公开(公告)号：US20210112269A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-15

申请号：US17129457

申请日：2020-12-21

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Sebastian BOSSE ,  Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Thomas WIEGAND ,  Heribert BRUST

IPC: H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/597

Abstract: Rendered portions of a renderable portion of a first view of a multi-view signal are introduced into a prediction loop of a multi-view encoder to form a reference signal for the block-based prediction of the encoder's view predictor may improve the prediction and thereby increasing the coding efficiency. The introduction may be performed by completely inserting the renderable portion into the prediction loop to form new reference pictures with their own reference picture indices in addition to reference pictures obtained by the reconstructed version of the multi-view signal of the block-based prediction. Alternatively, the rendered portion may be introduced into the prediction loop completely, but with replacing the normal prediction reference signal, i.e., the normally reconstructed signal as obtained by block-based prediction. Alternatively, it may be signaled within the data stream which portions of the renderable portion are used to replace respective portions in the normally reconstructed signal.

公开(公告)号：US20210058599A1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-25

申请号：US17080001

申请日：2020-10-26

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION LLC

Inventor： Gerhard TECH ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H04N13/161 ,  H04N13/111 ,  H04N13/128 ,  G06T15/20 ,  H04N13/122

Abstract: An apparatus for determining a measure for a distortion change of a first view synthesized from a second view, caused by a modification of a depth map of the second view from a first state to a second state, is configured—starting from a current synthesis state of the first view corresponding to a synthesis from the second view having the depth map modified to the second state in an already processed portion of the depth map and having the depth map unmodified at the first state in a yet to be processed portion of the depth map—to compute a possible successor synthesis state corresponding to a synthesis of the first view from the second view having the depth map modified to the second state in an already processed portion plus a currently processed portion and having the depth map unmodified at the first state in the yet to be processed portion without the currently processed portion; and to determine a distortion change of a distortion of the current synthesis state of the first view relative to an undistorted version of the first view to a distortion of the possible successor synthesis state of the first view relative to the undistorted version of the first view.

公开(公告)号：US20200372537A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-26

申请号：US16988120

申请日：2020-08-07

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 performed 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：US20200351491A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-05

申请号：US16849271

申请日：2020-04-15

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

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

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：US20200344495A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-29

申请号：US16907724

申请日：2020-06-22

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

IPC: H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/42 ,  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：US20200186826A1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-11

申请号：US16790892

申请日：2020-02-14

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

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：US20200162764A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-21

申请号：US16747834

申请日：2020-01-21

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

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

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：US20200084458A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-12

申请号：US16686558

申请日：2019-11-18

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

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

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

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：US20200065855A1

公开(公告)日：2020-02-27

申请号：US16561558

申请日：2019-09-05

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 performed 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：US20190320178A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-17

申请号：US16454387

申请日：2019-06-27

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

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.