Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090232215 | Method and an Apparatus for Encoding or Decoding a Video Signal - A method of processing a video signal is disclosed. The present invention includes determining an intra prediction mode of a current block using a template region adjacent to the current block and obtaining a prediction value of the current block using the intra prediction mode of the current block. Accordingly, the present invention raises efficiency of video signal processing by enabling a decoder to derive information on a prediction mode of a current block in a decoder instead of transferring the information to the decoder. | 09-17-2009 |
20100111183 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR DECORDING/ENCORDING A VIDEO SIGNAL - A method of decoding a video signal is disclosed. The present invention includes searching a reference block using side information, deriving motion information of a current block from the reference block, decoding the current block using the motion information of the current block, wherein the side information includes offset information indicating a position difference between the reference block and a corresponding block and wherein the corresponding block is a block indicated by a global motion vector indicating a disparity difference between a view of the current block and a view of the reference block. | 05-06-2010 |
20100215101 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A VIDEO SIGNAL - A method of processing a video signal is disclosed. The present invention includes extracting an overlapping window coefficient from a video signal bitstream, applying a window to at least one reference area within a reference picture using the overlapping window coefficient, obtaining a reference block by overlapping the window applied at least one reference area multiply, and obtaining a predictor of a current block using the reference block. | 08-26-2010 |
20110090969 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO SIGNAL - A method and apparatus for decoding a video signal are disclosed. A method for decoding a video signal includes obtaining block type information of a current block, confirming a prediction mode of the current block based on the block type information, obtaining, if the prediction mode of the current block is an intra prediction mode according to the prediction mode, at least one correlation parameter information using at least one neighboring pixel of the current block, obtaining an intra prediction value of the current block using the correlation parameter information, and reconstructing the current block using the intra prediction value of the current block. | 04-21-2011 |
20110221861 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO SIGNAL - In a method for processing video signals acquired from multiple cameras, the present invention provides a method for processing video signals including receiving a multiview video coded bit stream including color pictures and depth pictures, wherein the depth picture indicates a group of digitalized information on a distance between a base camera and an object; acquiring data type identification information from the multiview video coded bit stream, wherein the data type identification information indicates whether or not depth-coded data are included in the multiview video coded bit stream; acquiring reference information between views of the depth picture based upon the data type identification information, wherein the reference information between views of the depth picture includes a number of depth-view reference pictures, and a view identification number of the depth-view reference picture; acquiring an estimation value of the depth picture by using the reference information between views of the depth picture; recovering the depth picture by using the estimation value of the depth picture; and acquiring a 3-dimensional image by using the recovered depth picture. | 09-15-2011 |
20110222602 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING A VIDEO SIGNAL USING INTER-VIEW PREDICTION - A method and apparatus for processing a video signal using inter-viewpoint prediction are disclosed. The video signal processing method includes acquiring a type of a current block, acquiring a depth inter-view prediction flag according to the current block type, acquiring color information of a reference block corresponding to the current block when the current block is encoded using depth inter-view prediction according to the depth inter-view prediction flag, and predicting color information of the current block using the color information of the reference block. The video signal processing method performs inter-viewpoint prediction using depth information, such that a motion vector of a macroblock can be induced from a decoder using such depth information. Therefore, a motion vector of the macroblock is not separately coded. In addition, the video signal processing method uses a flag that indicates whether to perform inter-viewpoint prediction using depth information. | 09-15-2011 |
20110255592 | VIRTUAL VIEW IMAGE SYNTHESIS METHOD AND APPARATUS - The virtual view image synthesis method according to the present invention comprises: generating an intermediate picture from a first viewpoint and an intermediate picture from a second viewpoint by swapping a reference picture from a first viewpoint and a reference picture from a second viewpoint; determining whether there is a hole in said intermediate picture from a first viewpoint; if there is a hole in said intermediate picture from a first viewpoint, obtaining the pixel value of said intermediate picture from a second viewpoint based on the location of said hole; and allocating the pixel value of said intermediate picture from a second viewpoint to said hole. A virtual picture is synthesized using a reference picture, thereby reducing the quantity of information due to encoding a virtual viewpoint picture. | 10-20-2011 |
20110274166 | Method And Apparatus For Processing Video Signals Using Boundary Intra Coding - A boundary intra coding flag is obtained according to a current macroblock type. When the boundary intra coding flag indicates that the current macroblock is coded in an intra prediction mode using boundary intra coding, boundary coding information is obtained, and a boundary in the current macroblock is induced based on the boundary coding information. Therefore, the regions divided by the boundary can be coded in the intra prediction mode. The accuracy of a predicted pixel value can be improved by performing the intra prediction for regions divided by the boundary. Accordingly, the residual data transmitted to a decoder can be reduced. | 11-10-2011 |
20120069903 | REFERENCE PICTURE LIST CHANGING METHOD OF MULTI-VIEW VIDEO - Disclosed is a method of changing a reference picture list. The present invention includes parsing a profile identifier and a slice type from a multiview video bitstream, obtaining inter-view reference information based on the profile identifier, initializing a reference picture list using the inter-view reference information, and modifying the reference picture list in consideration of the slice type. Accordingly, the present invention defines profile information indicating a stereo video, thereby coding a multiview video signal more efficiently. | 03-22-2012 |
20120106634 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING MULTI-VIEW VIDEO SIGNAL - Disclosed is a method of processing a video signal. the present invention includes obtaining inter-view reference flag information on a picture of a base view, if the picture of the base view is used for an inter-view prediction in accordance with the inter-view reference flag information, obtaining picture coding structure flag for the picture of the base view, generating a reference picture list for the inter-view prediction based on the picture coding structure flag, and predicting a pixel value of a picture of a non-base view using the reference picture list for the inter-view prediction. Accordingly, the present invention defines profile information indicating a stereo video, thereby coding a multiview video signal more efficiently. The present invention re-defines an access unit, thereby performing inter-view prediction without being restricted by a coding format of an inter-view reference picture in decoding a stereo video. | 05-03-2012 |
20120147137 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A MULTIVIEW VIDEO SIGNAL - A method of processing a multiview video stream is disclosed. The present invention includes receiving the multiview video stream including a random access picture, the random access picture including a random access slice, the random access slice indicating a slice referring to a slice existing at a same time in a different view only, receiving an identification information indicating that the received multiview video stream is a stereo video bitstream, obtaining a flag information indicating whether the random access picture is used for inter-view prediction based on the flag information, determining an initialization information of a reference picture list of the random access picture based on the flag information, initializing the reference picture list of the random access picture using the initialization information, determining a prediction value of a macroblock in the random access picture based on the initialized reference picture list, and decoding the macroblock using the prediction value of the macroblock. | 06-14-2012 |
20130003855 | PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VIDEO SIGNALS - Disclosed are a method and device for encoding or decoding video signals. The video signal processing method according to the present invention can enhance processing efficiency by using a structure whereby a single unit is recursively divided into a plurality of units. A method is provided in which bits can be used efficiency by hierarchically employing coding block pattern information under a unit structure able to be divided in this way. Further, residual data is rearranged so as to allow efficient coding by employing spatial distribution of the residual data. | 01-03-2013 |
20130142259 | METHOD OFFOR SIGNALING IMAGE INFORMATION, AND METHOD OFFOR DECODING IMAGE INFORMATION USING SAME - The present invention relates to a method offor signaling information on a prediction mode and to a method of for decoding image information using same. According to the present invention, the method offor signaling prediction mode information, serving according to the present invention, as a method offor signaling image information, includes performing prediction on a current block and signaling the prediction-type information applied to the current block. The signaling of the information includes joint-coding and components of signaling information components constituting the prediction-type information. According to the present invention, overhead may be reduced when information on a prediction is signaled. | 06-06-2013 |
20130230103 | METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGES, AND DEVICE USING SAME - According to the present invention, an inter-prediction method includes: receiving mode information on the inter-prediction of a current block; decoding the received mode information; and performing inter-prediction using the decoded mode information. According to the present invention, image compression efficiency may be improved. | 09-05-2013 |
20130272405 | INTRA PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS USING THE METHOD - An intra prediction method and a device using the intra prediction method are provided. The intra prediction method using a DC mode includes setting a bottom-right pixel to a DC-predicted value, interpolating the bottom-right pixel and an n-th top reference pixel to derive predicted values of an n-th column and interpolating the bottom-right pixel and an n-th left reference pixel to derive predicted values of an n-row, and performing bidirectional linear interpolation to derive predicted values of pixels included in a prediction unit other than the n-th row and the n-th column. | 10-17-2013 |
20130272623 | INTRA PREDICTION METHOD AND ENCODING APPARATUS AND DECODING APPARATUS USING SAME - An intra prediction method and a device using the intra prediction method are provided. The intra prediction method includes the steps of: deriving a current prediction mode as a prediction mode of a current block; constructing neighboring samples of the current block with available reference samples; filtering the available reference samples; and generating predicted samples of the current block on the basis of the filtered available reference samples. The filtering step includes performing the filtering using the available reference sample located in the prediction direction of the current prediction mode and a predetermined number of available reference samples neighboring to the prediction direction of the current prediction mode. | 10-17-2013 |
20130336591 | INTRA PREDICTION METHOD OF CHROMINANCE BLOCK USING LUMINANCE SAMPLE, AND APPARATUS USING SAME - Disclosed are an intra prediction method of a chrominance block using a luminance sample and an apparatus using the same. An image decoding method comprises the steps of: calculating an intra prediction mode of a chrominance block on the basis of an LM mapping table when the chrominance block uses an LM; and generating a prediction block for the chrominance block on the basis of the calculated intra prediction mode of the chrominance block. When intra prediction mode information of chrominance blocks are decoded, mutually different tables are used depending on whether or not an LM is used, so that encoding and decoding can be performed without an unnecessary waste of bits. | 12-19-2013 |
20140003522 | VIDEO SIGNAL DECODING METHOD AND DEVICE | 01-02-2014 |
20140023136 | IN-LOOP FILTERING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SAME - According to the present invention, an image-encoding method comprises the following steps: receiving image information; generating a restored block for the current block based on the image information; and generating a finally restored block for the current block by applying an in-loop filter to the restored block on the basis of the image information. According to the present invention, image-encoding/decoding efficiency may be improved. | 01-23-2014 |
20140023144 | METHOD FOR SELECTING MOTION VECTOR PREDICTOR AND DEVICE USING SAME - A method for selecting a motion vector predictor is provided. The method of selecting a motion vector predictor includes the steps of selecting motion vector predictor candidates for a current block and selecting a motion vector predictor of the current block out of the motion vector predictor candidates, wherein the motion vector predictor candidates for the current block include a motion vector of a first candidate block which is first searched for as an available block out of left neighboring blocks of the current block and a motion vector of a second candidate block which is first searched for as an available block out of upper neighboring blocks of the current block. | 01-23-2014 |
20140098859 | ENTROPY DECODING METHOD, AND DECODING APPARATUS USING SAME - The present invention relates to an entropy decoding method and to a decoding apparatus using same. The entropy decoding method according to the present invention comprises: a step of decoding a bin of a syntax element; and a step of acquiring information on the syntax element based on the decoded bin. In the step of decoding the bin, context-based decoding or bypass decoding is performed for each bin of the syntax element. | 04-10-2014 |
20140126630 | IMAGE INFORMATION ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD - The present invention relates to an image information encoding and decoding method and a device for same. One embodiment of an image information encoding method according to the present invention, as an image information encoding method according to another embodiment of the present invention, includes the steps of: generating a restore block; applying a deblocking filter on the restore block; applying a Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO) on the restore block having the deblocking filter applied thereon; and transmitting information on the SAO application. During the applying of the SAO, the SAO is applied to chroma pixels, and during the transmitting of the information, in addition to information on whether the SAO is applied on the chroma pixels, at least one of area information, division information on the SAO coverage area, SAO type information, and SAO offset information is transmitted. | 05-08-2014 |
20140126643 | METHOD FOR SETTING MOTION VECTOR LIST AND APPARATUS USING SAME - Disclosed are a method for setting a motion vector list and an apparatus using the same. The method for setting the motion vector list and the apparatus using the same may include the steps of: determining the presence of a first motion vector or a second motion vector by a sequential determination process in a first spatial candidate prediction group; and setting the first motion vector or the second motion vector produced through the sequential determination process as the candidate prediction motion vector. Thus, the encoding/decoding time and the complexity can be reduced by restricting the scaling number in a process for scanning the candidate prediction motion vector. | 05-08-2014 |
20140153844 | INTERPOLATION METHOD AND PREDICTION METHOD USING SAME - The present invention relates to a method of performing interpolation for prediction between screens by using a pixel sample of a current picture and a pixel sample of a reference picture, and a prediction method using same. The interpolation method according to the present invention includes: calculating movement information for generating a prediction block; and generating a partial pixel sample on the basis of an integer sample set including integer pixel samples to which an interpolation filter is applied. Here, the integer sample set includes at least one current integer sample used to generate a partial pixel sample among restored integer pixel samples of a current picture, and the partial pixel sample corresponds to the offset positions of a partial pixel unit from a predetermined reference pixel sample among integer pixel samples. | 06-05-2014 |