# US 12,015,792 B2 · Image decoding method for chroma quantization parameter data and apparatus therefor

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- Number: US 12,015,792 B2
- Document ID: US12015792B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/623,386
- Filed: 2020-06-24
- Published: 2022-12-22
- Granted: 2024-06-18
- Earliest claimed: 2019-06-28
- Assignees: LG Electronics Inc.
- Applicants: LG Electronics Inc.
- Inventors: Seethal Paluri; Seunghwan Kim; Jie Zhao
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12015792B2

## CPC

- H04N 19/186: the unit being a colour or a chrominance component
- H04N 19/107: between spatial and temporal predictive coding, e.g. picture refresh
- H04N 19/12: Selection from among a plurality of transforms or standards, e.g. selection between discrete cosine transform [DCT] and sub-band transform or selection between H.263 and H.264
- H04N 19/124: Quantisation
- H04N 19/132: Sampling, masking or truncation of coding units, e.g. adaptive resampling, frame skipping, frame interpolation or high-frequency transform coefficient masking
- H04N 19/159: Prediction type, e.g. intra-frame, inter-frame or bidirectional frame prediction
- H04N 19/172: the region being a picture, frame or field
- H04N 19/18: the unit being a set of transform coefficients
- H04N 19/61: in combination with predictive coding
- H04N 19/70: characterised by syntax aspects related to video coding, e.g. related to compression standards
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

## Abstract

An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: acquiring image information comprising a flag indicating whether or not one chroma quantization parameter table is to be applied with respect to chroma components, and prediction information and residual information regarding the chroma components; on the basis of the flag, deriving a chroma quantization parameter for the chroma components; deriving residual samples for the chroma components on the basis of the residual information and the chroma quantization parameter; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of prediction samples, which have been derived on the basis of the prediction information, and the residual samples.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An image decoding method, performed by a decoding apparatus, the method comprising:
obtaining image information including prediction information residual information for chroma components, and a flag representing whether one chroma quantization parameter table is applied or not;
obtaining chroma quantization parameter data based on the flag;
deriving at least one chroma quantization parameter table based on the chroma quantization parameter data;
deriving at least one chroma quantization parameter for the chroma components based on the at least one chroma quantization parameter table;
deriving prediction samples for the chroma components based on the prediction information;
deriving transform coefficients for the chroma components based on the residual information;
deriving residual samples for chroma components by dequantizing the transform coefficients based on the at least one chroma quantization parameter; and
generating a reconstructed picture based on the prediction samples and the residual samples,
wherein the flag equal to 0 represents that a first chroma quantization parameter table for a Cb component a second chroma quantization parameter table for a Cr component and a third chroma quantization parameter table for a joint CbCr component are signaled.

### Claim 2

An image encoding method, performed by an encoding apparatus, the method comprising:
deriving prediction samples for chroma components based on inter prediction or intra prediction;
deriving residual samples for the chroma components based on the prediction samples;
generating a flag representing whether one chroma quantization parameter table is applied or not;
generating chroma quantization parameter data for the chroma components based on the flag; and
encoding prediction information for the chroma components, residual information for the chroma components, the chroma quantization parameter data and the flag,
wherein the flag equal to 0 represents that a first chroma quantization parameter table for a Cb component, a second chroma quantization parameter table for a Cr component, and a third chroma quantization parameter table for a joint CbCr component are signaled.

### Claim 3

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a bitstream generated by a method, the method comprising:
deriving prediction samples for chroma components based on inter prediction or intra prediction;
deriving residual samples for the chroma components based on the prediction samples;
generating a flag representing whether one chroma quantization parameter table is applied or not;
generating chroma quantization parameter data for the chroma components based on the flag;
encoding prediction information for the chroma components, residual information for the chroma components, the chroma quantization parameter data and the flag; and
generating the bitstream including the prediction information, the residual information, the chroma quantization parameter data, and the flag,
wherein the flag equal to 0 represents that a first chroma quantization parameter table for a Cb component, a second chroma quantization parameter table for a Cr component, and a third chroma quantization parameter table for a joint CbCr component are signaled.

### Claim 4

A transmission method of data for image, the method comprising:
obtaining a bitstream of image information including prediction information and residual information for chroma components, a flag, and chroma quantization parameter data for the chroma components; and
transmitting the data including the bitstream of the image information including the prediction information, the residual information, the flag and the chroma quantization parameter data,
wherein the prediction information is information for prediction samples for the chroma components, and the prediction samples for the chroma components is derived based on inter prediction or intra prediction,
wherein the residual information is information for residual samples for the chroma components, and the residual samples for the chroma components is derived based on the prediction samples,
wherein the flag represents whether one chroma quantization parameter table is applied or not,
wherein the chroma quantization parameter data is generated based on the flag, and
wherein the flag equal to 0 represents that a first chroma quantization parameter table for a Cb component, a second chroma quantization parameter table for a Cr component, and a third chroma quantization parameter table for a joint CbCr component are signaled.