Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Ho-Jin Ha

Jae-Young Lee

Woo-jin Han

Jae-Yeon Song

Sung-Ryeul Rhyu

Kyo-hyuk Lee

Ji-Eun Keum

Jae-young Lee

O-hoon Kwon

Sang-chang Cha

Bae-Keun Lee

Guanhua Zhang

Seo-Young Hwang

Kyong-kyu Lee

Chang-hoon Yim

Bac-keun Lee

Woo-Jin Han

Kyo-Hyuk Lee

Sang-Chang Cha

Hyung-Tak Choi

Sun-Bal Kim

O-Hoon Kwon

Woo-Jin 108-703 Jugong 2-Danji Apt Han

Sang-Chang 103-1503 Raemian 1-Cha Apt Cha

A motion vector compression apparatus includes: a down-sampling module for down-sampling an original frame to have a size of a frame in each layer; a motion vector search module for obtaining a motion vector in which an error or a cost function is minimized with respect to the down-sampled frame; a reference vector generation module for generating a reference motion vector in a predetermined enhanced layer by means of a block of a lower layer corresponding to a predetermined block in the predetermined enhanced layer, and motion vectors in blocks around the block; and a motion difference module for calculating a difference between the obtained motion vector and the reference motion vector.

Method and apparatus for effectively compressing motion vectors in multi-layer structure

A deblocking filter used in a video encoder/decoder based on a multilayer is disclosed. The deblocking filtering method includes choosing a present block and its neighboring block on which a deblocking filtering will be performed, judging whether the present block and the neighboring block have been coded by the intra BL mode, choosing a deblocking filter strength according to the result of the judgment, and performing the deblocking filtering with respect to a boundary between the present block and the neighboring block and according to the deblocking filter strength.

Deblocking control method considering intra BL mode and multilayer video encoder/decoder using the same

A method and apparatus of improving the compression efficiency of a motion vector is provided. The method includes obtaining a motion vector in a base layer frame having a first frame rate from an input frame, obtaining a motion vector in a first enhancement layer frame having a second frame rate from the input frame, the second frame rate being greater than the first frame rate, generating a predicted motion vector by referring to a motion vector for at least one frame among base layer frames present immediately before and after the same temporal position as the first enhancement layer frame if there is no base layer frame at the same temporal position as the first enhancement layer frame, and coding a difference between the motion vector in the first enhancement layer frame and the generated predicted motion vector, and the obtained motion vector in the base layer.

Method and apparatus for effectively compressing motion vectors in video coder based on multi-layer

A method and apparatus of improving the compression efficiency of a motion vector by efficiently predicting a motion vector in an enhancement layer from a motion vector in a base layer in a video coding method using a multi-layer are provided. The method includes obtaining a motion vector in a base layer frame having a first frame rate from an input frame, obtaining a motion vector in a first enhancement layer frame having a second frame rate from the input frame, the second frame rate being greater than the first frame rate, generating a predicted motion vector by referring to a motion vector for at least one frame among base layer frames present immediately before and after the same temporal position as the first enhancement layer frame if there is no base layer frame at the same temporal position as the first enhancement layer frame, and coding a difference between the motion vector in the first enhancement layer frame and the generated predicted motion vector, and the obtained motion vector in the base layer.

A method and an apparatus for elevating compression efficiency of a motion vector by effectively predicting a motion vector of an enhanced layer by means of a motion vector of a base layer in a video coding method employing a multi-layer structure are disclosed. A motion vector compression apparatus includes: a down-sampling module for down-sampling an original frame to have a size of a frame in each layer; a motion vector search module for obtaining a motion vector in which an error or a cost function is minimized with respect to the down-sampled frame; a reference vector generation module for generating a reference motion vector in a predetermined enhanced layer by means of a block of a lower layer corresponding to a predetermined block in the predetermined enhanced layer, and motion vectors in blocks around the block; and a motion difference module for calculating a difference between the obtained motion vector and the reference motion vector.

Multi-layer video coding and decoding methods, multi-layer video encoder and multi-layer video decoder are provided. The multi-layer video coding method includes encoding a video frame having a predetermined resolution using a first video coding scheme, using a frame encoded by the first video coding scheme as a reference to encode the video frame with the same resolution as the predetermined resolution using a second video coding scheme, and generating a bitstream containing the frames encoded by the first and second video coding schemes.

Multi-layer video coding and decoding methods and multi-layer video encoder and decoder

Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for realizing signal to noise ratio (SNR) scalability in a video stream server in order to transmit a video stream in a variable network environment. An apparatus for adapting a bitrate of a coded scalable bit-stream based on multi-layers to a variable network environment, comprising a bit-stream parsing unit to parse an input bit-stream, a pre-decoding condition determining unit to determine a target transmission bitrate according to the variable network environment, a pre-decoding unit to skip at least one frame among the frames included in the parsed bit-stream according to the determined target transmission bitrate, and a bit-stream transmission unit to transmit to a client device the bit-stream that has been restructured due to frame skipping.

Apparatus and method for adjusting bitrate of coded scalable bitsteam based on multi-layer

A method and apparatus for efficiently predecoding a hybrid bitstream generated by a plurality of coding schemes are provided. The method includes obtaining a first bit-rate for a boundary between the lower layer bitstream and the upper layer bitstream and a second bit-rate for a boundary between motion information and texture information of the upper layer bitstream from the input hybrid bitstream, determining the target bit-rate according to variable network circumstances, and when the target bit-rate is between the first and second bit-rates, skipping the motion information of the upper layer bitstream and truncating all bits of the texture information of the upper layer bitstream from the tail, except bits corresponding to the difference between the target bit-rate and the first bit-rate.

Method and apparatus for predecoding hybrid bitstream

An interframe wavelet video coding (IWVC) method by which an average temporal distance (ATD) is minimized is provided. The IWVC method comprises receiving a group-of-frames and decomposing the group-of-frames into difference frames and first average frames between the frames in a first forward temporal direction and a backward temporal direction, wavelet-decomposing the first difference frames and the first average frames, and quantizing coefficients resulting from the wavelet-decomposition to generate a bitstream. The IWVC method provides improved video coding performance.

Interframe wavelet video coding method

An audio compression method using wavelet packet transform (WPT) in MPEG1 layer 3 (hereinafter referred to as 'MP3') and a system thereof are provided. The method comprises calculating perceptual energy by analyzing audio samples which are input based on a psychoacoustic model; according to comparison of the level of the calculated perceptual energy with a threshold, selectively determining a modified DCT (MDCT) processing window and a wavelet packet transform (WPT) processing window; by processing audio samples corresponding to the scopes of the determined windows in the MDCT and WPT, converting the audio samples into data on frequency domains; and quantizing the processed data on the frequency domains according to the number of assigned bits.

Method for compressing audio signal using wavelet packet transform and apparatus thereof

A laptop computer with an alarm function using an LCD on/off switch includes: a microcomputer both for controlling the LCD back-light section on/off operation in response to the on/off state of an LCD on/off switch and for generating an interrupt signal; an alarm processor for determining whether or not the interrupt signal is a burglar alarm signal and outputs an alarm in case of a robbery; and a password determining section for comparing a password entered by a user with a previously set password and interrupting the generation of an alarm only when both passwords are identical. A burglar alarm is sounded when an interrupt occurs so when to indicate a robbery as the LCD on/off switch is turned on against a user's will during the operation of the computer. Also, it can interrupt the alarm by a user inputting a correct password during the generation of the alarm.

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