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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:
Feb. 10, 2015

Filed:

May. 16, 2007
Applicants:

Hua Cai, Beijing, CN;

Jian-guang Lou, Beijing, CN;

Jiang LI, Beijing, CN;

Inventors:

Hua Cai, Beijing, CN;

Jian-Guang Lou, Beijing, CN;

Jiang Li, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 11/04 (2006.01); H04N 19/61 (2014.01); H04N 19/597 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/50 (2013.01); H04N 19/00769 (2013.01);
Abstract

Described herein is technology for, among other things, multiview coding with geometry-based disparity prediction. The geometry-based disparity prediction involves determining corresponding block pairs in a number of reconstructed images for an image being coded. The reconstructed images and the image represent different views of a scene at a point in time. Each corresponding block pair is projected on the image. This enables determination of disparity vector candidates. For each coding block of the image, a predicted disparity vector is determined based on the disparity vector candidates. Then, the predicted disparity vector may be utilized to obtain the bits to be encoded. The geometry-based disparity prediction reduces the number of encoded bits.


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