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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 26, 2022
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Chih-Lung Lin, Redmond, WA (US);

Shankar Regunathan, Redmond, WA (US);

Sridhar Srinivasan, Shanghai, CN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/18 (2014.01); H04N 19/91 (2014.01); H04N 19/70 (2014.01); H04N 19/46 (2014.01); H04N 19/61 (2014.01); H04N 19/124 (2014.01); H04N 19/126 (2014.01); H04N 19/136 (2014.01); H04N 19/137 (2014.01); H04N 19/17 (2014.01); H04N 19/184 (2014.01); H04N 19/186 (2014.01); H04N 19/44 (2014.01); H04N 19/625 (2014.01); H04N 19/176 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/18 (2014.11); H04N 19/124 (2014.11); H04N 19/126 (2014.11); H04N 19/136 (2014.11); H04N 19/137 (2014.11); H04N 19/17 (2014.11); H04N 19/176 (2014.11); H04N 19/184 (2014.11); H04N 19/186 (2014.11); H04N 19/44 (2014.11); H04N 19/46 (2014.11); H04N 19/61 (2014.11); H04N 19/625 (2014.11); H04N 19/70 (2014.11); H04N 19/91 (2014.11);
Abstract

Described tools and techniques relate to signaling for DC coefficients at small quantization step sizes. The techniques and tools can be used in combination or independently. For example, a tool such as a video encoder or decoder processes a VLC that indicates a DC differential for a DC coefficient, a FLC that indicates a value refinement for the DC differential, and a third code that indicates the sign for the DC differential. Even with the small quantization step sizes, the tool uses a VLC table with DC differentials for DC coefficients above the small quantization step sizes. The FLCs for DC differentials have lengths that vary depending on quantization step size.


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