Abstract: According to the invention, there are provided sets of contexts specifically adapted to encode special coefficients of a prediction error matrix, on the basis of previously encoded values of level k. Furthermore, the number of values of levels other than 0 is explicitly encoded and numbers of appropriate contexts are selected on the basis of the number of spectral coefficients other than 0.

Abstract: According to the invention, there are provided sets of contexts specifically adapted to encode special coefficients of a prediction error matrix, on the basis of previously encoded values of level k. Furthermore, the number of values of levels other than 0 is explicitly encoded and numbers of appropriate contexts are selected on the basis of the number of spectral coefficients other than 0.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for transmitting video data from a server to a client. The system has a first coding unit, which is designed to transmit video data of a first quality from the server to the client in the form of a livestream, and a second coding unit, which is designed to store the video data in a second quality in a storage unit (13) and to transmit the coded video data in the second quality from the storage unit (13) to the client (2) in response to a request signal from the client (2), wherein the second quality is greater than the first quality. The proposed system allows video data to be transmitted from a medical environment, for example an operating room, to an external expert via a network. The video data in the form of a livestream is provided in a low quality and can additionally be provided in a high quality upon request by the expert. The invention further relates to a method for transmitting video data from a server to a client.

Abstract: According to the invention, there are provided sets of contexts specifically adapted to encode special coefficients of a prediction error matrix, on the basis of previously encoded values of level k. Furthermore, the number of values of levels other than 0 is explicitly encoded and numbers of appropriate contexts are selected on the basis of the number of spectral coefficients other than 0.

Abstract: An encoder encodes a video signal formed of video frames, each including image blocks. The encoder includes a processing unit which calculates at least one high resolution reference image block on the basis of previously encoded image blocks by executing a super resolution algorithm to perform a local motion compensation; and a motion compensation unit which calculates on the basis of the calculated high resolution reference image block a temporal predictor which is subtracted from a current image block of the video signal. Together, the encoder and a corresponding decoder improve the signal quality of a video signal significantly.

Abstract: Functional data structure for coding a set of digital images. Each of the images is compressed into at least one first data stream portion, which comprises a portion of the macroblocks reduced by physical redundancies, and one second data stream portion, which describes the redundancies. For the intraprediction macroblocks, the first data stream portion can be reduced by colour value statements with correlations to colour values from rows of pixels outside and at one edge of the intraprediction macroblock and for which, in the case of pixels outside the compressed image, a colour value default is assumed. The second data stream can comprise intrapredictors for describing the correlations, with coding of an area which is divided into first areas, each of which is occupied by the macroblocks of one of the digital images, and a second area which spaces apart the first areas and is occupied by default colour value pixels.

Abstract: According to the invention, there are provided sets of contexts specifically adapted to encode special coefficients of a prediction error matrix, on the basis of previously encoded values of level k. Furthermore, the number of values of levels other than 0 is explicitly encoded and numbers of appropriate contexts are selected on the basis of the number of spectral coefficients other than 0.

Abstract: Methods and devices transform image data, which are transformed by a compression filter before being compressed and stored in a reference image memory. In an extension, an inverse transformation to that of the compression filter is performed by a decompression filter when image data from the reference memory are read out and decompressed. The methods and devices can be used for image compression methods and image decompression methods that use reference image memories.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for connecting at least one man-machine interface for manipulating, particularly remotely manipulating, at least one data source connected to a video conferencing system within the scope of video conferences, wherein signals generated by the man-machine interface are transmitted to the video conferencing system via a transmission channel provided for controlling a video camera. The invention further relates to an arrangement comprising means for carrying out the method.

Abstract: A temporal sequence of pictures is generated in a method for encoding of a first video stream. To do so, a synchronization signal can be used, which can be derived from a second video stream independently of the first video stream. Alternatively, the encoding of a second video stream independent of the first video stream can be based on the same principle as for the encoding of the first video stream.

Abstract: A temporal sequence of pictures is generated in a method for encoding of a first video stream. To do so, a synchronization signal is used which is derived from a second video stream independently of the first video stream, or the encoding of a second video stream independent of the first video stream is based on the same principle as for the encoding of the first video stream.

Abstract: A method for deblocking filtering a macroblock on the basis of a coding standard for image information which is stored in macroblocks. A context region comprising the blocks of a first macroblock to be filtered is formable from blocks which are arranged adjacent to one another horizontally in block rows and adjacent to one another vertically in block columns. The blocks of the context region can be filtered on the basis of the coding standard for image information.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for connecting at least one man-machine interface for manipulating, particularly remotely manipulating, at least one data source connected to a video conferencing system within the scope of video conferences, wherein signals generated by the man-machine interface are transmitted to the video conferencing system via a transmission channel provided for controlling a video camera. The invention further relates to an arrangement comprising means for carrying out the method.

Abstract: According to the invention, there are provided sets of contexts specifically adapted to encode special coefficients of a prediction error matrix, on the basis of previously encoded values of level k. Furthermore, the number of values of levels other than 0 is explicitly encoded and numbers of appropriate contexts are selected on the basis of the number of spectral coefficients other than 0.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for connecting at least one man-machine interface for manipulating, particularly remotely manipulating, at least one data source connected to a video conferencing system within the scope of video conferences, wherein signals generated by the man-machine interface are transmitted to the video conferencing system via a transmission channel provided for controlling a video camera. The invention further relates to an arrangement comprising means for carrying out the method.

Abstract: A reconstructed image is provided within the framework of predictive coding. The reconstructed image is compressed according to a coding mode of an image coding device and stored in a reference image memory.

Abstract: According to the invention, there are provided sets of contexts specifically adapted to encode special coefficients of a prediction error matrix, on the basis of previously encoded values of level k. Furthermore, the number of values of levels other than 0 is explicitly encoded and numbers of appropriate contexts are selected on the basis of the number of spectral coefficients other than 0.

Abstract: A method for deblocking filtering a macroblock on the basis of a coding standard for image information which is stored in macroblocks. A context region comprising the blocks of a first macroblock to be filtered is formable from blocks which are arranged adjacent to one another horizontally in block rows and adjacent to one another vertically in block columns. The blocks of the context region can be filtered on the basis of the coding standard for image information.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for deblocking filtering a macroblock (M1) on the basis of a coding standard for image information which is stored in macroblocks (M1, M2) which are arranged adjacent to one another horizontally in macroblock rows and adjacent to one another vertically in macroblock columns, wherein each macroblock (M1, M2) is formed from blocks (B) which are arranged adjacent to one another horizontally in block rows M and adjacent to one another vertically in block columns n and form block elements Mmn, where m=1 to 4 and n=1 to 4, of a first matrix M, wherein the blocks (B) have vertical edges (14, 15) and horizontal edges (18, 19), which each provide external boundaries for the blocks (B), and, starting with the block element MII, the vertical edges (14, 15) and the horizontal edges (18, 19) of the blocks (B) of a macroblock (M1, M2) are filtered, in which a context region (K1) comprising the blocks (B) of a first macroblock (M1) to be filtered is stipulated which is formed from blocks (B

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for mixing video streams in a video mixer device, by means of which a plurality of input video streams from different subscribers which are encoded with code words for macroblocks and in which the code words have interdependencies are combined into an output video stream. The input video streams are at least entropy-decoded to such a degree that the dependencies among the code words are dissolved, wherein the macroblocks are re-organized and mixed with each other, and the mixed macroblocks are entropy-encoded to obtain a new dedicated video stream.