公开(公告)号：US09594974B2

公开(公告)日：2017-03-14

申请号：US14285955

申请日：2014-05-23

Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Jiali Fu ,  Fabian Jaeger ,  Mathias Wien

IPC: H04N13/00 ,  G06T5/20 ,  G06K9/46 ,  G06T5/00 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/80

CPC classification number: G06K9/46 ,  G06K2009/4666 ,  G06T5/00 ,  G06T5/002 ,  G06T5/20 ,  G06T2207/10028 ,  H04N13/128 ,  H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/80

Abstract: A depth image filtering method, and a filtering threshold obtaining method and apparatus are provided. The method in the embodiments of the present invention includes: determining, for each pixel in an adjacent area of a pixel of a to-be-filtered depth image, whether the pixel meets a preset condition; determining a set of pixels meeting the preset condition; and determining a pixel value of the pixel of the to-be-filtered depth image according to pixel values of the pixels in the set. According to the embodiments of the present invention, a ringing effect at an edge of a depth image is effectively removed, and discontinuity of the depth image is reduced, thereby improving quality of a video image.

Abstract translation: 提供深度图像滤波方法和滤波阈值获取方法和装置。 本发明的实施例中的方法包括：针对要被滤波的深度图像的像素的相邻区域中的每个像素，确定像素是否满足预设条件; 确定满足所述预设条件的一组像素; 以及根据所述集合中的像素的像素值来确定要被滤波的深度图像的像素的像素值。 根据本发明的实施例，有效地去除了深度图像的边缘处的振铃效应，并且降低了深度图像的不连续性，从而提高了视频图像的质量。

公开(公告)号：US11234002B2

公开(公告)日：2022-01-25

申请号：US16825606

申请日：2020-03-20

Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Jacek Konieczny ,  Fabian Jaeger

IPC: H04N11/02 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/192 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/90

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for decoding an encoded texture block of a texture image, the decoding apparatus comprising: a partitioner (510) adapted to determine a partitioning mask (332) for the encoded texture block (312′) based on depth information (322) associated to the encoded texture block, wherein the partitioning mask (332) is adapted to define a plurality of partitions (P1, P2) and to associate a texture block element of the encoded texture block to a partition of the plurality of partitions of the encoded texture block; and a decoder (720) adapted to decode the partitions of the plurality of partitions of the encoded texture block based on the partitioning mask.

公开(公告)号：US20160134874A1

公开(公告)日：2016-05-12

申请号：US15000539

申请日：2016-01-19

Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Jacek Konieczny ,  Fabian Jaeger

IPC: H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N13/00 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/90 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/52

CPC classification number: H04N19/136 ,  H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/192 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/90

Abstract: A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a texture block using depth based block portioning, which includes an apparatus for decoding an encoded texture block of a texture image, and a partitioner, determines a portioning mask for the encoded texture block based on depth information associated to the encoded texture block, and the portioning mask defines a plurality of partitions and to associate a texture block element of the encoded texture block to a partition of the plurality of partitions of the encoded texture block, and a decoder decode the partitions of the plurality of partitions of the encoded texture block based on the portioning mask.

Abstract translation: 一种用于使用基于深度的块分割对纹理块进行编码和解码的方法和装置，其包括用于对纹理图像的编码纹理块进行解码的装置和分割器，基于相关的深度信息确定编码纹理块的分割掩码 并且分割掩模定义多个分区并且将编码纹理块的纹理块元素与编码纹理块的多个分区的分区相关联，并且解码器解码多个分割的分区 基于分割掩码的编码纹理块的分区。

公开(公告)号：US11323702B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-03

申请号：US15194197

申请日：2016-06-27

Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Fabian Jaeger ,  Jacek Konieczny

IPC: H04N19/115 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/182 ,  H04N19/21 ,  H04N19/136 ,  G06T9/20 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/50

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relates to an apparatus for associating a video block partitioning pattern to a video coding block, wherein the apparatus comprises: an obtainer adapted to obtain values of a set of segmentation mask samples, wherein each segmentation sample of the set of segmentation mask samples represents a different position in a segmentation mask adapted to define video coding block partitions of the video coding block; a selector adapted to select a video block partitioning pattern from a predetermined group of video block partitioning patterns based on the values of segmentation mask samples of the set of segmentation mask samples; and an associator adapted to associate the selected video block partitioning pattern to the video coding block.

公开(公告)号：US09467676B2

公开(公告)日：2016-10-11

申请号：US14285962

申请日：2014-05-23

Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Mingyuan Yang ,  Jiali Fu ,  Fabian Jaeger ,  Mathias Wien

IPC: H04N13/00 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/192

CPC classification number: H04N13/128 ,  H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/192 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N2013/0081

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide multi-view video coding and coding methods and corresponding apparatuses. The multi-view video coding method includes: minimizing an error between a currently coded view image and a warped view image of a front view image to obtain an optimal warping offset; calculating disparity information between the front view image and the currently coded view image by using the optimal warping offset, a camera parameter of a view, and depth image information of the front view image; and calculating the warped view image of the front view image by using the disparity information and the front view image, and predicting a current view image by using the warped view image as a prediction signal.

Abstract translation: 本发明的实施例提供多视点视频编码和编码方法以及对应的装置。 多视点视频编码方法包括：最小化当前编码的视图图像和前视图的翘曲视图图像之间的误差，以获得最佳的翘曲偏移; 通过使用最佳翘曲偏移，视角的相机参数和前视图的深度图像信息来计算前视图和当前编码的视图图像之间的视差信息; 以及通过使用视差信息和前视图来计算前视图的翘曲视图图像，并且通过使用翘曲视图图像作为预测信号来预测当前视图图像。

公开(公告)号：US20140254690A1

公开(公告)日：2014-09-11

申请号：US14285962

申请日：2014-05-23

Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Mingyuan Yang ,  Jiali Fu ,  Fabian Jaeger ,  Mathias Wien

IPC: H04N13/00 ,  H04N19/597

CPC classification number: H04N13/128 ,  H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/192 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N2013/0081

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide multi-view video coding and coding methods and corresponding apparatuses. The multi-view video coding method includes: minimizing an error between a currently coded view image and a warped view image of a front view image to obtain an optimal warping offset; calculating disparity information between the front view image and the currently coded view image by using the optimal warping offset, a camera parameter of a view, and depth image information of the front view image; and calculating the warped view image of the front view image by using the disparity information and the front view image, and predicting a current view image by using the warped view image as a prediction signal.

Abstract translation: 本发明的实施例提供多视点视频编码和编码方法以及对应的装置。 多视点视频编码方法包括：最小化当前编码的视图图像和前视图的翘曲视图图像之间的误差，以获得最佳的翘曲偏移; 通过使用最佳翘曲偏移，视角的相机参数和前视图的深度图像信息来计算前视图和当前编码的视图图像之间的视差信息; 以及通过使用视差信息和前视图来计算前视图的翘曲视图图像，并且通过使用翘曲视图图像作为预测信号来预测当前视图图像。

公开(公告)号：US20200288138A1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-10

申请号：US16825606

申请日：2020-03-20

Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Jacek Konieczny ,  Fabian Jaeger

IPC: H04N19/136 ,  H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/192 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/90

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for decoding an encoded texture block of a texture image, the decoding apparatus comprising: a partitioner (510) adapted to determine a partitioning mask (332) for the encoded texture block (312′) based on depth information (322) associated to the encoded texture block, wherein the partitioning mask (332) is adapted to define a plurality of partitions (P1, P2) and to associate a texture block element of the encoded texture block to a partition of the plurality of partitions of the encoded texture block; and a decoder (720) adapted to decode the partitions of the plurality of partitions of the encoded texture block based on the partitioning mask.

公开(公告)号：US10142610B2

公开(公告)日：2018-11-27

申请号：US14852288

申请日：2015-09-11

Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Jacek Konieczny ,  Fabian Jaeger ,  Mathias Wien

IPC: H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N13/00

Abstract: The invention relates to a method (200) for sub-range based coding a depth lookup table (300), the depth lookup table comprising depth values of a 3D video sequence, the depth values being constrained within a range (301), the method comprising: partitioning (201) the range (301) into a plurality of sub-ranges, a first sub-range (303) comprising a first set of the depth values and a second sub-range (305) comprising a second set of the depth values; and coding (203) the depth values of each of the sub-ranges of the depth lookup table (300) separately according to a predetermined coding rule.

公开(公告)号：US09998761B2

公开(公告)日：2018-06-12

申请号：US14595966

申请日：2015-01-13

Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Fabian Jaeger ,  Mathias Wien

IPC: H04N19/597 ,  G06T9/00 ,  G06T9/40 ,  H04N13/00 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/179

CPC classification number: H04N19/597 ,  G06T9/001 ,  G06T9/40 ,  H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/179 ,  H04N2213/003

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus for coding a bit stream representing a three-dimensional video comprising a sequence of views, wherein a depth map is associated to each view, the depth map comprising depth information of the view with respect to a position to the camera capturing the view, the apparatus comprising: a partitioner for partitioning the depth map into coding units; a determiner for determining a type of model function for each coding unit based on the depth information of the coding unit; a reducer for reducing the coding unit to a single residual value for each segment generated by model function; and a signaler for signaling the model function used and the residual value into the bitstream.

公开(公告)号：US20160029036A1

公开(公告)日：2016-01-28

申请号：US14852190

申请日：2015-09-11

Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

Inventor： Fabian Jaeger ,  Mathias Wien ,  Jacek Konieczny

IPC: H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/25 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/65

CPC classification number: H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/25 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/65

Abstract: The invention relates to a method (100) for coding a depth lookup table, DLT, (201, 211), the depth lookup table comprising depth value information of at least a part of a 3D picture, the method (100) comprising: selecting (101) a reference depth lookup table (203, 213); determining (103) a difference depth lookup table (205, 215) based on a comparison between depth value information of the depth lookup table to be coded (201, 211) and depth value information of the reference depth lookup table (203, 213); and coding (105) depth value information of the difference depth lookup table (205, 215) according to a predetermined coding rule.

Abstract translation: 本发明涉及一种用于对深度查找表DLT（201,211）进行编码的方法（100），所述深度查找表包括3D图像的至少一部分的深度值信息，所述方法（100）包括：选择 （101）参考深度查找表（203,213）; 基于要被编码的深度查找表（201,211）的深度值信息和参考深度查找表（203,213）的深度值信息之间的比较来确定（103）差分深度查找表（205,215） ; 以及根据预定编码规则对差分深度查找表（205,215）的深度值信息进行编码（105）。