公开(公告)号：US20190246136A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-08

申请号：US16386403

申请日：2019-04-17

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 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/172

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：US20190238896A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-01

申请号：US16376671

申请日：2019-04-05

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

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

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

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：US20190164188A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-30

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 ,  G06Q30/06 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/147 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/186 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/139

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：US20190045227A1

公开(公告)日：2019-02-07

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

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：US20160366448A1

公开(公告)日：2016-12-15

申请号：US15195407

申请日：2016-06-28

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

IPC: H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/169 ,  H04N19/53 ,  H04N19/17

CPC classification number: H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/17 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/1883 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/53 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/61

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：US20160309200A1

公开(公告)日：2016-10-20

申请号：US15197406

申请日：2016-06-29

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp HELLE ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Simon OUDIN ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/53 ,  H04N19/52

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：US20210304248A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-30

申请号：US17346904

申请日：2021-06-14

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp HELLE ,  Simon OUDIN ,  Martin WINKEN ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Thomas WIEGAND

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

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：US20210281861A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-09

申请号：US17330197

申请日：2021-05-25

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp HELLE ,  Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Thomas WIEGAND ,  Simon OUDIN ,  Benjamin BROSS

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

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：US20210266563A9

公开(公告)日：2021-08-26

申请号：US16459940

申请日：2019-07-02

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: H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/176

Abstract: A scalable video decoder is described which is configured to reconstruct a base layer signal from a coded data stream to obtain a reconstructed base layer signal; and reconstruct an enhancement layer signal including spatially or temporally predicting a portion of an enhancement layer signal, currently to be reconstructed, from an already reconstructed portion of the enhancement layer signal to obtain an enhancement layer internal prediction signal; forming, at the portion currently to be reconstructed, a weighted average of an inter-layer prediction signal obtained from the reconstructed base layer signal, and the enhancement layer internal prediction signal to obtain an enhancement layer prediction signal such that a weighting between the inter-layer prediction signal and the enhancement layer internal prediction signal varies over different spatial frequency components; and predictively reconstructing the enhancement layer signal using the enhancement layer prediction signal.

公开(公告)号：US20200320570A1

公开(公告)日：2020-10-08

申请号：US16907861

申请日：2020-06-22

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp HELLE ,  Simon OUDIN ,  Martin WINKEN ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Thomas WIEGAND

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

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.