US 11,818,372 B2
Frame-rate scalable video coding
Robin Atkins, Vancouver (CA); Peng Yin, Ithaca, NY (US); Taoran Lu, Santa Clara, CA (US); Fangjun Pu, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Sean Thomas McCarthy, San Francisco, CA (US); Walter J. Husak, Simi Valley, CA (US); Tao Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US); and Guan-Ming Su, Fremont, CA (US)
Assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/096,425.
Application 18/096,425 is a continuation of application No. 17/666,887, filed on Feb. 8, 2022, granted, now 11,582,472.
Application 17/666,887 is a continuation of application No. 17/212,701, filed on Mar. 25, 2021, granted, now 11,323,728, issued on May 3, 2022.
Application 17/212,701 is a continuation of application No. 16/901,911, filed on Jun. 15, 2020, granted, now 10,999,585, issued on May 4, 2021.
Application 16/901,911 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/US2020/022018, filed on Mar. 11, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/904,744, filed on Sep. 24, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/883,195, filed on Aug. 6, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/850,985, filed on May 21, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/816,521, filed on Mar. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0171417 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 19/31 (2014.01); H04N 19/187 (2014.01); H04N 19/172 (2014.01); H04N 19/30 (2014.01); H04N 19/46 (2014.01); H04N 19/70 (2014.01)
CPC H04N 19/31 (2014.11) [H04N 19/172 (2014.11); H04N 19/187 (2014.11); H04N 19/30 (2014.11); H04N 19/46 (2014.11); H04N 19/70 (2014.11)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for processing an encoded video stream using a processor, the apparatus comprising:
an input to receive a coded bitstream comprising an encoded picture section including an encoding of a sequence of video pictures, and a signaling section including shutter interval parameters, wherein the shutter interval parameters comprise:
a shutter interval temporal sub-layer index of a current picture in the coded bitstream, wherein
if the shutter interval temporal sub-layer index equals to zero, then the signaling section includes a shutter interval information present flag, wherein if the shutter interval information present flag is equal to one, then the signaling section includes:
a shutter interval time-scale parameter indicating the number of time units passing in one second;
a fixed-shutter-interval-duration flag indicating whether shutter interval duration information is fixed for all pictures in the encoded picture section; and
if the fixed-shutter-interval-duration flag indicates that the shutter interval duration information is fixed, then the signaling section includes
a shutter interval clock-ticks parameter indicating a number of time units of a clock operating at the frequency of the shutter interval time-scale parameter, wherein the shutter interval clock-ticks parameter divided by the shutter interval time-scale parameter indicates an exposure duration value for all the video pictures in the encoded picture section,
else, the shutter interval parameters includes an array of one or more sub-layer shutter interval clock-ticks parameters indicating a number of time units of a clock at the frequency of the shutter interval time-scale parameter for one or more sub-layers in the encoded picture section, wherein, for a first sub-layer in the encoded picture section, a corresponding sub-layer shutter interval clock-ticks parameter divided by the shutter interval time-scale parameter indicates the exposure duration value for all the video pictures in the first sub-layer of the encoded picture section; and a processor, wherein the processor
decodes the sequence of video pictures based on the shutter interval parameters.