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US 9,532,072 · App. 14/678,637 · Granted Dec 27, 2016

Method and apparatus for determining a context model for transform coefficient level entropy encoding and decoding

Inventors: Yin-ji Piao (Suwon-si, KR); Jung-hye Min (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
H04N19/60H04N19/176H04N19/18H04N19/186H04N19/91
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Patent No.
US 9,532,072
App. No.
14/678,637
Granted
Dec 27, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are a method and apparatus for determining a context model for entropy encoding and decoding of a transformation coefficient. According to the method and apparatus, a context set index ctxset is obtained based on color component information of a transformation unit, a location of a current subset, and whether there is a significant transformation coefficient having a value greater than a first critical value in a previous subset, and a context offset c 1 is obtained based on a length of a previous transformation coefficient having consecutive 1s. Also, a context index ctxids for entropy encoding and decoding of a first critical value flag is determined based on the obtained context set index and the context offset.

Claims (5)

1. An apparatus for determining a context model for entropy decoding, the apparatus comprising:

a context set obtaining unit that determines a current transform unit based on size information of a transform unit, wherein the size information is obtained from a bitstream, and, when the current transform unit is a transform unit of a luminance component, determining a context set of a current sub-block in the current transform unit based on first threshold value information of a previous sub-block and a position of the current sub-block, and when the current transform unit is a transform unit of a chroma component, determining the context set of the current sub-block in the current transform unit based on the first threshold value information of the previous sub-block independently of the position of the current sub-block; and

a context determining unit that determines a context model for obtaining current first threshold value information based on the context set of the current sub-block,

wherein the current first threshold value information indicates whether a current transformation coefficient in the current sub-block is greater than a first threshold value.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first threshold value is 1.

Continuity (4)
Continuation 14355439
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