IP Library Granted Patent US 11,616,987
Granted Patent B2
US 11,616,987 · App. 15/579,909 · Granted Mar 28, 2023

Method for encoding and decoding image using adaptive deblocking filtering, and apparatus therefor

Inventors: Je Chang Jeong (Seoul, KR); Ki Baek Kim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
H04N19/82H04N19/107H04N19/117H04N19/124H04N19/137H04N19/172H04N19/176H04N19/184H04N19/50H04N19/51H04N19/577H04N19/58H04N19/593H04N19/60H04N19/70H04N19/91
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Patent No.
US 11,616,987
App. No.
15/579,909
Granted
Mar 28, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is an encoding/decoding method and apparatus related to adaptive deblocking filtering. There is provided an image decoding method performing adaptive filtering in inter-prediction, the method including: reconstructing, from a bitstream, an image signal including a reference block on which block matching is performed in inter-prediction of a current block to be encoded; obtaining, from the bitstream, a flag indicating whether the reference block exists within a current picture where the current block is positioned; reconstructing the current block by using the reference block; adaptively applying an in-loop filter for the reconstructed current block based on the obtained flag; and storing the current block to which the in-loop filter is or is not applied in a decoded picture buffer (DPB).

Claims (10)

1. An image decoding method performing adaptive filtering, the method comprising:

obtaining a flag indicating whether a reference block for prediction exists within a current picture where a current block is positioned;

reconstructing the current block by using the reference block; and

adaptively applying a deblocking filter on a first pixel of the reconstructed current block and a second pixel of a neighboring block adjacent to the reconstructed current block based on a filter strength,

wherein, the filter strength of the deblocking filter is determined depending on whether the current block or the neighboring block is predicted with intra prediction,

wherein, based on the current block and the neighboring block is not predicted with intra prediction, the filter strength of the deblocking filter is determined depending on whether a block boundary between the first pixel and the second pixel is a block boundary of a transform block and whether a block containing the first pixel or a block containing the second pixel has a non-zero coefficient,

wherein, based on the block containing the first pixel and the block containing the second pixel not having the non-zero coefficient, the filter strength of the deblocking filter is determined depending on a color component of the current block, whether a block containing the first pixel is predicted with a reference block within the current picture, and whether a block containing the second pixel is predicted with a reference block within the current picture,

wherein the filter strength of the deblocking filter is determined to be 1 when the block containing the first pixel is predicted with a reference block within the current picture and the block containing the second pixel is predicted with the reference block within the current picture, and

wherein, among a luma component and a chroma component of the current block, the filter strength for any one component of the current block is determined separately without considering a filter strength for the other one component of the current block.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the flag is obtained from the bitstream when block matching enabled information indicates that block matching is supported in SPS (Sequence Parameter Set).

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 10, 2021
From: INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY CO., LTD.
To: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 058356/0603 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 4, 2018
From: JEONG, JE CHANG; KIM, KI BAEK
To: INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 045434/0116 →
Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2015-0082702 · Jun 11, 2015 · national
KR 10-2015-0082714 · Jun 11, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180176601A1 · Jun 21, 2018
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