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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2017
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joseph Young, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dake He, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Coding using level maps is disclosed. A method includes coding a scan position, in a forward scan direction, corresponding to an end-of-block and coding, in a backward scan direction, a non-zero map indicating positions of the transform block containing non-zero transform coefficients. The method also includes coding, in the backward scan direction, lower-range level maps, each lower-range level map having a respective map level up to a maximum map level, the lower-range level map indicating which absolute values of the non-zero transform coefficients are equal to the respective map level and which absolute values of the non-zero transform coefficients are greater than the respective map level. The method also includes coding a coefficient residual map, each residual coefficient of the coefficient residual map corresponding to a respective non-zero transform coefficient of the transform block having an absolute value exceeding the maximum map level.