公开(公告)号：US20170359590A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-14

申请号：US15585581

申请日：2017-05-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dazhong Zhang ,  Hang Yuan ,  Peikang Song ,  Jae Hoon Kim ,  Xing Wen ,  Sudeng Hu ,  Xiaosong Zhou ,  Chris Y. Chung ,  Hsi-Jung Wu

IPC: H04N19/423

CPC classification number: H04N19/423 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N21/44004 ,  H04N21/6373 ,  H04N21/6379

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for managing memory allocations when coding video data according to multiple codec configurations. According to these techniques, devices may negotiate parameters of a coding session that include parameters of a plurality of different codec configurations that may be used during the coding session. A device may estimate sizes of decoded picture buffers for each of the negotiated codec configurations and allocate in its memory a portion of memory sized according to a largest size of the estimated decoded picture buffers. Thereafter, the devices may exchange coded video data. The exchange may involve decoding coded data of reference pictures and storing the decoded reference pictures in the allocated memory. During the coding session, the devices may toggle among the different negotiated codec configurations. As they do, reallocations of memory may be avoided.

公开(公告)号：US11818394B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-14

申请号：US17207267

申请日：2021-03-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jae Hoon Kim ,  Xiaosong Zhou ,  Dazhong Zhang ,  Hang Yuan ,  Jiefu Zhai ,  Chris Y. Chung ,  Hsi-Jung Wu

IPC: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/547

CPC classification number: H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/547

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for coding video data predictively based on predictions made from spherical-domain projections of input pictures to be coded and reference pictures that are prediction candidates. Spherical projection of an input picture and the candidate reference pictures may be generated. Thereafter, a search may be conducted for a match between the spherical-domain representation of a pixel block to be coded and a spherical-domain representation of the reference picture. On a match, an offset may be determined between the spherical-domain representation of the pixel block to a matching portion of the of the reference picture in the spherical-domain representation. The spherical-domain offset may be transformed to a motion vector in a source-domain representation of the input picture, and the pixel block may be coded predictively with reference to a source-domain representation of the matching portion of the reference picture.

公开(公告)号：US11627343B2

公开(公告)日：2023-04-11

申请号：US17188473

申请日：2021-03-01

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Xiaohua Yang ,  Alexandros Tourapis ,  Dazhong Zhang ,  Hang Yuan ,  Hsi-Jung Wu ,  Jae Hoon Kim ,  Jiefu Zhai ,  Ming Chen ,  Xiaosong Zhou

IPC: H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/90 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: In communication applications, aggregate source image data at a transmitter exceeds the data that is needed to display a rendering of a viewport at a receiver. Improved streaming techniques that include estimating a location of a viewport at a future time. According to such techniques, the viewport may represent a portion of an image from a multi-directional video to be displayed at the future time, and tile(s) of the image may be identified in which the viewport is estimated to be located. In these techniques, the image data of tile(s) in which the viewport is estimated to be located may be requested at a first service tier, and the other tile in which the viewport is not estimated to be located may be requested at a second service tier, lower than the first service tier.

公开(公告)号：US20210227236A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-22

申请号：US17221299

申请日：2021-04-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexandros Tourapis ,  Dazhong Zhang ,  Hang Yuan ,  Hsi-Jung Wu ,  Jae Hoon Kim ,  Jiefu Zhai ,  Ming Chen ,  Xiaosong Zhou

IPC: H04N19/29 ,  H04N19/103 ,  G09G5/14 ,  H04N21/44

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for reducing latency and improving image quality of a viewport extracted from multi-directional video communications. According to such techniques, first streams of coded video data are received from a source. The first streams include coded data for each of a plurality of tiles representing a multi-directional video, where each tile corresponding to a predetermined spatial region of the multi-directional video, and at least one tile of the plurality of tiles in the first streams contains a current viewport location at a receiver. The techniques include decoding the first streams and displaying the tile containing the current viewport location. When the viewport location at the receiver changes to include a new tile of the plurality of tiles, retrieving and decoding first streams for the new tile, displaying the decoded content for the changed viewport location, and transmitting the changed viewport location to the source.

公开(公告)号：US10939139B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-02

申请号：US16204792

申请日：2018-11-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Xiaohua Yang ,  Alexandros Tourapis ,  Dazhong Zhang ,  Hang Yuan ,  Hsi-Jung Wu ,  Jae Hoon Kim ,  Jiefu Zhai ,  Ming Chen ,  Xiaosong Zhou

IPC: H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/90 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  G06F3/01

Abstract: In communication applications, aggregate source image data at a transmitter exceeds the data that is needed to display a rendering of a viewport at a receiver. Improved streaming techniques that include estimating a location of a viewport at a future time. According to such techniques, the viewport may represent a portion of an image from a multi-directional video to be displayed at the future time, and tile(s) of the image may be identified in which the viewport is estimated to be located. In these techniques, the image data of tile(s) in which the viewport is estimated to be located may be requested at a first service tier, and the other tile in which the viewport is not estimated to be located may be requested at a second service tier, lower than the first service tier.

公开(公告)号：US20200092571A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-19

申请号：US16132219

申请日：2018-09-14

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Alexandros Tourapis ,  Dazhong Zhang ,  Hang Yuan ,  Hsi-Jung Wu ,  Jae Hoon Kim ,  Jiefu Zhai ,  Ming Chen ,  Xiaosong Zhou

IPC: H04N19/29 ,  H04N21/44 ,  G09G5/14 ,  H04N19/103

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for reducing latency and improving image quality of a viewport extracted from multi-directional video communications. According to such techniques, first streams of coded video data are received from a source. The first streams include coded data for each of a plurality of tiles representing a multi-directional video, where each tile corresponding to a predetermined spatial region of the multi-directional video, and at least one tile of the plurality of tiles in the first streams contains a current viewport location at a receiver. The techniques include decoding the first streams and displaying the tile containing the current viewport location. When the viewport location at the receiver changes to include a new tile of the plurality of tiles, retrieving and decoding first streams for the new tile, displaying the decoded content for the changed viewport location, and transmitting the changed viewport location to the source.

公开(公告)号：US20180349705A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-06

申请号：US15613130

申请日：2017-06-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jae Hoon Kim ,  Ming Chen ,  Hang Yuan ,  Jiefu Zhai ,  Dazhong Zhang ,  Xiaosong Zhou ,  Chris Chung ,  Hsi-Jung Wu

IPC: G06K9/00 ,  G06T7/292 ,  G06K9/32

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for managing display of content from multi-view video data. According to these techniques, an object may be identified from content of the multi-view video. The object's location may be tracked across a sequence of multi-view video. The technique may extract a sub-set of video that is contained within a view window that is shifted in an image space of the multi-view video in correspondence to the tracked object's location. These techniques may be implemented either in an image source device or an image sink device.

公开(公告)号：US20170359575A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-14

申请号：US15613885

申请日：2017-06-05

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Dazhong Zhang ,  Hang Yuan ,  Peikang Song ,  Jae Hoon Kim ,  Xing Wen ,  Sudeng Hu ,  Xiaosong Zhou ,  Chris Chung ,  Hsi-Jung Wu

IPC: H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/11 ,  H04N19/186 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/50 ,  G06T9/00 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/196

CPC classification number: H04N19/11 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/17 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/593

Abstract: A video coder defines multiple fidelity regions in different spatial areas of a video sequence, each of which may have different fidelity characteristics. The coder may code the different representations in a common video sequence. Where prediction data crosses boundaries between the regions, interpolation may be performed to create like kind representations between prediction data and video content being coded.

公开(公告)号：US11818502B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-14

申请号：US17846896

申请日：2022-06-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jae Hoon Kim ,  Chris Y. Chung ,  Dazhong Zhang ,  Hang Yuan ,  Hsi-Jung Wu ,  Xiaosong Zhou ,  Jiefu Zhai

IPC: H04N7/14 ,  H04N7/15 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  H04N13/00 ,  H04N13/239

CPC classification number: H04N7/147 ,  G06F3/0488 ,  H04N7/15 ,  H04N13/239 ,  H04N2007/145 ,  H04N2013/0092

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for perspective shifting in a video conferencing session. In one exemplary method, a video stream may be generated. A foreground element may be identified in a frame of the video stream and distinguished from a background element of the frame. Data may be received representing a viewing condition at a terminal that will display the generated video stream. The frame of the video stream may be modified based on the received data to shift of the foreground element relative to the background element. The modified video stream may be displayed at the displaying terminal.

公开(公告)号：US11677934B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-13

申请号：US17485298

申请日：2021-09-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sudeng Hu ,  David L. Biderman ,  Christopher M. Garrido ,  Hsi-Jung Wu ,  Xiaosong Zhou ,  Dazhong Zhang ,  Jinbo Qiu ,  Karthick Santhanam ,  Hang Yuan ,  Joshua L. Hare ,  Luciano M. Verger ,  Kevin Arthur Robertson ,  Sasanka Vemuri

IPC: H04N7/12 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/177 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/146 ,  H04N19/124

CPC classification number: H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/146 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/177

Abstract: In an example method, a system receives a plurality of frames of a video, and generates a data structure representing the video and representing a plurality of temporal layers. Generating the data structure includes: (i) determining a plurality of quality levels for presenting the video, where each of the quality levels corresponds to a different respective sampling period for sampling the frames of the video, (ii) assigning, based on the sampling periods, each of the frames to a respective one of the temporal layers of the data structure, and (iii) indicating, in the data structure, one or more relationships between (a) at least one the frames assigned to at least one of the temporal layers of the data structure, and (b) at least another one of the frames assigned to at least another one of the temporal layers of the data structure. Further, the system outputs the data structure.