公开(公告)号：US12155871B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-26

申请号：US17576871

申请日：2022-01-14

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

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

IPC: H01L29/94 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/42 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/53 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/96

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：US12155867B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-26

申请号：US17412171

申请日：2021-08-25

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: H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/137 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/18 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/33 ,  H04N19/48 ,  H04N19/503 ,  H04N19/587 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/615 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/86 ,  H04N19/11 ,  H04N19/34 ,  H04N19/36 ,  H04N19/463

Abstract: A scalable video decoder is described which is configured to reconstruct a base layer signal from a coded data stream to obtain a reconstructed base layer signal; and reconstruct an enhancement layer signal including spatially or temporally predicting a portion of an enhancement layer signal, currently to be reconstructed, from an already reconstructed portion of the enhancement layer signal to obtain an enhancement layer internal prediction signal; forming, at the portion currently to be reconstructed, a weighted average of an inter-layer prediction signal obtained from the reconstructed base layer signal, and the enhancement layer internal prediction signal to obtain an enhancement layer prediction signal such that a weighting between the inter-layer prediction signal and the enhancement layer internal prediction signal varies over different spatial frequency components; and predictively reconstructing the enhancement layer signal using the enhancement layer prediction signal.

公开(公告)号：US20240373066A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-07

申请号：US18660193

申请日：2024-05-09

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: H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/11 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/137 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/18 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/33 ,  H04N19/34 ,  H04N19/36 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/48 ,  H04N19/503 ,  H04N19/587 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/615 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/86

Abstract: Information available from coding/decoding the base layer. i.e. base-layer hints, is exploited to render the motion-compensated prediction of the enhancement layer more efficient by more efficiently coding the enhancement layer motion parameters.

公开(公告)号：US12137233B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-05

申请号：US18460432

申请日：2023-09-01

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

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

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：US12010353B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-11

申请号：US18449157

申请日：2023-08-14

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

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

IPC: H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/42 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/53 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/70

CPC classification number: H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/129 ,  H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/439 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/53 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/46

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：US12010334B2

公开(公告)日：2024-06-11

申请号：US16850588

申请日：2020-04-16

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: H04N19/30 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/137 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/18 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/33 ,  H04N19/34 ,  H04N19/48 ,  H04N19/503 ,  H04N19/587 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/615 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/86 ,  H04N19/11 ,  H04N19/463

CPC classification number: H04N19/33 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/107 ,  H04N19/117 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/136 ,  H04N19/137 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/159 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/18 ,  H04N19/187 ,  H04N19/198 ,  H04N19/34 ,  H04N19/48 ,  H04N19/503 ,  H04N19/587 ,  H04N19/59 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/615 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/865 ,  H04N19/11 ,  H04N19/463

Abstract: Information available from coding/decoding the base layer, i.e. base-layer hints, is exploited to render the motion-compensated prediction of the enhancement layer more efficient by more efficiently coding the enhancement layer motion parameters.

公开(公告)号：US11983737B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-14

申请号：US18052520

申请日：2022-11-03

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

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

IPC: G06Q30/0251 ,  G06F16/00 ,  G06Q10/00 ,  G06Q30/00 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0601 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/147 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/186 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/96

CPC classification number: G06Q30/0251 ,  G06F16/00 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0601 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/139 ,  H04N19/14 ,  H04N19/147 ,  H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/186 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/197 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/463 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/96 ,  G06Q10/00 ,  G06Q30/00

Abstract: A favorable merging or grouping of simply connected regions into which the array of information samples is sub-divided, is coded with a reduced amount of data. To this end, a predetermined relative locational relationship is defined enabling an identifying, for a predetermined simply connected region, of simply connected regions within the plurality of simply connected regions which have the predetermined relative locational relationship to the predetermined simply connected region. Namely, if the number is zero, a merge indicator for the predetermined simply connected region may be absent within the data stream. In other embodiments, spatial sub-division is performed depending on a first subset of syntax elements, followed by combining spatially neighboring simply connected regions depending on a second subset of syntax elements, to obtain an intermediate sub-division.

公开(公告)号：US11968348B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-23

申请号：US17576873

申请日：2022-01-14

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Heiko Schwarz ,  Thomas Wiegand

IPC: H04N13/128 ,  H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/194 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/895

CPC classification number: H04N13/128 ,  H04N13/161 ,  H04N19/194 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/895 ,  H04N2213/003

Abstract: The usual coding order according to which the reference view is coded prior to the dependent view, and within each view, a depth map is coded subsequent to the respective picture, may be maintained and does lead to a sacrifice of efficiency in performing inter-view redundancy removal by, for example, predicting motion data of the current picture of the dependent view from motion data of the current picture of the reference view. Rather, a depth map estimate of the current picture of the dependent view is obtained by warping the depth map of the current picture of the reference view into the dependent view, thereby enabling various methods of inter-view redundancy reduction more efficiently by bridging the gap between the views. According to another aspect, the following discovery is exploited: the overhead associated with an enlarged list of motion predictor candidates for a block of a picture of a dependent view is comparatively low compared to a gain in motion vector prediction quality resulting from an adding of a motion vector candidate which is determined from an, in disparity-compensated sense, co-located block of a reference view.

公开(公告)号：US20240048708A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-08

申请号：US18482683

申请日：2023-10-06

Applicant: GE Video Compression, LLC

Inventor： Valeri George ,  Benjamin Bross ,  Heiner Kirchhoffer ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Tung Nguyen ,  Matthias Preiss ,  Mischa Siekmann ,  Jan Stegemann ,  Thomas Wiegand ,  Christian Bartnik

IPC: H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H03M7/42 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/132 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/184

CPC classification number: H04N19/13 ,  H04N19/50 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/61 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H03M7/42 ,  H04N19/52 ,  H04N19/513 ,  H04N19/91 ,  H04N19/132 ,  H04N19/174 ,  H04N19/184

Abstract: A decoder for decoding a data stream into which media data is coded has a mode switch configured to activate a low-complexity mode or a high-efficiency mode depending on the data stream, an entropy decoding engine configured to retrieve each symbol of a sequence of symbols by entropy decoding using a selected one of a plurality of entropy decoding schemes, a desymbolizer configured to desymbolize the sequence of symbols to obtain a sequence of syntax elements, a reconstructor configured to reconstruct the media data based on the sequence of syntax elements, selection depending on the activated low-complexity mode or the high-efficiency mode. In another aspect, a desymbolizer is configured to perform desymbolization such that the control parameter varies in accordance with the data stream at a first rate in case of the high-efficiency mode being activated and the control parameter is constant irrespective of the data stream or changes depending on the data stream, but at a second lower rate in case of the low-complexity mode being activated.

公开(公告)号：US11863763B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-02

申请号：US17170289

申请日：2021-02-08

Applicant: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC

Inventor： Philipp Merkle ,  Christian Bartnik ,  Haricharan Lakshman ,  Detlev Marpe ,  Karsten Mueller ,  Thomas Wiegand ,  Gerhard Tech

IPC: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/23 ,  H04N19/14

CPC classification number: H04N19/176 ,  H04N19/103 ,  H04N19/105 ,  H04N19/119 ,  H04N19/157 ,  H04N19/196 ,  H04N19/23 ,  H04N19/44 ,  H04N19/46 ,  H04N19/593 ,  H04N19/597 ,  H04N19/70 ,  H04N19/82 ,  H04N19/96 ,  H04N19/14

Abstract: Although wedgelet-based partitioning seems to represent a better tradeoff between side information rate on the one hand and achievable variety in partitioning possibilities on the other hand, compared to contour partitioning, the ability to alleviate the constraints of the partitioning to the extent that the partitions have to be wedgelet partitions, enables applying relatively uncomplex statistical analysis onto overlaid spatially sampled texture information in order to derive a good predictor for the bi-segmentation in a depth/disparity map. Thus, in accordance with a first aspect it is exactly the increase of the freedom which alleviates the signaling overhead provided that co-located texture information in form of a picture is present. Another aspect pertains the possibility to save side information rate involved with signaling a respective coding mode supporting irregular partitioning.