公开(公告)号：US10575000B2

公开(公告)日：2020-02-25

申请号：US15485283

申请日：2017-04-12

Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

Inventor： Tung-Hsing Wu ,  Li-Heng Chen ,  Han-Liang Chou

IPC: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/147 ,  H04N19/51

Abstract: A method and apparatus of image coding performed at an encoder or decoder using block prediction are disclosed. The block vector bit-count information associated with one or more block vectors (BVs) for the current block is determined, where the BVs are used to locate one or more block predictors for the current block. Prediction residuals corresponding to differences between the current block and the block predictors are determined. A first cost comprising the BV and residual bit-count information associated with encoding the prediction residuals using the first coding tool is determined. The second cost comprising the BV bit-count information and without the residual bit-count information is also determined. The derivation of the BV bit-count information and the prediction residuals for the current block are performed only once, and the BV bit-count information and the prediction residuals are used by the first coding tool and the second coding tool.

公开(公告)号：US10200694B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-05

申请号：US15229506

申请日：2016-08-05

Applicant: MediaTek Inc.

Inventor： Tung-Hsing Wu ,  Li-Heng Chen ,  Han-Liang Chou

IPC: H04N19/164 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/15 ,  H04N19/114 ,  H04N19/65 ,  H04N19/89

Abstract: A method and apparatus of encoding frames with a frame type structure adaptively according to a current encoding status after receiving a request for an IDR frame or receiving an indication of picture data loss are disclosed. If the check result of the current encoding status is true, the second frame type structure is the same as the first frame type structure; and if the check result of the current encoding status is false, the second frame type structure is different from the first frame type structure. Another method and apparatus of encoding frames with a reference frame structure and a frame type structure adaptively according to one or more current encoding statuses after receiving an indication of picture data loss are disclosed. The system may use two different check results to adaptively select the reference frame structure and the frame type structure.

公开(公告)号：US20170105012A1

公开(公告)日：2017-04-13

申请号：US15221606

申请日：2016-07-28

Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

Inventor： Tung-Hsing Wu ,  Li-Heng Chen ,  Han-Liang Chou

IPC: H04N19/186 ,  H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/154 ,  H04N19/176

CPC classification number: H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/147 ,  H04N19/176

Abstract: A method and apparatus of encoding using multiple coding modes with multiple color spaces are disclosed. Weighted distortion is calculated for each candidate mode and a target mode is selected according to information including the weighted distortion. Each candidate coding mode is selected from a coding mode group including at least a first coding mode and a second coding mode, where the first coding mode uses a first color space for encoding one block and the second coding mode uses a second color space for encoding one block, and the first color space is different from the second color space. The weighted distortion corresponds to a weighted sum of distortions of color channels for each color transformed current block using a set of weighting factors and the set of weighting factors is derived based on a color transform associated with a corresponding color space for each coding mode.

公开(公告)号：US11166029B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-02

申请号：US17190409

申请日：2021-03-03

Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

Inventor： Li-Heng Chen ,  Tung-Hsing Wu ,  Yi-Hsin Huang ,  Lien-Fei Chen ,  Ting-An Lin ,  Han-Liang Chou

IPC: H04N19/15 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/159

Abstract: A video encoding apparatus includes a data buffer and a video encoding circuit. Encoding of a first frame includes: deriving reference pixels of a reference frame from reconstructed pixels of the first frame, respectively, and storing reference pixel data into the data buffer for inter prediction, wherein the reference pixel data include information of pixel values of the reference pixels. Encoding of a second frame includes performing prediction upon a coding unit in the second frame to determine a target predictor for the coding unit. The prediction performed upon the coding unit includes: determining the target predictor for the coding unit according to whether a search range on the reference frame for finding a predictor of the coding unit under an inter prediction mode includes at least one reference pixel of the reference frame that is not accessible to the video encoding circuit.

公开(公告)号：US10972738B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-06

申请号：US16367237

申请日：2019-03-27

Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

Inventor： Li-Heng Chen ,  Tung-Hsing Wu ,  Yi-Hsin Huang ,  Lien-Fei Chen ,  Ting-An Lin ,  Han-Liang Chou

IPC: H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/15 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/463

Abstract: A video encoding apparatus includes a data buffer and a video encoding circuit. Encoding of a first frame includes: deriving reference pixels of a reference frame from reconstructed pixels of the first frame, respectively, and storing reference pixel data into the data buffer for inter prediction, wherein the reference pixel data include information of pixel values of the reference pixels. Encoding of a second frame includes performing prediction upon a coding unit in the second frame to determine a target predictor for the coding unit. The prediction performed upon the coding unit includes: checking if a search range on the reference frame for finding a predictor of the coding unit under an inter prediction mode includes at least one reference pixel of the reference frame that is not accessible to the video encoding circuit, and determining the target predictor for the coding unit according to a checking result.

公开(公告)号：US20190306510A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-03

申请号：US16367237

申请日：2019-03-27

Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

Inventor： Li-Heng Chen ,  Tung-Hsing Wu ,  Yi-Hsin Huang ,  Lien-Fei Chen ,  Ting-An Lin ,  Han-Liang Chou

IPC: H04N19/15 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/172

Abstract: A video encoding apparatus includes a data buffer and a video encoding circuit. Encoding of a first frame includes: deriving reference pixels of a reference frame from reconstructed pixels of the first frame, respectively, and storing reference pixel data into the data buffer for inter prediction, wherein the reference pixel data include information of pixel values of the reference pixels. Encoding of a second frame includes performing prediction upon a coding unit in the second frame to determine a target predictor for the coding unit. The prediction performed upon the coding unit includes: checking if a search range on the reference frame for finding a predictor of the coding unit under an inter prediction mode includes at least one reference pixel of the reference frame that is not accessible to the video encoding circuit, and determining the target predictor for the coding unit according to a checking result.

公开(公告)号：US10412390B2

公开(公告)日：2019-09-10

申请号：US15641224

申请日：2017-07-04

Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

Inventor： Ming-Long Wu ,  Tung-Hsing Wu ,  Li-Heng Chen ,  Ting-An Lin ,  Yi-Hsin Huang ,  Chung-Hua Tsai ,  Chia-Yun Cheng ,  Han-Liang Chou ,  Yung-Chang Chang

IPC: H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N21/23 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/18 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N21/2365 ,  H04N21/2665 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/845

Abstract: A video encoder has a processing circuit and a universal binary entropy (UBE) syntax encoder. The processing circuit processes pixel data of a video frame to generate encoding-related data, wherein the encoding-related data comprise at least quantized transform coefficients. The UBE syntax encoder processes a plurality of syntax elements to generate UBE syntax data. The encoding-related data are represented by the syntax elements. The processing circuit operates according to a video coding standard. The video coding standard supports arithmetic encoding. The UBE syntax data contain no arithmetic-encoded syntax data.

公开(公告)号：US20190246144A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-08

申请号：US16194396

申请日：2018-11-19

Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

Inventor： Li-Heng Chen ,  Chung-Hua Tsai ,  Tung-Hsing Wu ,  Lien-Fei Chen ,  Yu-Kun Lin ,  Yi-Hsin Huang ,  Han-Liang Chou

IPC: H04N19/85 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/184

CPC classification number: H04N19/85 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/70

Abstract: A video compression system includes a video encoder and a bitstream processing circuit. The video encoder is hardware that performs hardware video encoding upon frames to generate a first bitstream. The first bitstream is output from an entropy encoding circuit of the video encoder. The bitstream processing circuit performs a bitstream post-processing operation upon the first bitstream to produce a second bitstream that is different from the first bitstream, and outputs the second bitstream as a compression output of the frames.

公开(公告)号：US10142629B2

公开(公告)日：2018-11-27

申请号：US15386022

申请日：2016-12-21

Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

Inventor： Tung-Hsing Wu ,  Li-Heng Chen ,  Han-Liang Chou

IPC: H04N19/112 ,  H04N7/12 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/136

Abstract: A method and apparatus of image coding including adaptive entropy coding are disclosed. According to this method, input pixels associated with a group of symbols generated from image or video data are received. Maximum bit-depth of the group of symbols is then determined. If the maximum bit-depth of the group of symbols is smaller than a first bit-depth threshold, the group of symbols is encoded or decoded using Golomb-Rice coding. If the maximum bit-depth of the group of symbols is greater than or equal to the first bit-depth threshold, the group of symbols is encoded or decoded using second entropy coding, where the second entropy coding is different from the Golomb-Rice coding. Outputs corresponding to encoded or decoded output associated with the group of symbols are provided. The maximum bit-depth of the group of symbols is signaled at the encoder or recovered at the decoder by parsing the bitstream.

公开(公告)号：US20180027244A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-25

申请号：US15654706

申请日：2017-07-20

Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

Inventor： Lien-Fei Chen ,  Tung-Hsing Wu ,  Li-Heng Chen ,  Han-Liang Chou

IPC: H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/149 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/159

CPC classification number: H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/149 ,  H04N19/152 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/164 ,  H04N19/174

Abstract: An exemplary video encoding apparatus has a video encoder, a transmitter, and a control circuit. The video encoder encodes a video sequence into a compressed video bitstream. The transmitter transmits the compressed video bitstream via a communication link. The control circuit adaptively adjusts an encoding behavior of the video encoder according to at least a transmission status of the communication link.