Video decoding method and device, hardware decoder, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12470752-B2
Application number	US-202318241939-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 4, 2023
Priority date	Sep 30, 2022
Publication date	Nov 11, 2025
Grant date	Nov 11, 2025

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a video decoding method, a video decoding device, a hardware decoder, and a storage medium. The method comprises: decoding a target slice of a to-be-decoded video; determining coding blocks that need to be restored in a frame where the target slice is located, when detecting occurrence of an error to a syntax element of the target slice; and restoring the coding blocks that need to be restored based on a global preset syntax element template, so as to perform forced decoding of the target slice.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A video decoding method, wherein the method comprises:
decoding a target slice of a to-be-decoded video; determining coding blocks that need to be restored in a frame where the target slice is located, when detecting occurrence of an error to a syntax element of the target slice; and restoring the coding blocks that need to be restored based on a global preset syntax element template, so as to perform forced decoding of the target slice; wherein the global preset syntax element template is constructed through following steps comprising, determining a preset value according to a meaning indicated by a key syntax element wherein the key syntax element is configured to determine a fixed decoding branch, and assigning a value to the key syntax element according to the determined preset value, to obtain the global preset syntax element template.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the key syntax element comprises syntax elements of a Slice header and syntax elements of a coding block.

3 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein the step of restoring the coding blocks that need to be restored based on a global preset syntax element template comprises:
combining the coding blocks that need to be restored into a new slice; and restoring the new slice based on the global preset syntax element template, wherein in a restoring process, a slice type of the new slice is determined by whether the frame where the target slice is located contains a reference frame.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of restoring the coding blocks that need to be restored based on a global preset syntax element template comprises:
combining the coding blocks that need to be restored into a new slice; and restoring the new slice based on the global preset syntax element template, wherein in a restoring process, a slice type of the new slice is determined by whether the frame where the target slice is located contains a reference frame.

5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the occurrence of an error to a syntax element of the target slice comprises occurrence of an error to a syntax element of a Slice header in the target slice.

6 . The method according to claim 5 , wherein the syntax element of the Slice header in the target slice is detected through following steps, comprising:
when detecting that a syntax element with the number of prefixes 0 greater than a preset threshold corresponding to a first syntax element exists in the first syntax element, determining that an error occurs to this syntax element, wherein the first syntax element is a syntax element based on Exponential-Golomb coding in the Slice header in the target slice.

7 . The method according to claim 6 , wherein the preset threshold is determined by a coding standard corresponding to each syntax element.

8 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of determining coding blocks that need to be restored in a frame where the target slice is located, when detecting occurrence of an error to a syntax element of the target slice, comprises:
when detecting that an error occurs to a syntax element of a coding block in the target slice, reading a local preset syntax element template to correct this syntax element, and meanwhile reading a preset code stream template, so as to perform forced decoding of this coding block; and determining the coding blocks that need to be restored in the frame where the target slice is located.

9 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein after reading the preset code stream template, the method further comprises:
in response to a syntax element where an error occurs further existing in a to-be-decoded coding block, reading a preset value of a syntax element corresponding to the syntax element where the error occurs in the local preset syntax element template.

10 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein the syntax element of the coding block in the target slice is detected through following steps, comprising:
when detecting that a syntax element with the number of prefixes 1 greater than a preset threshold corresponding to a second syntax element exists in the second syntax element, determining that an error occurs to this syntax element, wherein the second syntax element is a syntax element based on CABAC coding in the coding block in the target slice.

11 . The method according to claim 10 , wherein the preset threshold is determined by a coding standard corresponding to each syntax element.

12 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of determining coding blocks that need to be restored in a frame where the target slice is located comprises:
when detecting that no start code exists in a code stream behind the target slice, determining the coding blocks that need to be restored in the frame where the target slice is located, wherein the coding blocks that need to be restored are equal to total coding blocks in the frame where the target slice is located minus coding blocks that have been decoded currently.

13 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of determining coding blocks that need to be restored in a frame where the target slice is located comprises:
when detecting that a start code exists in a code stream behind the target slice, decoding a network abstraction layer unit header corresponding to the start code, to obtain a type syntax element in the network abstraction layer unit header; and determining the coding blocks that need to be restored in the frame where the target slice is located based on the type syntax element.

14 . The method according to claim 13 , wherein the step of determining the coding blocks that need to be restored in the frame where the target slice is located based on the type syntax element comprises:
determining, when a numerical value of the type syntax element satisfies a preset condition, the coding blocks that need to be restored in the frame where the target slice is located, wherein the coding blocks that need to be restored are equal to total coding blocks in the frame where the target slice is located minus coding blocks that have been decoded currently; and when the numerical value of the type syntax element satisfies the preset condition, indicating that the target slice and a next slice do not belong to the same frame; and the next slice is a slice in a network abstraction layer unit corresponding to the start code.

15 . The method according to claim 13 , wherein the step of determining the coding blocks that need to be restored in the frame where the target slice is located based on the type syntax element comprises:
when a numerical value of the type syntax element does not satisfy a preset condition, parsing a Slice header of a next slice, and determining the coding blocks that need to be restored in the frame where the target slice is located based on a parsing result of the Slice header of the next slice, wherein when the parsing result indicates that the target slice and the next slice do not belong to the same frame, the coding blocks that need to be restored are equal to total coding blocks in the frame where the target slice is located minus coding blocks that have been decoded currently; and when the parsing result indicates that the target slice and the next slice belong to the same frame, the coding blocks that need to be restored are equal to total coding blocks in the frame where the target slice is located before the next slice minus coding blocks that have been decoded currently.

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Assignees

• Verisilicon Microelectronics Shanghai Co Ltd
• Verisilicon Microelectronics Chengdu Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yan Chen
• Zhang Deyun
• Chen Min

Classifications

• H04N19/176

  the region being a block, e.g. a macroblock · CPC title

• H04N19/174

  the region being a slice, e.g. a line of blocks or a group of blocks · CPC title

• H04N19/13 Primary

  Adaptive entropy coding, e.g. adaptive variable length coding [AVLC] or context adaptive binary arithmetic coding [CABAC] · CPC title

• H04N19/70 Primary

  characterised by syntax aspects related to video coding, e.g. related to compression standards · CPC title

• H04N19/65

  using error resilience · CPC title