公开(公告)号：US11178411B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-16

申请号：US17029130

申请日：2020-09-23

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Heiner Kirchhoffer ,  Heiko Schwarz ,  Tung Nguyen ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Thomas Wiegand

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

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：US11128875B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-21

申请号：US17131317

申请日：2020-12-22

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Heiner Kirchhoffer ,  Heiko Schwarz ,  Tung Nguyen ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Thomas Wiegand

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

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：US11128865B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-21

申请号：US16256128

申请日：2019-01-24

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp Merkle ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Mueller

IPC: H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/463

Abstract: Wedgelet-based coding for coding blocks of varying size is rendered more efficient by the usage of a variable length coded syntax element having a prefix and a suffix, wherein the size of the suffix is dependent on the prefix and the size of the current coding block. By this measure, it is feasible to efficiently adapt the length of the variable-length coded syntax element which controls the bi-partitioning of the current coding block to the actual needs, namely the size, of the current coding block, and the variability of the bi-partitioning by varying the wedglet separation line, respectively. The greater the current coding block is, the longer the variable-length coded syntax element may be. This length dependency may even be sufficiently effective in terms of coding efficiency so that the variable length coded syntax element may be coded without context-adaptive entropy coding, but directly or using fixed-equal-probability binary entropy coding.

公开(公告)号：US11122278B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-14

申请号：US16819652

申请日：2020-03-16

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Thomas Schierl ,  Valeri George ,  Anastasia Henkel ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Grüneberg ,  Robert Skupin

IPC: H04N19/42 ,  H04N19/169 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/593

Abstract: Parallel processing concepts such as wavefront parallel processing, are realized with a reduced end-to-end delay by giving up the usual slice concept according to which slices are either coded/decoded completely independent from areas of the picture outside of the respective slice, or at least independent from areas outside the respective slice as far as the entropy coding is concerned, namely in favor of slices of different modes, namely ones called dependent slices which allow for interdependencies across slice boundaries, and others which do not, called normal slices, for example. Combined with the aspect or not, WPP processing concept is made more efficiently by using the slices' start syntax portions to locate WPP entry points.

公开(公告)号：US11051047B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-29

申请号：US17066709

申请日：2020-10-09

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

IPC: H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/42 ,  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：US11025958B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-01

申请号：US16709971

申请日：2019-12-11

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Thomas Schierl ,  Valeri George ,  Anastasia Henkel ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Grueneberg ,  Robert Skupin

IPC: H04N19/68 ,  H04N19/167 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/423 ,  H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/55 ,  H04N19/67 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N21/23 ,  H04N21/47 ,  H04N19/169 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/462 ,  H04N21/4728 ,  H04L12/66 ,  G06F15/173 ,  H04L12/54 ,  H04L12/833 ,  H04L12/801

Abstract: Decoder retrieval timing information, ROI information and tile identification information are conveyed within a video data stream at a level which allows for an easy access by network entities such as MANEs or decoder. In order to reach such a level, information of such types are conveyed within a video data stream by way of packets interspersed into packets of access units of a video data stream. In accordance with an embodiment, the interspersed packets are of a removable packet type, i.e. the removal of these interspersed packets maintains the decoder's ability to completely recover the video content conveyed via the video data stream.

公开(公告)号：US11019352B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-25

申请号：US16987955

申请日：2020-08-07

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

IPC: H04N11/02 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H03M7/30 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/503 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/167 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/51 ,  H03M7/40

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：US20210021842A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-21

申请号：US17038777

申请日：2020-09-30

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：US10855999B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-01

申请号：US16572669

申请日：2019-09-17

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Heiner Kirchhoffer ,  Heiko Schwarz ,  Tung Nguyen ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Thomas Wiegand

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

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：US10812811B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-20

申请号：US16837561

申请日：2020-04-01

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp Helle ,  Heiko Schwarz ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Thomas Wiegand ,  Simon Oudin ,  Benjamin Bross

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

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.