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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redwood, WA (US);
Abstract
In this disclosure, a hybrid digital-analog video coding scheme is described. For a video including at least two associated sequences of frames such as a stereo video, some of the frames are digitally encoded, while the others are encoded in an analog way with reference to the digital frames. For an analog frame, a previous frame in the same sequence/view and a temporally consistent frame in another sequence/view will be encoded as digital frames. These two digital frames are used to provide side information in encoding the analog frame. At decoding side, inverse operations are performed. Such 'zigzag' hybrid coding significantly improves the coding efficiency while providing robustness and good visual quality.