Referenceable frame expiration
AssigneeDobly Laboratories Licensing Corporation
InventorGary A. Demos
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Abstract
Coding techniques for a video image compression system involve improving an image quality of a sequence of two or more bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames, where each of the frames includes multiple pixels. One method involves determining a brightness value of at least one pixel of each bi-directionally predicted intermediate frame in the sequence as an equal average of brightness values of pixels in non-bidirectionally predicted frames bracketing the sequence of bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames. The brightness values of the pixels in at least one of the non-bidirectionally predicted frames is converted from a non-linear representation.
Claims4
A method for decoding a bitstream, the method comprising:
- receiving, at a decoder, a bitstream that includes a first predicted frame, a second predicted frame, and a bi-directionally predicted frame, the first predicted frame being subsequent to the second predicted frame in a delivery order and the first predicted frame being prior to the second predicted frame in a display order;
- decoding, at the decoder, a picture region of the bi-directionally predicted frame referencing the first predicted frame and the second predicted frame;
- receiving, at the decoder, a first signal within the bitstream identifying the first predicted frame as expired;
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- in response to the first signal, discarding, at the decoder, the first predicted frame as a referenceable frame.
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