公开(公告)号：US20210211686A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-08

申请号：US17212396

申请日：2021-03-25

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Tung NGUYEN ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Thomas WIEGAND

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

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：US20210029365A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-28

申请号：US17065934

申请日：2020-10-08

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Martin WINKEN ,  Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/147 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/186 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/196

Abstract: A better rate distortion ratio is achieved by making interrelationships between coding parameters of different planes available for exploitation for the aim of redundancy reduction despite the additional overhead resulting from the need to signal the inter-plane prediction information to the decoder. In particular, the decision to use inter plane prediction or not may be performed for a plurality of planes individually. Additionally or alternatively, the decision may be done on a block basis considering one secondary plane.

公开(公告)号：US20200252595A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-06

申请号：US16857608

申请日：2020-04-24

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Thomas WIEGAND ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Philipp MERKLE ,  Gerhard TECH ,  Hunn RHEE ,  Heiko SCHWARZ

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

Abstract: Embodiments are described which exploit a finding, according to which 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, the inventors found out that the 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 parallely encoding these views show similarities which may be exploited in order to further improve the coding rate.

公开(公告)号：US20200186164A1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-11

申请号：US16779851

申请日：2020-02-03

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Detlev MARPE ,  Tung NGUYEN ,  Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H03M7/00 ,  H03M7/40 ,  H03M7/46

Abstract: Decomposing a value range of the respective syntax elements into a sequence of n partitions with coding the components of z laying within the respective partitions separately with at least one by VLC coding and with at least one by PIPE or entropy coding is used to greatly increase the compression efficiency at a moderate coding overhead since the coding scheme used may be better adapted to the syntax element statistics. Accordingly, syntax elements are decomposed into a respective number n of source symbols si with i=1 . . . n, the respective number n of source symbols depending on as to which of a sequence of n partitions into which a value range of the respective syntax elements is sub-divided, a value z of the respective syntax elements falls into, so that a sum of values of the respective number of source symbols si yields z, and, if n>1, for all i=1 . . . n−1, the value of si corresponds to a range of the ith partition.

公开(公告)号：US20200036956A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-30

申请号：US16592433

申请日：2019-10-03

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H04N13/161 ,  H04N13/128 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/194 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/895

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to coding a multi-view signal, which includes processing a list of plurality of motion vector candidates associated with a coding block of a current picture in a dependent view of the multi-view signal. Such processing includes estimating a first motion vector based on a second motion vector associated with a reference block in a current picture of a reference view of the multi-view signal, the reference block corresponding to the coding block of the current picture in the dependent view. The first motion vector is added into the list, and an index is used that specifies at least one candidate from the list to be used for motion-compensated prediction. The coding block in the current picture is coded by performing the motion-compensated prediction based on the at least one candidate indicated by the index.

公开(公告)号：US20190306539A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-03

申请号：US16446150

申请日：2019-06-19

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Martin WINKEN ,  Philipp HELLE ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Thomas WIEGAND

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

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：US20190110046A1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-11

申请号：US16142195

申请日：2018-09-26

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

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：US20190082174A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-14

申请号：US16190409

申请日：2018-11-14

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Detlev MARPE ,  Martin WINKEN ,  Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H04N19/102 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/36 ,  H04N19/186 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/117

Abstract: A more efficient way of addressing different bit-depths, or different bit-depths and chroma sampling format requirements is achieved by using a low bit-depth and/or low-chroma resolution representation for providing a respective base layer data stream representing this low bit-depth and/or low-chroma resolution representation as well as for providing a higher bit-depth and/or higher chroma resolution representation so that a respective prediction residual may be encoded in order to obtain a higher bit-depth and/or higher chroma resolution representation. By this measure, an encoder is enabled to store a base-quality representation of a picture or a video sequence, which can be decoded by any legacy decoder or video decoder, together with an enhancement signal for higher bit-depth and/or reduced chroma sub-sampling, which may be ignored by legacy decoders or video decoders.

公开(公告)号：US20180302642A1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-18

申请号：US16007084

申请日：2018-06-13

Applicant: GE Video Compression LLC

Inventor： Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Philipp HELLE ,  Simon OUDIN ,  Jan STEGEMANN ,  Benjamin BROSS ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/50 ,  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：US20180184111A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-28

申请号：US15890168

申请日：2018-02-06

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Philipp HELLE ,  Simon OUDIN ,  Jan STEGEMANN ,  Benjamin BROSS ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Thomas WIEGAND

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

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.