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Drifting reduction and macroblock-based control in progressive fine granularity scalable video coding

US7583730B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 3, 2005
Grant dateSep 1, 2009
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Expiry dateAug 6, 2026

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N19/51
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A motion-compensated video encoding scheme employs progressive fine-granularity layered coding to encode macroblocks of video data into frames having multiple layers, including a base layer of comparatively low quality video and multiple enhancement layers of increasingly higher quality video. Some of the enhancement layers in a current frame are predicted from different quality layers in reference frames. The video encoding scheme estimates drifting errors during the encoding and chooses a coding mode for each macroblock in the enhancement layer to maximize high coding efficiency while minimizing drifting errors.

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