公开(公告)号：US20190028692A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-24

申请号：US16137992

申请日：2018-09-21

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

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

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：US20180367810A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-20

申请号：US16109874

申请日：2018-08-23

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Valeri GEORGE ,  Anastasia HENKEL ,  Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Thomas SCHIERL

IPC: H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/167 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/503 ,  H03M7/30

Abstract: The entropy coding of a current part of a predetermined entropy slice is based on, not only, the respective probability estimations of the predetermined entropy slice as adapted using the previously coded part of the predetermined entropy slice, but also probability estimations as used in the entropy coding of a spatially neighboring, in entropy slice order preceding entropy slice at a neighboring part thereof. Thereby, the probability estimations used in entropy coding are adapted to the actual symbol statistics more closely, thereby lowering the coding efficiency decrease normally caused by lower-delay concepts. Temporal interrelationships are exploited additionally or alternatively.

公开(公告)号：US20180227597A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-09

申请号：US15948085

申请日：2018-04-09

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Tung NGUYEN ,  Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Detlev MARPE

IPC: H04N19/60 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H03M7/40

CPC classification number: H04N19/60 ,  H03M7/4018 ,  H03M7/4075 ,  H04N19/91

Abstract: An idea used herein is to use the same function for the dependency of the context and the dependency of the symbolization parameter on previously coded/decoded transform coefficients. Using the same function—with varying function parameter—may even be used with respect to different transform block sizes and/or frequency portions of the transform blocks in case of the transform coefficients being spatially arranged in transform blocks. A further variant of this idea is to use the same function for the dependency of a symbolization parameter on previously coded/decoded transform coefficients for different sizes of the current transform coefficient's transform block, different information component types of the current transform coefficient's transform block and/or different frequency portions the current transform coefficient is located within the transform block.

公开(公告)号：US20180220136A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-02

申请号：US15940733

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 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/136

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

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：US20180063523A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-01

申请号：US15803310

申请日：2017-11-03

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

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

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

CPC classification number: H04N19/102 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/186 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/36 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/61

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：US20170332088A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-16

申请号：US15663256

申请日：2017-07-28

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp MERKLE ,  Christian BARTNIK ,  Haricharan LAKSHMAN ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Thomas WIEGAND ,  Gerhard TECH

IPC: H04N19/23 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/14

CPC classification number: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/23 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/96

Abstract: Although wedgelet-based partitioning seems to represent a better tradeoff between side information rate on the one hand and achievable variety in partitioning possibilities on the other hand, compared to contour partitioning, the ability to alleviate the constraints of the partitioning to the extent that the partitions have to be wedgelet partitions, enables applying relatively uncomplex statistical analysis onto overlaid spatially sampled texture information in order to derive a good predictor for the bi-segmentation in a depth/disparity map. Thus, in accordance with a first aspect it is exactly the increase of the freedom which alleviates the signaling overhead provided that co-located texture information in form of a picture is present. Another aspect pertains the possibility to save side information rate involved with signaling a respective coding mode supporting irregular partitioning.

公开(公告)号：US20170318299A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-02

申请号：US15655329

申请日：2017-07-20

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp MERKLE ,  Christian BARTNIK ,  Haricharan LAKSHMAN ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Karsten MUELLER ,  Thomas WIEGAND ,  Gerhard TECH

IPC: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/126 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/14

CPC classification number: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/126 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/96

Abstract: The way of predicting a current block by assigning constant partition values to the partitions of a bi-partitioning of a block is quite effective, especially in case of coding sample arrays such as depth/disparity maps where the content of these sample arrays is mostly composed of plateaus or simple connected regions of similar value separated from each other by steep edges. The transmission of such constant partition values would, however, still need a considerable amount of side information which should be avoided. This side information rate may be further reduced if mean values of values of neighboring samples associated or adjoining the respective partitions are used as predictors for the constant partition values.

公开(公告)号：US20170250709A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-31

申请号：US15595097

申请日：2017-05-15

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: H03M7/42 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/132 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/50

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：US20170142416A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-18

申请号：US15419006

申请日：2017-01-30

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: H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/132 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/70

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：US20170134741A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-11

申请号：US15414356

申请日：2017-01-24

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Valeri GEORGE ,  Anastasia HENKEL ,  Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Thomas SCHIERL

IPC: H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/167 ,  H03M7/30 ,  H04N19/13

CPC classification number: H04N19/44 ,  H03M7/3071 ,  H03M7/4037 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/167 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/503 ,  H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/91

Abstract: The entropy coding of a current part of a predetermined entropy slice is based on, not only, the respective probability estimations of the predetermined entropy slice as adapted using the previously coded part of the predetermined entropy slice, but also probability estimations as used in the entropy coding of a spatially neighboring, in entropy slice order preceding entropy slice at a neighboring part thereof. Thereby, the probability estimations used in entropy coding are adapted to the actual symbol statistics more closely, thereby lowering the coding efficiency decrease normally caused by lower-delay concepts. Temporal interrelationships are exploited additionally or alternatively.