Patents by Inventor Jiantong ZHOU

Jiantong ZHOU 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: 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
  • 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: 9137531
    Abstract: A scanning method and device, and a reverse scanning method and device in coding and decoding technologies are provided. The scanning method includes: receiving quantized transformed coefficients of a current block; obtaining a prediction direction of the current block; finding, according to the prediction direction, a scanning order corresponding to the prediction direction of the current block from a mapping relationship table of the prediction direction and the scanning order, wherein at least one scanning order in the mapping relationship table of the prediction direction and the scanning order corresponds to at least two prediction directions; and performing scanning processing on the coefficients by using the scanning order corresponding to the prediction direction of the current block. With the solutions of the present invention, the number of the scanning orders used in coding and decoding is decreased, and system complexity of a codec system is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haitao Yang, 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
  • Patent number: 8891889
    Abstract: Image encoding and decoding methods and related devices are provided. An image encoding and decoding method includes: for a sub-image block obtained by partitioning an image block, determining at least two position parameters, in which the at least two position parameters include a first position parameter and a second position parameter, the first position parameter identifies whether the sub-image block is a rectangle or not a rectangle, and the second position parameter identifies endpoint information of the sub-image block; determining an encoding sequence of the first position parameter and the second position parameter according to a partition manner of the image block; and encoding the at least two position parameters according to the determined encoding sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haoping Yu, Xiaozhen Zheng, Sixin Lin, Jiantong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20140328399
    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 6, 2014
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Haitao YANG, Bin LI, Houqiang LI, Jiantong ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20140247880
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for coding and decoding a video signal, and provides a method for coding a video signal, including: determining space adjacent motion information of a parallel motion processing region PR; determining time adjacent motion information of a current block, where the current block is located in the parallel motion processing region PR; determining a candidate mot ion information set according to the space adjacent motion information of the parallel motion processing region PR and the time adjacent motion information of the current block; selecting motion information of the current block from the candidate motion information set, and sending a motion information indication of the current block to a decoding end, so as to assist the decoding end in determining the motion information of the current block; and performing motion compensation coding for the current block according to the motion information of the current block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xing Wen, Oscar Au, Haitao Yang, Jiantong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20140241423
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides an image coding method, where the coding method includes: performing predictive coding on an image; performing transform coding on the image on which the predictive coding has been performed; performing, by using a quantization matrix, quantization coding on the image on which the transform coding has been performed, where the quantization matrix is a matrix reflecting image quantization step information, the quantization matrix includes an M*N quantization matrix and an N*M quantization matrix, and the N*M quantization matrix is obtained by transposing the M*N quantization matrix; and performing entropy coding on the image on which the quantization coding has been performed, and coding the M*N quantization matrix, so as to generate a code stream. In the present invention, the number of bits required for coding a quantization matrix is effectively saved, thereby improving compression efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haitao Yang, Jiantong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20140233641
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an intra-frame decoding method and apparatus for a signal component sampling point of an image block. The method includes: obtaining prediction mode information about a first signal component of a current block from a video code stream; determining a prediction mode for the first signal component of the current block, where the prediction mode for the first signal component of the current block is one of a DM mode and an LM mode; obtaining a prediction value of a first signal component sampling point of the current block according to the prediction mode for the first signal component of the current block; and obtaining a reconstruction value of the first signal component sampling point of the current block. The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention reduce complexity of implementing a decoding end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haitao Yang, Jiantong Zhou, Oscar Au
  • Publication number: 20140233650
    Abstract: An intra-frame decoding method is provided. The method includes: obtaining, from a video code stream, prediction mode information of a first signal component of a current block; determining a prediction mode of the first signal component of the current block from a prediction mode set of the first signal component of the current block according to the prediction mode information of the first signal component of the current block, where the prediction mode set of the first signal component of the current block includes at least one of a linear model above (LMA) mode and a linear model left (LML) mode; obtaining a predicted value of a first signal component sampling point of the current block; and obtaining a reconstructed value of the first signal component sampling point of the current block according to the predicted value of the first signal component sampling point of the current block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xingyu Zhang, Oscar Au, Haitao Yang, Jiantong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20140233643
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a transformation mode encoding and decoding method and apparatus. A correlation between the prediction mode and the transformation mode is used, and an optimal transformation mode candidate set is simplified, thereby saving resources when an index of an optimal transformation mode is encoded in encoding header information. In addition, encoding efficiency is higher when an encoding end elects a transformation mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin SONG, Jiantong ZHOU
  • Patent number: 8804827
    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: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haitao Yang, Jiantong Zhou
  • Patent number: 8718389
    Abstract: Image encoding and decoding methods and related devices are provided. An image encoding and decoding method includes: for a sub-image block obtained by partitioning an image block, determining at least two position parameters, in which the at least two position parameters include a first position parameter and a second position parameter, the first position parameter identifies whether the sub-image block is a rectangle or not a rectangle, and the second position parameter identifies endpoint information of the sub-image block; determining an encoding sequence of the first position parameter and the second position parameter according to a partition manner of the image block; and encoding the at least two position parameters according to the determined encoding sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haoping Yu, Xiaozhen Zheng, Sixin Lin, Jiantong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20140098862
    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: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haitao Yang, Jiantong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20130315313
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for rounding a coordinate value of a non-integer pixel position motion vector. The method includes: rounding a coordinate value of a non-integer pixel position motion vector, which includes: for each dimension of coordinates of the non-integer pixel position motion vector, when a coordinate in the dimension is a non-integer pixel position, rounding the coordinate value of the non-integer pixel position motion vector in the dimension to one of integer pixel coordinate positions A and B if distances from the coordinate of the non-integer pixel position motion vector in the dimension to the integer pixel coordinate positions A and B adjacent to the non-integer pixel position in the dimension are the same, where an integer pixel coordinate position is determined by a sign of the coordinate value of the non-integer pixel position motion vector in the dimension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Inventors: Mingyuan Yang, Sixin Lin, Jiantong Zhou, Haoping Yu
  • Publication number: 20130315309
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a motion prediction or compensation method during a video coding and decoding process. A motion prediction or compensation method provided in the embodiments of the present invention includes: acquiring a candidate motion vector set; conducting a refined search for an optimal motion vector based on information of the candidate motion vector set; and performing motion prediction or compensation by using the motion vector acquired by the refined search. This improves coding performance and meanwhile maintains reasonable complexity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sixin LIN, Mingyuan YANG, Jiantong ZHOU, Haoping YU
  • Publication number: 20100266048
    Abstract: A video encoding and decoding method and device and a video processing system are provided. In the encoding method and device, ordinate and abscissa position information of each block in a searching area is established by selecting an appropriate origin of coordinates of the searching area; meanwhile, an offset of a current macro block is encoded by using information of peripheral blocks of the macro block encoded currently as a context for encoding position offset information of a corresponding macro block in an adjacent view reference image of the current macro block. In the decoding method and device, position information of a corresponding macro block in a coordinate system is obtained by parsing offset information of the corresponding macro block of the current macro block, and motion information of the corresponding macro block is used as motion information of the current macro block. So the coding efficiency is increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Haitao Yang, Sixin Lin, Shan Gao, Yingjia Liu, Jiali Fu, Jiantong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20100195715
    Abstract: An adaptive frame prediction method includes: using at least one block partition method to partition an MB that needs to perform intra-frame prediction; using at least one prediction mode to predict each sub-block in each block partition result and obtaining a sub-block residual of a current sub-block; selecting multiple transformation methods according to the sub-block type to transform each sub-block residual and obtain the code-rate distortion ratio of the current sub-block; performing frame prediction for the MB according to the block partition method, the prediction mode, and the transformation method corresponding to the code-rate distortion ratio of a minimum value among all code-rate distortion ratios. An adaptive prediction apparatus disclosed herein includes: a block partition module, a predicting module, a transforming module, a selecting module, and a frame predicting module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Inventors: Yingjia Liu, Sixin Lin, Shan Gao, Jiantong Zhou, Jiali Fu, Qingpeng Xie, Xiaosen Zhang, Lianhuan Xiong
  • Publication number: 20100034293
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus of multi-view coding and decoding are provided. In the process of encoding multi-view video images, a frame number and view identifier information of the image that uses auxiliary reference information are written into a code stream, and sent to the decoder. The decoder obtains the frame number and the view identifier information of the image that uses the auxiliary reference information, and determines the auxiliary reference information applied to a specified image according to the frame number and the view identifier information. Errors of the image may be concealed according to the auxiliary reference information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Inventors: Sixin LIN, Shan GAO, Yingjia LIU, Jiantong ZHOU, Changqi HU, Lianhuan XIONG