Abstract: Disclosed is a real-time communication method between two persons, one referred to as client located in a client space and the other referred to as advisor located in an advisor space, the method making available to the advisor, the images and the sound of the client requesting advice, instructions and indications regarding design, production, use, utilization, repair, maintenance, consultation, localization, destruction, disposal, localization and elimination and guidance for one or more products located in or moving through a real physical space referred to as product space, and making available to the client the images and the sound of the advisor interacting with the images of the client space and/or the product space. Also disclosed is a device for implementing the above method.

Abstract: A display device provided by the present disclosure includes: a plurality of display units arranged in an array, wherein each display unit includes m sub-pixels, the m sub-pixels of the display unit are in one-to-one correspondence with m preset viewing areas, and m is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and refraction structures in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of display units, wherein each refraction structure is located on a light emitting side of a display unit corresponding to the refraction structure, and the refraction structure is configured to refract light emitted from each sub-pixel of a corresponding display unit to a viewing area corresponding to the sub-pixel.

Abstract: A method for displaying a three dimensional (“3D”) image includes rendering a frame of 3D image data. The method also includes analyzing the frame of 3D image data to generate depth data. The method further includes using the depth data to segment the 3D image data into i) at least one near frame of two dimensional (“2D”) image data corresponding to a near depth, and ii) at least one far frame of 2D image data corresponding to a far depth that is farther than the near depth from a point of view. Moreover, the method includes displaying the near and far frames at the near and far depths respectively. The near and far frames are displayed simultaneously.

Abstract: The image encoding/decoding method and device according to the present invention can construct a merge candidate list of a current block, derive motion information of the current block on the basis of the merge candidate list and a merge index of the current block, derive a motion vector difference of the current block, correct a motion vector of the current block by means of the motion vector difference, and carry out motion compensation on the current block by means of the corrected motion vector.

Abstract: An image processing method includes determining a display mode; processing, according to an image processing manner corresponding to the display mode, original image data to obtain target image data; and transmitting the target image data to an image display terminal, so that the image display terminal performs image display according to a scanning display manner corresponding to the display mode, a resolution of the target image data is less than or equal to that of the original image data, and the target image data carries indication information of the display mode.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for signaling and receiving a video signal for processing is disclosed. Methods for determining a most probable mode for predicting a current prediction block are provided as well as new methods for grouping intra prediction modes into prediction groups. Methods for predicting a prediction block of video data as well as signaling intra prediction modes are also provided.

Abstract: A vehicle remote support system includes a communication system that operates over a plurality of parallel wireless network connections to provide low-latency video from vehicle to a remote support server that provides remote support to the vehicle dependent on real-time video. The vehicle includes a source that encodes multiple versions of the original video segments (e.g., one per wireless network connection) and transmits the multiple versions of the segments to a sink at the remote support server over the respective wireless connections. This redundant multi-path communication system rationally allocates network resources to the managed video streams and balances bandwidth against latency in order to avoid network congestion and safety issues associated with single-path transmissions. In other embodiments, a similar communication system that transmits video or other real-time messages between a source and a sink may be utilized in cloud robotics applications.

Abstract: A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes encoding a coded picture into a bitstream. A current supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message that comprises a decoding unit (DU) hypothetical reference decoder (HRD) parameters present flag (du_hrd_params_present_flag) is also encoded into the bitstream. The du_hrd_params_present_flag specifies whether DU level HRD parameters are present in the bitstream. A set of bitstream conformance tests is performed on the bitstream based on the current SEI message. The bitstream is stored for communication toward a decoder.

Abstract: Detection models are distributed as needed to a select subset of image capture devices, based on geographic location and time of the image capture devices. Each image capture device which receives a model processes image data according to the model, and provides a notification of any detected instances of an event the model is trained to detect. Distribution and detection can be based on historical data or live data.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for wrap-around motion compensation. One exemplary method comprises: receiving a wrap-around motion compensation flag; determining whether a wrap-around motion compensation is enabled based on the wrap-around motion compensation flag; in response to a determination that the wrap-around motion compensation is enabled, receiving data indicating a difference between a width of the picture and an offset used for determining a horizontal wrap-around position; and performing a motion compensation according to the wrap-around motion compensation flag and the difference.

Abstract: There are provided methods and apparatus for video usability information (VUI) for scalable video coding (SVC). An apparatus includes an encoder (100) for encoding video signal data into a bitstream. The encoder specifies video user information, excluding hypothetical reference decoder parameters, in the bitstream using a high level syntax element. The video user information corresponds to a set of interoperability points in the bitstream relating to scalable video coding (340, 355).

Abstract: An information processing apparatus (30) includes: a specification unit (331) that specifies a viewpoint position of an observer of a display device (10) that reproduces rays of light that have been sent out by a three-dimensional object; a setting unit (332) that sets a region that makes it possible for the observer to stereoscopically view the three-dimensional object, by using, as a reference, the viewpoint position that has been specified by the specification unit (331); and a display control unit (333) that performs control to cause the display device (10) to emit a ray-of-light group that makes it possible to stereoscopically view the three-dimensional object from an inside of the region that has been set by the setting unit (332), and makes it impossible to stereoscopically view the three-dimensional object from an outside of the region.

Abstract: An apparatus for decoding video data, the apparatus comprising an entropy decoder configured to separate at least motion information, a quantization parameter and a quantized coefficient sequence from a coded bit stream by decoding the coded bit stream; an inverse quantizer/inverse transformer configured to convert the quantized coefficient sequence to a quantization block using a scan pattern, inversely quantize coefficients of the quantization block using the quantization parameter to generate a transform block, and inversely transform the transform block to generate a residual block; and a motion compensation predictor configured to generate a prediction block of a current prediction unit using a reference index and a motion vector derived from the motion information, wherein the inverse quantizer/inverse transformer inversely quantizes the coefficients of the quantization block by selecting two effective quantization parameters that are available and exist among left, upper, and previous quantization para

Abstract: A stereoscopic display device and a display method thereof are provided. The stereoscopic display device includes a display panel, a lens array, an image sensor, and a processing circuit. The display panel displays a three-dimensional image. The lens array is disposed on a transmission path of the three-dimensional image. The image sensor acquires a sensed image of a viewing field of the display panel. The processing circuit is coupled to the lens array and the image sensor. The processing circuit calculates an actual eye position of a user in the viewing field according to reference coordinates of a reference position in the sensed image and eye coordinates of the user in the sensed image. The processing circuit adjusts a liquid crystal rotation angle of the lens array according to the actual eye position, so that a viewing position of the three-dimensional image matches the actual eye position.

Abstract: Systems and methods for deferring post-process effects in video encoding are disclosed. The systems and methods are capable of calculating the capability of client hardware to defer load, and summing a known load of one or more deferral candidates to evaluate how many post-process deferral candidates are capable of being deferred to client hardware. The systems and methods are also capable of sending an updated deferral list of post-processes to a remote server that can apply the list of deferred post-process candidates during the post-processing phase of a first video frame.

Abstract: A pruning method of neural network based video coding of a current block of a picture of a video sequence is performed by at least one processor and includes categorizing parameters of a neural network into groups, setting a first index to indicate that a first group of the groups is to be pruned, and a second index to indicate that a second group of the groups is not to be pruned, and transmitting, to a decoder, the set first index and the set second index. Based on the transmitted first index and the transmitted second index, the current block is processed using the parameters of which the first group of the groups is pruned.

Abstract: An apparatus may configure an illuminator to illuminate a scene with non-white light and control a camera to capture, in a plurality of color channels of the camera, a frame of the scene illuminated with the non-white light. The apparatus may adjust a signal of a color channel of the camera in the frame of the scene based on the non-white light.

Abstract: An image processing method includes determining a display mode; processing, according to an image processing manner corresponding to the display mode, original image data to obtain target image data; and transmitting the target image data to an image display terminal, so that the image display terminal performs image display according to a scanning display manner corresponding to the display mode, a resolution of the target image data is less than or equal to that of the original image data, and the target image data carries indication information of the display mode.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for inter prediction are disclosed. The method comprises: constructing a merging candidate list of a current picture block; when a number of merging candidates in the merging candidate list is less than a maximum number of candidates minus N, adding at least one history-based motion vector predictor (HMVP) candidate to the merging candidate list to obtain a new merging candidate list, wherein N is a positive integer; obtaining motion information of the current picture block based on the new merging candidate list; and determining a predicted block of the current picture block based on the motion information of the current picture block.

Abstract: A method of compressing digital image data is provided that includes selecting an entropy code for encoding a line of pixels in the digital image data, wherein the entropy code is selected from a plurality of variable length entropy codes, using spatial prediction to compute a pixel predictor and a pixel residual for a pixel in the line of pixels, and selectively encoding the pixel residual using one of the entropy code or run mode encoding.