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US 12,294,727 · App. 18/190,955 · Granted May 6, 2025

Layer characteristic signaling in multi-layered coding

Inventors: Karsten Suehring (Berlin, DE); Thomas Schierl (Berlin, DE); Detlev Marpe (Berlin, DE); Robert Skupin (Berlin, DE); Yago Sanchez De La Fuente (Berlin, DE); Gerhard Tech (Berlin, DE)
Assignee: GE Video Compression, LLC
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Patent No.
US 12,294,727
App. No.
18/190,955
Granted
May 6, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A signaling of at least one characteristic for layers of a multi-layered video signal such as, for example, for each layer the indication of dependent layers to which the respective layer directly relates via inter-layer prediction, or the signaling of the afore-mentioned second inter-dependency syntax structure, is described. A maximum syntax element is signaled within the multi-layered video signal to indicate a maximally used value of an extension layer-ID field of the packets of the multi-layered video signal, the scope of the maximum syntax element being, for example, a predetermined portion of the multi-layered video signal extending, for example, across several portions of the multi-layered video signal. Accordingly, it is feasible for devices such as decoders or network elements receiving the multi-layered video signal to gain, for a relatively large predetermined portion of the multi-layered video signal, knowledge about the actually consumed portion of the possible domain of possible values.

Claims (52)

1. A device comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a multi-layered video signal composed of a sequence of packets each of which comprises a layer identification syntax element structure composed of a base layer-ID field and an extension layer-ID field;

a layer identification extender configured to

read, for a plurality of packets, a first maximum syntax element included in a first network abstraction layer (NAL) unit from the multi-layered video signal, indicating a first maximally assumed value of the extension layer-ID field of the plurality of packets,

read, for the plurality of packets, a second maximum syntax element included in a second NAL unit from the multi-layered video signal, indicating a second maximally assumed value of the base layer-ID field of the plurality of packets,

determine a maximum number of layers within a predetermined portion of the multi-layered video signal based on the first and second maximally assumed values, and

determine at least one characteristic for each of the maximum number of layers by iteratively parsing a layer characterizing syntax portion of the multi-layered video signal a number of times equal to the maximum number of layers,

wherein the device is configured to acquire a bit length of the extension layer-ID field from an explicit signaling in the multi-layered video signal, wherein the first maximum syntax element indicates the first maximally assumed value of the extension layer-ID field in units smaller than the bit length of the extension layer-ID field minus one to the power of two.

2. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the multi-layered video signal has the video material coded thereinto at the different layers using inter-layer prediction such that any layer inter-layer predicted from another layer adds one or more of:

further views;

depth information;

alpha blending information;

color component information;

spatial resolution refinement; and

SNR resolution refinement.

3. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the packets are one of the group comprising NAL units, slices, tiles and pictures, and the predetermined portion is one of the group comprising a coded video sequence, a chunk, or a group of pictures.

4. The device according to claim 1 , further configured to derive a bit length of the extension layer-ID field using the first maximally assumed value.

5. The device according to claim 1 , further configured to derive a bit length of the extension layer-ID field by rounding up the logarithm to base 2 of the first maximally assumed value.

6. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one characteristic relates to an inter-layer prediction dependency of the respective layer to any other of the maximum number of layers.

7. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the device is configured to acquire a bit length of the extension layer-ID field from an explicit signaling in the multi-layered video signal, wherein the first maximum syntax element indicates the first maximally assumed value of the extension layer-ID field in units of one.

8. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the device is configured to determine the layer ID for the respective packet based on the layer identification syntax element structure by concatenating the base layer-ID field and extension layer-ID field.

9. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the device is

a video decoder configured to decode the multi-layered video signal using inter-layer prediction using the characteristic determined for each layer, or

a network element configured to discard packets of the multi-layered video signal on the basis of the characteristic determined for each layer.

10. The device according to claim 1 , wherein:

the layer identification extender is configured to, for each of the plurality of packets, determine a layer ID for the respective packet based on the layer identification syntax element structure; and

the at least one characteristic includes coding parameters set for each of the layer-IDs of the maximum number of layers.

11. A device comprising:

a video encoder configured to encode a video into a multi-layered video signal based on inter-layer prediction, wherein the multi-layered video signal is composed of a sequence of packets each of which comprises a layer identification syntax element structure composed of a base layer-ID field and an extension layer-ID field;

a layer identification extender configured to

insert, for a plurality of packets, a first maximum syntax element included in a first network abstraction layer (NAL) unit into the multi-layered video signal, the first maximum syntax element indicating a first maximally assumed value of the extension layer-ID field of the plurality of packets, and

insert, for the plurality of packets, a second maximum syntax element included in a second NAL unit into the multi-layered video signal, the second maximum syntax element indicating a second maximally assumed value of the base layer-ID field of the plurality of packets, and

determine a maximum number of layers within a predetermined portion of the multi-layered video signal based on the first and second maximally assumed values,

wherein the video encoder is configured to encode the video into the multi-layered video signal based on the maximum number of layers.

12. The device according to claim 11 , wherein the multi-layered video signal has the video material coded thereinto at the different layers using inter-layer prediction such that any layer inter-layer predicted from another layer adds one or more of:

further views;

depth information;

alpha blending information;

color component information;

spatial resolution refinement; and

SNR resolution refinement.

13. The device according to claim 11 , wherein the packets are one of the group comprising NAL units, slices, tiles and pictures, and the predetermined portion is one of the group comprising a coded video sequence, a chunk, or a group of pictures.

14. The device according to claim 11 , wherein layer identification extender is configured to determine at least one characteristic for each of the maximum number of layers based on a layer characterizing syntax portion of the multi-layered video signal, wherein the video encoder is configured to encode the video into the multi-layered video signal based on the layer characterizing syntax portion.

15. The device according to claim 14 , wherein:

the at least one characteristic relates to an inter-layer prediction dependency of the respective layer to any other of the maximum number of layers; and

the at least one characteristic includes coding parameters set for each of the layer-IDs of the maximum number of layers.

16. The device according to claim 11 , wherein the layer identification extender is configured to derive a bit length of the extension layer-ID field using the first maximally assumed value.

17. The device according to claim 16 , wherein the layer identification extender is configured to derive the bit length of the extension layer-ID field by rounding up the logarithm to base 2 of the first maximally assumed value.

18. The device according to claim 11 , wherein the layer identification extender is configured to acquire a bit length of the extension layer-ID field from an explicit signaling in the multi-layered video signal, wherein the first maximum syntax element indicates the first maximally assumed value of the extension layer-ID field in units of one.

19. The device according to claim 11 , further comprising a network element configured to discard packets of the multi-layered video signal based on the characteristic determined for each layer.

20. The device according to claim 11 , wherein:

the layer identification extender is configured to, for each of the plurality of packets, determine a layer ID for the respective packet based on the layer identification syntax element structure by concatenating the base layer-ID field and extension layer-ID field.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 30, 2026
From: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC
To: DOLBY VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC
Reel/Frame 074536/0781 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 26, 2024
From: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC
To: DOLBY VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC
Reel/Frame 069450/0772 →
Continuity (6)
Continuation 17211542 · Mar 24, 2021
Continuation 16738075 · Jan 9, 2020
Continuation 14995244 · Jan 14, 2016
Continuation PCTEP2014065182 · Jul 15, 2014
Provisional Application 61846479 · Jul 15, 2013
Related Publication 20240007657A1 · Jan 4, 2024
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