公开(公告)号：US20160360238A1

公开(公告)日：2016-12-08

申请号：US15244156

申请日：2016-08-23

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: H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H03M7/42 ,  H04N19/124

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：US20250097453A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-20

申请号：US18895939

申请日：2024-09-25

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Philipp HELLE ,  Simon OUDIN ,  Jan STEGEMANN ,  Benjamin BROSS ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: 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：US20240373071A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-07

申请号：US18660993

申请日：2024-05-10

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

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：US20240146954A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-02

申请号：US18363057

申请日：2023-08-01

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Philipp HELLE ,  Simon OUDIN ,  Jan STEGEMANN ,  Benjamin BROSS ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Thomas WIEGAND

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

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：US20240031585A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-25

申请号：US18364973

申请日：2023-08-03

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

CPC classification number: 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：US20230089318A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-23

申请号：US18052616

申请日：2022-11-04

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Martin WINKEN ,  Philipp HELLE ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/53 ,  H04N19/17 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/169 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/176

Abstract: Coding schemes for coding a spatially sampled information signal using sub-division and coding schemes for coding a sub-division or a multitree structure are described, wherein representative embodiments relate to picture and/or video coding applications.

公开(公告)号：US20220400271A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-15

申请号：US17847673

申请日：2022-06-23

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Tobias HINZ ,  Haricharan LAKSHMAN ,  Jan STEGEMANN ,  Philipp HELLE ,  Mischa SIEKMANN ,  Karsten SUEHRING ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Christian BARTNIK ,  Ali Atef Ibrahim KHAIRAT ABDELHAMID ,  Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Thomas WIEGAND

IPC: H04N19/33 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/34 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/587 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/18 ,  H04N19/48 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/86 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/137 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/503 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/615

Abstract: Scalable video coding is rendered more efficient by deriving/selecting a subblock subdivision to be used for enhancement layer prediction, among a set of possible subblock subdivisions of an enhancement layer block by evaluating the spatial variation of the base layer coding parameters over the base layer signal. By this measure, less of the signalization overhead has to be spent on signaling this subblock subdivision within the enhancement layer data stream, if any. The subblock subdivision thus selected may be used in predictively coding/decoding the enhancement layer signal.

公开(公告)号：US20210211701A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-08

申请号：US17210026

申请日：2021-03-23

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

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

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：US20210044835A1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-11

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 ,  H04N19/169 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/436 ,  H04N19/13

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：US20210006821A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-07

申请号：US17027168

申请日：2020-09-21

Applicant: GE Video Compression LLC

Inventor： Heiko SCHWARZ ,  Heiner KIRCHHOFFER ,  Philipp HELLE ,  Simon OUDIN ,  Jan STEGEMANN ,  Benjamin BROSS ,  Detlev MARPE ,  Thomas WIEGAND

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

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.