公开(公告)号：US09924193B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-20

申请号：US13875779

申请日：2013-05-02

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Heiko Schwarz ,  Heiner Kirchhoffeer ,  Philipp Helle ,  Simon Oudin ,  Jan Stegemann ,  Benjamin Bross ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Thomas Wiegand

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

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：US09918104B2

公开(公告)日：2018-03-13

申请号：US15636425

申请日：2017-06-28

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: H04N7/12 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/132 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/61 ,  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：US09843800B2

公开(公告)日：2017-12-12

申请号：US14324425

申请日：2014-07-07

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Detlev Marpe ,  Martin Winken ,  Heiko Schwarz ,  Thomas Wiegand

IPC: H04N7/12 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/186 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/36

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：US09762913B2

公开(公告)日：2017-09-12

申请号：US15430826

申请日：2017-02-13

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: H04N7/12 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/184 ,  H04N19/174

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：US09596469B2

公开(公告)日：2017-03-14

申请号：US14141374

申请日：2013-12-26

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Valeri George ,  Anastasia Henkel ,  Heiner Kirchhoffer ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Thomas Schierl

IPC: H04N11/02 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/503 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/436 ,  H03M7/40 ,  H03M7/30

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.

Abstract translation: 预定熵片的当前部分的熵编码不仅基于使用预定熵片的先前编码部分进行适应的预定熵片的各自的概率估计，而且还基于在熵中使用的概率估计 在相邻部分处于熵切片之前的熵片序列中的空间相邻的编码。 由此，在熵编码中使用的概率估计更适合于实际符号统计，从而降低通常由较低延迟概念引起的编码效率降低。 时间相互关系被额外地或替代地利用。

公开(公告)号：US11997319B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-28

申请号：US17082385

申请日：2020-10-28

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Thomas Schierl ,  Valeri George ,  Karsten Grueneberg ,  Heiner Kirchhoffer ,  Anastasia Henkel ,  Detlev Marpe

IPC: H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/169 ,  H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/65

CPC classification number: H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/169 ,  H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/65

Abstract: A raw byte sequence payload describing a picture in slices, WPP substreams or tiles and coded using context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding is subdivided into tranches with continuing the context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding probability adaptation across tranche boundaries. Thereby, tranche boundaries additionally introduced within slices, WPP substreams or tiles do not lead to a reduction in the entropy coding efficiency of these entities. However, the tranches are smaller than the original slices, WPP substreams or tiles and accordingly they may be transmitted earlier, i.e. with lower delay, than the un-chopped original entities. According to another aspect combinable with the first aspect, substream marker NAL units are used within a sequence of NAL units of a video bitstream to enable a transport demultiplexer to assign data of slices within NAL units to the corresponding substreams or tiles so as to be able to, in parallel, serve a multi-threaded decoder with the corresponding substreams or tiles.

公开(公告)号：US11968395B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-23

申请号：US18188744

申请日：2023-03-23

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Tung Nguyen ,  Heiner Kirchhoffer ,  Detlev Marpe

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

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：US20240129499A1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-18

申请号：US18354448

申请日：2023-07-18

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Karsten SUEHRING ,  Thomas Schierl ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Robert Skupin ,  Yago Sanchez de la Fuente ,  Gerhard Tech

IPC: H04N19/30 ,  H04L69/324 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/166 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/33 ,  H04N19/423 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/65 ,  H04N19/66 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/85 ,  H04N19/89 ,  H04N19/91

CPC classification number: H04N19/30 ,  H04L69/324 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/166 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/33 ,  H04N19/423 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/65 ,  H04N19/66 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/85 ,  H04N19/89 ,  H04N19/91

Abstract: An interleaved multi-layered video data stream with interleaved decoding units of different layers is provided with further timing control information in addition to the timing control information reflecting the interleaved decoding unit arrangement. The additional timing control information pertains to either a fallback position according to which all decoding units of an access unit are treated at the decoded buffer access unit-wise, or a fallback position according to which an intermediate procedure is used: the interleaving of the DUs of different layers is reversed according to the additionally sent timing control information, thereby enabling a DU-wise treatment at the decoder's buffer, however, with no interleaving of decoding units relating to different layers. Both fallback positions may be present concurrently. Various advantageous embodiments and alternatives are the subject of the various claims attached herewith.

公开(公告)号：US11871044B1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-09

申请号：US18365994

申请日：2023-08-06

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

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

IPC: H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/53 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/42 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/46

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 ,  H04N19/46

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：US11843757B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-12

申请号：US17715757

申请日：2022-04-07

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

CPC classification number: H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/197 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/61

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 parallelly encoding these views show similarities which may be exploited in order to further improve the coding rate.