IP Library Granted Patent US 9,571,842
Granted Patent B2
US 9,571,842 · App. 14/130,541 · Granted Feb 14, 2017

Method and apparatus for entropy encoding using hierarchical data unit, and method and apparatus for decoding

Inventors: Tammy Lee (Seoul, KR); Jianle Chen (Suwon-si, KR)
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
H04N19/13H04N19/119H04N19/12H04N19/136H04N19/157H04N19/176H04N19/18H04N19/186H04N19/426H04N19/60H04N19/91H04N19/96H04N19/61
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Patent No.
US 9,571,842
App. No.
14/130,541
Granted
Feb 14, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are video encoding and decoding methods and apparatuses. The video encoding method includes: encoding a video based on data units having a hierarchical structure; determining a context model used for entropy encoding a syntax element of a data unit based on at least one piece of additional information of the data units; and entropy encoding the syntax element by using the determined context model.

Claims (13)

1. A video decoding method comprising:

obtaining, from a bitstream, a split transformation flag indicating whether a transformation unit included in a coding unit is split;

obtaining a current transformation unit from the coding unit based on the split transformation flag;

determining a context model using a context model index determined based on a size of the current transformation unit and a value of a color component index of a picture including the transformation unit, without using any syntax elements from blocks neighboring the coding unit, wherein the color component index is set with respect to a luminance color component, a first chrominance color component, and a second chrominance color component, and the color component index for the luminance color component has a value of zero, the color component index for the first chrominance color component has a value of one, and the color component index for the second chrominance color component has a value of two;

obtaining a transformation coefficient flag indicating whether at least one non-zero coefficient is included in a block of the transformation unit by decoding the bitstream using Context Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) based on the context model; and

obtaining a transformation coefficient included in the current transformation unit based on the transformation coefficient flag,

wherein the obtaining the transformation coefficient flag comprises obtaining information indicating a most probable symbol (MPS) based on the context model,

wherein the picture is split into a plurality of maximum coding units according to information about a maximum size of the coding unit,

a maximum coding unit, of the plurality of maximum coding units, is hierarchically split into one or more coding units of depths including at least one of a current depth and a lower depth according to split information,

when the split information indicates a split for the current depth, a coding unit of the current depth is split into four coding units of the lower depth, independently from neighboring coding units, and

when the split information indicates a non-split for the current depth, one or more transformation units are obtained from the coding unit of the current depth.

2. The video decoding method of claim 1 ,

wherein the luminance color component is Y, the first chrominance color component is Cb, and the second chrominance color component is Cr.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 21, 2014
From: LEE, TAMMY; CHEN, JIANLE
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 032498/0229 →
Continuity (3)
Provisional Application 61503685 · Jul 1, 2011
Provisional Application 61548423 · Oct 18, 2011
Related Publication 20140219335A1 · Aug 7, 2014