Patent application number | Description | Published |
20120008688 | Method and Apparatus of Temporal Motion Vector Prediction - An apparatus and method for motion vector prediction for a current block in a picture are disclosed. In video coding systems, the spatial and temporal redundancy is exploited using spatial and temporal prediction to reduce the information to be transmitted. Motion Vector Prediction (MVP) has been used to further conserve the bitrate associated with motion vector. In conventional temporal MVP, the predictor is often based on a single candidate such as the co-located motion vector in the previous frame/picture. If the co-located motion vector in the previous frame/picture does not exist, the predictor for the current block is not available. A technique for improved MVP is disclosed where the MVP utilized multiple candidates based on co-located motion vectors from future and/or past reference pictures. The candidates are arranged according to priority order to provide better availability of MVP and also to provide more accurate prediction. Furthermore, the MVP technique disclosed can be operated in a closed-loop fashion so that no additional side information or minimum additional side information is required. | 01-12-2012 |
20120128060 | Method and Apparatus of Spatial Motion Vector Prediction - An apparatus and method for deriving a motion vector predictor or a motion vector predictor candidate or a motion vector or a motion vector candidate for a current block are disclosed. In video coding systems, the spatial and temporal redundancy is exploited using spatial and temporal prediction to reduce the information to be transmitted or stored. Motion Vector Prediction (MVP) has been used to further conserve the bitrate associated with motion vector coding. The MVP technique being developed for the current HEVC only considers the motion vector having the same reference list and the same reference picture index as the current block to be an available spatial motion vector predictor candidate. It is desirable to develop a MVP scheme that can improve the availability of the motion vector predictor candidate based on motion vectors from the spatially neighboring block. Accordingly, an apparatus and method for determining a motion vector predictor or motion vector predictor candidate or motion vector or motion vector candidate for a current block based on motion vectors associated with reference pictures in list | 05-24-2012 |
20120134415 | Method and Apparatus of Extended Motion Vector Predictor - A method and apparatus for determining a motion vector predictor (MVP) or a MVP candidate based on a MVP set are disclosed. In video coding systems, the spatial and temporal redundancy is exploited using spatial and temporal prediction to reduce the video data to be transmitted or stored. Motion vector prediction has been used to further conserve the bitrate associated with motion vector coding. Motion vector prediction technique being developed for the current high efficiency video coding (HEVC) only uses a MVP candidate set including spatial MVP candidates and a temporal candidate corresponding to the co-located block. In the current disclosure, the spatial and temporal motion vector predictor set is extended to include at least one spatially neighboring block associated with list 0 reference pictures and list 1 reference pictures, and co-located block and its neighboring block associated with list 0 reference pictures and list 1 reference pictures. | 05-31-2012 |
20120134416 | Method and Apparatus for Derivation of MV/MVP Candidate for Inter/Skip/Merge Modes - A method and apparatus for deriving a temporal motion vector predictor (MVP) are disclosed. The MVP is derived for a current block of a current picture in Inter, or Merge, or Skip mode based on co-located reference blocks of a co-located block. The co-located reference blocks comprise an above-left reference block of the bottom-right neighboring block of the co-located block. The reference motion vectors associated with the co-located reference blocks are received and used to derive the temporal MVP. Various configurations of co-located reference blocks can be used to practice the present invention. If the MVP cannot be found based on the above-left reference block, search for the MVP can be continued based on other co-located reference blocks. When an MVP is found, the MVP is checked against the previously found MVP. If the MVP is the same as the previously found MVP, the search for MVP continues. | 05-31-2012 |
20120140825 | Method and Apparatus of Video Coding Using Picture Structure with Low-Delay Hierarchical B Group - A method and apparatus for encoding a video sequence comprising a plurality of pictures are disclosed. In video coding systems, the temporal redundancy is exploited using motion compensated prediction. The video sequence is often organized into multiple GOP (group of pictures) where different types of GOP may be used. In conventional coding systems, IPPP and IBBP GOP structure is often used. In H.264/AVC and the emerging High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), hierarchical GOP structure, including hierarchical P GOP structure and hierarchical B GOP structure, has been introduced to allow temporal scalability. Furthermore, low-delay IBBB GOP structure has been also introduced, for low-delay application. In the present invention, a low-delay hierarchical B GOP structure is disclosed. The new structure uses low-delay B-pictures only so as to minimize the processing delay while the hierarchical structure provides the temporal scalability. The low-delay hierarchical B GOP structure has been shown to result in substantial improvement in coding efficiency | 06-07-2012 |
20120236941 | Method and Apparatus for Derivation of Spatial Motion Vector Candidate and Motion Vector Prediction Candidate - An apparatus and method for deriving a motion vector predictor are disclosed. In video coding systems, the spatial and temporal redundancy is exploited using spatial and temporal prediction to reduce the information to be transmitted or stored. Motion vector prediction has been used to further conserve the bitrate associated with motion vector coding. In a conventional coding system, a motion vector predictor (MVP) is selected from the spatial MVPs and temporal MVP. The spatial MVP according to a conventional approach is based on motion vectors (MVs) of neighboring blocking pointing to a target reference picture in a given reference list. Embodiments according to the present invention perform the MVP search among an extended search set including MVs pointing to other reference pictures in the given reference list or the other reference list and MVs pointing to the target reference picture in the given reference list or the other reference list. Other aspects of the present invention address the search order of the search set and configuration of neighboring blocks. | 09-20-2012 |
20120236942 | Method and Apparatus for Deriving Temporal Motion Vector Prediction - A method and apparatus for deriving a temporal motion vector predictor (MVP) are disclosed. The MVP is derived for a current block of a current picture in Inter, or Merge, or Skip mode based on co-located reference blocks of a co-located block and a flag is used to indicate the co-located picture. More than one co-located reference blocks can be used to derive the temporal MVP and the co-located reference blocks can be selected from the co-located block as well as neighboring blocks of the co-located block. A search set comprises search motion vectors associated with the co-located reference block(s) is formed. The search motion vector (MV) corresponding to the co-located reference block in the same reference list is searched before the search MV in a different reference list. Various schemes to accommodate implicit method of deriving co-located picture are also disclosed. | 09-20-2012 |
20140078254 | Method and Apparatus of Motion and Disparity Vector Prediction and Compensation for 3D Video Coding - A method and apparatus for deriving MV/MVP (motion vector or motion vector predictor) or DV/DVP (disparity vector or disparity vector predictor) associated Skip mode, Merge mode or Inter mode for a block of a current picture in three-dimensional (3D) video coding are disclosed. The 3D video coding may use temporal prediction and inter-view prediction to exploit temporal and inter-view correlation. MV/DV prediction is applied to reduce bitrate associated with MV/DV coding. The MV/MVP or DV/DVP for a block is derived from spatial candidates, temporal candidates and inter-view candidates. For the inter-view candidate, the position of the inter-view co-located block can be located using a global disparity vector (GDV) or warping the current block onto the co-located picture according to the depth information. The candidate can also be derived as the vector corresponding to warping the current block onto the co-located picture according to the depth information. | 03-20-2014 |
20140247884 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MV SCALING WITH INCREASED EFFECTIVE SCALING RATIO - A method and apparatus for deriving a scaled MV (motion vector) for a current block based on a candidate MV associated with a candidate block are disclosed. Embodiments according to the present invention increase effective scaling factor of motion vector scaling. In one embodiment, a distance ratio of a first picture distance between a current picture and a target reference picture pointed to by a current motion vector of the current block to a second picture distance between a candidate picture corresponding to the candidate block and a candidate reference picture pointed to by the candidate MV is computed. The scaled MV is then generated based on the candidate MV according to the distance ratio, where the scaled MV has an effective scaling ratio between −m and n, and wherein m and n are positive integers greater than 4. The values of m and n can be 8, 16 or 32. | 09-04-2014 |
20150022633 | METHOD OF FAST ENCODER DECISION IN 3D VIDEO CODING - Multi-view video encoding using early Merge mode decision and/or early CU split termination is disclosed. The present invention encodes a current coding block using the Merge/Skip mode without evaluating coding performance for at least one of Inter modes and Intra modes if the coding conditions associated with the current coding block and a neighboring block set of the current coding block are asserted. The coding conditions may correspond to whether the coding performance of the Skip mode is better than the coding performance of 2N×2N Merge mode for the current coding block and whether all blocks in the neighboring block set select the Merge mode or the Skip mode. Similarly, the process of splitting the current coding block into smaller coding blocks can be terminated without evaluating coding performance associated with the smaller coding blocks from splitting the current coding block if some coding conditions are asserted. | 01-22-2015 |