Patents by Inventor Lianhuan Xiong

Lianhuan Xiong 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: 9743107
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a system for a rapid motion search applied in template matching are disclosed. The method includes: selecting motion vectors of blocks related to a current block as candidate motion vectors of the current block; after the uniqueness of a series of the candidate motion vectors of the current block is maintained, calculating the cost function of the candidate motion vectors in a corresponding template area of a reference frame, and obtaining the motion vector of the best matching template from the candidate motion vectors of the current block. In the embodiments of the present invention, there is no need to determine a large search range and no need to determine the corresponding search path template, and it is only necessary to perform a search in a smaller range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Sixin Lin, Lianhuan Xiong, Yingjia Liu, Steffen Kamp, Mathias Wien
  • Patent number: 9723332
    Abstract: A method, a system, and an apparatus for evaluating video quality are disclosed to improve accuracy of the evaluation. The method includes: obtaining information about a transmitted video; resolving the information about the transmitted video to obtain video frame parameters, where the video frame parameters include a compression distortion parameter and/or a video quality distortion parameter with packet loss; and calculating a video frame quality parameter according to the video frame parameters. An apparatus and a system for evaluating video quality are provided. The embodiments of the present invention improve accuracy of video quality evaluation without reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: SnapTrack, Inc.
    Inventors: Qingpeng Xie, Fuzheng Yang, Shuai Wan, Sixin Lin, Lianhuan Xiong
  • Patent number: 9723313
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for encoding and decoding videos, and relate to the communication field, and an efficient transformation matrix corresponding to features of each residual block is selected for transformation, which therefore improves encoding efficiency. The solution provided in an embodiment of the present invention is: generating a prediction residual according to input video data; selecting a set of best transformation matrixes among multiple candidate transformation matrixes according to an intra-frame prediction mode and rate-distortion criteria to perform transform-coding on the prediction residual and obtain a transformation result; and generating an encoded stream according to the transformation result and selected transformation matrix index information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingyuan Yang, Dong Wang, Lianhuan Xiong, Xin Zhao, Li Zhang, Siwei Ma, Wen Gao
  • Publication number: 20160295233
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a system for a rapid motion search applied in template matching are disclosed. The method includes: selecting motion vectors of blocks related to a current block as candidate motion vectors of the current block; after the uniqueness of a series of the candidate motion vectors of the current block is maintained, calculating the cost function of the candidate motion vectors in a corresponding template area of a reference frame, and obtaining the motion vector of the best matching template from the candidate motion vectors of the current block. In the embodiments of the present invention, there is no need to determine a large search range and no need to determine the corresponding search path template, and it is only necessary to perform a search in a smaller range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Sixin Lin, Lianhuan Xiong, Yingjia Liu, Steffen Kamp, Mathias Wien
  • Patent number: 9392297
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a system for a rapid motion search applied in template matching are disclosed. The method includes: selecting motion vectors of blocks related to a current block as candidate motion vectors of the current block; after the uniqueness of a series of the candidate motion vectors of the current block is maintained, calculating the cost function of the candidate motion vectors in a corresponding template area of a reference frame, and obtaining the motion vector of the best matching template from the candidate motion vectors of the current block. In the embodiments of the present invention, there is no need to determine a large search range and no need to determine the corresponding search path template, and it is only necessary to perform a search in a smaller range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sixin Lin, Lianhuan Xiong, Yingjia Liu, Steffen Kamp, Mathias Wien
  • Publication number: 20150181219
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a system for a rapid motion search applied in template matching are disclosed. The method includes: selecting motion vectors of blocks related to a current block as candidate motion vectors of the current block; after the uniqueness of a series of the candidate motion vectors of the current block is maintained, calculating the cost function of the candidate motion vectors in a corresponding template area of a reference frame, and obtaining the motion vector of the best matching template from the candidate motion vectors of the current block. In the embodiments of the present invention, there is no need to determine a large search range and no need to determine the corresponding search path template, and it is only necessary to perform a search in a smaller range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Sixin Lin, Lianhuan Xiong, Yingjia Liu, Steffen Kamp, Mathias Wien
  • Patent number: 9014270
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a system for a rapid motion search applied in template matching are disclosed. The method includes: selecting motion vectors of blocks related to a current block as candidate motion vectors of the current block; after the uniqueness of a series of the candidate motion vectors of the current block is maintained, calculating the cost function of the candidate motion vectors in a corresponding template area of a reference frame, and obtaining the motion vector of the best matching template from the candidate motion vectors of the current block. In the embodiments of the present invention, there is no need to determine a large search range and no need to determine the corresponding search path template, and it is only necessary to perform a search in a smaller range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sixin Lin, Lianhuan Xiong, Yingjia Liu, Steffen Kamp, Mathias Wien
  • Publication number: 20150085942
    Abstract: A method, a system, and an apparatus for evaluating video quality are disclosed to improve accuracy of the evaluation. The method includes: obtaining information about a transmitted video; resolving the information about the transmitted video to obtain video frame parameters, where the video frame parameters include a compression distortion parameter and/or a video quality distortion parameter with packet loss; and calculating a video frame quality parameter according to the video frame parameters. An apparatus and a system for evaluating video quality are provided. The embodiments of the present invention improve accuracy of video quality evaluation without reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Qingpeng XIE, Fuzheng YANG, Shuai WAN, Sixin LIN, Lianhuan XIONG
  • Patent number: 8917777
    Abstract: A method, a system, and an apparatus for evaluating video quality are disclosed to improve accuracy of the evaluation. The method includes: obtaining information about a transmitted video; resolving the information about the transmitted video to obtain video frame parameters, where the video frame parameters include a compression distortion parameter and/or a video quality distortion parameter with packet loss; and calculating a video frame quality parameter according to the video frame parameters. An apparatus and a system for evaluating video quality are provided. The embodiments of the present invention improve accuracy of video quality evaluation without reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qingpeng Xie, Fuzheng Yang, Shuai Wan, Sixin Lin, Lianhuan Xiong
  • Patent number: 8718130
    Abstract: The invention relates to video image compression technologies, and discloses a method and system for upsampling a spatial scalable coded video image so that during upsampling computation complexity may be reduced while coding performance is substantially unchanged. In the invention, the principle that human eyes are far less sensitive to a chrominance components than to a luminance components is utilized, and a simpler filter is adopted for the chrominance components than that for the luminance components during upsampling in I_BLINTRA_Base inter-layer prediction or residual samples image inter-layer prediction, thereby reducing effectively calculation complexity while coding performance is substantially unchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lianhuan Xiong, Yihua Tan, Zhang Wang, Ajun Liu
  • Publication number: 20140105298
    Abstract: Inter-frame prediction coding method, device and system are provided. The inter-frame prediction coding method includes: calculating distortions between a template area of current encoding block and each of M matching templates in L reference frames, to determine M offset vectors; acquiring M hypothesis prediction values of the encoding block to which the M matching templates correspond according to the determined M offset vectors, and calculating the template matching prediction value of the current encoding block according to the M hypothesis prediction values; comparing the template matching prediction value and original value of the current encoding block to acquire the residual of the current encoding block, and encoding the residual. The technical solution improves prediction performance of the video coding system and increases coding efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Steffen Kamp, Mathias Wien, Lianhuan Xiong, Yingjia Liu
  • Patent number: 8693543
    Abstract: Inter-frame prediction coding method, device and system are provided. The inter-frame prediction coding method includes: calculating distortions between a template area of current encoding block and each of M matching templates in L reference frames, to determine M offset vectors; acquiring M hypothesis prediction values of the encoding block to which the M matching templates correspond according to the determined M offset vectors, and calculating the template matching prediction value of the current encoding block according to the M hypothesis prediction values; comparing the template matching prediction value and original value of the current encoding block to acquire the residual of the current encoding block, and encoding the residual. The technical solution improves prediction performance of the video coding system and increases coding efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Steffen Kamp, Mathias Wein, Lianhuan Xiong, Yingjia Liu
  • Patent number: 8345776
    Abstract: A system and method for video coding include an encoder and decoder. The encoder/decoder respectively include a base layer encoding/decoding apparatus, at least one enhancement layer encoding/decoding apparatus, and an encoder/decoder drift control apparatus. The encoder drift control apparatus is configured to determine the amount of local error drift for the encoder according to local information of the base layer encoding apparatus and the enhancement layer encoding apparatus and control the value of an encoder leaky factor according to the amount of error drift. The decoder drift control apparatus is configured to determine the amount of local error drift for the decoder according to local information of the base layer decoding apparatus and the enhancement layer decoding apparatus and control a decoder leaky factor according to the amount of error drift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lianhuan Xiong, Steffen Kamp, Mathias Wien
  • Publication number: 20120243608
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a video coding and decoding method, and coding and decoding apparatus. The coding method includes: generating a second order prediction flag for a coding block; when the coding block needs second order prediction, generating a second order prediction flag for at least one sub-block of the coding block, where the second order prediction flag of the sub-block is used to indicate whether second order prediction is performed on the sub-block; performing prediction according to the second order prediction flag of the coding block and the second order prediction flag of the at least one sub-block of the coding block to obtain a prediction image; and obtaining a prediction residual according to the prediction image, and coding the prediction residual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lu Yu, Binbin Yu, Shangwen Li, Dong Wang, Mingyuan Yang, Lianhuan Xiong
  • Publication number: 20120201303
    Abstract: The embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for encoding and decoding videos, and relate to the communication field, and an efficient transformation matrix corresponding to features of each residual block is selected for transformation, which therefore improves encoding efficiency. The solution provided in an embodiment of the present invention is: generating a prediction residual according to input video data; selecting a set of best transformation matrixes among multiple candidate transformation matrixes according to an intra-frame prediction mode and rate-distortion criteria to perform transform-coding on the prediction residual and obtain a transformation result; and generating an encoded stream according to the transformation result and selected transformation matrix index information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingyuan YANG, Dong WANG, Lianhuan XIONG, Xin ZHAO, Li ZHANG, Siwei MA, Wen GAO
  • Publication number: 20110188579
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a system for a rapid motion search applied in template matching are disclosed. The method includes: selecting motion vectors of blocks related to a current block as candidate motion vectors of the current block; after the uniqueness of a series of the candidate motion vectors of the current block is maintained, calculating the cost function of the candidate motion vectors in a corresponding template area of a reference frame, and obtaining the motion vector of the best matching template from the candidate motion vectors of the current block. In the embodiments of the present invention, there is no need to determine a large search range and no need to determine the corresponding search path template, and it is only necessary to perform a search in a smaller range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sixin LIN, Lianhuan XIONG, Yingjia LIU, Steffen KAMP, Mathias WIEN
  • Publication number: 20110085605
    Abstract: A method, a system, and an apparatus for evaluating video quality are disclosed to improve accuracy of the evaluation. The method includes: obtaining information about a transmitted video; resolving the information about the transmitted video to obtain video frame parameters, where the video frame parameters include a compression distortion parameter and/or a video quality distortion parameter with packet loss; and calculating a video frame quality parameter according to the video frame parameters. An apparatus and a system for evaluating video quality are provided. The embodiments of the present invention improve accuracy of video quality evaluation without reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: April 14, 2011
    Inventors: Qingpeng XIE, Fuzheng Yang, Shuai Wan, Sixin Lin, Lianhuan Xiong
  • Publication number: 20100272183
    Abstract: Inter-frame prediction coding method, device and system are provided. The inter-frame prediction coding method includes: calculating distortions between a template area of current encoding block and each of M matching templates in L reference frames, to determine M offset vectors; acquiring M hypothesis prediction values of the encoding block to which the M matching templates correspond according to the determined M offset vectors, and calculating the template matching prediction value of the current encoding block according to the M hypothesis prediction values; comparing the template matching prediction value and original value of the current encoding block to acquire the residual of the current encoding block, and encoding the residual. The technical solution improves prediction performance of the video coding system and increases coding efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Steffen Kamp, Mathias Wien, Lianhuan Xiong, Yingjia Liu
  • Publication number: 20100220791
    Abstract: A video coding method based on a motion skip mode (MSM) is provided. The method includes the following steps. A corresponding reference block of a current macro block to be encoded in a view-point reference image is determined, according to a direction of a disparity vector from a current image relative to the view-point reference image deduced by using a block smaller than 16×16 pixels as a base unit. The current macro block to be encoded is then encoded according to motion information of a macro block that the determined corresponding reference block belongs to. Other related video coding methods and corresponding codecs based on the MSM are also provided. Therefore, macro block motion information (MMI) of the currently encoded macro block at a corresponding position in the view-point reference image can be more accurately obtained, thereby improving a coding efficiency of the MSM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sixin Lin, Haitao Yang, Yilin Chang, Junyan Huo, Shan Gao, Lianhuan Xiong
  • Publication number: 20100208814
    Abstract: An inter-frame prediction coding method is disclosed, which comprises: an encoder determines an encoding mode and performs encoding by comparing the obtained template matching motion vector and motion vector prediction value of the current block; a decoder receives the bitstream from the encoder, and determines a decoding mode and performs decoding by comparing the obtained template matching motion vector and motion vector prediction value of the current block. Inter-frame prediction encoding device and decoding device are also disclosed. With the method and device of the embodiments of the present invention, code rate can be saved during inter-frame prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lianhuan Xiong, Steffen Kamp, Michael Evertz, Mathias Wien