Varjo Technologies Oy

Timo Suoranta

Ari Antti Erik Peuhkurinen

Disclosed is an encoder for encoding images, the encoder having a processor configured to obtain colour data of colour channels of a given image and velocity data of a velocity channel of the given image, wherein the colour data and the velocity data respectively comprise colour values and velocity vectors of pixels of the given image; identify a plurality of groups of neighbouring pixels in the given image, wherein pixels of a given group have at least one of: velocity vectors that lie within a predefined threshold angle from each other, velocity vectors whose magnitude lie within a predefined threshold value from each other; divide the colour data and the velocity data of the given image into their own respective blocks, based on the identified plurality of groups; and encode the blocks into encoded data.

Image encoding based on velocity channel

Disclosed is an encoder for encoding images, the encoder having a processor configured to obtain colour data of colour channels of a given image and other data of at least one other channel of the given image, wherein the at least one other channel comprises at least one of: an alpha channel, a depth channel, a velocity channel of the given image; divide the given image into blocks, wherein the colour data and the other data are divided into their own respective blocks; and encode the blocks into encoded data, wherein a given block of the colour data and a corresponding block of the other data are encoded together into the encoded data.

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Helsinki, Finland

Timo Suoranta