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Trees for adaptive coding of images and videos using set partitioning in generalized hierarchical trees having directionality

US8620098B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 8, 2010
Grant dateDec 31, 2013
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Expiry dateOct 15, 2032

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N19/60
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Adaptive entropy encoding and decoding which utilizes Set Partitioning within Generalized Hierarchical Trees (SPRIGHT) and a method of designing trees utilizing directionality. After decorrelation and quantization a tree structure is selected from multiple candidates, based on geometric relationships within the image block, for coding the coefficients toward improving zero-clustering of coefficients. Trees for the SPRIGHT encoding are created in response to finding frequency position of each coefficient and scaling frequency position followed by use of octave-band partitioning of coefficient patterns into squares and L-shapes, and the L-shapes are iteratively partitioned into squares. The tree comprises leaf nodes containing coefficients associated with each non-leaf node. The number of zero clustered coefficients can be increased, thus decreasing the number of nodes coded into the encoded image output.

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