High throughput coding for CABAC in HEVC

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9743116-B2
Application number	US-201213457272-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 26, 2012
Priority date	Jan 19, 2012
Publication date	Aug 22, 2017
Grant date	Aug 22, 2017

Abstract

A system utilizes a high throughput coding mode for CABAC in HEVC. The system may include an electronic device configured to obtain a bit stream; determine whether to decode level information of the sub-block of a block from the bit stream by using a first or a second decoding based on a characteristic of the sub-block; if the characteristic of the sub-block satisfies a predetermined condition, decoding level information of the sub-block from the bit stream by using the first decoding, and if the characteristic of the sub-block does not satisfy the predetermined condition, decoding level information of the sub-block from the bit stream by using the second decoding that is different from the first decoding.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method decoding a bit stream using a processor the method, comprising:
obtaining the bit stream;
determining whether to decode level information of the sub-block of a block from the bit stream by using a first or a second decoding based on a characteristic of the sub-block; wherein the characteristic of the sub-block includes a slice level of a corresponding sub-block or a transform unit level of a corresponding sub-block;
if the characteristic of the sub-block satisfies a predetermined condition, decoding level information of the sub-block from the bit stream by using the first decoding, and
if the characteristic of the sub-block does not satisfy the predetermined condition, decoding level information of the sub-block from the bit stream by using the second decoding that is different from the first decoding;
wherein the first decoding comprises a bypass coding and the second decoding comprises a regular coding and the bypass coding;
wherein the predetermined condition indicates whether a number of coefficients with amplitude not equal to zero of the sub-block is equal to or greater than a preset threshold;
wherein if the predetermined condition is met, a sign, level information of any non-zero coefficients of the sub-block whose amplitude is greater than or equal to one, a first flag which indicates whether an amplitude of the non-zero coefficient is greater than one or not and a second flag which indicates whether the amplitude of the non-zero coefficient with the amplitude larger than one is greater than two or not are decoded by a bypass coding of the first decoding respectively;
wherein if the predetermined condition is not met, the first flag, and the second flag are decoded by a regular coding of the second decoding respectively, and
wherein the sign and level information of any non-zero coefficients whose amplitude is greater than or equal to three, are decoded by the bypass coding of the second decoding respectively.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the preset threshold is equal to eight.

Assignees

• Kim Seung-Hwan
• Segall Christopher A
• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Seung-Hwan
• Segall Christopher A

Classifications

• H04N19/91 Primary

  Entropy coding, e.g. variable length coding [VLC] or arithmetic coding · CPC title

• 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

• H04N19/13

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

• H04N19/186

  the unit being a colour or a chrominance component · CPC title