Abstract: Disclosed are a method of encoding a video, including determining a motion vector resolution of a current block, determining a motion vector of the current block according to the motion vector resolution of the current block, predicting and encoding current block using a motion vector of the current block, and encoding information on the motion vector resolution of the current block.

Abstract: The present invention relates to efficient signaling of an intra prediction mode for predicting a current block in intra prediction coding. According to an aspect of the present invention, a video encoding apparatus divides dozens of intra modes into groups, selects a group to which an actual intra mode of the current block to be encoded belongs, and signals a value corresponding to the group. The video decoding apparatus acquires information on the group to which the actual intra mode of the current block belongs from a bit-stream and then evaluates intra modes belonging to the group to select a final intra mode.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of encoding prediction information about a current block located in a first face to be encoded in encoding each face of a 2D image onto which 360 video is projected. The method includes generating prediction information candidates using neighboring blocks around the current block; and encoding a syntax element for the prediction information about the current block using the prediction information candidates. When a border of the current block coincides with a border of the first face, a block adjoining the current block based on the 360 video rather than the 2D image is set as at least a part of the neighboring blocks.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for generating a video bitstream for high-resolution video streaming. The present disclosure in some embodiments provides a method and apparatus for generating a video bitstream by encoding a video at a different bit rate for each of video areas, in order to efficiently transmit a large amount of high-resolution video contents.

Abstract: An encoding apparatus comprises: a network interface for receiving an image; a memory for storing a command for encoding the image; and a processor for encoding the image according to the command, wherein the processor performs padding to set pixel values of a padding area corresponding to one edge area of the image by referring to the other edge area of the image adjacent to the one edge area on a sphere on which the image is projected, seeks a motion vector by referring to the pixel values of the padding area and encodes the image by referring to the motion vector, wherein the image is a 360-degree image.

Abstract: A content playback apparatus comprises a touch screen, a memory and a processor. The touch screen is configured to play back a plurality of contents and to detect a touch input for the contents. The memory is configured to store instructions to control a playback of the contents. The processor is configured to control the playback of the contents according to the instructions. The instructions include a display instruction for displaying playbacks of the plurality of contents in a predetermined size, a move instruction for moving, among the plurality of contents, a content according to the touch input, and a magnification instruction for, in response to said moving, magnifying a playback size of the moved content according to the touch input and displaying a playback of the content on the touch screen at the magnified playback size of the content.

Abstract: An apparatus of generating a combined video stream of multiple images, includes: an image acquiring unit to acquire a plurality of individual video streams transmitted over multiple channels; an image information extracting unit to extract individual image codes and individual header information from each of the plurality of the individual video streams; and a bit stream generating unit to generate combined image codes by inserting individual image codes into corresponding respective positions corresponding to each of the plurality of individual video streams in a predetermined layout of a display picture, generate combined header information corresponding to the combined image codes based on respective individual header information, and generate a combined video stream including the combined image codes and the combined header information.

Abstract: An apparatus of generating a combined video stream of multiple images, includes: an image acquiring unit to acquire a plurality of individual video streams transmitted over multiple channels; an image information extracting unit to extract individual image codes and individual header information from each of the plurality of the individual video streams; and a bit stream generating unit to generate combined image codes by inserting individual image codes into corresponding respective positions corresponding to each of the plurality of individual video streams in a predetermined layout of a display picture, generate combined header information corresponding to the combined image codes based on respective individual header information, and generate a combined video stream including the combined image codes and the combined header information.

Abstract: A content playback apparatus comprises a touch screen, a memory and a processor. The touch screen is configured to play back a plurality of contents and to detect a touch input for the contents. The memory is configured to store instructions to control a playback of the contents. The processor is configured to control the playback of the contents according to the instructions. The instructions include a display instruction for displaying playbacks of the plurality of contents in a predetermined size, a move instruction for moving, among the plurality of contents, a content according to the touch input, and a magnification instruction for, in response to said moving, magnifying a playback size of the moved content according to the touch input and displaying a playback of the content on the touch screen at the magnified playback size of the content.

Abstract: An apparatus for sharing contents includes: a touch screen to sense a user's touch input for one or more contents; a processor to detect the user's touch input, and generate a transmission image according to instructions corresponding to the detected user's touch input to share the one or more contents with an external device; and a communication unit to establish connection with the external device, and transmit the transmission image to the external device, where the processor is configured to display a device list including an area corresponding to the external device, connect the apparatus to the external device according to a user input of dragging a first content of the one or more contents and dropping the first content onto an area corresponding to the external device on the device list, generate the transmission image, and transmit the transmission image to the external device through the communication unit.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a video signal acquisition device, an audio signal acquisition device, a time information processing device, a video signal encoding device, an audio signal encoding device, a multiplexing device and an output device. The video signal acquisition device receives the video signals and converts them into digital video data. The audio signal acquisition device receives the audio signals and converts them into digital audio data. The time information processing device receives a clock signal for synchronization of the digital video and audio data. The video signal encoding device encodes the digital video data. The audio signal encoding device encodes the audio video data. The multiplexing device converts the encoded video and audio signals into a single piece of bit stream data. The output device outputs the bit stream data. The time information processing device provides the two pieces of time information respectively as a video reference clock and an audio reference clock.

Abstract: A method of operating a video decoder system includes decoding an encoded video frame using a decoder control unit for determining whether the acceleration is required for respective decoding functional units and the degree thereof.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a video signal acquisition device, an audio signal acquisition device, a time information processing device, a video signal encoding device, an audio signal encoding device, a multiplexing device and an output device. The video signal acquisition device receives the video signals and converts them into digital video data. The audio signal acquisition device receives the audio signals and converts them into digital audio data. The time information processing device receives a clock signal for synchronization of the digital video and audio data. The video signal encoding device encodes the digital video data. The audio signal encoding device encodes the audio video data. The multiplexing device converts the encoded video and audio signals into a single piece of bit stream data. The output device outputs the bit stream data. The time information processing device provides the two pieces of time information respectively as a video reference clock and an audio reference clock.

Abstract: Disclosed is a moving picture mailing system which comprises a video signal capturing device for capturing digital video signals from video signal information of moving pictures; an audio signal capturing device for capturing digital audio signals from audio signal information of moving pictures; and a moving picture recorder for respectively receiving the video and audio signals from the video and audio signal capturing devices, compressing the video and audio signals using MPEG-4 video and audio compression techniques, multiplexing the compressed signals and transmitting combined bit streams to a moving picture mailing server.

Abstract: There are provided an improved scan interleaving method based on context values of neighboring pixels, an improved binary shape encoding/decoding method, and encoding/decoding apparatus suitable for the same. The hierarchical binary shape encoding apparatus includes a portion for down-sampling for SI method, the portion for performing down-sampling for SI method on the binary shape data to form a base layer, a portion for encoding the base layer supplied from the down-sampling portion, and a portion for encoding an enhancement layer having the current binary shape data by referring to the base layer or a preceding frame. The encoding apparatus can perform hierarchical encoding, thereby enhancing the overall coding efficiency.

Abstract: A generalized scan interleaving-based encoding/decoding method using context values of neighboring pixels and an apparatus therefore, and linear down/up-sampling apparatus used in the apparatus are provided. If the down-sampling ratio is m/n, the linear down-sampling apparatus divides the down-sampling ratio into two parts, [1/2K9 and [(m2K)/n], and performs linear down-sampling by applying the two parts sequentially. If the up-sampling ratio is n/m, the linear up-sampling apparatus divides the up-sampling ratio into two parts, [n/(m2K)] and [2K], and performs linear up-sampling by applying the two parts sequentially. By applying the linear down-sampling and up-sampling method to existing generalized an interleaving-based encoding using context values of neighboring pixels, continuously-scalable down-sampling is enabled and by using the down-sampled base layer, the current layer can be encoded and decoded.

Abstract: Shape information is scalably encoded and decoded by interleaved scan line (ISL) and raster scan line (RSL) methods and the encoded and decoded shape information is used for encoding texture information. The shape information of a chrominance (UV) component is encoded to compensate for the chrominance (UV) component. The encoding method is independently applied to the shape and texture component of each block. A scalable encoder of a still image using wavelets compresses pixels by using the characteristics between ISL pixels in a shape of the layer to be encoded or pixels between two layers in encoding the shape between layers. It is therefore possible to restore the shape and texture at high speed by performing the scalable encoding according to resolution, such as for searching for an image in a database/library. Also, tile coding a large image field to independently restore desired parts is fast and efficient.

Abstract: A moving picture coding/decoding method and apparatus having a spatially scalable architecture and a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) scalable architecture together is provided.

Abstract: An improved interpolation method in which a threshold value used for determining a pixel value of a pixel generated by interpolation according to a context which is a state value of adjacent pixels. In the interpolation method, the ambiguity between the interpolation value and the threshold value is removed by using the context, thereby reducing the blocking and smoothing phenomena in the restored binary image.

Abstract: An improved interpolation method in which a threshold value used for determining a pixel value of a pixel generated by interpolation according to a context (state value of adjacent pixels). In the interpolation method, the ambiguity between the interpolation value and the threshold value is removed by using the context (state value of the reference pixels around the interpolated pixel), thereby reducing the blocking and smoothing phenomena in the restored binary image.