CONSTRUCTION OF COMBINED LIST USING TEMPORAL DISTANCE
    11.
    发明申请
    CONSTRUCTION OF COMBINED LIST USING TEMPORAL DISTANCE 审中-公开
    使用时间距离构成组合列表

    公开(公告)号:US20120328005A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-12-27

    申请号:US13530428

    申请日:2012-06-22

    IPC分类号: H04N7/36 H04N7/34 H04N7/38

    摘要: In one embodiment, a method receives a current picture of video content. The method then determines a set of reference pictures for the current picture and a temporal distance from the current picture for each of the set of reference pictures. A combined list of reference pictures in the set of reference pictures is determined where an order of pictures in the combined list is based on the temporal distance for each of the set of reference pictures to the current picture. The method then uses the combined list to perform temporal prediction for the current picture.

    摘要翻译: 在一个实施例中,一种方法接收视频内容的当前画面。 该方法然后确定用于当前图片的一组参考图片以及与该组参考图片中的每一个的当前图片的时间距离。 确定参考图片集合中的参考图片的组合列表,其中组合列表中的图片顺序是基于参考图片集合中的每一个到当前图片的时间距离。 该方法然后使用组合列表来执行当前图片的时间预测。

    Motion vector coding and decoding in interlaced frame coded pictures
    12.
    发明授权
    Motion vector coding and decoding in interlaced frame coded pictures 有权
    在交错帧编码图像中的运动矢量编码和解码

    公开(公告)号:US07924920B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-04-12

    申请号:US10933882

    申请日:2004-09-02

    摘要: In one aspect, an encoder/decoder receives information for four field motion vectors for a macroblock in an interlaced frame-coded, forward-predicted picture and processes the macroblock using the four field motion vectors. In another aspect, an encoder/decoder determines a number of valid candidate motion vectors and calculates a field motion vector predictor. The encoder/decoder does not perform a median operation on the valid candidates if there are less than three of them. In another aspect, an encoder/decoder determines valid candidates, determines field polarities for the valid candidates, and calculates a motion vector predictor based on the field polarities. In another aspect, an encoder/decoder determines one or more valid candidates, determines a field polarity for each individual valid candidate, allocates each individual valid candidate to one of two sets (e.g., opposite polarity and same polarity sets) depending on its field polarity, and calculates a motion vector predictor based on the two sets.

    摘要翻译: 一方面,编码器/解码器接收用于隔行扫描帧编码的前向预测图像中的宏块的四个场运动矢量的信息,并使用四个场运动矢量处理该宏块。 在另一方面,编码器/解码器确定多个有效的候选运动矢量并计算场运动矢量预测器。 如果编码器/解码器中有少于三个,编码器/解码器不对有效候选进行中位数操作。 在另一方面,编码器/解码器确定有效候选,确定有效候选的场极性,并且基于场极性计算运动矢量预测器。 在另一方面,编码器/解码器确定一个或多个有效候选,确定每个单独有效候选的场极性,根据其场极性将每个单独的有效候选分配给两组中的一个(例如,相反的极性和相同极性集) ,并且基于两组来计算运动矢量预测器。

    Transmission of a video signal using adaptive delta modulation
    14.
    发明授权
    Transmission of a video signal using adaptive delta modulation 失效
    使用自适应增量调制传输视频信号

    公开(公告)号:US5016100A

    公开(公告)日:1991-05-14

    申请号:US453525

    申请日:1989-12-20

    IPC分类号: H04N7/087 H04N7/26 H04N7/38

    CPC分类号: H04N19/00 H04N7/087 H04N19/30

    摘要: A method of transmitting a video signal includes separating one or more parts of the video signal into a high frequency component and a low frequency component, encoding the low frequency component using an adaptive delta modulation process and transmitting the encoded low frequency components during non-active intervals of the high frequency component. In one embodiment, the high frequency component is encoded using an entropy code. A receiver is provided for reconstructing a video signal in response to the received encoded signals.

    摘要翻译: 一种发送视频信号的方法包括将视频信号的一个或多个部分分离成高频分量和低频分量,使用自适应增量调制过程对低频分量进行编码,并在非活动期间发送编码的低频分量 高频分量的间隔。 在一个实施例中,使用熵码对高频分量进行编码。 提供接收机,用于响应于所接收的编码信号重构视频信号。

    Arrangement for digital encoding of colour television video signals
    15.
    发明授权
    Arrangement for digital encoding of colour television video signals 失效
    彩色电视视频信号的数字编码装置

    公开(公告)号:US3773971A

    公开(公告)日:1973-11-20

    申请号:US3773971D

    申请日:1971-04-01

    申请人: PHILIPS CORP

    发明人: SAINTE BEUVE P

    IPC分类号: H04N7/38 H04N11/04 H04N9/02

    CPC分类号: H04N19/00 H04N11/046

    摘要: An arrangement for digital encoding of a colour television video signal for transmission by delta-modulation, in which the choice of the sampling for quantising and coding an transmission of information depends upon the magnitude of the variations of the moment of the brightness signal and of the colour signal and upon the variations appearing during the next samplings. The method is used for retransmission of the signals E''Y, D''B and D''R of the SECAM system from a communication satellite. This invention relates to an arrangement for digital encoding particularly but not exclusively the brightness signals and colour signals of colour television pictures for transmission in a frequency band of moderate width in the form of a rapid succession of short signals, each having a given, elementary significance said succession being grouped in ''''words'''' of variable length by the application of pulse delta-modulation. It is known that the basic principle of delta-modulation signal transmission consists in transmitting solely the intensity variations of the signal instead of transmitting at any instant an electric magnitude representing in analogue form the required information. The variations to be transmitted result from the comparison of signal magnitudes at two different instants lying very near each other and corresponding to two consecutive signal samples. In order to avoid the cumulative errors which might result from a transmission disturbed by background noise of the successive variations of the signals to be transmitted, the corresponding information is usually transmitted in coded pulse form, which transmission mode provides the best immunity to disturbances likely to be introduced by a given level of background noise. This immunity to background noise is, however, opposed by the fact that delta pulse-code-modulation transmission in order to maintain a satisfactory picture definition requires a much wider frequency band, than the frequency band required by the direct transmission of the signals in analogue form; this is a disadvantage especially so if the signal to be transmitted is a wide band signal, such as a television video signal. Among the variants various arrangements for the transmission of information in the form of a difference signal there is disclosed in French Pat. specification No. 1,041,766 an arrangement in which the amplitude variations of a signal are transmitted in the form of successive information signals, each of which corresponds to a variation quantum selected among a given number of predetermined variation levels, each one of these levels being represented for information transmission by a suitable group of coded pulses. The quality and the fidelity of a signal transmitted with the aid of different signals and of pulse code transmission depend upon the number of quantised levels such that the use of a greater number of levels representative of the variations to be transmitted provides an improved transmission but leads to a code of longer words requiring a higher total number of pulses and a larger bandwidth for the transmission. A method providing an appreciable improvement in the quality of the pictures obtained, while a comparatively small number of representative levels is used, is disclosed in applicant''s French Pat. application filed the 31st of Dec., 1969 registered under No. 6945677. Said method allows an appreciable reduction of the frequency band required for the transmission, but the use of this method alone does not permit reducing the bandwidth required for the transmission of brightness and colour information contained in a colour television video signal to an extent as required for said transmission to be possible in a standard 8 MHz channel. The invention has for its object to reduce the frequency band occupied by the brightness and colour information of a colour television video signal with a basic interval between samplings of 100 nsec and coded transmission of information in accordance with the ''''quadriphase'''' transmission method, in a sequential system such as the SECAM system, to some 10 MHz with a picture of 625 lines and 50 frame periods a second, while an accurate time transmission of the most important transitions of brightness and chrominance is maintained. The invention is based on the recognition of the fact that the correct reproduction of a picture depends largely upon the transmission of the important variations of the brightness signal at instants as accurate as possible and that the regular sampling being random with respect to the signal it is very likely to detract from the correct reproduction of the important transitions at the receiver end. According to the invention the method of digital encoding of a video signal, particularly but not exclusively of colour television pictures, is mainly characterized in that with simultaneous sampling for information and quantisation of the instantaneous value of the brightness signal to be transmitted and the values it will have in 1 to n time steps or sampling, the choice of sampling in favour of quantisation and coding is made in accordance with the values of the variations determined and with the times required for the transmission of corresponding code words and in that information transmission priority is given to either that brightness signal or that colour signal whose variation is proportionally the most important at the instant of carrying out a given set of simultaneous samplings. In order to ensure that the transmission of code signals corresponding to the most important variations of the image contents are carried out at the optimum instants, the transmission of a small or mean variation (corresponding, for example, to a code word of two digits) preceding a transition of high amplitude is replaced by the transmission of a very small variation (code word on one digit) so that at the most suitable instant a word of three digits can be transmitted and in this way an accurate reproduction of the contours in brightness and in position is ensured. The instants of information sampling remain evenly distributed in time and provide to the circuitry the necessary indications for the quantisation, coding and transmission samplings to be carried out at the most appropriate instants, while the transmission of a very small variation (code word of one digit) may be considered as that of a waiting signal preceding the coding and the transmission of a much more important variation. In order to ensure optimum coincidence between the end of the transmission of the corresponding code word and the scanning of the place of the transition in line scan, the sampling of a great transition (code word of three digits) for quantisation and coding is advanced by a time unit relatively to the sampling for coding a mean or small transition (code word of two digits). The transmission of a very small variation by a code word of one digit is finally advanced by a time unit relatively to the transmission of a small, mean or large variation without the structure of the image at the receiver end being perceptibly affected thereby. The arrangement according to the invention permits utilising to the optimum the frequency band occupied by high-frequency signals to be transmitteD , the phase of said signals indicating the elementary information of each of them, which information may be represented in a conventional code by an arabic digit (intrinsic meaning of the term digit in data processing) or by a code letter (extended meaning of the term digit). It is known that in a normal image the information of brightness variations to be transmitted, for example, is not likely to have the same probability factor and that with a number of samples of about 500 on one line roughly 50 percent of transitions between samples represents less than 3 percent of the total scale from black to white and that less than 1
    percent of the transitions corresponds to a variation of more than 30 percent. While it leads to the use of a frequency band of moderate width, the method according to the invention permits, for example, the transmission of numerous small variations expressed by a digit, which indicates at the same time that the ''''word'''' has only one digit, the transmission of mean variations of two different representative levels, which are considerably less numerous and expressed by words of two digits and the transmission of a few variations of great amplitude expressed by words of three digits. The simultaneous samplings of the actual value and the successive values of the sampled signal permit knowing in advance the great variations to be transmitted and, while inhibiting the transmission of preceding small variations, permit beginning at the desired time the transmission of words of three digits representing the same in a logical transmission code. The colour information, which provides the colouring of the image in compatible television systems and which does not directly affect the fineness of the definition, lies in a comparatively narrow pass band as compared with the brightness signal and does not require a very high transmission rate: when this transmission is performed at the instants when the colour signal variations are larger than the brightness signal variations at all instants when the transmission of the brightness signal has a comparatively doubtful efficiency the very principle of delta-modulation is utilised as best as possible so that what is not transmitted subsequent to a sampling leads to an ''''overtake'''' during the next sampling. The lower transmission rate of colour information permits using code words of three digits which is otherwise required for distinguishing them from brightness information.