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US 11,509,914 · App. 17/184,685 · Granted Nov 22, 2022

Method and device for decoding image by using partition unit including additional region

Inventors: Ki Baek Kim (Seoul, KR); Je Chang Jeong (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY)
H04N19/176H04N19/117H04N19/124H04N19/182H04N19/44H04N19/619H04N19/82
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Patent No.
US 11,509,914
App. No.
17/184,685
Granted
Nov 22, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a method and a device for decoding an image by means of a partition unit comprising an additional region. The method of decoding an image by means of a partition unit comprising an additional region comprises the steps of: partitioning, by reference to a syntax element acquired from a received bit stream, an encoded image, which is included in the bitstream, in at least one partition unit; define an additional region for at least one partition unit; and decoding the encoded image based on the partition unit for which the additional region is defined. The invention improves the image coding efficiency.

Claims (53)

1. A method of decoding a video signal with a decoding apparatus, comprising:

dividing, based on division information, a current picture in the video signal into a plurality of sub-pictures;

dividing a current block in the current picture into a plurality of sub-blocks; and

decoding each of the sub-blocks,

wherein the division information includes number information indicating a number of the sub-pictures belonging to the current picture, position information indicating a position of a topleft largest coding unit (LCU) within a sub-picture, and size information indicating a width and a height of the sub-picture,

wherein both of the position information and the size information are expressed in units of LCUs,

wherein a first sub-picture among the plurality of sub-pictures is adjacent to a second sub-picture among the plurality of sub-pictures,

wherein a top boundary of the first sub-picture and a top boundary of the second sub-picture are discontinuous, while a bottom boundary of the first sub-picture and a bottom boundary of the second sub-picture are continuous,

wherein one of an independent decoding or a dependent decoding is applied to the sub-picture,

wherein the independent decoding is representative of a decoding scheme in which, when decoding the sub-picture in the current picture, it is not allowed to refer to other sub-pictures except for a co-located sub-picture among sub-pictures belonging to a different picture that is not the current picture,

wherein the dependent decoding is representative of a decoding scheme in which, when decoding the sub-picture in the current picture, it is allowed to refer to the other sub-pictures in the different picture,

wherein a first flag is obtained from a sequence parameter set in a bitstream,

wherein the first flag indicates whether the independent decoding or the dependent decoding is used for the sub-picture,

wherein the first flag having a first value indicates that the independent decoding is applied to the sub-picture, and

wherein the first flag having a second value indicates that the dependent decoding is applied to the sub-picture.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

determining, based on a second flag obtained from the bitstream, whether or not an in-loop filtering across boundaries between the sub-pictures is available.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the LCUs are representative of a basic coding unit with a largest size among coding units predefined in the decoding apparatus.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein a shape of the sub-pictures is rectangular.

5. A method of encoding a video signal with an encoding apparatus, comprising:

dividing a current picture in the video signal into a plurality of sub-pictures;

dividing a current block in the current picture into a plurality of sub-blocks; and

encoding each of the sub-blocks,

wherein division information is a basis for dividing the current picture,

wherein the division information includes number information indicating a number of the sub-pictures belonging to the current picture, position information indicating a position of a topleft largest coding unit (LCU) within a sub-picture, and size information indicating a width and a height of the sub-picture,

wherein both of the position information and the size information are encoded in units of LCUs,

wherein a first sub-picture among the plurality of sub-pictures is adjacent to a second sub-picture among the plurality of sub-pictures,

wherein a top boundary of the first sub-picture and a top boundary of the second sub-picture are discontinuous, while a bottom boundary of the first sub-picture and a bottom boundary of the second sub-picture are continuous,

wherein one of an independent encoding or a dependent encoding is applied to the sub-picture,

wherein the independent encoding is representative of an encoding scheme in which, when encoding the sub-picture in the current picture, it is not allowed to refer to other sub-pictures except for a co-located sub-picture among sub-pictures belonging to a different picture that is not the current picture,

wherein the dependent encoding is representative of an encoding scheme in which, when encoding the sub-picture in the current picture, it is allowed to refer to the other sub-pictures in the different picture,

wherein a first flag is encoded into a sequence parameter set in a bitstream,

wherein the first flag is encoded depending on whether either the independent encoding or the dependent encoding is used for the sub-picture,

wherein in response to the independent encoding being applied to the sub-picture, the first flag has a first value, and

wherein in response to the dependent encoding being applied to the sub-picture, the first flag has a second value.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing data associated with a video signal, comprising:

a data stream encoded by an encoding method,

wherein the encoding method comprises:

dividing a current picture in the video signal into a plurality of sub-pictures;

dividing a current block in the current picture into a plurality of sub-blocks; and

encoding each of the sub-blocks,

wherein division information is a basis for dividing the current picture,

wherein the division information includes number information indicating a number of the sub-pictures belonging to the current picture, position information indicating a position of a topleft largest coding unit (LCU) within a sub-picture, and size information indicating a width and a height of the sub-picture,

wherein both of the position information and the size information are expressed in units of LCUs,

wherein a first sub-picture among the plurality of sub-pictures is adjacent to a second sub-picture among the plurality of sub-pictures,

wherein a top boundary of the first sub-picture and a top boundary of the second sub-picture are discontinuous, while a bottom boundary of the first sub-picture and a bottom boundary of the second sub-picture are continuous,

wherein one of an independent encoding or a dependent encoding is applied to the sub-picture,

wherein the independent encoding is representative of an encoding scheme in which, when encoding the sub-picture in the current picture, it is not allowed to refer to other sub-pictures except for a co-located sub-picture among sub-pictures belonging to a different picture that is not the current picture,

wherein the dependent encoding is representative of an encoding scheme in which, when encoding the sub-picture in the current picture, it is allowed to refer to the other sub-pictures in the different picture,

wherein a first flag is included in a sequence parameter set in the data stream,

wherein the first flag is encoded depending on whether either the independent encoding or the dependent encoding is used for the sub-picture,

wherein in response to the independent encoding being applied to the sub-picture, the first flag has a first value, and

wherein in response to the dependent encoding being applied to the sub-picture, the first flag has a second value.

Priority Claims (5)
KR 10-2017-0084517 · Jul 3, 2017 · national
KR 10-2017-0090638 · Jul 17, 2017 · national
KR 10-2018-0055980 · May 16, 2018 · national
KR 10-2018-0076918 · Jul 3, 2018 · national
KR 10-2018-0076932 · Jul 3, 2018 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 16627905
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