CODING METHOD AND CORRESPONDING CODED SIGNAL
    11.
    发明申请
    CODING METHOD AND CORRESPONDING CODED SIGNAL 审中-公开
    编码方法和相关编码信号

    公开(公告)号:US20090016441A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-01-15

    申请号:US10596711

    申请日:2004-12-28

    IPC分类号: H04N7/50

    摘要: The invention relates to a coding method applied to digital video data available in the form of a video stream consisting of consecutive frames. These frames, divided into macroblocks, include at least I-frames, independently coded, or P-frames, temporally disposed between said I-frames and predicted from at least a previous I- or P-frame, or B-frames, temporally disposed between an I-frame and a P-frame, or between two P-frames, and bidirectionally predicted from at least these two frames between which they are disposed, said predictions of P- and B-frames being performed by means of a weighted prediction with unequal amount of prediction from the past and the future. According to the invention, this coding method comprises the following steps: a structuring step, provided for capturing coding parameters characterizing the said weighted prediction; a computing step, for delivering statistics related to said parameters; an analyzing step for determining a change of preference regarding the direction of prediction; a step provided for detecting the occurrences of gradual scene changes; a step provided for generating description data of said occurrences; and a step for encoding the description data thus obtained and the original digital video data.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种应用于由连续帧组成的视频流形式可用的数字视频数据的编码方法。 这些帧被划分为宏块,至少包括I个帧,独立编码的或P帧,其暂时地设置在所述I帧之间并且从至少先前的I或P帧或B帧预先设计,或者暂时放置 在I帧和P帧之间或在两个P帧之间,并且从它们所在的至少这两个帧进行双向预测,所述P帧和B帧的预测通过加权预测执行 来自过去和未来的不均衡预测。 根据本发明,该编码方法包括以下步骤:提供用于捕获表征所述加权预测的编码参数的结构化步骤; 计算步骤,用于传送与所述参数相关的统计信息; 用于确定关于预测方向的偏好改变的分析步骤; 提供用于检测逐渐场景变化的发生的步骤; 提供用于生成所述事件的描述数据的步骤; 以及对由此获得的描述数据和原始数字视频数据进行编码的步骤。

    Device For Handling Data Items That Can Be Rendered To A User
    12.
    发明申请
    Device For Handling Data Items That Can Be Rendered To A User 审中-公开
    处理可以呈现给用户的数据项的设备

    公开(公告)号:US20080212947A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-09-04

    申请号:US12088939

    申请日:2006-10-03

    IPC分类号: H04N7/26

    摘要: A device (DVR) handles data items that can be rendered to a user. Such a device may be, for example, a digital video recorder. The device (DVR) comprises a network interface (NWIC, NWIM) that couples the device (DVR) to a network, which comprises other devices. A content analysis initiator (ECF) within the device (DVR) detects that another device, which forms part of the network, comprises a content analyzer. The content analysis initiator (ECF) causes the content analyzer (AVCA) of the other device to be applied to a data item (AVF).

    摘要翻译: 设备(DVR)处理可以呈现给用户的数据项。 这样的设备可以是例如数字录像机。 设备(DVR)包括将设备(DVR)耦合到包括其他设备的网络的网络接口(NWIC,NWIM)。 设备(DVR)内的内容分析发起者(ECF)检测构成网络一部分的另一设备包括内容分析器。 内容分析发起者(ECF)使其他装置的内容分析器(AVCA)应用于数据项(AVF)。

    Coding Method Applied to Multimedia Data
    13.
    发明申请
    Coding Method Applied to Multimedia Data 审中-公开
    适用于多媒体数据的编码方法

    公开(公告)号:US20080267290A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-10-30

    申请号:US10599611

    申请日:2005-04-04

    IPC分类号: H04N7/34 H04N7/50

    CPC分类号: H04N19/593 H04N19/61

    摘要: The invention relates to a coding method applied to digital video data available in the form of a video stream consisting of consecutive frames divided into macroblocks. These frames are coded in the form of at least I-frames, coded independently, P-frames, predicted from at least a previous I- or P-frame, and B-frames, bidirectionally predicted from at least two frames between which they are disposed. According to the invention, the coding method comprises the following steps: a structuring step, provided for capturing for all the macroblocks of the current frame related coding parameters characterizing the fact that they have been coded, or not, according to a predetermined intra prediction mode; a computing step, for delivering statistics related to said parameters; an analyzing step, provided for analyzing said statistics for determining the number of blocks which exhibit, or not, said intra prediction mode; a detecting step, provided for detecting, each time said number is greater than a given threshold, the occurrence of an image, or of a sub-region of an image, which is either monochrome or with a repetitive pattern; a description step, provided for generating description data of said occurrences of images or sub-images either monochrome or with a repetitive pattern; a coding step, for coding both description data and original data.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种应用于视频流形式的数字视频数据的编码方法,该视频流由分成宏块的连续帧组成。 这些帧以至少I帧的形式进行编码,独立编码,至少从先前的I或P帧预测的P帧和从至少两帧双向预测的B帧, 处置。 根据本发明,编码方法包括以下步骤:一个结构化步骤,用于根据预定的帧内预测模式,针对当前帧相关编码参数的所有宏块进行捕获,以表征它们已被编码的事实 ; 计算步骤,用于传送与所述参数相关的统计信息; 分析步骤,用于分析所述统计数据,用于确定表示或不表示所述帧内预测模式的块数; 检测步骤,用于每次所述数量大于给定阈值时检测图像或单色或重复图案的图像的子区域的出现; 描述步骤,用于生成单色或重复图案的图像或子图像的所述出现的描述数据; 编码步骤,用于对描述数据和原始数据进行编码。

    Apparatus and Method for Analyzing a Content Stream Comprising a Content Item
    14.
    发明申请
    Apparatus and Method for Analyzing a Content Stream Comprising a Content Item 审中-公开
    用于分析包含内容项目的内容流的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20080189753A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-08-07

    申请号:US11814014

    申请日:2006-01-17

    IPC分类号: H04N7/173

    摘要: The invention relates to an apparatus (300) and a method for analyzing a content stream (201) comprising a content item, and to a computer program product enabling a programmable device. The apparatus comprises a content analysis processor (310) for identifying an exact indicator of a boundary (221, 222) of the content item in the content stream, wherein identifying comprises determining a remote indicator (231) being remote from the boundary and analyzing the content stream starting from the remote indicator towards the boundary to identify the exact indicator.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种用于分析包含内容项的内容流(201)的装置(300)和方法,以及启用可编程装置的计算机程序产品。 该装置包括用于识别内容流中的内容项的边界(221,222)的精确指示符的内容分析处理器(310),其中识别包括确定远离边界的远程指示符(231),并分析 内容流从远程指示器开始到边界以识别确切的指标。

    Content analysis of coded video data
    15.
    发明申请
    Content analysis of coded video data 审中-公开
    编码视频数据的内容分析

    公开(公告)号:US20070041447A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-02-22

    申请号:US10552765

    申请日:2004-04-13

    IPC分类号: H04N11/04

    摘要: The invention relates to a system (101) for content analysis. The system (101) comprises an interface receiving a video signal in accordance with a first encoding standard, such as H.264. The interface is coupled to an extraction processor (107) which extracts video coding data from the video signal. The video coding data is fed to a conversion processor (109) which converts the video coding data to video coding data according to a second video encoding standard, such as MPEG-2. The conversion converts the extracted video data to video coding data related to a common encoding block size, for example, by grouping smaller blocks and averaging the video parameters to provide video coding parameters related to larger block sizes. The converted data is fed to a content analysis processor (111) which performs content analysis based on the converted data. A content analysis algorithm for one video encoding standard may thus be used for a different video encoding standard.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种用于内容分析的系统(101)。 系统(101)包括接收根据诸如H.264的第一编码标准的视频信号的接口。 接口耦合到从视频信号中提取视频编码数据的提取处理器(107)。 视频编码数据被馈送到转换处理器(109),转换处理器(109)根据诸如MPEG-2的第二视频编码标准将视频编码数据转换为视频编码数据。 该转换将提取的视频数据转换为与公共编码块大小相关的视频编码数据,例如通过对较小的块进行分组并对视频参数进行平均以提供与较大块大小有关的视频编码参数。 转换的数据被馈送到基于转换的数据执行内容分析的内容分析处理器(111)。 因此,用于一个视频编码标准的内容分析算法可以用于不同的视频编码标准。

    Method and system to convert 2D video into 3D video
    16.
    发明授权
    Method and system to convert 2D video into 3D video 失效
    将2D视频转换为3D视频的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US08493448B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-07-23

    申请号:US12519378

    申请日:2007-12-14

    IPC分类号: H04N13/02

    CPC分类号: H04N13/261 H04N13/10

    摘要: 2D/3D video conversion using a method for providing an estimation of visual depth for a video sequence, the method comprises an audio scene classification (34) in which a visual depth categorization index of visual depth (37) of a scene is made on basis of an analysis of audio information (32) for the scene, wherein the visual depth categorization index (37) is used in a 5 following visual depth estimation (38) based on video information (33) for the same scene, thereby reducing the calculation load and speeding up the processing.

    摘要翻译: 使用用于提供视频序列的视觉深度估计的方法的2D / 3D视频转换,该方法包括音频场景分类(34),其中基于场景的视觉深度(37)的视觉深度分类指数 对所述场景的音频信息(32)进行分析,其中,基于相同场景的视频信息(33),在后续的视觉深度估计(38)中使用所述视觉深度分类指数(37),从而减少所述计算 加载和加速处理。

    METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING CODED VIDEO DATA
    17.
    发明申请
    METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING CODED VIDEO DATA 审中-公开
    用于处理编码视频数据的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20090052537A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-02-26

    申请号:US11718248

    申请日:2005-10-28

    IPC分类号: H04N11/02

    摘要: The present invention relates to a method of processing digital coded video data available in the form of a video stream consisting of consecutive frames divided into slices. The frames include at least I-frames, coded without any reference to other frames, P-frames, temporally disposed between said I-frames and predicted from at least a previous I- or P-frame, and B-frames, temporally disposed between an I-frame and a P-frame, or between two P-frames, and bidirectionally predicted from at least these two frames between which they are disposed. The processing method comprises the steps of determining for each slice of the current frame related slice coding parameters and parameters related to spatial relationships between the regions that are coded in each slice, collecting said parameters for all the successive slices of the current frame, for delivering statistics related to said parameters, analyzing said statistics for determining regions of interest (ROIs) in said current frame, and enabling a selective use of the coded data, targeted on the regions of interest thus determined.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种处理数字编码视频数据的方法,数字编码视频数据以视频流的形式可用,该视频流由分成切片的连续帧组成。 这些帧至少包括I帧,其编码而不参考其它帧,暂时放置在所述I帧之间并且至少从先前的I或P帧预测的P帧和暂时设置在 I帧和P帧,或两个P帧之间,并且从它们所设置的至少这两个帧双向预测。 该处理方法包括以下步骤:确定当前帧相关的片段编码参数的每个片段以及与在每个片段中编码的区域之间的空间关系相关的参数,收集当前帧的所有连续片段的所述参数,以便递送 与所述参数相关的统计数据,分析所述统计信息以确定所述当前帧中的感兴趣区域(ROI),以及使得能够选择性地使用针对所确定的感兴趣区域的编码数据。

    Data-Processing Device and Method for Informing a User About a Category of a Media Content Item
    18.
    发明申请
    Data-Processing Device and Method for Informing a User About a Category of a Media Content Item 审中-公开
    用于通知用户关于媒体内容项目的类别的数据处理设备和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20080140406A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-06-12

    申请号:US11577040

    申请日:2005-10-10

    IPC分类号: G10L13/04

    CPC分类号: G10L13/00

    摘要: The invention relates to a method of informing a user about a category (152) of a media content item. The method comprises the steps of: identifying the category of the media content item, and enabling a user to obtain an audible signal (156) having an audio parameter (153) in accordance with the category of the media content item. The invention further relates to a device, which is capable of functioning in accordance with the method. The invention also relates to audio data comprising an audible signal informing a user about a category of a media content item, a database comprising a plurality of the audio data, and a computer program product. In a recommender system, the audible signal may be reproduced by the recommender system when a user interaction with the recommender system relates to the media content item of a particular genre. The invention may be used in the EPG user interface.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种通知用户关于媒体内容项目的类别(152)的方法。 该方法包括以下步骤:识别媒体内容项的类别,以及使用户能够根据媒体内容项的类别获得具有音频参数(153)的可听信号(156)。 本发明还涉及一种能够根据该方法起作用的装置。 本发明还涉及音频数据,其包括通知用户关于媒体内容项目的类别的可听信号,包括多个音频数据的数据库以及计算机程序产品。 在推荐系统中,当与推荐系统的用户交互涉及特定类型的媒体内容项时,可以由推荐系统再现可听信号。 本发明可以用在EPG用户界面中。

    MONOCHROME FRAME DETECTION METHOD AND CORRESPONDING DEVICE
    19.
    发明申请
    MONOCHROME FRAME DETECTION METHOD AND CORRESPONDING DEVICE 审中-公开
    单色框架检测方法和相关设备

    公开(公告)号:US20070206931A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-09-06

    申请号:US10599631

    申请日:2005-04-04

    IPC分类号: H04N7/32 G06T5/00 H04N7/34

    CPC分类号: H04N19/593 H04N19/61

    摘要: The invention relates to a detection method applied to digital coded video data available in the form of a video stream comprising consecutive frames divided into macroblocks themselves subdivided into contiguous blocks. These frames comprise I-frames, coded independently, P-frames, predicted from a previous I- or P-frame, and B-frames, bidirectionally predicted from at least two frames between which they are disposed. According to the invention, the processing method comprises the steps of determining for each block of the current frame if it has been coded, or not, according to a predetermined intra prediction mode, collecting similar information for all the blocks of the current frame, for delivering statistics related to said intra prediction mode, analyzing said statistics for determining the number of blocks of said current frame which exhibit, or not, said intra prediction mode, and detecting in the sequence of frames, each time said number is greater than a given threshold, the occurrence of an image, or a sub-region of an image, which is either monochrome or with a repetitive pattern.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种应用于以视频流形式可用的数字编码视频数据的检测方法,该视频流包括划分为本身被分成连续块的宏块的连续帧。 这些帧包括独立编码的I帧,从先前的I或P帧预测的P帧和从它们被布置的至少两个帧双向预测的B帧。 根据本发明,处理方法包括以下步骤:根据预定的帧内预测模式,对当前帧的每个块进行编码,如果已经被编码,则针对当前帧的所有块收集类似的信息,为 提供与所述帧内预测模式相关的统计信息,分析所述统计数据,用于确定表示或不表现所述帧内预测模式的所述当前帧的块数,以及每次所述数量大于给定的帧时, 阈值,图像的出现或图像的子区域,其是单色的或具有重复图案。

    Video encoding
    20.
    发明申请
    Video encoding 审中-公开
    视频编码

    公开(公告)号:US20060204115A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-09-14

    申请号:US10547322

    申请日:2004-02-25

    IPC分类号: G06K9/36 H04N11/04 H04K1/06

    摘要: The invention relates to a video encoding apparatus (100) comprising a video analysis processor (101) and a video encoder (103). The video analysis processor (101) comprises a segmentation processor (109) which divides a picture into a plurality of picture regions. A picture characteristic processor (111) determines picture characteristic, such as a texture level, for one of the regions, and in response a video encoding selector (113) selects a video encoding parameter for that region. The video encoding parameter is fed to the video encoder (103) wherein a video encode processor (I 19) encodes the picture using the video encoding parameter determined by the external analysis by the video analysis processor (101). The encoded picture is fed back to the video analysis processor (101) and the process is iterated until a desired encoding performance is achieved. The apparatus is particularly suitable for H.264 encoding and allows for improved performance from a selection of encoding parameters based on an external analysis.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种包括视频分析处理器(101)和视频编码器(103)的视频编码设备(100)。 视频分析处理器(101)包括将图像分割成多个图像区域的分割处理器(109)。 图像特征处理器(111)确定该区域之一的图像特性,例如纹理水平,并且响应于视频编码选择器(113)选择该区域的视频编码参数。 视频编码参数被馈送到视频编码器(103),其中视频编码处理器(I19)使用由视频分析处理器(101)由外部分析确定的视频编码参数对图像进行编码。 将经编码的图像反馈到视频分析处理器(101),并重复该过程,直到达到期望的编码性能。 该装置特别适用于H.264编码,并且允许基于外部分析的编码参数的选择来改善性能。