VIDEO ENCODING METHOD AND VIDEO DECODING METHOD FOR ENABLING BIT DEPTH SCALABILITY

Number of patents in Portfolio can not be more than 2000

United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20100091840A1
SERIAL NO

12448783

Stats

ATTORNEY / AGENT: (SPONSORED)

Importance

Loading Importance Indicators... loading....

Abstract

See full text

The invention presents a scalable solution to encode the whole 12-bit raw video once to generate one bitstream that contains an H.264/AVC compatible base layer and a scalable enhancement layer. If a color bit depth scalable decoder is available at the client end, both the base layer and the enhancement layer sub-bitstreams will be decoded to obtain the 12-bit video and it can be viewed on a high quality display that supports more than eight bit; otherwise only the base layer sub-bitstream is decoded using an H.264/AVC decoder and the decoded 8-bit video can be viewed on a conventional 8-bit display. The enhancement layer contains a residual based on a prediction from the base layer, which is either based on bit-shift or based on an advanced bit depth prediction is utilized, wherein the advanced bit depth prediction method is a Smoothed Histogram method or a Localized Polynomial Approximation method.

Loading the Abstract Image... loading....

First Claim

See full text

Family

Loading Family data... loading....

Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddress
THOMSON LICENSINGLA FRANCE

International Classification(s)

  • [Classification Symbol]
  • [Patents Count]

Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Gao, Yong Ying Beijing, CN 16 554
Wu, Yu Wen Beijing, CN 22 617

Cited Art Landscape

Load Citation

Patent Citation Ranking

Forward Cite Landscape

Load Citation