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Dolby Laboratories Licensing Coporation

Walter J Husak

Peng Yin

Tao Chen

Taoran Lu

Alexandros Michael Tourapis

Athanasios Leontaris

Fangjun Pu

Peshala Vishvajith Pahalawatta

Guan-Ming Su

Sean Thomas McCarthy

David Ruhoff

Kevin J Stec

Robin Atkins

Sean Thomas Mccarthy

Samir N Hulyalkar

Harshad Kadu

Jon Scott Miller

Gopi Lakshminarayanan

Hariharan Ganapathy

Alexandras Tourapis

Yee Jin Lee

David S Ruhoff

Methods are described to communicate source color volume information in a coded bitstream using SEI messaging. Such data include at least the minimum, maximum, and average luminance values in the source data plus optional data that may include the color volume x and y chromaticity coordinates for the input color primaries (e.g., red, green, and blue) of the source data, and the color x and y chromaticity coordinates for the color primaries corresponding to the minimum, average, and maximum luminance values in the source data. Messaging data signaling an active region in each picture may also be included.

Source color volume information messaging

Methods and systems for frame rate scalability are described. Support is provided for input and output video sequences with variable frame rate and variable shutter angle across scenes, or for input video sequences with fixed input frame rate and input shutter angle, but allowing a decoder to generate a video output at a different output frame rate and shutter angle than the corresponding input values. Techniques allowing a decoder to decode more computationally-efficiently a specific backward compatible target frame rate and shutter angle among those allowed are also presented.

Frame-rate scalable video coding

Methods, systems, and bitstream syntax are described for constrained processing in video coding. Using one or more syntax elements and either explicit or implicit signaling, an encoder may signal to compliant decoders that certain features of the main profile, such as subpictures and multi-layered scalable coding, are disabled.

Semantics for constrained processing and conformance testing in video coding

Given a sequence of images in a first codeword representation, methods, processes, and systems are presented for image reshaping using rate distortion optimization, wherein reshaping allows the images to be coded in a second codeword representation which allows more efficient compression than using the first codeword representation. Syntax methods for signaling reshaping parameters are also presented.

Image reshaping in video coding using rate distortion optimization

In a method to improve the coding efficiency of high-dynamic range (HDR) images, a decoder parses sequence processing set (SPS) data from an input coded bitstream to detect that an HDR extension syntax structure is present in the parsed SPS data. It extracts from the HDR extension syntax structure post-processing information that includes one or more of a color space enabled flag, a color enhancement enabled flag, an adaptive reshaping enabled flag, a dynamic range conversion flag, a color correction enabled flag, or an SDR viewable flag. It decodes the input bitstream to generate a preliminary output decoded signal, and generates a second output signal based on the preliminary output signal and the post-processing information.

Signal reshaping and coding for HDR and wide color gamut signals

Sampled data is packaged in checkerboard format for encoding and decoding. The sampled data may be quincunx sampled multi-image video data (e.g., 3D video or a multi-program stream), and the data may also be divided into sub-images of each image which are then multiplexed, or interleaved, in frames of a video stream to be encoded and then decoded using a standardized video encoder. A system for viewing may utilize a standard video decoder and a formatting device that de-interleaves the decoded sub-images of each frame reformats the images for a display device. A 3D video may be encoded using a most advantageous interleaving format such that a preferred quality and compression ratio is reached. In one embodiment, the invention includes a display device that accepts data in multiple formats.

Coding and decoding of interleaved image data

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Walter J Husak