IP Library Granted Patent US 11,490,088
Granted Patent B2
US 11,490,088 · App. 17/365,559 · Granted Nov 1, 2022

Conversion factor level coding method and device therefor

Inventors: Jungah Choi (Seoul, KR); Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, KR); Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, KR); Jangwon Choi (Seoul, KR); Jin Heo (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
H04N19/132H04N19/129H04N19/176H04N19/46
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Patent No.
US 11,490,088
App. No.
17/365,559
Granted
Nov 1, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for decoding an image by a decoding device according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: receiving a bit stream including residual information; deriving a quantized conversion factor of a current block on the basis of the residual information included in the bit stream; deriving a residual sample of the current block on the basis of the quantized conversion factor; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the residual sample of the current block.

Claims (51)

1. An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving a bitstream comprising residual information;

deriving transform coefficients for a transform block based on the residual information;

deriving residual samples for the transform block by performing transformation based on the transform coefficients; and

generating a reconstructed picture based on the residual samples,

wherein the residual information comprises a significant coefficient flag, a parity level flag, a first coefficient level flag, a second coefficient level flag, an abs remainder syntax element, and a sign flag for a transform coefficient for the transform block, wherein the significant coefficient flag is related to whether the transform coefficient is a non-zero significant coefficient, the parity level flag is for a parity of a transform coefficient level for the transform coefficient, the first transform coefficient level flag is about whether the transform coefficient level is larger than a first threshold, the second transform coefficient level flag is about whether the transform coefficient level is larger than a second threshold, the abs remainder syntax element is about a remaining value of the transform coefficient level, the sign flag is about a sign of the transform coefficient,

wherein the deriving of the transform coefficients comprises

determining a threshold related to a sum of a number of significant coefficient flags for the transform coefficients within the transform block, a number of first transform coefficient level flags, a number of parity level flags, and a number of second transform coefficient level flags based on a size of the transform block;

decoding the significant coefficient flag, the first transform coefficient level flag, the parity level flag, the second coefficient level flag, the abs remainder syntax element and the sign flag based on the threshold; and

deriving the transform coefficient based on a value of the decoded significant coefficient flag, a value of the decoded parity level flag, a value of the decoded first transform coefficient level flag, a value of the decoded second transform coefficient level flag, a value of the decoded abs remainder syntax element and a value of the decoded sign flag, and

wherein the sum of the number of significant coefficient flags for the transform coefficients within the transform block, the number of first transform coefficient level flags, the number of parity level flags, and the number of second transform coefficient level flags, which are comprised in the residual information, is the threshold or less.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a sum of the number of significant coefficient flags, the number of first transform coefficient level flags, and the number of parity level flags comprised in the residual information is a third threshold or less,

wherein the number of second transform coefficient level flags comprised in the residual information is a fourth threshold or less, and

wherein the threshold is a sum of the third threshold and the fourth threshold.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein when the sum of the number of significant coefficient flags, the number of first transform coefficient level flags, the number of parity level flags, and the number of second transform coefficient level flags, which are derived based on an 0th transform coefficient to an nth transform coefficient determined by a coefficient scanning order, reaches the threshold, a value of an (n+1)th transform coefficient is derived based on a value of an abs level syntax element comprised in the residual information.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the significant coefficient flags, the first transform coefficient flags, the parity level flags, and the second transform coefficient level flags, which are comprised in the residual information, are decoded based on a context, and

wherein the abs level syntax element is decoded on a bypass basis.

5. An image encoding method performed by an encoding apparatus, the method comprising:

deriving residual samples for a current block;

deriving transform coefficients based on the residual samples for the current block; and

encoding residual information comprising information for the transform coefficients,

wherein the residual information comprises a significant coefficient flag, a parity level flag, a first coefficient level flag, a second coefficient level flag, an abs remainder syntax element, and a sign flag for a transform coefficient for the current block, wherein the significant coefficient flag is related to whether the transform coefficient is a non-zero significant coefficient, the parity level flag for a parity of a transform coefficient level for the transform coefficient, the first transform coefficient level flag about whether the transform coefficient level is larger than a first threshold, the second transform coefficient level flag is about whether the transform coefficient level is larger than a second threshold, the abs remainder syntax element is about a remaining value of the transform coefficient level, the sign flag is about a sign of the transform coefficient,

wherein the encoding of the residual information comprises

determining a threshold related to a sum of a number of significant coefficient flags for the transform coefficients within the current block, a number of first transform coefficient level flags, a number of parity level flags, and a number of second transform coefficient level flags based on a size of the transform block;

deriving a value of the significant coefficient flag, a value of the parity level flag, a value of the first transform coefficient level flag, a value of the second transform coefficient level flag, a value of the abs remainder syntax element, a value of the sign flag based on the transform coefficient; and

encoding the significant coefficient flag, the first transform coefficient level flag, the parity level flag, the second transform coefficient level flag, the abs remainder syntax element, the sign flag based on the threshold,

wherein the sum of the number of significant coefficient flags for the transform coefficients within the current block, the number of first transform coefficient level flags, the number of parity level flags, and the number of second transform coefficient level flags, which are comprised in the residual information, is the threshold or less.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the threshold is determined based on a size of the current block.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein a sum of the number of significant coefficient flags, the number of first transform coefficient level flags, and the number of parity level flags comprised in the residual information is a third threshold or less,

wherein the number of second transform coefficient level flags comprised in the residual information is a fourth threshold or less, and

wherein the threshold is a sum of the third threshold and the fourth threshold.

8. The method of claim 5 , wherein when the sum of the number of significant coefficient flags, the number of first transform coefficient level flags, the number of parity level flags, and the number of second transform coefficient level flags, which are derived based on an 0th transform coefficient to an nth transform coefficient determined by a coefficient scanning order, reaches the threshold, a value of an (n+1)th transform coefficient is derived based on a value of an abs level syntax element comprised in the residual information.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the significant coefficient flags, the first transform coefficient flags, the parity level flags, and the second transform coefficient level flags, which are comprised in the residual information, are encoded based on context, and

wherein the abs level syntax element is encoded on a bypass basis.

10. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a bitstream generated by a method, the method comprising:

deriving residual samples for a current block;

deriving transform coefficients based on the residual samples for the current block; and

encoding residual information comprising information for the transform coefficients to generate the bitstream,

wherein the residual information comprises a significant coefficient flag, a parity level flag, a first coefficient level flag, a second coefficient level flag, an abs remainder syntax element, and a sign flag for a transform coefficient for the current block, wherein the significant coefficient flag is related to whether the transform coefficient is a non-zero significant coefficient, the parity level flag for a parity of a transform coefficient level for the transform coefficient, the first transform coefficient level flag about whether the transform coefficient level is larger than a first threshold, the second transform coefficient level flag is about whether the transform coefficient level is larger than a second threshold, the abs remainder syntax element is about a remaining value of the transform coefficient level, the sign flag is about a sign of the transform coefficient,

wherein the encoding of the residual information comprises

determining a threshold related to a sum of a number of significant coefficient flags for the transform coefficients within the current block, a number of first transform coefficient level flags, a number of parity level flags, and a number of second transform coefficient level flags based on a size of the transform block;

deriving a value of the significant coefficient flag, a value of the parity level flag, a value of the first transform coefficient level flag, a value of the second transform coefficient level flag, a value of the abs remainder syntax element, a value of the sign flag based on the transform coefficient; and

encoding the significant coefficient flag, the first transform coefficient level flag, the parity level flag, the second transform coefficient level flag, the abs remainder syntax element, the sign flag based on the threshold,

wherein the sum of the number of significant coefficient flags for the transform coefficients within the current block, the number of first transform coefficient level flags, the number of parity level flags, and the number of second transform coefficient level flags, which are comprised in the residual information, is the threshold or less.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein the threshold is determined based on a size of the current block.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein a sum of the number of significant coefficient flags, the number of first transform coefficient level flags, and the number of parity level flags comprised in the residual information is a third threshold or less,

wherein the number of second transform coefficient level flags comprised in the residual information is a fourth threshold or less, and

wherein the threshold is a sum of the third threshold and the fourth threshold.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 10 , wherein when the sum of the number of significant coefficient flags, the number of first transform coefficient level flags, the number of parity level flags, and the number of second transform coefficient level flags, which are derived based on an 0th quantized transform coefficient to an nth quantized transform coefficient determined by a coefficient scanning order, reaches the threshold, a value of an (n+1)th quantized transform coefficient is derived based on a value of an abs level syntax element comprised in the residual information.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the significant coefficient flags, the first transform coefficient flags, the parity level flags, and the second transform coefficient level flags, which are comprised in the residual information, are decoded based on context, and

wherein the abs level syntax element is decoded on a bypass basis.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 9, 2025
From: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
To: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Reel/Frame 072859/0365 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 1, 2021
From: CHOI, JUNGAH; KIM, SEUNGHWAN; YOO, SUNMI; CHOI, JANGWON; HEO, JIN
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
Reel/Frame 056737/0409 →
Continuity (5)
Continuation 16856406 · Apr 23, 2020
Continuation PCTKR2019012226 · Sep 20, 2019
Provisional Application 62734233 · Sep 20, 2018
Provisional Application 62734266 · Sep 21, 2018
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