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Intelligent differential quantization of video coding

  • US 20050013500A1
  • Filed: 07/18/2003
  • Published: 01/20/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of differential quantization in video coding of a coded video bit stream, comprising:

  • analyzing motion vectors of macroblocks for a frame of a video sequence to estimate global motion of the video at the frame in the video sequence;

    classifying regions of the frame according to perceptual significance based on the global motion estimate;

    differentially quantizing the regions according to their perceptual significance classification in coding a compressed bit stream of the video sequence;

    signaling different quantization of the regions in the compressed bit stream, wherein the signaled different quantization includes signaling different quantization strength for macroblocks in a region on at least one boundary edge of the frame;

    reading the signaled different quantization from the compressed bit stream; and

    dequantizing the macroblocks of the frame according to the signaled different quantization.

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