公开(公告)号：US10306242B2

公开(公告)日：2019-05-28

申请号：US15972372

申请日：2018-05-07

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 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/136 ,  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：US10257545B2

公开(公告)日：2019-04-09

申请号：US16033345

申请日：2018-07-12

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

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

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：US10148957B2

公开(公告)日：2018-12-04

申请号：US14666634

申请日：2015-03-24

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Tobias Hinz ,  Haricharan Lakshman ,  Jan Stegemann ,  Philipp Helle ,  Mischa Siekmann ,  Karsten Suehring ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Heiko Schwarz ,  Christian Bartnik ,  Ali Atef Ibrahim Khairat Abdelhamid ,  Heiner Kirchhoffer ,  Thomas Wiegand

IPC: H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/33 ,  H04N19/587 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/18 ,  H04N19/48 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/86 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/137 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/503 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/615 ,  H04N19/11 ,  H04N19/463

Abstract: Scalable video coding is rendered more efficient by deriving/selecting a subblock subdivision to be used for enhancement layer prediction, among a set of possible subblock subdivisions of an enhancement layer block by evaluating the spatial variation of the base layer coding parameters over the base layer signal. By this measure, less of the signalization overhead has to be spent on signaling this subblock subdivision within the enhancement layer data stream, if any. The subblock subdivision thus selected may be used in predictively coding/decoding the enhancement layer signal.

公开(公告)号：US10123025B2

公开(公告)日：2018-11-06

申请号：US15940820

申请日：2018-03-29

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

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

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

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：US10027976B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-17

申请号：US15695433

申请日：2017-09-05

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Heiko Schwarz ,  Heiner Kirchhoffer ,  Philipp Helle ,  Simon Oudin ,  Jan Stegemann ,  Benjamin Bross ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Thomas Wiegand

IPC: H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/176

CPC classification number: H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/70

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：US10021393B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-10

申请号：US15636451

申请日：2017-06-28

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: H04B1/66 ,  H04N7/12 ,  H04N11/02 ,  H04N11/04 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H03M7/42 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/132 ,  H04N19/174 ,  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.

公开(公告)号：US09973761B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-15

申请号：US15674150

申请日：2017-08-10

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: H04N11/02 ,  H04N7/12 ,  H04N11/04 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H03M7/42 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/132 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/184

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

Abstract: A decoder includes an entropy decoder configured to derive a number of bins of the binarizations from the data stream using binary entropy decoding by selecting a context among different contexts and updating probability states associated with the different contexts, dependent on previously decoded portions of the data stream; a desymbolizer configured to debinarize the binarizations of the syntax elements to obtain integer values of the syntax elements; a reconstructor configured to reconstruct the video based on the integer values of the syntax elements using a quantization parameter, wherein the entropy decoder is configured to distinguish between 126 probability states and to initialize the probability states associated with the different contexts according to a linear equation of the quantization parameter, wherein the entropy decoder is configured to, for each of the different contexts, derive a slope and an offset of the linear equation from first and second four bit parts of a respective 8 bit initialization value.

公开(公告)号：US09930371B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-27

申请号：US15642085

申请日：2017-07-05

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: H04N7/12 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H03M7/42 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/132 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/184

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

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.

公开(公告)号：US09807427B2

公开(公告)日：2017-10-31

申请号：US15197189

申请日：2016-06-29

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

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

CPC classification number: H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/439 ,  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：US09774850B2

公开(公告)日：2017-09-26

申请号：US14271481

申请日：2014-05-07

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Sebastian Bosse ,  Heiko Schwarz ,  Thomas Wiegand ,  Tobias Hinz

IPC: H04N19/00 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/553

CPC classification number: H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/553 ,  H04N19/597

Abstract: A proposed intermediate way of handling the renderable portion of the first view results in more efficient coding. Instead of omitting the coding of the renderable portion completely, even more efficient coding of multi-view signals entails merely suppressing the coding of the residual signal within the renderable portion, whereas the prediction parameter coding still takes place from the non-renderable portion of the multi-view signal across the renderable portion so that prediction parameters for the renderable portion may be exploited for predicting parameters for the non-renderable portion. The additional coding rate for transmitting the prediction parameters for the renderable portion may be kept low as this merely aims at forming a continuation of the parameter history across the renderable portion to serve as a basis for prediction parameters of other portions of the multi-view signal. Expressed differently, the prediction parameters for the renderable portion need not perfectly predict the texture within the renderable portion of the first view to keep the residual signal within the renderable portion low.