IP Library Granted Patent US 8,488,677
Granted Patent B2
US 8,488,677 · App. 12/451,065 · Granted Jul 16, 2013

Method and an apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal

Inventors: Yong Joon Jeon (Seoul, KR); Byeong Moon Jeon (Seoul, KR); Seung Wook Park (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
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Patent No.
US 8,488,677
App. No.
12/451,065
Granted
Jul 16, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of decoding a video signal is disclosed. The present invention includes searching a reference block using side information, deriving motion information of a current block from the reference block, decoding the current block using the motion information of the current block, wherein the side information includes offset information indicating a position difference between the reference block and a corresponding block and wherein the corresponding block is a block indicated by a global motion vector indicating a disparity difference between a view of the current block and a view of the reference block.

Claims (29)

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

obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, first flag information and a global motion vector from a video signal bitstream, the first flag information indicating whether or not a current slice uses motion skip, the global motion vector representing a position difference between a current block in a current view and a corresponding block in a neighboring view of the current view;

obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, second flag information from a block layer of the video signal bitstream based on the first flag information, the second flag information indicating whether or not motion information of the current block is derived from a reference block in the neighboring view;

obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, offset refinement information of the current block based on the second flag information, the offset refinement information representing a position difference between the corresponding block indicated by the global motion vector and the reference block;

obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, a refined global motion vector of the current block using the global motion vector and the offset refinement information;

searching, with the decoding apparatus, the reference block using the refined global motion vector;

deriving, with the decoding apparatus, the motion information of the current block from the reference block;

decoding, with the decoding apparatus, the current block using the motion information of the current block,

wherein the first flag information is obtained based on inter-view picture group identification information and inter-view reference information, the inter-view picture group identification information indicating whether a coded picture of a current NAL unit is an inter-view picture group or a non-inter-view picture group, the inter-view picture group being a coded picture that refers to only slices on a same time zone with the inter-view picture group, the inter-view reference information indicating inter-view reference relation, the inter-view reference information including a number of inter-view reference pictures of the non-inter-view picture group.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first flag information is obtained from a slice header.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first flag information is obtained when a current picture corresponds to the non-inter-view picture group according to the inter-view picture group identification information.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first flag information is obtained when the number of the inter-view reference pictures of the non-inter-view picture group is greater than 0.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the inter-view reference information is obtained from an extension area of a sequence parameter set.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the global motion vector is obtained based on the inter-view reference information indicating inter-view reference relation.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the the global motion vector is obtained as many as the number of the inter-view reference pictures of the non-inter-view picture group.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the global motion vector is obtained based on the inter-view picture group identification information.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein when a current picture corresponds to the inter-view picture group according to the inter-view picture group identification information, the global motion vector is obtained.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the video signal is received as a broadcast signal.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the video signal is received via digital medium.

12. An apparatus for decoding a video signal, comprising:

a motion skip determining unit configured to,

obtain first flag information and a global motion vector from a video signal bitstream, the first flag information indicating whether or not a current slice uses motion skip, the global motion vector representing a position difference between a current block in a current view and a corresponding block in a neighboring view of the current view,

obtain, from a block layer of the video signal bitstream, second flag information based on the first flag information, the second flag information indicating whether or not motion information of the current block is derived from a reference block in the neighboring view,

obtain offset refinement information of the current block based on the second flag information, the offset refinement information representing a position difference between the corresponding block indicated by the global motion vector and the reference block, and

obtain a refined global motion vector of the current block using the global motion vector and the offset refinement information;

a corresponding block searching unit configured to search the reference block using the refined global motion vector;

a motion information deriving unit configured to derive the motion information of the current block from the reference block; and

a motion compensating unit configured to decode the current block using the motion information of the current block,

wherein the first flag information is obtained based on inter-view picture group identification information and inter-view reference information, the inter-view picture group identification information indicating whether a coded picture of a current NAL unit is an inter-view picture group or a non-inter-view picture group, the inter-view picture group being an coded picture that refers to only slices on a same time zone with the inter-view picture group, the inter-view reference information indicating inter-view reference relation, the inter-view reference information including a number of inter-view reference pictures of the non-inter-view picture group.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 23, 2009
From: JEON, YONG JOON; JEON, BYEONG MOON; PARK, SEUNG WOOK
To: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
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