公开(公告)号：US20190089962A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-21

申请号：US16197154

申请日：2018-11-20

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

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

IPC: H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/147 ,  H04N19/186 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/46

Abstract: A better rate distortion ratio is achieved by making interrelationships between coding parameters of different planes available for exploitation for the aim of redundancy reduction despite the additional overhead resulting from the need to signal the inter-plane prediction information to the decoder. In particular, the decision to use inter plane prediction or not may be performed for a plurality of planes individually. Additionally or alternatively, the decision may be done on a block basis considering one secondary plane.

公开(公告)号：US20190045227A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-07

申请号：US16155281

申请日：2018-10-09

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

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

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：US20190028692A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-24

申请号：US16137992

申请日：2018-09-21

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

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

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 parallely encoding these views show similarities which may be exploited in order to further improve the coding rate.

公开(公告)号：US20180220136A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-02

申请号：US15940733

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：US20180063523A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-01

申请号：US15803310

申请日：2017-11-03

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Detlev MARPE ,  Martin WINKEN ,  Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H04N19/102 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/36 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/186 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/30

CPC classification number: H04N19/102 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/186 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/36 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/61

Abstract: A more efficient way of addressing different bit-depths, or different bit-depths and chroma sampling format requirements is achieved by using a low bit-depth and/or low-chroma resolution representation for providing a respective base layer data stream representing this low bit-depth and/or low-chroma resolution representation as well as for providing a higher bit-depth and/or higher chroma resolution representation so that a respective prediction residual may be encoded in order to obtain a higher bit-depth and/or higher chroma resolution representation. By this measure, an encoder is enabled to store a base-quality representation of a picture or a video sequence, which can be decoded by any legacy decoder or video decoder, together with an enhancement signal for higher bit-depth and/or reduced chroma sub-sampling, which may be ignored by legacy decoders or video decoders.

公开(公告)号：US20160366448A1

公开(公告)日：2016-12-15

申请号：US15195407

申请日：2016-06-28

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

IPC: H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/169 ,  H04N19/53 ,  H04N19/17

CPC classification number: H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/17 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/1883 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/53 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/61

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：US20240179340A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-30

申请号：US18392158

申请日：2023-12-21

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Sebastian BOSSE ,  Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Thomas WIEGAND ,  Tobias HINZ

IPC: H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/553 ,  H04N19/597

CPC classification number: H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/553 ,  H04N19/597

Abstract: A proposed intermediate way of handling the renderable portion of the first view results in more efficient coding. Instead of omitting the coding of the renderable portion completely, even more efficient coding of multi-view signals entails merely suppressing the coding of the residual signal within the renderable portion, whereas the prediction parameter coding still takes place from the non-renderable portion of the multi-view signal across the renderable portion so that prediction parameters for the renderable portion may be exploited for predicting parameters for the non-renderable portion. The additional coding rate for transmitting the prediction parameters for the renderable portion may be kept low as this merely aims at forming a continuation of the parameter history across the renderable portion to serve as a basis for prediction parameters of other portions of the multi-view signal.

公开(公告)号：US20220217316A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-07

申请号：US17576873

申请日：2022-01-14

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Thomas WIEGAND

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

Abstract: The usual coding order according to which the reference view is coded prior to the dependent view, and within each view, a depth map is coded subsequent to the respective picture, may be maintained and does lead to a sacrifice of efficiency in performing inter-view redundancy removal by, for example, predicting motion data of the current picture of the dependent view from motion data of the current picture of the reference view. Rather, a depth map estimate of the current picture of the dependent view is obtained by warping the depth map of the current picture of the reference view into the dependent view, thereby enabling various methods of inter-view redundancy reduction more efficiently by bridging the gap between the views. According to another aspect, the following discovery is exploited: the overhead associated with an enlarged list of motion predictor candidates for a block of a picture of a dependent view is comparatively low compared to a gain in motion vector prediction quality resulting from an adding of a motion vector candidate which is determined from an, in disparity-compensated sense, co-located block of a reference view.

公开(公告)号：US20210281861A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-09

申请号：US17330197

申请日：2021-05-25

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp HELLE ,  Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Thomas WIEGAND ,  Simon OUDIN ,  Benjamin BROSS

IPC: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/147 ,  H04N19/93 ,  H04N19/70

Abstract: A further coding efficiency increase may be achieved if for a current block of a picture, for which the bit stream signals one of supported partitioning patterns, a reversal of the partitioning by block merging is avoided. In particular, if the signaled one of the supported partitioning patterns specifies a subdivision of the block into two or more further blocks, a removal of certain coding parameter candidates for all further blocks, except a first further block of the further blocks in a coding order, is performed. Particularly, those coding parameter candidates are removed from the set of coding parameter candidates for the respective further block, the coding parameters of which are the same as coding parameters associated with any of the further blocks which, when being merged with the respective further block, would result in one of the supported partitioning pattern. This avoids redundancy between partitioning coding and merging coding.

公开(公告)号：US20210266563A9

公开(公告)日：2021-08-26

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.