公开(公告)号：US12075082B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-27

申请号：US18057344

申请日：2022-11-21

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp Merkle ,  Christian Bartnik ,  Haricharan Lakshman ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Mueller ,  Thomas Wiegand ,  Gerhard Tech

IPC: H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/96

CPC classification number: H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/14

Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect, the intra prediction direction of a neighboring, intra-predicted block is used in order to predict the extension direction of the wedgelet separation line of a current block, thereby reducing the side information rate necessitated in order to convey the partitioning information. In accordance with a second aspect, the idea is that previously reconstructed samples, i.e. reconstructed values of blocks preceding the current block in accordance with the coding/decoding order allow for at least a prediction of a correct placement of a starting point of the wedgelet separation line, namely by placing the starting point of the wedgelet separation line at a position of a maximum change between consecutive ones of a sequence of reconstructed values of samples of a line of samples extending adjacent to the current block along a circumference thereof. Both aspects may be used individually or in combination.

公开(公告)号：US11722657B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-08

申请号：US17131333

申请日：2020-12-22

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Philipp Merkle ,  Christian Bartnik ,  Haricharan Lakshman ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Mueller ,  Thomas Wiegand ,  Gerhard Tech

IPC: H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/167

CPC classification number: H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/167 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/96

Abstract: Wedgelet separation lines of neighboring blocks are predicted from each other by aligning the wedgelet separation lines of such neighboring blocks to each other, thereby reducing the side information coding rate that may be used.

公开(公告)号：US11647209B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-09

申请号：US17211542

申请日：2021-03-24

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

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

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: A signaling of at least one characteristic for layers of a multi-layered video signal such as, for example, for each layer the indication of dependent layers to which the respective layer directly relates via inter-layer prediction, or the signaling of the afore-mentioned second inter-dependency syntax structure, is described. A maximum syntax element is signaled within the multi-layered video signal to indicate a maximally used value of an extension layer-ID field of the packets of the multi-layered video signal, the scope of the maximum syntax element being, for example, a predetermined portion of the multi-layered video signal extending, for example, across several portions of the multi-layered video signal. Accordingly, it is feasible for devices such as decoders or network elements receiving the multi-layered video signal to gain, for a relatively large predetermined portion of the multi-layered video signal, knowledge about the actually consumed portion of the possible domain of possible values.

公开(公告)号：US11032562B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-08

申请号：US17010987

申请日：2020-09-03

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp Merkle ,  Christian Bartnik ,  Haricharan Lakshman ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Mueller ,  Thomas Wiegand ,  Gerhard Tech

IPC: H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/14

Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect, the intra prediction direction of a neighboring, intra-predicted block is used in order to predict the extension direction of the wedgelet separation line of a current block, thereby reducing the side information rate necessitated in order to convey the partitioning information. In accordance with a second aspect, the idea is that previously reconstructed samples, i.e. reconstructed values of blocks preceding the current block in accordance with the coding/decoding order allow for at least a prediction of a correct placement of a starting point of the wedgelet separation line, namely by placing the starting point of the wedgelet separation line at a position of a maximum change between consecutive ones of a sequence of reconstructed values of samples of a line of samples extending adjacent to the current block along a circumference thereof. Both aspects may be used individually or in combination.

公开(公告)号：US11032555B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-08

申请号：US17012224

申请日：2020-09-04

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp Merkle ,  Christian Bartnik ,  Haricharan Lakshman ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Mueller ,  Thomas Wiegand ,  Gerhard Tech

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

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：US10986352B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-20

申请号：US17012506

申请日：2020-09-04

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp Merkle ,  Christian Bartnik ,  Haricharan Lakshman ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Mueller ,  Thomas Wiegand ,  Gerhard Tech

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

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：US10911753B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-02

申请号：US16736845

申请日：2020-01-08

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp Merkle ,  Christian Bartnik ,  Haricharan Lakshman ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Mueller ,  Thomas Wiegand ,  Gerhard Tech

IPC: H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/167

Abstract: Wedgelet separation lines of neighboring blocks are predicted from each other by aligning the wedgelet separation lines of such neighboring blocks to each other, thereby reducing the side information coding rate that may be used.

公开(公告)号：US10785497B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-22

申请号：US16702616

申请日：2019-12-04

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp Merkle ,  Christian Bartnik ,  Haricharan Lakshman ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Mueller ,  Thomas Wiegand ,  Gerhard Tech

IPC: H04N19/51 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/14

Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect, the intra prediction direction of a neighboring, intra-predicted block is used in order to predict the extension direction of the wedgelet separation line of a current block, thereby reducing the side information rate necessitated in order to convey the partitioning information. In accordance with a second aspect, the idea is that previously reconstructed samples, i.e. reconstructed values of blocks preceding the current block in accordance with the coding/decoding order allow for at least a prediction of a correct placement of a starting point of the wedgelet separation line, namely by placing the starting point of the wedgelet separation line at a position of a maximum change between consecutive ones of a sequence of reconstructed values of samples of a line of samples extending adjacent to the current block along a circumference thereof. Both aspects may be used individually or in combination.

公开(公告)号：US10687042B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-16

申请号：US16656898

申请日：2019-10-18

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION LLC

Inventor： Gerhard Tech ,  Karsten Mueller ,  Thomas Wiegand

IPC: H04N13/161 ,  H04N13/111 ,  H04N13/122 ,  G06T15/20 ,  H04N13/128

Abstract: An apparatus for determining a measure for a distortion change of a first view synthesized from a second view, caused by a modification of a depth map of the second view from a first state to a second state, is configured starting from a current synthesis state of the first view corresponding to a synthesis from the second view having the depth map modified to the second state in an already processed portion of the depth map and having the depth map unmodified at the first state in a yet to be processed portion of the depth map—to compute a possible successor synthesis state corresponding to a synthesis of the first view from the second view having the depth map modified to the second state in an already processed portion plus a currently processed portion and having the depth map unmodified at the first state in the yet to be processed portion without the currently processed portion; and to determine a distortion change of a distortion of the current synthesis state of the first view relative to an undistorted version of the first view to a distortion of the possible successor synthesis state of the first view relative to the undistorted version of the first view.

公开(公告)号：US10674134B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-02

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: H04N13/00 ,  H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176

Abstract: 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, 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 encoding these views in parallel show similarities, which may be exploited in order to further improve the coding rate.