Patents by Inventor Houqiang Li

Houqiang Li has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20180192047
    Abstract: An image prediction method and device are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a first reference unit of an image unit, where respective predicted images are obtained for the image unit and the first reference unit by using a same affine model; obtaining motion information of basic motion compensation units at two or more preset positions in the first reference unit; and obtaining motion information of a basic motion compensation unit of the image unit according to the motion information. In this way, motion information of the first reference unit using a same affine motion prediction model is reused, and a more accurate motion vector of a current image unit is obtained, improving prediction accuracy and maintaining encoding and decoding complexity, thereby improving encoding and decoding performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Zhuoyi LV, Li LI, Houqiang LI, Haitao YANG
  • Publication number: 20180152728
    Abstract: A video encoding and decoding method and apparatus are provided. The video encoding method includes: obtaining a first statistical characteristic of previous K frames of images of a video sequence; determining a first background frame; determining, according to the first statistical characteristic, a QP used for encoding the first background frame; encoding the first background frame according to the QP, to obtain a first background long-term reference frame; and encoding the (K+1)th frame of image of the video sequence to the (K+L)th frame of image of the video sequence according to the first background long-term reference frame. When encoding is performed on the (K+1)th frame of image of the video sequence to the (K+L)th frame of image of the video sequence, the used QP for encoding the background long-term reference frame is determined according to the first statistical characteristic related to video content of the previous K frames of images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Fangdong CHEN, Sixin LIN, Houqiang LI, Li LI
  • Publication number: 20180131948
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a reference image encoding method, including: encoding sequence, to obtain a reconstructed image of a first and second reference images; determining whether a local area in the second reference image is suitable for updating first reference image; determining whether the first reference image is updated; when the first reference image is not updated, and it is determined the second reference image is suitable for updating the first reference image, replacing a pixel value of a corresponding area or a related area in the first reference image with a pixel value of the local area in the second reference image; and compiling, into the bitstream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Feng Wu, Fangdong Chen, Houqiang Li, Zhuoyi Lv, Haitao YANG
  • Publication number: 20180098095
    Abstract: A method, electronic device, computer program product, system and circuit assembly are provided for allocating one or more redundant pictures by taking into consideration the information content of the primary pictures, with which the redundant pictures would be associated. In particular, primary pictures that are determined to be more sensitive to transmission loss or corruption may be allocated one or more redundant pictures, while those that are less sensitive may not be so allocated. By selectively allocating redundant pictures to only those primary pictures that are more sensitive, the method disclosed reduces the amount of overhead associated with redundant pictures and increases the coding efficiency, without sacrificing the integrity of the video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Chunbo Zhu, Ye-Kui Wang, Houqiang Li
  • Patent number: 9906789
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an encoding or decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: extracting first information in a bitstream; determining a chroma component intra prediction mode according to the first information; when the chroma component intra prediction mode cannot be determined according to the first information, extracting second information in the bitstream; and determining the chroma component intra prediction mode according to the second information, where the first information includes information for indicating whether the chroma component intra prediction mode is a DM mode or an LM mode, the second information is used to indicate a remaining mode as the chroma component intra prediction mode, and the remaining mode is one of available chroma component intra prediction modes other than a mode that may be determined according to the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haitao Yang, Bin Li, Houqiang Li, Jiantong Zhou
  • Patent number: 9872045
    Abstract: A method, electronic device, computer program product, system and circuit assembly are provided for allocating one or more redundant pictures by taking into consideration the information content of the primary pictures, with which the redundant pictures would be associated. In particular, primary pictures that are determined to be more sensitive to transmission loss or corruption may be allocated one or more redundant pictures, while those that are less sensitive may not be so allocated. By selectively allocating redundant pictures to only those primary pictures that are more sensitive, the method disclosed reduces the amount of overhead associated with redundant pictures and increases the coding efficiency, without sacrificing the integrity of the video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Conversant Wireless Licensing S.a r.l.
    Inventors: Chunbo Zhu, Ye-Kui Wang, Houqiang Li
  • Publication number: 20170310962
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an encoding or decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: extracting first information in a bitstream; determining a chroma component intra prediction mode according to the first information; when the chroma component intra prediction mode cannot be determined according to the first information, extracting second information in the bitstream; and determining the chroma component intra prediction mode according to the second information, where the first information includes information for indicating whether the chroma component intra prediction mode is a DM mode or an LM mode, the second information is used to indicate a remaining mode as the chroma component intra prediction mode, and the remaining mode is one of available chroma component intra prediction modes other than a mode that may be determined according to the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Haitao Yang, Bin Li, Houqiang Li, Jiantong Zhou
  • Patent number: 9743080
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an encoding or decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: extracting first information in a bitstream; determining a chroma component intra prediction mode according to the first information; when the chroma component intra prediction mode cannot be determined according to the first information, extracting second information in the bitstream; and determining the chroma component intra prediction mode according to the second information, where the first information includes information for indicating whether the chroma component intra prediction mode is a DM mode or an LM mode, the second information is used to indicate a remaining mode as the chroma component intra prediction mode, and the remaining mode is one of available chroma component intra prediction modes other than a mode that may be determined according to the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haitao Yang, Bin Li, Houqiang Li, Jiantong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20170188041
    Abstract: A picture prediction method and a related apparatus are disclosed. The picture prediction method includes: determining motion vector predictors of K pixel samples in a current picture block, where K is an integer greater than 1, the K pixel samples include a first vertex angle pixel sample in the current picture block, a motion vector predictor of the first vertex angle pixel sample is obtained based on a motion vector of a preset first spatially adjacent picture block of the current picture block, and the first spatially adjacent picture block is spatially adjacent to the first vertex angle pixel sample; and performing, based on a non-translational motion model and the motion vector predictors of the K pixel samples, pixel value prediction on the current picture block. Solutions in the embodiments of the present application are helpful in reducing calculation complexity of picture prediction based on a non-translational motion model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Li LI, Houqiang LI, Zhuoyi LV, Sixin LIN
  • Publication number: 20170034510
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an encoding or decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: extracting first information in a bitstream; determining a chroma component intra prediction mode according to the first information; when the chroma component intra prediction mode cannot be determined according to the first information, extracting second information in the bitstream; and determining the chroma component intra prediction mode according to the second information, where the first information includes information for indicating whether the chroma component intra prediction mode is a DM mode or an LM mode, the second information is used to indicate a remaining mode as the chroma component intra prediction mode, and the remaining mode is one of available chroma component intra prediction modes other than a mode that may be determined according to the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Haitao YANG, Bin LI, Houqiang LI, Jiantong ZHOU
  • Patent number: 9503729
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an encoding or decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: extracting first information in a bitstream; determining a chroma component intra prediction mode according to the first information; when the chroma component intra prediction mode cannot be determined according to the first information, extracting second information in the bitstream; and determining the chroma component intra prediction mode according to the second information, where the first information includes information for indicating whether the chroma component intra prediction mode is a DM mode or an LM mode, the second information is used to indicate a remaining mode as the chroma component intra prediction mode, and the remaining mode is one of available chroma component intra prediction modes other than a mode that may be determined according to the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haitao Yang, Bin Li, Houqiang Li, Jiantong Zhou
  • Patent number: 9497459
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for detecting frame types. The method includes: detecting play time of each frame; and if the play time of a current frame is less than the maximum play time of received frames, determining the current frame as a bi-directional predicted frame, B-frame. In the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention, the frame types are determined according to a coding sequence of various frames and comparison between data amounts of various frames received earlier and later, without decoding a payload. Therefore the impact of a reduction factor is eliminated and the frame types can be detected more accurately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignees: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., University of Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Qiu Shen, Qingpeng Xie, Dong Zhang, Houqiang Li
  • Patent number: 9412020
    Abstract: Most of large-scale image retrieval systems are based on Bag-of-Visual-Words model. However, traditional Bag-of-Visual-Words model does not well capture the geometric context among local features in images, which plays an important role in image retrieval. In order to fully explore geometric context of all visual words in images, efficient global geometric verification methods have been attracting lots of attention. Unfortunately, current existing global geometric verification methods are either computationally expensive to ensure real-time response. To solve the above problems, a novel geometric coding algorithm is used to encode the spatial context among local features for large scale partial duplicate image retrieval. With geometric square coding and geometric fan coding, our geometric coding scheme encodes the spatial relationships of local features into three geo-maps, which are used for global verification to remove spatially inconsistent matches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignees: Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, Texas State University, University of Science and Technology of China
    Inventors: Qi Tian, Wengang Zhou, Houqiang Li, Yijuan Lu
  • Patent number: 9351001
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an encoding or decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: extracting first information in a bitstream; determining a chroma component intra prediction mode according to the first information; when the chroma component intra prediction mode cannot be determined according to the first information, extracting second information in the bitstream; and determining the chroma component intra prediction mode according to the second information, where the first information includes information for indicating whether the chroma component intra prediction mode is a DM mode or an LM mode, the second information is used to indicate a remaining mode as the chroma component intra prediction mode, and the remaining mode is one of available chroma component intra prediction modes other than a mode that may be determined according to the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haitao Yang, Bin Li, Houqiang Li, Jiantong Zhou
  • Patent number: 9325993
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an encoding or decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: extracting first information in a bitstream; determining a chroma component intra prediction mode according to the first information; when the chroma component intra prediction mode cannot be determined according to the first information, extracting second information in the bitstream; and determining the chroma component intra prediction mode according to the second information, where the first information includes information for indicating whether the chroma component intra prediction mode is a DM mode or an LM mode, the second information is used to indicate a remaining mode as the chroma component intra prediction mode, and the remaining mode is one of available chroma component intra prediction modes other than a mode that may be determined according to the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haitao Yang, Bin Li, Houqiang Li, Jiantong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20160007020
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an encoding or decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: extracting first information in a bitstream; determining a chroma component intra prediction mode according to the first information; when the chroma component intra prediction mode cannot be determined according to the first information, extracting second information in the bitstream; and determining the chroma component intra prediction mode according to the second information, where the first information includes information for indicating whether the chroma component intra prediction mode is a DM mode or an LM mode, the second information is used to indicate a remaining mode as the chroma component intra prediction mode, and the remaining mode is one of available chroma component intra prediction modes other than a mode that may be determined according to the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Haitao YANG, Bin LI, Houqiang LI, Jiantong ZHOU
  • Patent number: 9215498
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a video data transmission processing method, a video data sending processing method, an apparatus, and a network system. The data transmission processing method includes: receiving a source stream sent from a source transmission network to a target transmission network; performing, according to respective packet loss rates of the source transmission network and the target transmission network as well as error tolerance aid information corresponding to the source stream, error tolerance coding processing on the source stream to obtain an error tolerance stream; and sending the obtained error tolerance stream to the target transmission network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meng Liu, Yi Guoi, Houqiang Li, Mingyuan Yang, Changqi Hu
  • Publication number: 20150296221
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an encoding or decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: extracting first information in a bitstream; determining a chroma component intra prediction mode according to the first information; when the chroma component intra prediction mode cannot be determined according to the first information, extracting second information in the bitstream; and determining the chroma component intra prediction mode according to the second information, where the first information includes information for indicating whether the chroma component intra prediction mode is a DM mode or an LM mode, the second information is used to indicate a remaining mode as the chroma component intra prediction mode, and the remaining mode is one of available chroma component intra prediction modes other than a mode that may be determined according to the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Haitao YANG, Bin LI, Houqiang LI, Jiantong ZHOU
  • Patent number: 9124900
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an encoding or decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: extracting first information in a bitstream; determining a chroma component intra prediction mode according to the first information; when the chroma component intra prediction mode cannot be determined according to the first information, extracting second information in the bitstream; and determining the chroma component intra prediction mode according to the second information, where the first information includes information for indicating whether the chroma component intra prediction mode is a DM mode or an LM mode, the second information is used to indicate a remaining mode as the chroma component intra prediction mode, and the remaining mode is one of available chroma component intra prediction modes other than a mode that may be determined according to the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haitao Yang, Bin Li, Houqiang Li, Jiantong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20140341282
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an encoding or decoding method and apparatus. The method includes: extracting first information in a bitstream; determining a chroma component intra prediction mode according to the first information; when the chroma component intra prediction mode cannot be determined according to the first information, extracting second information in the bitstream; and determining the chroma component intra prediction mode according to the second information, where the first information includes information for indicating whether the chroma component intra prediction mode is a DM mode or an LM mode, the second information is used to indicate a remaining mode as the chroma component intra prediction mode, and the remaining mode is one of available chroma component intra prediction modes other than a mode that may be determined according to the first information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Haitao YANG, Bin LI, Houqiang LI, Jiantong ZHOU