Patents by Inventor Huanbang Chen

Huanbang Chen 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).

  • Patent number: 11968386
    Abstract: A picture prediction method and a related apparatus are disclosed. A picture prediction method includes: determining K1 pixel samples in a picture block x, and determining a candidate motion information unit set corresponding to each pixel sample in the K1 pixel samples, where the candidate motion information unit set corresponding to each pixel sample includes at least one candidate motion information unit; determining a merged motion information unit set i including K1 motion information units, where each motion information unit in the merged motion information unit set i is selected from at least a part of motion information units in candidate motion information unit sets corresponding to different pixel samples in the K1 pixel samples; and predicting a pixel value of the picture block x by using a non-translational motion model and the merged motion information unit set i.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huanbang Chen, Sixin Lin, Fan Liang
  • Publication number: 20240121421
    Abstract: This application provides a motion vector obtaining method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a target offset vector of a block and identifier information of a target picture, wherein the block comprises at least one sub-block; determining a location of the sub-block; determining, as a target location coordinate value of a collocated sub-block, a location coordinate value obtained by performing a clipping operation on an initial location coordinate value in a range, wherein the initial location coordinate value is based on the location of the sub-block and the target offset vector; and obtaining a motion vector of the sub-block based on a motion vector corresponding to the target location coordinate value. Thus, a range of the target offset vector is limited, so that a quantity of memory read times can be reduced in a process of obtaining the motion vector of the collocated sub-block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huanbang Chen, Yin Zhao, Haitao Yang, Jianle Chen
  • Patent number: 11924458
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the field of video picture coding technologies, and disclose a bidirectional inter prediction method and apparatus, to improve coding efficiency. The method includes: obtaining indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate that second motion information is determined based on first motion information, the first motion information is motion information of a current picture block in a first direction, and the second motion information is motion information of the current picture block in a second direction; obtaining the first motion information; determining the second motion information based on the first motion information; and determining prediction samples of the current picture block based on the first motion information and the second motion information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huanbang Chen, Haitao Yang, Jianle Chen
  • Patent number: 11924407
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to video encoding and decoding, and in particular, a method for inter prediction for a block in a frame of a video signal includes: constructing a history-based motion information candidate list, wherein the list is an ordered list comprising N history-based motion information candidates Hk containing motion information of N preceding blocks preceding the block, wherein each history-based motion information candidate comprises: one or more motion vectors (MVs), one or more reference picture indices corresponding to the MVs, and an interpolation filter index; adding one or more history-based motion information candidates from the history-based motion information candidate list into a motion information candidate list for the block; and deriving motion information for the block based on the motion information candidate list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Timofey Mikhailovich Solovyev, Sergey Yurievich Ikonin, Roman Igorevich Chernyak, Alexander Alexandrovich Karabutov, Elena Alexandrovna Alshina, Huanbang Chen
  • Patent number: 11902506
    Abstract: This application discloses a processing method applied to video encoding or video decoding. The method includes: obtaining size information of a current block; determining a context model index ctxInc of a flag of the current block based on the obtained size information of the current block and a size-based constraint; and performing subsequent processing based on the context model index ctxInc of the flag of the current block. The method can be used to improve coding efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huanbang Chen, Yin Zhao, Haitao Yang, Lian Zhang
  • Patent number: 11895313
    Abstract: A method of determining one or more candidate prediction modes, the method comprises deriving, by a processor, a first indicator by parsing a bitstream, wherein the first indicator specifies whether any affine model is a candidate motion model for an image block in a preset area; determining, by the processor, that the first indicator is set to 1; deriving, by the processor and based on the determination that the first indicator is set to 1, a second indicator by parsing the bitstream, wherein the second indicator specifies whether a 6-parameter affine model is a candidate motion model for the image block; and determining, by the processor, one or more candidate prediction modes for the image block based on the first indicator and the second indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiang Ma, Haitao Yang, Huanbang Chen, Jianle Chen
  • Patent number: 11895319
    Abstract: A motion information candidate list construction method includes: performing a first processing process on all neighboring image blocks of a current image block until a quantity of candidate motion information sets in a candidate motion information list is equal to a first preset value or all the neighboring image blocks are traversed; then traversing at least two extra to be selected motion information sets, and storing, in the candidate motion information list, an extra to be selected motion information set that satisfies a preset condition, until the quantity of candidate motion information sets in the candidate motion information list is equal to a preset quantity value or the extra to be selected motion information sets are traversed extra to be selected motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huanbang Chen, Ting Fu, Haitao Yang
  • Patent number: 11889102
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of video image processing, and provides a filtering method and an apparatus, to resolve a problem that subjective quality and objective quality of an image deteriorate because filtering processing cannot be performed on internal blocks of a non-translational motion prediction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huanbang Chen, Sixin Lin, Haitao Yang, Shan Gao
  • Patent number: 11889061
    Abstract: This disclosure discloses a method for obtaining a candidate motion vector list, an apparatus, an encoder, and a decoder. The method for obtaining a candidate motion vector list comprises: when a first candidate picture block is encoded/decoded and an inter prediction mode is used, determining whether a reference picture of the first candidate picture block is the same as a reference picture of a current block; and constructing a candidate motion vector list of the current block based on a determining result; when the reference picture of the first candidate picture block is different from the reference picture of the current block, the MV of the first candidate picture block is not used to construct the list. Implementing this disclosure can reduce complexity of a motion information derivation process, and improve coding efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huanbang Chen, Haitao Yang, Lian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240007663
    Abstract: This application provides a video picture prediction method and apparatus, to resolve a problem in a conventional technology that a length of a coded video sequence is increased. The first type of identifier may be added to a bitstream. The first type of identifier is used to indicate whether an affine motion model-based inter prediction mode is enabled for a video picture. For a video picture or a picture block included in the slice for which the affine motion model does not need to be used, a parameter, related to the affine motion model, of the picture block may not need to be transmitted. On a decoder side, during decoding of the picture block, the parameter related to the affine motion model does not need to be parsed. This can reduce load of a decoder, increase a processing speed, and decrease a processing time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Huanbang CHEN, Xiang MA, Haitao YANG, Jianle CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230421755
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a bi-directional inter prediction method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a reference picture index i1 of a first reference picture list as a first reference picture index; determining a reference picture index i2 of a second reference picture list as a second reference picture index; and predicting the current block based on the first reference picture index and the second reference picture index. A POC corresponding to i1 is a POC, closest to a POC of a current picture, in all POCs that are in the first reference picture list and that are less than the POC of the current picture, a POC corresponding to i2 is a POC, closest to the POC of the current picture, in all POCs that are in the second reference picture list and that are greater than the POC of the current picture. Coding efficiency can be improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Huanbang CHEN, Jianle CHEN, Haitao YANG
  • Patent number: 11838535
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the field of video picture coding technologies, and disclose a bidirectional inter prediction method and apparatus, to improve coding efficiency. The method includes: obtaining a first motion vector difference of a current picture block; determining a second motion vector difference of the current picture block based on the first motion vector difference, where the first motion vector difference belongs to motion information of the current picture block in a first direction, and the second motion vector difference belongs to motion information of the current picture block in a second direction; and determining prediction samples of the current picture block based on the obtained first motion vector difference and the determined second motion vector difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huanbang Chen, Haitao Yang, Jianle Chen
  • Publication number: 20230370607
    Abstract: A motion vector prediction method includes parsing a bitstream to obtain an index value of a candidate motion vector list and constructing the candidate motion vector list that includes. candidate motion vectors of K control points of a current block. The candidate motion vectors of K control points are obtained based on a 2N-parameter affine transform model used for a neighboring block of the current block, where N and K are integers greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to 4 with N not being equal to K. The method further includes determining, in the candidate motion vector list, target candidate motion vectors of the K control points based on the index value and obtaining a predicted motion vector of each subblock of the current block based on the target candidate motion vectors of the K control points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huanbang Chen, Haitao Yang, Jianle Chen, Jiali Fu
  • Publication number: 20230370606
    Abstract: A motion vector prediction method includes parsing a bitstream to obtain an index value of a candidate motion vector list and constructing the candidate motion vector list that includes. candidate motion vectors of K control points of a current block. The candidate motion vectors of K control points are obtained based on a 2N-parameter affine transform model used for a neighboring block of the current block, where N and K are integers greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to 4 with N not being equal to K. The method further includes determining, in the candidate motion vector list, target candidate motion vectors of the K control points based on the index value and obtaining a predicted motion vector of each subblock of the current block based on the target candidate motion vectors of the K control points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huanbang Chen, Haitao Yang, Jianle Chen, Jiali Fu
  • Patent number: 11812050
    Abstract: This application provides a motion vector obtaining method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a target offset vector of a block and identifier information of a target picture, wherein the block comprises at least one sub-block; determining a location of the sub-block; determining, as a target location coordinate value of a collocated sub-block, a location coordinate value obtained by performing a clipping operation on an initial location coordinate value in a range, wherein the initial location coordinate value is based on the location of the sub-block and the target offset vector; and obtaining a motion vector of the sub-block based on a motion vector corresponding to the target location coordinate value. Thus, a range of the target offset vector is limited, so that a quantity of memory read times can be reduced in a process of obtaining the motion vector of the collocated sub-block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huanbang Chen, Yin Zhao, Haitao Yang, Jianle Chen
  • Patent number: 11792389
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose bi-directional inter prediction methods and apparatuses. In an embodiment, a method comprises: determining that a first reference picture index of a first reference picture list is associated with a current block to be predicted; determining that a second reference picture index of a second reference picture list is associated with the current block; and predicting the current block based on the first reference picture index and the second reference picture index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huanbang Chen, Jianle Chen, Haitao Yang
  • Patent number: 11770522
    Abstract: This application discloses a picture display order determining method which includes: obtaining a decoding order index value of a current picture and a decoding order index value of a previous picture that is adjacent to the current picture according to a decoding order; adding 1 to a cycle identifier value when the decoding order index value of the current picture is less than the decoding order index value of the previous picture; and determining a display order index value of the current picture based on a sum of the decoding order index value of the current picture and a preset positive integer multiple of the cycle identifier value. In this application, the display order index value of the current picture progressively increases based on a display order index value of a picture that is located before the current picture according to the decoding order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haitao Yang, Yuqun Fan, Xiang Ma, Huanbang Chen, Lian Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230300335
    Abstract: A video decoding method includes obtaining a to-be-entropy-decoded syntax element in a current block by parsing a received bitstream, where the to-be-entropy-decoded syntax element includes a syntax element 1 or a syntax element 2 in the current block, obtaining a context model corresponding to the to-be-entropy-decoded syntax element, where both of a context model corresponding to the syntax element 1 and a context model corresponding to the syntax element 2 are determined from the same preset context model set, entropy decoding the to-be-entropy-decoded syntax element based on the context model corresponding to the to-be-entropy-decoded syntax element, and obtaining a reconstructed image of the current block based on the syntax element obtained by entropy decoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Huanbang Chen, Haitao Yang
  • Patent number: 11736715
    Abstract: This application provides video picture prediction methods and apparatuses. In an implementation, a method for encoding of video picture comprises generating a bitstream for video signals, the bitstream comprises a plurality of syntax elements, wherein the plurality of syntax elements comprises a first identifier indicating that an affine motion model based motion compensation is enabled for a video sequence including a picture block to be processed, wherein a second identifier is conditionally signaled at least based on a value of the first identifier, wherein a false value of the second identifier indicates that a 6-parameter affine motion model based motion compensation is disabled for the video sequence, and wherein a true value of the second identifier indicates that the 6-parameter affine motion model based motion compensation is enabled for the video sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Huanbang Chen, Xiang Ma, Haitao Yang, Jianle Chen
  • Publication number: 20230239500
    Abstract: An intra prediction method includes obtaining respective intra prediction modes or texture distributions of P reconstructed picture blocks in a surrounding region of a current block; obtaining, based on the respective intra prediction modes or texture distributions of the P reconstructed picture blocks, Q priori candidate intra prediction modes of the current block and Q probability values; obtaining, based on M probability values corresponding to M priori candidate intra prediction modes, M weighting factors corresponding to the M priori candidate intra prediction modes; separately performing intra prediction based on the M priori candidate intra prediction modes to obtain M predicted values; and obtaining a predicted value of the current block based on a weighted summation of the M predicted values and the corresponding M weighting factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Haitao Yang, Nan Song, Xu Chen, Xiang Ma, Huanbang Chen, Yin Zhao