WO1993020651A1 - Method and apparatus for real time compression and decompression of a digital motion video signal - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to video signal processing generally and particularly to systems for providing a compressed digital video signal representative of a full color video signal.
- a bitstream representative of at least one digital video image is decoded in real time by first providing a code- book index from the bitstream.
- the code-book index is applied to an index table to determine an index value which is compared to a first predetermined threshold.
- At least one current pixel is determined by copying a corresponding previous pixel into the location of at least one current pixel; otherwise, the index value is applied to a vector table to determine at least one vector value and at least one current pixel is determined from the vector value and a corresponding previous pixel.
- At least one digital video image is encoded in real time by selecting at least one pixel for encoding and determining at least one difference value between the selected pixel and at least one corresponding previous pixel.
- An index value corresponding to the location in a first table of the difference value is calculated. If the index value is equal to a first predetermined value then a run-length counter is incremented by a second predetermined value and the process is repeated until the index value is not equal to the first predetermined value. The run-length counter is then encoded. If the index value is not equal to the first predetermined value then the index value is encoded.
- Figure 1 is a flow diagram illustrating the operation of a decoder according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 2A shows the use of a corresponding previous pixel to perform intra-frame decoding in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 2B shows the use of a corresponding previous pixel to perform inter-frame decoding in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 3 is a flow diagram illustrating the operation of an encoder according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 3A is a flow diagram illustrating the vector quantization and run-length encoding procedures of the encoder of Figure 3.
- Figure 3B is a flow diagram illustrating the Huffman encoder of Figure 3.
- Figure 4A is a flow diagram illustrating a video compression system according to the present invention.
- FIG. 4B is a flow diagram illustrating a video decompression system according to the present invention.
- Bitstream 100 represents a motion video sequence of one or more images which have been encoded in real time.
- Encoded data from bitstream 100 is applied to Huffman decoder 110 to derive a code-book index representing the position of a code-word within a lexicographically-ordered list of codewords.
- the code-book index is then used as an entry point to determine an index value from look-up table 120.
- Comparing means 130 are provided for comparing the index value to a predetermined threshold. If the index value is greater than the predetermined threshold, then copying means 140 determines at least one current pixel by copying a corresponding previous pixel into the location of a current pixel. In a preferred embodiment, copying means 140 calculates the amount that the index value exceeds the predetermined threshold, and then determines that number of current pixels by copying that number of corresponding previous pixels into respective current pixel locations. If the index value is not greater than the predetermined threshold, then the index value is used as an entry point to determine at least one vector value from vector table 150. Means 160 then determines at least one current pixel from a vector value and a corresponding previous pixel. In the preferred embodiment, means 160 uses the index value to determine two vector values which are adjacent in vector table 150. The two vectorvalues are then used by means 160 to determine two adjacent current pixels from two corresponding previous pixels.
- the preferred embodiment of the present invention is intended for compression of 8-bit planes of an image.
- the present invention may also be used with 9-bit YUV images, and other image formats, including 12-bit image formats, may also be used.
- the same compression and decompression process steps are applied to each color component of each image in a sequence.
- image refers to a single color component of an image.
- each image in the sequence is encoded as either a still image or by using inter-frame differences.
- each pixel in the image is subtracted from a corresponding previous pixel and the differences are encoded.
- the corresponding previous pixel (210) is preferably the pixel directly above the current pixel being encoded (220) .
- the corresponding previous pixel (232) is preferably the pixel in the previous image (230) located in the same position (in the bitmap) as the current pixel being encoded (234) .
- Difference images are preferably encoded using 2-D vector quantization, with some run-length encoding added to help encode large areas of zeros efficiently.
- bitstream 100 includes the following fields for each frame in a sequence: StillFlag, DataSize, ImageHeight, ImageWidth, Flags, VectorSet, a Huffman table descriptor for the image, and Huffman encoded data for the Y, V, U planes.
- the StillFlag field indicates whether the image is a still
- DataSize indicates the size of the bitstream in bits
- ImageHeight and ImageWidth give the size of the decoded image in pixels.
- the Flags field indicates whether the data in the bitstream represents an image that has been encoded at full resolution, half vertical resolution, half horizontal resolution, or half vertical and half horizontal resolution. Such half resolution images may be obtained prior to encoding by subsampling the full resolution image in one or both dimensions.
- an image for encoding is considered to be at full resolution if it is ImageHeight pixels high and ImageWidth pixels wide; it is considered to be at half vertical resolution if it is ImageHeight pixels high and ImageWidth/2 pixels wide; it is considered to be at half horizontal resolution if it is ImageHeight/2 pixels high and ImageWidth pixels wide; and it is considered to be at half vertical and half horizontal resolution if it is ImageHeight/2 pixels high and ImageWidth/2 pixels wide.
- the VectorSet field is a number from 0 to 7 which is used to select one of eight vector sets to use for decoding an image.
- Each of the vector sets contains 128 ordered pairs which may be thought of as points defined by X and Y coordinates.
- the ordered pairs are clustered about the point (128, 128); however, the average distance between the ordered pairs and the center point (128, 128) varies among the vectors sets.
- the ordered pairs are closely clustered about (128, 128).
- VectorSet 0 thus corresponds to the lowest quantization level.
- the ordered pairs cluster less closely around (128, 128).
- VectorSet 7 thus corresponds to the highest quantization level.
- the eight vector sets used in the preferred embodiment of the present invention are attached hereto as Appendix I.
- the vectors have arithmetic values in the range -128 to 127.
- the vector values shown in Appendix I have 128 added to them, so that they are in the range 0 to 255.
- Other vector sets may be used without departing from the spirit of the present invention.
- the value of the VectorSet field may vary from image to image, thus allowing the encoder to vary the quantization level between images.
- the vector set selected by the VectorSet field is used to decode the Y component image.
- the vector set selected by the value VectorSet/2 is used for the U, V components. Better quantization is normally required for encoding the U, V component images, since these components are typically subsampled spatially.
- a single vector set may be used to encode and decode all images in a sequence.
- a Huffman table descriptor for each image is also included in the format of bitstream 100.
- the Huffman table is preferably of the form shown in Table I below:
- Byte K in the huffman table descriptor indicates how many "x bits" there are in row K of the above table.
- the Huffman decoding operation collects bits from the bitstream one at a time until a code word in a codebook is recognized.
- Huffman decoder 110 returns a code- book index representing the position of a code-word within a lexicographically-ordered list of code words.
- Following the above header information in bitstream 100 is the Huffman encoded data describing the Y plane.
- Data for the V and TJ planes immediately follows the Y plane data.
- the V and U data describe a bitmap which is 1/4 the size horizontally and 1/4 the vertically of the Y bitmap.
- the final result is a YUV 4:1:1 image which may be displayed directly by a display processor, or converted to some other display format if desired.
- Decoding Procedure The decoding procedure for a still image can be described by the c-language pseudo code in Table II below. In the pseudo code, the function huffdecO performs a huffman decode operation as described above and returns an unsigned integer representing the code-book index:
- the decoder After executing the above procedure, the decoder then scales the image up horizontally and/or vertically by a factor of two, if requested to by the Flags field in the header.
- a sequence of 256x240 images is compressed at 128x120 resolution, it can be decompressed and displayed as a sequence of 128x120 images on a typical micro-processor.
- a typical micro-processor can be used to reproduce image sequences encoded in real time with a reasonable degree of quality.
- the image qual ⁇ ity level can be improved through the use of a higher-performance video signal processor which reproduces the sequence by decoding and then interpolating back up to 256x240 images.
- the same encoded sequence can be reproduced at different quality levels depending on the limitations of the decompression hardware.
- Another aspect of real time video files which can be scalably decoded would allow a typical micro ⁇ processor system to use a VGA for display whereas a video signal processor system may use a 24-bit-color 1750DB display.
- the micro ⁇ processor system might choose to display in monochrome to avoid messy YUV-to-VGA-clut conversion.
- a user may set the parameter "StillPeriod" to P, thus requiring every Pth image to be encoded as a still.
- the other images may then be encoded using inter-frame differences.
- P can typically be set quite small without adversely affecting image quality.
- the processing requirements for a micro-processor type system can be reduced without adversely affecting image quality.
- the first step is to determine whether to encode the image as an intra-frame (a still image) or an inter-frame (an image encoded relative to the previous image in the sequence).
- a user parameter called StillPeriod is used.
- the user sets StillPeriod to a given value (K) to force every Kth image to be encoded as a still (INTRA) image.
- K a given value
- an encoder may choose to use an INTRA frame even for images in between every-Kth image. For example, if there is a scene cut or if the video enters a period of very high motion, then an intra-frame image will be more efficient to encode than an inter-frame, because the correlation between adjacent images will be too small to be advantageous.
- means 310 first computes the absolute difference (ABSDIF) between frame N and the previous frame (N-l) . This involves summing the absolute value of the differences between all pixels in the two images. For efficiency of computation it is preferable to only use a subset of the pixels in the two images for the purpose of comparison. This provides as nearly an accurate measure of the difference between the two images at a greatly reduced computational cost.
- means 320 (i) compares the absolute difference between frame N and a previous frame N-l with a predetermined threshold, and (ii) computes the value of N mod StillPeriod.
- means 320 determines (i) that the absolute difference is greater than the predetermined threshold or (ii) that (N mod StillPeriod) is zero, then the frame type is set to INTRA by means 325. Otherwise, the frame type is set to INTER by means 330.
- parameters other than the absolute difference between all pixels in frames N and N-l may be used in determining how to set the frame type. For example, the mean-square error between pixels in frames N and N-l or the relative difference between such pixels may be used.
- means 340a After determining whether to encode as an INTRA or INTER image, means 340a next computes the pixel differences which are to be encoded. As described in the discussions of Figures 2A, 2B above, if the image is an INTRA, each pixel has subtracted from it the value of the pixel immediately above it in the same image. (For the top row, a "phantom value" of 128 is used for these pixels.) If the image is an INTER image, each pixel has subtracted from it the value of the pixel in the same spatial location in the previous image. The pixel differences are then vector-quantized and run-length encoded by means 340b. Further details of this vector-quantization and run-length encoding procedure are shown in Figure 3A and will be described below.
- the output of means 340b is a string of bytes with values corresponding to the values in the index[] array (divided by 2).
- This string of bytes is Huffman encoded by means 360 into variable-length codes. Further details of Huffman encoder 360 are shown in Figure 3B and will be described below.
- means 380 prepends the proper bitstream header.
- FIG. 3A there is shown a flow dia ⁇ gram illustrating the operation of means 340 of Figure 3.
- Figure 3A shows the run-length encoding and vector quantization procedures of means 340b.
- the operation of means 340 is performed with a 2-state machine.
- the two states are denoted as ZERO and NONZERO.
- the ZERO state indicates that the system is in the middle of processing a run of 0 values.
- the NONZERO state indicates that non ⁇ zero values are being processed.
- the purpose of the two states is to allow for efficient encoding of consecutive zero differences.
- means 342 initializes the state machine to the NONZERO state.
- means 344 computes the next pair of pixel differences.
- the image is processed in normal raster-scan order, from top to bottom and left to right within each line.
- the "next pair" of pixels means the next two pixels on the current scan line being processed.
- the differences are taken with the pixels immediately above these pixels (if this image is being encoded as an INTRA) or with the pixels in the same spatial location in the previous image (if this image is being encoded as an INTER image). Since these two values represent pixel differences, they will typically be small, or close to zero.
- means 346 operates to 2-D vector-quantize the two pixel difference values into a single number (index) between 0 and 127.
- the possible index values correspond to 128 points in 2-D space known as a "vector set".
- a vector set represents 128 points in the 2-D square bounded by the values -255 and 255 which have been chosen as reasonable approximations to every point in the square.
- the two pixel difference values are denoted by dl and d2 they can be represented as a point in the 2-D square with coordinates (dl, d2) .
- the vector quantization operation attempts to choose the closest (in Euclidean distance) of the 128 representative points to be used to encode the point (dl, d2) .
- the value of p is in the range 0 to 4095.
- the value at position 'p' in a 4096-entry lookup table is then used to get the index corresponding to the closest representative point in the vector set corresponding to (dl, d2).
- the lookup table would be 64K instead of 4K.
- a separate lookup table is required for each of the eight vector sets for a total size of 32K bytes.
- the degree of quantization used e.g., the VectorSet value chosen
- the degree of quantization used is varied by known feedback processes which monitor the size of encoded images in the bitstream.
- dl clamp(*curr-H- - *prev++ + 128);
- 'lookup' is a pointer to the 4K difference-pair-to- vector-index lookup table for the current vector set;
- FIG. 3B there is shown a flow diagram illustrating the Huffman encoding of the byte values output by means 340b.
- the Huffman encoding step replaces the fixed 8-bit codes with a statistically-optimized set of variable-length codes.
- two tables (tablel and table2) are precalculated to specify, for each 8-bit value to be Huffman encoded, the number of bits in the Huffman code and the actual bits themselves. The bits are top-justified in a 16-bit value.
- the Huffman encoding operation is assisted by a 16-bit register called 'bitbuf in which bits are collected. Another register, 'rbits', is used to indicate how many unused bits there are remaining in 'bitbuf.
- Means 361 initially sets rbits to 16, since 'bitbuf is initially empty.
- Decision block 370 determines whether the processing of all bytes is completed. If it is determined that all bytes have not been processed, the above process (starting with means 362) is repeated.
- SYSTEM DETAILS Two overall system block diagrams are shown in Figures 4A, 4B.
- Figure 4A shows a block diagram for recording and Figure 4B shows a block diagram for playback; however, the same system can be used (even simultaneously) for either recording (encoding) or playback (decoding) .
- the analog video is first digitized by video digitizer 410, and the digital images are stored in memory 420 in "YUV-9" format.
- This format consists of three planes of 8-bit pixels: one Y plane, one U plane, and one V plane.
- the U and V planes are stored at 1/4 the resolution in each dimension compared to the Y plane.
- Means 430 includes a set of control and synchronization routines which examine the images as they are digitized and invoke encoder 440 as appropriate in order to compress successive frames of the video.
- the bitstreams are then output to memory, from which they can be stored to hard disk or sent over -a network.
- FIG. 4B a playback system according to the present invention is shown.
- the playback diagram of Figure 4B is the inverse of the record diagram shown in 4A.
- means 470 accepts as input compressed data and invokes decoder 480 as appropriate to decompress successive frames of the video.
- the decompressed video is stored in memory 460 in YUV-9 format.
- Display hardware 450 produces analog video from the YUV—9 data.
- digitizer 410 can be programmed to digitize horizontally or vertically at any resolution. In effect, this means that the digitizer can be used to do part of the compression process. By programming the digitizer to a lower resolution, there will be less data for the encoder to compress and the final data size will be smaller.
- digitizer 410 may dynamically alter the digitizer resolution (either horizontally or vertically) when the video becomes "hard” to compress.
- a method and apparatus for dynamically altering resolution based on image complexity is implemented in U.S. Patent Application entitled, "Method and Apparatus For Encoding Selected Images At Lower Resolution” by A. Alattar, S. Golin and M. Keith, filed March 25, 1992, the serial number of which is not yet known, which application is assigned to the assignee of the present application and the contents of which are hereby incorporated herein by reference.
- the encoder takes incoming digitized images, • compresses them, and outputs the compressed bitstream to a buffer in memory for extraction by the application.
- the simplistic view of the system assumes that everything works "ideally", so that a new compressed frame is generated exactly F times per second, where F is the desired frame rate requested by the user.
- F the desired frame rate requested by the user.
- the application may not extract compressed frames from the buffer fast enough, which means that the encoding system gets "stalled” by the inability to output more compressed frames (caused by the output buffer being full) .
- the encoder simply fails to output frames, this will result in a loss of time synchronization. For example, if the system is encoding at 30 frames per second, the playback system would expect to get 900 frames in 30 seconds. If, due to conditions (1) or (2), less than 900 frames are generated (for example, 840), then upon playback the playback system will play these 840 frames at 30 frames per second, and the playback of these frames will occupy only 28 seconds. This is not acceptable, since the video information upon playback will not occupy the same amount of real time that it did during recording. This will be evident to the viewer by, for example, loss of audio/video synchronization.
- 900 frames for example, 840
- sync frames A solution to this problem is presented by what will be termed "sync frames".
- means 430 keeps track of real time using a clock signal. It attempts to generate F compressed data frames per second, as requested by the user, and it monitors how well it is doing. If at any point it determines that it is behind (i.e., fewer frames have been generated so far than there should be), it inserts a "sync frame” into the compressed buffer.
- a “sync frame” is a compressed data frame that appears in the bitstream just like a normal compressed frame (and so travels through the record and playback systems without any special handling) but which can be detected by the playback process as special.
- the sync frame consists of the bitstream header (described above) with the DataSize field set to 128 and the other fields set to the appropriate values.
- a sync frame in effect counts the passage of time without causing a new image to appear on the screen.
- the decoder encounters a sync frame, it simply copies the previous image to the current image bitmap. This results in no change to the display but the proper passage of time, so that accurate time synchronization results.
- means 430 will insert 60 sync frames.
- over the 30-second period there will be exactly 900 frames, as desired, but 60 of them will be sync frames.
- On playback there will be some visual anomalies when the sync frames are processed, but exact time synchronization will be maintained.
- the present invention may be implemented in real time (both compression and decompression) using an Intel model i750PB processor.
- Other processors including Intel 386/486 processors, may be used to scalably decode video data which has been encoded accorded to the present invention.
- the present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes of the invention. Accordingly, reference should be made to the appended claims, rather than the foregoing specification, as indicating the scope of the invention.
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