Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080199094 | Method of Redundant Picture Coding Using Polyphase Downsampling and the Codes Using the Method - Provided are a method for redundant slice coding by polyphase down-sampling (PD) and a codec using the method. An encoder for redundant slice coding by PD includes a PD coding unit rearranging a residual block that is a difference between a current block and a prediction block into four sections by performing PD on the residual block, a quantization transform unit transforming and quantizing at least one of the sections of the residual block, and a reference block generation unit generating a reference block based on a value obtained by performing inverse transform and inverse quantization, and then inverse PD on the at least one transformed and quantized section by the quantization transform unit. | 08-21-2008 |
20080225116 | Method and Apparatus For Defining and Reconstructing Rois in Scalable Video Coding - A multiple ROI (region of interest) setting method and apparatus in scalable video coding and an ROI reconstructing method and apparatus are provided. The multiple ROI setting apparatus includes: an ROI setting unit which sets at least one or more ROIs and allocates ROI identification numbers to the each of ROIs; a mapping unit which allocates at least one or more slice group identification numbers to the at least one or more ROI identification numbers; and a message generating unit which generates a message including ROI-associated information, slice-group-associated information, mapping information on mapping of the ROI identification number to the at least one or more slice group identification numbers, and scalability information. | 09-18-2008 |
20080247460 | Method and Apparatus For Scalable Video Adaption Using Adaption Operators For Scalable Video - An apparatus for and method of adapting a bitstream to which scalable video coding (SVC) technology is applied are provided. The apparatus for adapting a bitstream includes: an Adaptation QoS information extraction unit extracting SVC adaptation operators, and relationships between the SVC adaptation operators and the usage environment information of a terminal from the Adaptation QoS information on the bitstream to which SVC technology is applied; an Adaptation Decision Taking Engine(ADTE) unit determining the SVC adaptation operators corresponding to the usage environment of the terminal receiving the transmitted bitstream among the SVC adaptation operators; and a SVC bitstream extraction unit extracting the bitstream based on the determined SVC adaptation operator. According to the apparatus and method, scalable video can be efficiently provided for changing network environments and multimedia usage environments, through adaptation of scalable video streams using an adaptation operator suggested in Classification Scheme (AQoSJDS). | 10-09-2008 |
20090031021 | TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING METHOD OF SVC FILE AND APPARATUS THEREOF - In the conventional content, a minimum access unit of the random access information is one frame unit. In the case of SVC video content, one frame consists of a plurality of scalable layers. The SVC data can be used for each salable layer only when the data is accessible for each scalable layer. The present invention provides a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving an SVC file for each scalable layer wherein the SVC file can be accessed for each scalable layer by allowing metadata to contain a layer descriptor in a network abstraction layer unit (NALU) or in a byte unit. | 01-29-2009 |
20090067493 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING BITRATE OF SCALABLE VIDEO STREAM - Provided is a method and apparatus for controlling a bit-rates in which an amount of generated bits is adjusted according to the complexity of each frame, and a bit-rate within a frame can be further effectively adjusted by applying different quantization parameter (QP) values to respective macro blocks. In the apparatus for controlling a bit-rate, a motion compensated temporal filtering (MCTP) operation is performed for each group of pictures (GOP) in an input scalable layer, and thereafter bits are allocated to respective frames in consideration of frame type and frame complexity. Furthermore, a QP is adaptively determined in the unit of a macro block on the basis of the allocated bits. | 03-12-2009 |
20090161762 | METHOD OF SCALABLE VIDEO CODING FOR VARYING SPATIAL SCALABILITY OF BITSTREAM IN REAL TIME AND A CODEC USING THE SAME - Methods of coding a bitstream in which the frames are encoded for enabling a spatial resolution is changed in real time, extracting the bitstream by adding a signaling message indicating that the spatial resolution is changed, and decoding the bitstream in which the spatial resolution is changed in real time after actively detects whether the spatial resolution is changed without additional information, and a codec using the methods are provided. Therefore, if the network has the restricted environment that the resolution is changed in real time while a video encoding and decoding or if there is a need to output the video whose the spatial resolution is partly changed in the decoder, the present invention provides methods to actively cope with the spatial resolution change of the video so as to efficiently watch the video. | 06-25-2009 |
20090222486 | SVC FILE DATA SHARING METHOD AND SVC FILE THEREOF - A method of sharing data of a scalable video coding (SVC) file and the SVC file are provided. The SVC file includes: a scalable base track including at least one scalable layer entry each storing metadata of the at least one scalable layer; and at least one sub track generated based on the scalable base track, which includes identification information of the scalable layer that is a basis of generation of a sub track among the scalable layers and identification information of the scalable base track instead of the scalable layer entry. Accordingly, when an SVC coded content is stored as a file, it is possible to reduce a storage capacity by avoiding duplication of common data and to provide convenience when the stored content is reprocessed by allowing a relation of tracks correlated to one another to be represented. | 09-03-2009 |
20090252220 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE INTER-LAYER PREDICTION ON MACROBLOCK BASIS - Provided are an enhanced inter-layer reference picture designating method and apparatus and an enhanced inter-layer reference picture recovering method and apparatus capable of increasing coding efficiency by allowing different blocks in an upper spatial layer picture of a current to-be-decoded or to-be-encoded picture to refer to blocks in different lower spatial layer pictures. | 10-08-2009 |
20100046620 | SCALABLE VIDEO CODING ENCODER WITH ADAPTIVE REFERENCE FGS AND FGS MOTION REFINEMENT MECHANISM AND METHOD THEREOF - Provided are alternatives for improving coding efficiency when an AR-FGS technique and an FGS motion refinement technique are applied to scalable video coding. When prediction of a residual signal an FGS layer is not performed, a ′ prediction signal of block related to the FGS layer is predicted in the same manner as the manner of predicting a prediction signal of a base quality layer. A scaling factor is allowed to have a non-zero value if required, and the residual signal of the FGS layer is used to determine a scaling factor of a higher FGS layer. The AR-FGS and FGS motion refinement techniques are restricted from being simultaneously used for key pictures. | 02-25-2010 |
20100232508 | CODING METHOD OF REDUCING INTERLAYER REDUNDANCY USING MITION DATA OF FGS LAYER AND DEVICE THEREOF - Provided is a scalable video coding method and apparatus. Motion data of a high-quality fine grain scalability (FGS) layer is used for interlayer coding in order to remove redundancy between coarse grain scalability (CGS) layers or layers having different spatial resolutions, and information indicating that data of the FGS layer has been used for interlayer motion prediction is inserted for Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG)-4 scalable video encoding. A bitstream extractor checks the information and performs extraction to maintain the data of the FGS layer. MPEG-4 scalable video decoding is performed using the information. By using the FGS layer, interlayer redundancy can be efficiently removed, thereby improving encoding efficiency. | 09-16-2010 |
20110150084 | SCALABLE VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING METHOD USING SWITCHING PICTURES AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A conventional new video coding technology can provide a bitstream switching picture by encoding the bitstream switching picture into an I picture. However, an encoding efficiency is greatly reduced. As such, the new video coding technology does not provide an efficient bitstream switching function. Also, other advantages provided by a switching picture technology such as a random access, error durability, and a bitstream splicing are not provided. Provided is an apparatus for encoding a video bitstream including a base layer bitstream and an enhancement layer bitstream by encoding an enhancement layer picture of the enhancement layer bitstream, which is reproduced immediately after a base layer picture of the base layer bitstream is reproduced, into a non-switching pictures by interlayer prediction using a reference image generated by decoding a pre-encoded base layer picture or by motion prediction using another reference image generated by decoding a pre-encoded enhancement layer picture, and into a switching picture, which is decoded into the same image as the non-switching picture, by an interlayer prediction using the non-switching picture and a reference image generated by decoding a pre-encoded base layer picture, while the base layer picture is being reproduced. | 06-23-2011 |
20120201306 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEFINING AND RECONSTRUCTING ROIS IN SCALABLE VIDEO CODING - A multiple ROI (region of interest) setting method and apparatus in scalable video coding and an ROI reconstructing method and apparatus are provided. The multiple ROI setting apparatus includes: an ROI setting unit which sets at least one or more ROIs and allocates ROI identification numbers to the each of ROIs; a mapping unit which allocates at least one or more slice group identification numbers to the at least one or more ROI identification numbers; and a message generating unit which generates a message including ROI-associated information, slice-group-associated information, mapping information on mapping of the ROI identification number to the at least one or more slice group identification numbers, and scalability information. | 08-09-2012 |
20130294506 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DEFINING AND RECONSTRUCTING ROIS IN SCALABLE VIDEO CODING - A multiple ROI (region of interest) setting method and apparatus in scalable video coding and an ROI reconstructing method and apparatus are provided. The multiple ROI setting apparatus includes: an ROI setting unit which sets at least one or more ROIs and allocates ROI identification numbers to the each of ROIs; a mapping unit which allocates at least one or more slice group identification numbers to the at least one or more ROI identification numbers; and a message generating unit which generates a message including ROI-associated information, slice-group-associated information, mapping information on mapping of the ROI identification number to the at least one or more slice group identification numbers, and scalability information. | 11-07-2013 |