Method and apparatus of luma-based chroma intra prediction

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9560359-B2
Application number	US-201214368283-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 28, 2012
Priority date	Jan 4, 2012
Publication date	Jan 31, 2017
Grant date	Jan 31, 2017

Abstract

A method and apparatus for luma-based chroma intra prediction for a current chroma block are disclosed. The chroma intra predictor is derived from reconstructed luma pixels of a current luma block according to the chroma sampling format. Depending on the chroma sampling format, either sub-sampling, down-sampling or no processing is applied to the reconstructed luma pixels in horizontal or vertical direction. The information associated with the chroma sampling format can be incorporated in the sequence parameter set (SPS), the picture parameter set (PPS), the adaptation parameter set (APS) or the slice header of a video bitstream.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of chroma intra prediction based on reconstructed luma pixels, the method comprising:
receiving neighboring reconstructed luma pixels and current reconstructed luma pixels of a current luma block from storage or a processor;
determining a chroma sampling format specified using a syntax element,
selecting, based on the chroma sampling format, a first group of reconstructed luma pixels above a top boundary of the current luma block and a second group of reconstructed luma pixels to a left boundary of the current luma block, wherein the neighboring reconstructed luma pixels comprise the first group and the second group;
deriving chroma intra prediction for a corresponding chroma block based on the neighboring reconstructed luma pixels and the current reconstructed luma pixels of the current luma block, wherein said deriving chroma intra prediction is according to the chroma sampling format; and
providing the chroma intra prediction for encoding or decoding of chroma pixels in the corresponding chroma.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein information associated with the chroma sampling format is incorporated in in sequence parameter set (SPS), picture parameter set (PPS), adaptation parameter set (APS) or a slice header of a video bitstream.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said deriving chroma intra prediction comprises sub-sampling the neighboring reconstructed luma pixels and the current reconstructed luma pixels of the current luma block in one direction if the chroma sampling format corresponds to the chroma pixels being aligned with luma pixels and having half of a number of the luma pixels in said one direction.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein no sub-sampling or down-sampling is applied to the neighboring reconstructed luma pixels and the current reconstructed luma pixels of the current luma block in one direction during said deriving chroma intra prediction if the chroma sampling format corresponds to the chroma pixels being aligned with luma pixels and having a same number of the luma pixels in said one direction.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein said deriving chroma intra prediction comprises down-sampling the neighboring reconstructed luma pixels and the current reconstructed luma pixels of the current luma block in one direction if the chroma sampling format corresponds to the chroma pixels being offset from luma pixels and having half of a number of the luma pixels in said one direction.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first group of the reconstructed luma pixels correspond to a first top pixel row from the top boundary of the current luma block and the second group of the reconstructed luma pixels correspond to a first left pixel column from the left boundary of the current luma block for any chroma sampling format.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein sub-sampling or down-sampling is applied to the first top pixel row from the top boundary of the current luma block and the first left pixel column from the left boundary of the current luma block according to the chroma sampling format.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first group of the reconstructed luma pixels correspond to a first top pixel row from the top boundary of the current luma block and the second group of the reconstructed luma pixels correspond to a second left pixel column from the left boundary of the current luma block; and wherein down-sampling is applied to the first top pixel row and down-sampling is applied to the second left pixel column if the chroma sampling format corresponds to 4:2:0 sampling format.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first group of the reconstructed luma pixels correspond to a first top pixel row from the top boundary of the current luma block and the second group of the reconstructed luma pixels correspond to a first left pixel column from the left boundary of the current luma block; and wherein sub-sampling or down-sampling is applied to the first top pixel row and no sub-sampling or down-sampling is applied to the first left pixel column if the chroma sampling format corresponds to 4:2:2 sampling format.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first group of the reconstructed luma pixels correspond to a first top pixel row from the top boundary of the current luma block and the second group of the reconstructed luma pixels correspond to a first left pixel column from the left boundary of the current luma block; and wherein no sub-sampling or down-sampling is applied to the first top pixel row or the first left pixel column if the chroma sampling format corresponds to 4:4:4 sampling format.

11. An apparatus of chroma intra prediction based on reconstructed luma pixels, the apparatus comprising at least one circuit configured for:
receiving neighboring reconstructed luma pixels and current reconstructed luma pixels of a current luma block from storage or a processor;
determining a chroma sampling format specified using a syntax element;
selecting, based on the chroma sampling format, a first group of reconstructed luma pixels above a top boundary of the current luma block and a second group of reconstructed luma pixels to a left boundary of the current luma block, wherein the neighboring reconstructed luma pixels comprise the first group and the second group;
deriving chroma intra prediction for a corresponding chroma block based on the neighboring reconstructed luma pixels and the current reconstructed luma pixels of the current luma block, wherein said deriving chroma intra prediction is according to the chroma sampling format; and
providing the chroma intra prediction for encoding or decoding of chroma pixels in the corresponding chroma.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein information associated with the chroma sampling format is incorporated in in sequence parameter set (SPS), picture parameter set (PPS), adaptation parameter set (APS) or a slice header of a video bitstream.

13. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein said deriving chroma intra prediction comprises sub-sampling the neighboring reconstructed luma pixels and the current reconstructed luma pixels of the current luma block in one direction if the chroma sampling format corresponds to the chroma pixels being aligned with luma pixels and having half of a number of the luma pixels in said one direction.

14. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein no sub-sampling or down-sampling is applied to the neighboring reconstructed luma pixels and the current reconstructed luma pixels of the current luma block in one direction during said deriving chroma intra prediction if the chroma sampling format corresponds to the chroma pixels being aligned with luma pixels and having a same number of the luma pixels in said one direction.

15. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein said deriving chroma intra prediction comprises down-sampling the neighboring reconstructed luma pixels and the current reconstructed luma pixels of the current luma block in one direction if the chroma sampling format corresponds to the chroma pixels being offset from luma pixels and having half of a number of the luma pixels in said one direction.

16. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the first group of the reconstructed luma pixels correspond to a first top pixel row from the top boundary of the current luma block and the second group of the reconstructed luma pixels correspond to a first left pixel column from the left boundary of the current luma block for any chroma sampling format.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 , wherein sub-sampling or down-sampling is applied to the first top pixel row from the top

Assignees

• Mediatek Singapore Pte Ltd
• Mediatek Singapore Pte Ltd

Inventors

• Lei Shaw-Min
• Guo Xun

Classifications

• H04N19/157

  Assigned coding mode, i.e. the coding mode being predefined or preselected to be further used for selection of another element or parameter · CPC title

• H04N19/167

  Position within a video image, e.g. region of interest [ROI] · CPC title

• H04N19/16

  for a given display mode, e.g. for interlaced or progressive display mode · CPC title

• H04N19/136

  Incoming video signal characteristics or properties · CPC title

• H04N19/176

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