Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Video encoder and encoding method
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Application No.: US17295404Application Date: 2019-11-15
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Publication No.: US11876987B2Publication Date: 2024-01-16
- Inventor: Gregory John Ward
- Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Priority: EP 207029 2018.11.19
- International Application: PCT/US2019/061627 2019.11.15
- International Announcement: WO2020/106559A 2020.05.28
- Date entered country: 2021-05-19
- Main IPC: H04N19/85
- IPC: H04N19/85 ; H04N23/73 ; H04N19/31 ; H04N19/182 ; H04N5/265 ; H04N19/46 ; H04N19/176

Abstract:
An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel belonging to one of N subframes each characterized by (a) a same exposure-time sequence that includes a short exposure-time alternating with a long exposure-time, and (b) a respective temporal offset equal to a multiple of the short exposure-time. A method for encoding a video stream captured by the image sensor includes (i) for each subframe, linearly combining a long-exposure image, captured at the long exposure-time, and a short-exposure image, captured at the short exposure-time, to yield a residual image, (ii) combining at least some of the long-exposure images from the N subframes to yield a full-frame image having a higher resolution than any long-exposure image, (iii) encoding the full-frame image into a base layer of the video stream, and (iv) encoding at least some of the residual images from the N subframes into an enhancement layer of the video stream.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220007040A1 VIDEO ENCODER AND ENCODING METHOD Public/Granted day:2022-01-06
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