract: A video coding system may include an encoder performs motion-compensated prediction on a video signal in a second format converted from an input format of the video signal. The video coding system may also include a decoder to decode portions of the encoded video, and a filtering system that filters portions of the decoded video, for example, by deblocking filtering or SAO filtering, using parameters derived from the video signal in the input format. A prediction system may include another format converter that converts the decoded video to the input format. The prediction system may select parameters of the motion-compensated prediction based at least in part on a comparison of the video signal in the input format to decoded video in the input format.
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公开(公告)号:US10402677B2
公开(公告)日:2019-09-03
申请号:US15618909
申请日:2017-06-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Jiefu Zhai , Ke Zhang , Yunfei Zheng , Shujie Liu , Albert Keinath , Xiaosong Zhou , Chris Chung , Hsi-Jung Wu
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for estimating quality of images in an automated fashion. According to these techniques, a source image may be downsampled to generate at least two downsampled images at different levels of downsampling. Blurriness of the images may be estimated starting with a most-heavily downsampled image. Blocks of a given image may be evaluated for blurriness and, when a block of a given image is estimated to be blurry, the block of the image and co-located blocks of higher resolution image(s) may be designated as blurry. Thereafter, a blurriness score may be calculated for the source image from the number of blocks of the source image designated as blurry.
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公开(公告)号:US10402226B2
公开(公告)日:2019-09-03
申请号:US15173047
申请日:2016-06-03
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: Albert Keinath , Ke Zhang , Yunfei Zheng , Shujie Liu , Jiefu Zhai , Chris Y. Chung , Xiaosong Zhou , Hsi-Jung Wu
IPC: G06F9/46 , G06F9/50 , G06F9/48 , H04L29/08 , H04N21/443 , H04N21/414
Abstract: A system for processing media on a resource restricted device, the system including a memory to store data representing media assets and associated descriptors, and program instructions representing an application and a media processing system, and a processor to execute the program instructions, wherein the program instructions represent the media processing system, in response to a call from an application defining a plurality of services to be performed on an asset, determine a tiered schedule of processing operations to be performed upon the asset based on a processing budget associated therewith, and iteratively execute the processing operations on a tier-by-tier basis, unless interrupted.
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公开(公告)号:US10382830B2
公开(公告)日:2019-08-13
申请号:US15296156
申请日:2016-10-18
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor: David L. Biderman , Xiaosong Zhou , Douglas Scott Price , Yeping Su , Chris Y. Chung , Hsi-Jung Wu , Zhenheng Li , John Su , James D. Batson
IPC: H04N21/61 , G06K9/00 , H04N21/262 , H04N21/845 , H04N21/6587 , H04N21/4402 , G11B27/30 , G11B27/00
Abstract: System and methods for improved playback of a video stream are presented. Video snippets are identified that include a number of consecutive frames for playback. Snippets may be evenly temporally spaced in the video stream or may be content adaptive. Then the first frame of a snippet may be selected as the first frame of a scene or other appropriate stopping point. Scene detection, object detection, motion detection, video metadata, or other information generated during encoding or decoding of the video stream may aid in appropriate snippet selection.
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