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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128068 | METHOD FOR DECODING A STREAM OF CODED DATA REPRESENTATIVE OF A SEQUENCE OF IMAGES AND METHOD FOR CODING A SEQUENCE OF IMAGES A method for decoding a stream of coded data representative of a sequence of images is disclosed. The decoding method comprises determining a prediction block, calculating the average of said prediction block,<... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128067 | Apparatus and Method of Constrained Partition Size for High Efficiency Video Coding An apparatus and method for video coding and decoding with constrained PU partition are disclosed. In the High Efficient Video Coding (HEVC) system, rate-distortion function or other performance criterion usually is evaluated for various CU partition and PU partition du... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128069 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD The present invention relates an image processing apparatus and method able to realize parallelized or pipelined intra prediction while also improving coding efficiency. An intra prediction unit 74 conducts an intra prediction proces... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120106632 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ERROR RESILIENT LONG TERM REFERENCING BLOCK REFRESH A system and method for coding video data wherein a pixel block may be coded for refresh with reference to an LTR frame that was successfully transmitted, or has a high probability of having been successfully transmitted from the encoder to the decoder. Not all pixel bl... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106635 | ENCODER, ENCODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM An encoder including a code amount prediction unit predicting the amount of code of data to be encoded, the code amount prediction unit including a conversion unit converting input syntax elements to symbol data, and a measurement unit measuring the predicted amount of ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 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 referen... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106646 | METHOD FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGES, ENCODING AND DECODING DEVICES, CORRESPONDING DATA STREAMS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM A method and apparatus are provided for encoding an image sequence. The method includes the following steps, for at least one group of blocks of an image: determining, for each block, at least one parameter characteristic of said block; forming at least one cluster incl... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106633 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING CONSIDERING IMPULSE SIGNAL An apparatus and method for video encoding/decoding considering impulse signal are disclosed. The method for video encoding includes generating a predicted block from predicting a current block and subtracting the predicted block from the current block to generate an MÃ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120106636 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS The present disclosure relates to a video encoding/decoding method and provides a video encoding apparatus including: an intra-prediction mode determiner for determining an intra prediction mode of current block entitled an encoder prediction mode by using candidate int... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120082214 | Delay Aware Rate Control In The Context Of Hierarchical P Picture Coding The present invention provides bit rate control techniques for a hybrid block based motion compensated predictive video encoder (e.g., H.264, as well as other video coding algorithms and standards). The techniques aim to reduce the picture-to-picture bit rate fluctuatio... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082225 | SELECTIVE INDICATION OF TRANSFORM SIZES During a video encoding process, a video encoder may transform the residual data of a coding unit (CU) using a single transform if the CU only has a single prediction unit (PU). If the CU has multiple PUs, the video encoder may transform the residual data using multiple... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082226 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ERROR RESILIENT SCHEME FOR LOW LATENCY H.264 VIDEO CODING A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support error resilient coding of H.264 compatible video streams for low latency/delay multimedia communication applications by utilizing and integrating a plurality of error resilient H.264 encoding/de... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082221 | Multiple Predictor Set For Intra Coding with Intra Mode Prediction An apparatus comprising a codec configured to predict an intra mode for a considered block based on a plurality of group numbers and a plurality of corresponding group indices for a plurality used modes of a plurality of adjacent blocks to the considered block, wherein ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082210 | CODING PREDICTION MODES IN VIDEO CODING A video encoder can maintain, by generating, storing, adjusting, altering, and/or updating, one or more variable length coding (VLC) tables that represent a mapping of prediction modes to codewords. One or more codewords representing a selected prediction mode can be co... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082220 | INTRA-MODE PREDICTION FOR A VIDEO TRANSCODER A video transcoder for converting an encoded input video bit-stream having one spatial resolution into an encoded output video bit-stream having a lower spatial resolution, wherein learned statistics of intra-mode transcoding are used to constrain the search of intra mo... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082218 | Methods and Systems for Entropy Coder Initialization Aspects of the present invention are related to systems and methods for initialization of entropy encoders and decoders.... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082224 | INTRA SMOOTHING FILTER FOR VIDEO CODING This disclosure relates to techniques for reducing the amount of additional data encoded with a block encoded using intra-predictive coding. Particularly, the techniques provide apparatus and methods of applying a smoothing filter to prediction samples used in intra-pre... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082217 | MOTION COMPENSATION USING DECODER-DEFINED VECTOR QUANTIZED INTERPOLATION FILTERS The present disclosure describes use of dynamically assignable interpolation filters as part of motion compensated prediction. An encoder and a decoder each may store common codebooks that define a variety of interpolation filters that may be applied to predicted video ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082223 | INDICATING INTRA-PREDICTION MODE SELECTION FOR VIDEO CODING For a block of video data, a video encoder can signal to a video decoder a selected intra-prediction mode using a codeword that is mapped to a modified intra-prediction mode index. The video decoder can receive the codeword, determine the modified intra-prediction mode ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082219 | Content adaptive deblocking during video encoding and decoding Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for performing content-adaptive deblocking to improve the visual quality of video images compressed using block-based motion-predictive video coding. For instance, in certain embodiments of th... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120082222 | VIDEO CODING USING INTRA-PREDICTION In general, techniques of this disclosure are related to determining a prediction characteristic associated with a coding unit of video data, wherein determining the prediction characteristic includes determining a prediction type that defines a number of prediction uni... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120069901 | VIDEO ENCODING APPARATUS, VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS, VIDEO ENCODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM It is a purpose of the present invention to provide a video encoding apparatus, a video decoding apparatus, a video encoding method, a video decoding method, and a computer program, which allow adaptive filter coefficients to be used with a reduced amount of coding. A v... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120069902 | MOVING PICTURE DECODING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT An moving picture decoding device includes a receiver that receives data that has been coded according to multi-view coding of pictures that are included in a moving picture and provided for a plurality of views; a first decoder that decodes coded data that is included ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 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 referenc... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120051425 | MULTI-INPUT ADAPTIVE FILTER BASED ON COMBINATION OF SUM-MODIFIED LAPLACIAN FILTER INDEXING AND QUADTREE PARTITIONING Filtering is applied at a video encoder, and filter information is encoded in the bitstream to enable a video decoder to identify the filtering that was applied at the video encoder. The video decoder receives encoded video data that includes the filter information, dec... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120051426 | CODE AMOUNT REDUCING APPARATUS, ENCODER AND DECODER A sharp/blurred frame mode classifying unit specifies a frame to be subjected to sharp or blurred process. A 3D video signal extracting unit extracts a predetermined area or predetermined macro block in the specified target frame, and a 3D FFT 15 frequency-conver... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044992 | LOW COMPLEXITY ADAPTIVE FILTER An interim filter determined for a previous series of video blocks can be applied to a current series of video blocks to determine an interim filter map for the current series of video blocks. Based on the interim filter map, a decoding filter can be determined. By appl... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044994 | IMAGE PREDICTIVE ENCODING AND DECODING DEVICE An image predictive encoding device can efficiently encode an image, while suppressing an increase in prediction information and reducing the prediction error of a target block. In an image predictive encoding device, according to one embodiment, to produce a prediction... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044993 | Image Processing Device and Method The present invention relates to an image processing device and method which enable compression efficiency to be improved. A horizontal pixel average value AveH of pixel values A through D is calculated, and a horizontal pixel distribution ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044991 | MOVING IMAGE CODING APPARATUS AND MOVING IMAGE CODING METHOD A moving image coding apparatus of one embodiment includes a prediction image generator that generates a prediction image abased on a moving image, a processor that performs deblocking process based on residual data that is generated based on a prediction residual being... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120039393 | Video decoding apparatus and method A video decoding apparatus for decoding an encoded video bitstream having frames of video data encoded in rows of macroblocks. The video decoding apparatus comprises a parsing unit configured to receive the encoded video bitstream and to interpret the encoded video bits... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039392 | METHOD OF CODING A VIDEO SIGNAL The invention relates to methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding of a video sequence. In connection with encoding/decoding a video sequence it is desirable to increase the video quality without having to increase the bit-rate for the encoded video too much, th... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120039388 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING A PREDICTION MODE, AND IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING SAME The present disclosure concerns a method and apparatus for selecting an intra prediction mode and a video encoding/decoding method and apparatus using same. The encoding apparatus selects an intra prediction mode of current block to encode from input video by a variatio... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033731 | VIDEO ENCODING APPARATUS AND VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS While maintaining a high degree of freedom in choosing partition sizes and transformation sizes adapted for local characteristics of videos, the amount of metadata is decreased. A video encoding apparatus (10) divides an input video into blocks of a prescribed si... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033730 | RANDOM ACCESS POINT (RAP) FORMATION USING INTRA REFRESHING TECHNIQUE IN VIDEO CODING A random access point can be generated in a stream of coded digital pictures containing a plurality of predictive coded frames in which one or more subsections of each frame are intra coded. A patch frame can be formed from intra-coded subsections in identified consecut... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033737 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD The present invention relates to an image processing device and method that can suppress decrease in a prediction efficiency accompanied with a secondary prediction. An adjacent pixel prediction unit 83 performs an intra prediction w... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120027085 | Method for Encoding of a Video Stream A temporal sequence of pictures is generated in a method for encoding of a first video stream. To do so, a synchronization signal is used which is derived from a second video stream independently of the first video stream, or the encoding of a second video stream indepe... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027086 | PREDICTIVE CODING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM A predictive coding apparatus which performs predictive coding for each picture forming a moving picture, comprising: a prediction processing unit configured to perform prediction processing for each predetermined block unit of a picture to be coded, a transformation un... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027084 | METHODS OF UTILIZING TABLES ADAPTIVELY UPDATED FOR CODING/DECODING AND RELATED PROCESSING CIRCUITS THEREOF A method of converting first data into second data includes: determining a target symbol corresponding to the first data by utilizing a determining unit; and generating the second data corresponding to the determined target symbol. One of the first data and the second d... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027083 | VIDEO CODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, VIDEO CODING APPARATUS, AND VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS A video coding method which enables reduction in the decrease in the efficiency of coding a video and enhancement of the image quality of the resulting decoded video involves: predicting a video signal to generate a prediction signal (S100); calculating, as a pre... | 02/02/2012 |
