Hfi Innovation Inc.

Mediatek Corporation

Wang-Lin Lai

Shan Liu

Tzu-Der Chuang

Xiaozhong Xu

Yu-Chen Sun

Jing Ye

Jungsun Kim

Yu-Wen Huang

Ding-Yun Chen

Ching-Yeh Chen

Yi-Wen Chen

Lulin Chen

Shaw-Min Lei

Chih-Wei Hsu

Xin Ru Wang

A method of palette management for palette coding in a video coding system receives input data associated with a current block in a high-level picture structure and initializes a palette predictor in the high-level picture structure before a corresponding palette of a first palette-coded block in the high-level picture structure is coded. If a palette mode is selected for the current block, the method applies the palette coding to the current block using a current palette and updates the palette predictor based on the current palette to generate an updated palette predictor for a next block coded in the palette mode.

Method for palette table initialization and management

A method and system of multimedia streaming services using DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) are disclosed. According to this method, one or more Push Directives are sent from a client to a server to indicate information related to media data requested. Each Push Directive comprises a Push type including Push-rate and Push-rate Directive includes information associated with a push data rate related to the media data requested. If the Push-rate Directive is received by the server, one or more groups of data for the media data requested are pushed from the server to the client according to the push data rate. According to another method, fragmented MPDS are used, where at least one fragmented MPD omits a MPD header, MPD payload, Period header or Period payload. In yet another method, a status message group includes SharedResourceAllocation message that comprises parameters including bandwidth and pacingRate.

Method and system for streaming applications using rate pacing and MPD fragmenting

Methods for coding syntax related to palette coding generated in a video coding system are disclosed. According to one embodiment, the current block size checked against the pre-defined block size. If the current block size is larger than the pre-defined block size, a current coding mode is selected from a coding group excluding a palette coding mode. If the current block size is smaller than or equal to the pre-defined block size, the current coding mode is selected from a coding group including the palette coding mode. In another embodiment, if the current block size is greater than a maximum transform size, a current coding mode is selected from a coding group excluding a palette coding mode. If the current block size is smaller than or equal to the maximum transform size, the current coding mode is selected from a coding group including the palette coding mode.

Method of palette predictor signaling for video coding

Methods and apparatus for a coding system using palette mode coding for colour video are disclosed. According to method, when the palette mode is enabled, separate coding of luma and chroma components is disabled or if separate coding of luma and chroma components, the palette mode is disabled. According to another method, when the palette mode is enabled for the current image, palette mode coding is only applied to the luma blocks and non-palette mode coding is applied to the chroma blocks. According to yet another method, palette mode coding is applied to the luma blocks using luma palettes if the palette mode is selected for the luma blocks and palette mode coding applying to the chroma blocks using chroma palettes if the palette mode is selected for the chroma blocks. According to yet another method, the scan direction for a non-square CU depends on the shape of the non-square.

Method and apparatus of palette mode coding for colour video data

A method and apparatus perform palette coding of a block of video data by initializing the palette or triplet palette or using a selected palette or triplet palette from a preceding image area for the beginning block of the current image area. The method receives input data associated with a current image area consisting of multiple blocks. For the beginning block, coding palette predictor is determined based on an initial palette or triplet palette or based on a selected palette or triplet palette associated with a selected block located at a location before the end of a preceding image area. For blocks of the current image area, palette coding is applied to the blocks, where at least one block uses the palette predictor for the beginning block as the palette predictor.

Method and apparatus for palette initialization and management

A method for palette coding is disclosed. In an encoder side, the method determines whether a first block is coded using a palette coding mode or a non-palette coding. If the first block is coded using the non-palette coding mode, a first color table for the first block is derived based on one or more color tables associated with one or more previously processed blocks. If the first block is coded using the palette coding mode, the first color table is derived from the first block. A second block coded after the first block may use the first color table as a palette prediction. At the decoder side, if the current block is coded using the palette coding mode, a first color table based on a previous coded block is derived and the current block is decoded using a first color table as a palette predictor.

Method and apparatus for palette table prediction

A media content delivery apparatus that encodes media content as multiple spatial objects is provided. The media content delivery apparatus encodes a first spatial object according to a first set of parameters. The media content delivery apparatus also encodes a second spatial object according to a second set of parameters. The first and second spatial objects are encoded independently. The media content delivery apparatus also generates a metadata based on the first set of parameters, the second set of parameters, and a relationship between the first and second spatial objects. The media content delivery apparatus then transmits or stores the encoded first spatial object, the encoded second spatial object, and the generated metadata.

Incremental quality delivery and compositing processing

A method of IntraBC coding using restricted reference area is disclosed. A reference block is selected from an available ladder-shaped reference area comprising previously processed blocks before the current working block in the current CTU row and previously processed blocks in one or more previous CTU rows. A location of a last previously processed block of a second previous CTU row that is one CTU row farther away from the current CTU row than a first previous CTU row is always in a same vertical location or after a same vertical position of a last previously processed block of the first previous CTU row. The current picture may be partitioned into multiple CTU rows for applying wavefront parallel processing (WPP) on the multiple CTU rows, where the current working block corresponds to a current working block. Similar restrictions may also be applied to slice/tile-based parallel processing.

Method of intra block copy search and compensation range

A method and system of message exchange for controlling flow associated with multimedia streaming services from a server to a client using DASH are disclosed. In one method, one or more Push Directives are sent from a client to a server to indicate information related to media data requested. At least one selected Push Directive uses one URLTemplate that comprises a list of media parameter values, and where each media parameter value corresponds to one media parameter associated with one media segment requested. The server then pushes one or more groups of data for the media data requested to the client according to the list of media parameter values. In another method, at least one selected Push Directive uses one URLTemplate that includes a first number to represent a number of repeating difference of media parameter values associated with requested media segments.

Method and system of push-template and URL list for dash on full-duplex protocols

A method of video coding using palette coding mode for color video in a non-444 color format is disclosed. The non-444 video data can be converted to the 444 format so that the palette designed for the 444 format can be used for the non-444 video data. For the 4:2:0 color format, each chroma sample collocated with corresponding quad luma samples is padded with three chroma samples to form converted quad chroma samples. For the 4:2:0 color format, if a current pixel does not belong to the color palette, one or more escape values are signaled for the current pixel and the escape value associated with the chroma sample of the current pixel for each color component is not signaled for three of the quad chroma sample locations collocated with corresponding quad luma samples.

Methods of palette based prediction for non-444 color format in video and image coding

An apparatus and method of coding a palette table using a palette predictor list operate by receiving input data associated with a current block in a picture, receiving a current palette for a current block in the picture, and receiving the palette predictor list for the current palette. For a current position of the palette predictor list, the operations determine a current palette predictor run, wherein a distance between the current position of the palette predictor list and a next position of a next palette entry of the palette predictor list corresponds to the current palette predictor run. Further, the operation constrains a syntax element representing the current palette predictor run to a range of values to cause the next palette entry of the palette predictor list to be within the palette predictor list, and signal or parse the syntax element in a bitstream for the current block.

Methods of palette mode coding in video coding

In a palette prediction that includes a copy-above mode for predicting one or more first pixels based on one or more above pixels located above said one or more first pixels correspondingly, a method of palette mode coding using palette prediction for a picture includes receiving input data associated with a current block and determining a current coding mode for one or more current pixels. If the current coding mode corresponds to the copy-above mode, then the method identifies one or more above pixels located above said one or more current pixels correspondingly, wherein said one or more above pixels are restricted to be non-Escape pixels. The method further encodes the one or more current pixels by using said one or more above pixels as predictors.

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