公开(公告)号：US10750191B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-18

申请号：US16149906

申请日：2018-10-02

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Heiner Kirchhoffer ,  Heiko Schwarz ,  Tung Nguyen ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Thomas Wiegand

IPC: H04N19/18 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/59

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：US20200228806A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-16

申请号：US16837561

申请日：2020-04-01

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp Helle ,  Heiko Schwarz ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Thomas Wiegand ,  Simon Oudin ,  Benjamin Bross

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

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：US10687085B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-16

申请号：US16271094

申请日：2019-02-08

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp Helle ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Simon Oudin ,  Thomas Wiegand

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

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：US10681390B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-09

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

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：US10674134B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-02

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: H04N13/00 ,  H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176

Abstract: 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, 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 encoding these views in parallel show similarities, which may be exploited in order to further improve the coding rate.

公开(公告)号：US10652564B2

公开(公告)日：2020-05-12

申请号：US16578716

申请日：2019-09-23

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Valeri George ,  Anastasia Henkel ,  Heiner Kirchhoffer ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Thomas Schierl

IPC: H04N11/02 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H03M7/30 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/503 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/167 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/51 ,  H03M7/40

Abstract: The entropy coding of a current part of a predetermined entropy slice is based on, not only, the respective probability estimations of the predetermined entropy slice as adapted using the previously coded part of the predetermined entropy slice, but also probability estimations as used in the entropy coding of a spatially neighboring, in entropy slice order preceding entropy slice at a neighboring part thereof. Thereby, the probability estimations used in entropy coding are adapted to the actual symbol statistics more closely, thereby lowering the coding efficiency decrease normally caused by lower-delay concepts. Temporal interrelationships are exploited additionally or alternatively.

公开(公告)号：US10628849B2

公开(公告)日：2020-04-21

申请号：US16261823

申请日：2019-01-30

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp Helle ,  Simon Oudin ,  Martin Winken ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Thomas Wiegand

IPC: G06Q30/02 ,  G06F16/00 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/186 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/147 ,  G06Q30/06 ,  G06Q10/00 ,  G06Q30/00

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：US10609399B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-31

申请号：US16460230

申请日：2019-07-02

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Karsten Suehring ,  Thomas Schierl ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Robert Skupin ,  Yago Sanchez De La Fuente ,  Gerhard Tech

IPC: H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/65 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/423 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/85 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/166 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/66 ,  H04N19/89 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/33

Abstract: The signalization of the inter-layer dependencies between layers of a multi-layered data stream is described. A good compromise between a too intensive restriction of the potential diversity of inter-layer dependencies on the one hand and a too complex signaling of the inter-layer dependencies on the other hand has been found by describing the inter-layer dependencies by way of a first inter-dependency syntax structure indicating inter-dependencies between pairs of different values representable by a base layer-ID and a second inter-dependency syntax structure indicating inter-dependencies between pairs of different values representable by an extension layer-ID, the base layer ID and extension layer ID indexing the layers the portions of the multi-layer data stream are associated with. In accordance with this concept, emphasis may be shifted between increased diversity of the signalizable inter-layer dependencies on the one hand and reduced side-information overhead for signaling the inter-layer dependencies on the other hand.

公开(公告)号：US10609397B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-31

申请号：US16153307

申请日：2018-10-05

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Thomas Schierl ,  Valeri George ,  Anastasia Henkel ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Grüneberg ,  Robert Skupin

IPC: H04N19/102 ,  H04N19/169 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/593

Abstract: Parallel processing concepts such as wavefront parallel processing, are realized with a reduced end-to-end delay by giving up the usual slice concept according to which slices are either coded/decoded completely independent from areas of the picture outside of the respective slice, or at least independent from areas outside the respective slice as far as the entropy coding is concerned, namely in favor of slices of different modes, namely ones called dependent slices which allow for interdependencies across slice boundaries, and others which do not, called normal slices, for example. Combined with the aspect or not, WPP processing concept is made more efficiently by using the slices' start syntax portions to locate WPP entry points.

公开(公告)号：US10609396B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-31

申请号：US16123184

申请日：2018-09-06

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Karsten Suehring ,  Thomas Schierl ,  Valeri George ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Robert Skupin

IPC: H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/102 ,  H04N19/12 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/80 ,  H04N19/33 ,  H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/156

Abstract: Scalable coding concepts are described. One aspect improves parallel decoding of inter-dependent layers of a multi-layer video data stream by introducing a long-term syntax element structure for guaranteeing that during a predetermined time period the pictures of the dependent layer are subdivided so that borders of the spatial segments of the pictures of the second layer and the spatial segments of the first layer overlay. Another aspect concerns upsampling from base layer to enhancement layer. Another aspect introduces a long-term syntax element structure allowing the decoder to determine the inter-layer offset for a predetermined time period. Another aspect introduces a type indicator field changing a way a layer indicator field within the NAL unit headers is to be interpreted. Another aspect allows different codecs/standards to be used for the different layers. Another aspect concerns a syntax element structure which indicates the inter-layer offset in units of the base layer blocks.