Granted Patent B2

US 12,328,440 · App. 18/021,599 · Granted Jun 10, 2025

Inventors: Hendry Hendry (Seoul, KR); Hyeong Moon Jang (Seoul, KR); Jaehyun Lim (Seoul, KR); Seung Hwan Kim (Seoul, KR)

Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.

H04N19/46H04N19/172H04N19/167H04N19/174H04N19/30H04N19/33H04N19/597H04N19/61H04N19/70

Abstract

Claims (39)

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

deriving information for a composite picture generated from one or more source pictures; and

generating a bitstream by encoding a single composite picture information (CPI) supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message including the information for the composite picture,

wherein the composite picture comprises one or more patches obtained from the source pictures,

wherein the information for the composite picture comprises first information for a source area corresponding to each of the patches in the source pictures and second information for a patch area covered by each of the patches in the composite picture, and

wherein each layer including the source pictures is an output layer.

2. The image encoding method of claim 1 , wherein the bitstream has a single layer structure.

3. The image encoding method of claim 1 , wherein the first information comprises a layer identifier of a layer including a source picture for each of the patches.

4. The image encoding method of claim 1 , wherein the second information comprises a first flag specifying whether the patches cover all areas of the composite picture.

5. The image encoding method of claim 4 , wherein, based on the first flag specifying that the patches do not cover all areas of the composite picture, pels of an area not covered by the patches in the composite picture are initialized to a predetermined valid pel value.

6. The image encoding method of claim 1 , wherein, based on the composite picture including a first patch and a second patch which have the same top-left position, and the first patch completely covering the second patch, the second patch is disposed above the first patch in the composite picture.

7. The image encoding method of claim 1 , wherein, based on two or more of the patches having an overlapping area in the composite picture, the overlapping area is reconstructed based on a patch having the highest patch index among the two or more patches.

8. The image encoding method of claim 1 , wherein the CPI SEI message is included in a scalable nesting SEI message.

9. The image encoding method of claim 8 , wherein the scalable nesting SEI message is applied to an output layer set associated with the CPI SEI message.

10. The image encoding method of claim 1 , wherein a size of the composite picture is derived based on a position and a size of the patch area, the position and the size of the patch area being included in the second information.

11. The image encoding method of claim 1 ,

wherein the first information comprises a second flag specifying whether the source area is associated with a cropped area in a source picture, and

wherein the first information further comprises a position of the source area based on a value of the second flag.

12. A method of transmitting a bitstream, the method comprising:

deriving information for a composite picture generated from one or more source pictures;

generating a bitstream by encoding a single composite picture information (CPI) supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message including the information for the composite picture; and

transmitting the bitstream,

wherein the composite picture comprises one or more patches obtained from the source pictures,

wherein the information for the composite picture comprises first information for a source area corresponding to each of the patches in the source pictures and second information for a patch area covered by each of the patches in the composite picture, and

wherein each layer including the source pictures is an output layer.

13. An image encoding apparatus comprising a memory and at least one processor,

wherein the at least one processor is configured to:

derive information for a composite picture generated from one or more source pictures; and

generate a bitstream by encoding a single composite picture information (CPI) supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message including the information for the composite picture,

wherein the composite picture comprises one or more patches obtained from the source pictures,

wherein the information for the composite picture comprises first information for a source area corresponding to each of the patches in the source pictures and second information for a patch area covered by each of the patches in the composite picture, and

wherein each layer including the source pictures is an output layer.

14. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus, the image decoding method comprising:

obtaining information for a composite picture from a single composite picture information (CPI) supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message; and

generating the composite picture from one or more decoded pictures based on the information for the composite picture,

wherein the composite picture comprises one or more patches obtained from the decoded pictures,

wherein the information for the composite picture comprises first information for a source area corresponding to each of the patches in the decoded pictures and second information for a patch area covered by each of the patches in the composite picture, and

wherein each layer including the decoded pictures is an output layer.

15. The image decoding method of claim 14 , wherein, based on two or more of the patches having an overlapping area in the composite picture, the overlapping area is reconstructed based on a patch having the highest patch index among the two or more patches.

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