公开(公告)号：US10402677B2

公开(公告)日：2019-09-03

申请号：US15618909

申请日：2017-06-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jiefu Zhai ,  Ke Zhang ,  Yunfei Zheng ,  Shujie Liu ,  Albert Keinath ,  Xiaosong Zhou ,  Chris Chung ,  Hsi-Jung Wu

IPC: G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/46 ,  G06K9/62

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for estimating quality of images in an automated fashion. According to these techniques, a source image may be downsampled to generate at least two downsampled images at different levels of downsampling. Blurriness of the images may be estimated starting with a most-heavily downsampled image. Blocks of a given image may be evaluated for blurriness and, when a block of a given image is estimated to be blurry, the block of the image and co-located blocks of higher resolution image(s) may be designated as blurry. Thereafter, a blurriness score may be calculated for the source image from the number of blocks of the source image designated as blurry.

公开(公告)号：US10402226B2

公开(公告)日：2019-09-03

申请号：US15173047

申请日：2016-06-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Albert Keinath ,  Ke Zhang ,  Yunfei Zheng ,  Shujie Liu ,  Jiefu Zhai ,  Chris Y. Chung ,  Xiaosong Zhou ,  Hsi-Jung Wu

IPC: G06F9/46 ,  G06F9/50 ,  G06F9/48 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04N21/443 ,  H04N21/414

Abstract: A system for processing media on a resource restricted device, the system including a memory to store data representing media assets and associated descriptors, and program instructions representing an application and a media processing system, and a processor to execute the program instructions, wherein the program instructions represent the media processing system, in response to a call from an application defining a plurality of services to be performed on an asset, determine a tiered schedule of processing operations to be performed upon the asset based on a processing budget associated therewith, and iteratively execute the processing operations on a tier-by-tier basis, unless interrupted.

公开(公告)号：US10366497B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-30

申请号：US15618967

申请日：2017-06-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ke Zhang ,  Jiefu Zhai ,  Yunfei Zheng ,  Shujie Liu ,  Albert E. Keinath ,  Xiaosong Zhou ,  Chris Y. Chung ,  Hsi-Jung Wu

IPC: G06T5/00 ,  G06T7/194 ,  G06T7/11 ,  G11B27/031

Abstract: Techniques for cropping images containing an occlusion are presented. A method for image editing is presented comprising, when an occlusion is detected in an original digital image, determining an area occupied by the occlusion, assigning importance scores to different content elements of the original digital image, defining a cropping window around an area of the original digital image that does not include the area occupied by the occlusion and that is based on the importance scores, and cropping the original digital image to the cropping window.

公开(公告)号：US20180338161A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-22

申请号：US16050744

申请日：2018-07-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jiefu Zhai ,  Dazhong Zhang ,  Xiaosong Zhou ,  Chris Y. Chung ,  Hsi-Jung Wu ,  Peikang Song ,  David R. Conrad ,  Jae Hoon Kim ,  Yunfei Zheng

IPC: H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/186

CPC classification number: H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/186

Abstract: Chroma deblock filtering of reconstructed video samples may be performed to remove blockiness artifacts and reduce color artifacts without over-smoothing. In a first method, chroma deblocking may be performed for boundary samples of a smallest transform size, regardless of partitions and coding modes. In a second method, chroma deblocking may be performed when a boundary strength is greater than 0. In a third method, chroma deblocking may be performed regardless of boundary strengths. In a fourth method, the type of chroma deblocking to be performed may be signaled in a slice header by a flag. Furthermore, luma deblock filtering techniques may be applied to chroma deblock filtering.

公开(公告)号：US20140362919A1

公开(公告)日：2014-12-11

申请号：US13913169

申请日：2013-06-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Xiaosong Zhou ,  Hsi-Jung Wu ,  Chris Y. Chung ,  Albert E. Keinath ,  David R. Conrad ,  Yunfei Zheng ,  Dazhong Zhang ,  Jae Hoon Kim

IPC: H04N19/583

CPC classification number: H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/23 ,  H04N19/46

Abstract: The invention is directed to an efficient way for encoding and decoding video. Embodiments include identifying different coding units that share a similar characteristic. The characteristic can be, for example: quantization values, modes, block sizes, color space, motion vectors, depth, facial and non-facial regions, and filter values. An encoder may then group the units together as a coherence group. An encoder may similarly create a table or other data structure of the coding units. An encoder may then extract the commonly repeating characteristic or attribute from the coding units. The encoder may transmit the coherence groups along with the data structure, and other coding units which were not part of a coherence group. The decoder may receive the data, and utilize the shared characteristic by storing locally in cache, for faster repeated decoding, and decode the coherence group together.

Abstract translation: 本发明涉及用于对视频进行编码和解码的有效方式。 实施例包括识别共享相似特征的不同编码单元。 特征可以是例如：量化值，模式，块大小，颜色空间，运动矢量，深度，面部和非面部区域以及滤波器值。 然后，编码器可以将这些单元组合在一起作为一致性组。 编码器可以类似地创建编码单元的表或其他数据结构。 然后，编码器可以从编码单元中提取常见的重复特性或属性。 编码器可以连同数据结构以及不是相干组的一部分的其他编码单元一起发送相干组。 解码器可以接收数据，并通过将本地存储在高速缓存中来利用共享特性，以便更快的重复解码，并将相干组一起解码。