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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2007
Ingo Tobias Doser, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Yu Wen Wu, Beijing, CN;
Yong Ying Gao, Beijing, CN;
Thomson Licensing, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A scalable video bitstream may have an H.264/AVC compatible base layer (BL) and a scalable enhancement layer (EL), where scalability refers to color bit depth. The H.264/AVC scalability extension SVC provides also other types of scalability, e.g. spatial scalability where the number of pixels in BL and EL are different. According to the invention, BL information is upsampled (TUp,BDUp) in two logical steps in adaptive order, one being texture upsampling and the other being bit depth upsampling. Texture upsampling is a process that increases the number of pixels, and bit depth upsampling is a process that increases the number of values that each pixel can have, corresponding to the pixels color intensity. The upsampled BL data are used to predict the collocated EL. A prediction order indication is transferred so that the decoder can upsample BL information in the same manner as the encoder, wherein the upsampling refers to spatial and bit depth characteristics.