Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.V.

Herbert Thoma

Christian Scherl

Thomas Richter

Joachim Keinert

Wolfgang Heppner

Stefan Kraegeloh

Siegfried Foessel

Max Neuendorf

Stefan Doehla

Siegfried Fößel

Bilal Ahmed

Christian Minuth

Nisha Bhaskar

Manuel De Frutos López

Miguel Ángel Martínez Del Amor

Achim Kuntz

Harald Fuchs

Michael Kratschmer

Stephan Schreiner

Bernd Czelhan

Ingo Hofmann

Robert Bleidt

Andreas Niedermeier

Nikolaus Faerber

Jens-Uwe Garbas

Heiko Sparenberg

Sergej Wtjurin

Alexander Zink

Christian Kellermann

Stefan Krägeloh

Christian Forster

Rinat Zeh

Manuel Schwaab

Ajit Motra

Andreas Neidermeier

Thomas Heller

Hussain Mohammed

Ulf Jennehag

Miguel ÁNgel MARTÍNEZ Del Amor

Nikolaus Färber

Miguel Angel MARTÍNEZ Del Amor

Siegfried FÖSSEL

Manuel De Frutos LÓPEZ

There is disclosed an encoder, a decoder, related methods, and non-transitory storage units storing instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the methods. At an encoder (), after a spatial transformation stage (), there is obtained a spatially transformed version () of input image information () having multiple bands and, for each band, multiple transform band coefficients. After the generation of precincts (), each comprising transform coefficients covering a predetermined spatial area of the input image information (), there is provided a component transformation stage (), to apply one component transformation (CTr) selected () out of a plurality of predetermined component transformations, to each band (') of each precinct (). Hence, there is obtained a spatially transformed and color transformed version () of the input image information (), which is subsequently quantized and entropy encoded.

Encoder, decoder and related methods

An apparatus for decoding a sequence of pictures from a data stream is configured for decoding a picture of the sequence by deriving a residual transform signal of the picture from the data stream; combining a residual transform signal with a buffered transform signal approximation of a previous picture of the sequence so as to obtain a transform signal representing the picture, the transform signal having a plurality of transform coefficients; and subjecting the transform signal to a spectral-to-spatial transformation. The apparatus is configured for deriving the buffered transform signal approximation from a further transform signal representing the previous picture so that the buffered transform signal approximation has approximations of further transform coefficients of the further transform signal.

Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding a sequence of pictures using a buffered transform signal approximation

Audio video synchronization and alignment or alignment of audio to some other external clock are rendered more effective or easier by treating fragment grid and frame grid as independent values, but, nevertheless, for each fragment the frame grid is aligned to the respective fragment's beginning. A compression effectiveness lost may be kept low when appropriately selecting the fragment size. On the other hand, the alignment of the frame grid with respect to the fragments' beginnings allows for an easy and fragment-synchronized way of handling the fragments in connection with, for example, parallel audio video streaming, bitrate adaptive streaming or the like.

Fragment-aligned audio coding

Operation method of electronic device for encoding and decoding a sequence of pictures using a buffered transform signal approximation

A source device for providing audio data and video data on one or more digital media interfaces is described, wherein the source device is configured to automatically adjust a time alignment between a provision of audio data and a provision of video data based on an information about a latency of an audio path and based on an information about a latency of a video path.

Source devices, sink devices, methods and computer programs

An apparatus for decoding a sequence of pictures from a data stream is configured for decoding a picture of the sequence by: deriving a residual transform signal of the picture from the data stream; combining the residual transform signal with a buffered transform signal of a previous picture of the sequence so as to obtain a transform signal of the picture, the transform signal representing the picture in spectral components; and subjecting the transform signal to a spectral-to-spatial transformation, wherein the buffered transform signal comprises a selection out of spectral components representing the previous picture.

Encoding and decoding a sequence of pictures

Audio splicing is rendered more effective by the use of one or more truncation unit packets inserted into the audio data stream so as to indicate to an audio decoder, for a predetermined access unit, an end portion of an audio frame with which the predetermined access unit is associated, as to be discarded in playout.

Audio splicing concept

An apparatus for decoding a sequence of pictures from a data stream is configured for decoding a picture of the sequence by deriving a residual transform signal of the picture from the data stream; combining a residual transform signal with a buffered transform signal approximation of a previous picture of the sequence so as to obtain a transform signal representing the picture, the transform signal comprising a plurality of transform coefficients; and subjecting the transform signal to a spectral-to-spatial transformation. The apparatus is configured for deriving the buffered transform signal approximation from a further transform signal representing the previous picture so that the buffered transform signal approximation comprises approximations of further transform coefficients of the further transform signal.

A coding efficiency improvement is achieved by performing bit-plane coding in a manner so that coefficient groups for which the set of coded bit-planes is predictively signaled in the datastream, are grouped in two group sets and if a signal is spent in the datastream which signals, for a group set, whether the set of coded bit-planes of all coefficient groups of the respective group set are empty, i.e. all coefficients within the respective group sets are insignificant. In accordance with another aspect, a coding efficiency improvement is achieved by providing bit-plane coding with group-set-wise insignificant signalization according to the first aspect as a coding option alternative relative to the signalization for group sets for which it is signaled that there is no coded prediction residual for the coded bit-planes for the claim groups within the respective group set.

Bit-plane encoder and decoder

Transform coefficients encoder and decoder

Concepts are presented herein how to efficiently create a suitable palette for low complexity image and video coding. A combination of the palette coding with transform coding is feasible.

Image compression technique

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Herbert Thoma