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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2018
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michele Covell, Woodside, CA (US);
David Marwood, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shumeet Baluja, San Diego, CA (US);
Rahul Sukthankar, Orlando, FL (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Encoding and decoding occupancy information is disclosed. A method includes determining row sums for the region, determining column sums for the region, encoding, in a compressed bitstream, at least one of the row sums and the column sums, and encoding, in the compressed bitstream and based on a coding order, at least one of the rows and the columns of the region. The coding order is based on the encoded at least one of the row sums and the column sums. The row sums include, for each row of the region, a respective count of a number of locations in the row having a specified value. The column sums include, for each column of the region, a respective count of a number of locations in the column having the specified value. A location having the specified value is indicative of the occupancy information at the location.