VIDEO PROCESSORS FOR PRESERVING DETAIL IN LOW-LIGHT SCENES
    1.
    发明申请
    VIDEO PROCESSORS FOR PRESERVING DETAIL IN LOW-LIGHT SCENES 有权
    用于在低光照下保存细节的视频处理器

    公开(公告)号:US20140321534A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-10-30

    申请号:US14056043

    申请日:2013-10-17

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    CPC分类号: H04N19/117 H04N19/136

    摘要: Video coding systems and methods are provided that protect against various artifacts (e.g., banding artifacts) in decoded frame content. The embodiments to protect against introducing artifacts include pre-processing the input video frame, controlling the encoding parameters and/or post-processing the decoded video frame. A method for encoding a frame may include calculating a dark-scene score for the frame based on measured statistics of the frame. The dark-scene score may be compared to a threshold to determine if the banding artifacts may be present in the frame. Based on the comparison, filtering parameters for the frame may be altered to reduce the amount of noise filtered from the frame. The frame may be filtered based on the altered filtering parameters and encoded.

    摘要翻译: 提供了视频编码系统和方法,其防止解码的帧内容中的各种伪影(例如,带状伪影)。 防止引入伪像的实施例包括预处理输入视频帧,控制编码参数和/或后处理解码的视频帧。 用于编码帧的方法可以包括基于所测量的帧的统计来计算所述帧的暗场景得分。 暗场景得分可以与阈值进行比较,以确定条带伪像是否可能存在于帧中。 基于该比较,可以改变帧的滤波参数以减少从帧滤波的噪声量。 可以基于改变的滤波参数对帧进行滤波并进行编码。

    ADAPTIVE STREAMING TECHNIQUES
    2.
    发明申请
    ADAPTIVE STREAMING TECHNIQUES 有权
    自适应流水线技术

    公开(公告)号:US20140241415A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-08-28

    申请号:US14190880

    申请日:2014-02-26

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: H04N19/152 H04N19/142

    摘要: Systems and methods are presented for minimizing the suddenness and immediacy of changes to the video quality perceived by users due to bandwidth fluctuations and transitions between different bitrate streams. A method may include identifying an upcoming bitrate change in a bitstream and a nearest scene cut boundary from sync frame scene cut tags included in the bitstream. The method may include calculating whether waiting until the identified nearest scene cut boundary before changing the bitrate will cause the buffer to drop below a threshold. When the buffer is calculated to not drop below the threshold, the method may postpone the upcoming bitrate change until the identified nearest scene cut boundary.

    摘要翻译: 提出了系统和方法,用于最小化由于带宽波动和不同比特率流之间的转换而使用户感知到的视频质量的突变和即时性。 一种方法可以包括从比特流中包括的同步帧场景切换标签中识别比特流中的即将到来的比特率变化和最近的场景剪切边界。 该方法可以包括计算是否在更改比特率之前等待直到所识别的最近的场景切割边界将导致缓冲器降低到阈值以下。 当缓冲区被计算为不低于阈值时,该方法可以推迟即将到来的比特率改变直到所识别的最近的场景切割边界。

    ERROR DIFFUSION WITH COLOR CONVERSION AND ENCODING
    3.
    发明申请
    ERROR DIFFUSION WITH COLOR CONVERSION AND ENCODING 有权
    带颜色转换和编码的错误扩展

    公开(公告)号:US20140029846A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-01-30

    申请号:US13664359

    申请日:2012-10-30

    申请人: APPLE INC.

    IPC分类号: G09G5/02

    摘要: YCbCr image data may be dithered and converted into RGB data shown on a 8-bit or other bit display. Dither methods and image processors are provided which generate the banding artifact free image data during this process. Some methods and image processors may applying a stronger dither having a same mean with a larger variance to the image data before it is converted to RGB data. Others methods and image processors may calculate a quantization or encoding error and diffuse the calculated error among one or more neighboring pixel blocks.

    摘要翻译: YCbCr图像数据可以抖动并转换成8位或其他位显示器上显示的RGB数据。 提供抖动方法和图像处理器,其在该处理期间产生无带纹带图像数据。 一些方法和图像处理器可以在将图像数据转换成RGB数据之前,对图像数据应用具有相同平均值的较强抖动。 其他方法和图像处理器可以计算量化或编码误差并且在一个或多个相邻像素块之间扩展所计算的误差。