This patent application is based on Taiwan, R.O.C. patent application No. 099123693 filed on Jul. 19, 2010.
The present invention relates to a video codec and method thereof.
A conventional structure of a multimedia application, such as a video codec complying with H.264 specification, as shown in
In practice, the DCT operation circuit 110 and the IDCT operation circuit 140 must operate complying with a specification, otherwise mismatch between an encoding path and a decoding path will occur, resulting in a “drifting” effect during video playback. However, in some cases, the R→C operation of the IDCT operation circuit 140 is not straightforward in data flow, and a transposition is needed, accordingly. In addition, the prior art needs an extra buffer 135 to store data temporarily, for transforming Column data outputted from the DCT operation circuit 110 into Row data to be inputted to the IDCT operation circuit 140, thereby leading to both increases in processing time and cost of the video codec.
Therefore, an IDCT scheme for processing in a Column in Row out (C→R) mode, capable of real-time compensation, and requiring no extra buffer for temporarily storing data, so as to reduce processing time and cost in a video codec, is needed.
The present invention is aimed to provide a video codec and method thereof, capable of performing an IDCT in a Column in Row out (C→R) mode as well as real-time compensation.
According to one embodiment, a video codec method is provided, for processing video data processed by a Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT) operation, including: (a) if a transformation matrix having a plurality of coefficients comprises at least one non-integer coefficient among the coefficients, multiplying the transformation matrix by a multiplication α to make all coefficients of the transformation matrix integers, (b) estimating a compensation set, (c) performing a Column in Row out IDCT two-dimensional operation on the video data according to the transformation matrix and the compensation set, to obtain a compensated two-dimension operation result, (d) selectively dividing the compensated two-dimension operation result by α2 to obtain an IDCT operation result.
According to another embodiment of the present invention, a video codec is provided, for processing video data processed by a Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT) operation, including: a DCT operation circuit, for performing a Row in Column out IDCT operation on the video data, to obtain a DCT operation result, a quantization circuit and an inverse quantization circuit, coupled to the DCT operation circuit, for performing a quantization operation and an inverse quantization operation on the DCT operation result, an IDCT operation circuit, coupled to the inverse quantization circuit, for performing a Column in Row out IDCT operation on the output of the inverse quantization circuit to generate an IDCT operation result; and a compensation circuit, coupled to the IDCT operation circuit, for providing a compensation set to the IDCT operation circuit to compensate the IDCT operation result.
Following description and figures are disclosed to gain a better understanding of the advantages of the present invention.
In an embodiment of the present invention, column data outputted from a DCT operation circuit is inputted to a Column in Row out IDCT operation circuit (i.e., an IDCT operation circuit acting in a Column in Row out mode); as a result, no additional buffer memory ahead of the IDCT operation circuit is needed. However, due to limitations of the number of bits, an operation result of the Column in Row out IDCT operation circuit may have some errors in response to an order inversion and round-off/carry-in operations. Thus, in the embodiment of the present invention, the errors are calculated in advance and corrected.
In mathematics theory (where the number of bits is unlimited), either the IDCT operation circuit acts in the Row in Column out mode or in the Column in Row out mode, the operation result should be identical. However, in practice, because the number of bits of the video codec is limited, if a fractional rounding operation is performed, the operation result of the Column in Row out IDCT operation circuit may be different from that of the Row in Column out IDCT operation circuit.
In the H.264 specification, the two-dimensional (2D) IDCT transformation is defined as Y=T●X●Tt.
In this situation, Y′ is not equal to the transposition result of Y (i.e., (Y′!=Yt)). That is to say, the transposition result of Y shown in
Therefore, in the embodiment, when the matrix input order is inverted from X to Xt, the following steps must be performed to correct the errors.
(1) Firstly, changing the non-integer coefficients of the transformation matrix into integer coefficients is performed. For example, in the above example, multiplying the transformation matrix T by 2, so that the coefficients (elements) of the obtained transformation matrix (2T) are all integers. Since the transformation matrix (2T) does not include any non-integer coefficients, no error occurs even when fraction rounding operations are performed. In regard to
Z=(2T)●X●(2T)t;
Z′=(2T)●Xt●(2T)t;
and Z=(Z′)t.
(2) Since the number of bits is limited, in the embodiment, the compensation set Δ is calculated in advance, according to transpose symmetry and a rule of the rounding operation. Therefore, a compensated result is determined as Y″=(Z′+Δ)/4.
(3) The compensated result Y″ may be regarded as the transposition result of the matrix Y, as if it is the two-dimensional (2D) transformation result of the matrix X (that is, as if it is the result obtained by the Row in Column out IDCT). Therefore, the relationship between the matrix Y″ and the matrix Y may be expressed as Y=(Y″)t.
Calculation of the compensation set Δ is depicted as follows.
In a fixed-point design, the result of right shifting the number X by one bit (that is, dividing the number X by 2 if the number X is expressed in binary) is equal to the result of subtracting the Least Significant Bit (LSB) thereof from the number X and then dividing it by 2. It can be expressed as following equation (a):
X>>1=½X=½(X−X[0]) (a)
Wherein, “X>>1” represents right shifting X by one bit, and X[0] represents the LSB of the number X.
In H.264 specification, the two-dimensional transformation of the Row in Column out IDCT is defined as Y=T●X●Tt.
Likewise, the two-dimensional transformation of the Column in Row out IDCT is defined as Y′=T●Xt●Tt.
Using the coefficient Y01 of the above matrix Y as an example, as shown in
As in
Wherein, italic items belong to the 1D compensation set and boldface items belong to the 2D compensation set. After substituting the equation (a) into the 1D compensation set of the Y01 (i.e. ½X30, ½X31, ½X32, ½X33), the Y01 may be expressed as a combination of equations (b)˜(e):
When substituting equation (a) into equation (c) again, and simplifying the LSB of the 2D compensation set (X01+X11+X21+(½) X31) in equation (c) as X01[0] ^X11[0]^X21[0]^X31[1], Y01 may be expressed as follows:
As Z is defined as Z=(2 T)●X●(2T)t, Z has no rounding effects, because the transformation matrix (2T) has no non-integer coefficients.
As shown in
As Z′ is defined as Z′=(2T)●Xt●(2T)t, Z′ also has no rounding effects, because the transformation matrix (2T) has no non-integer coefficients, either.
As shown in
After scaling up the matrix Y by 4 times, the relationship between Y10 and Z′10 may be expressed as:
In the above expression, (−2X30[0]−X31[0]+2X32[0]+2X33[0]) represents the 1D compensation set, and (−2X01[0]^X11[0]^X21[0]^X31[0]) represents the 2D compensation set.
As described above, the following steps, concluded from the above, are utilized for compensation of mismatch resulted from the order inversion (i.e. changing the IDCT from the Row in Column out mode to the Column in Row out mode).
(1) Changing non-integer coefficients of the transformation matrix into integer coefficients is performed. For example, in the above example, multiplying the transformation matrix by 2, such that the coefficients of the obtained transformation matrix are all integers. Therefore, no errors occur even when fractional rounding operations are performed.
Z=(2T)●X●(2T)t;
Z′=(2T)●Xt●(2T)t;
and Z=(Z′)t.
(2) Since the number of bits is limited, calculating the compensation set Δ in advance (according to transpose symmetry and the rule of the rounding operation) is performed. Then, the compensated result is determined to be Y″=(Z′+Δ)/4.
(3) The compensated result Y″ may be regarded as the transposition result of the matrix Y, as if it is the two-dimensional (2D) transformation result of the matrix X (that is, as if it is the result obtained by the Row in Column out IDCT). Therefore, the relationship between the matrix Y″ and the matrix Y may be expressed as Y=(Y″)t. That is, Y=(Z′+Δ—1D+Δ—2D)t/4=(Z′+Δ)t/4, wherein, Δ—1D represents the one-dimensional compensation set, and Δ—2D represents the two-dimensional compensation set.
Referring to
With the above deducing process, it can be concluded that the one-dimensional compensation set (may be named as Δ—1D or 1D-term) and the two-dimensional compensation set (may be named as Δ—2D or 2D-term) are respectively expressed as follows:
As shown in
Although the compensation set is calculated by the above expressions, in other specifications, different transformation matrixes may be adopted. According to the above descriptions of the present invention, as to different specifications and different transformation matrixes, the present invention is also applicable. That is, changing all of the non-integer coefficients of the transformation matrix into integer coefficients (such as scaling up) for avoiding the mismatch resulted from a fixed-point calculation. Then, substituting compensation sets into the matrix according to the rounding operating principle and the transposing principle. Afterwards, transposing the matrix obtained by scaling down an operation result of the above steps, so as to acquire a required correct result.
In addition, although the above embodiment takes multiplying the transformation matrix by 2 as an example, the present invention is not limited to this. In other possible embodiments of the present invention, it can multiply all of the coefficients of the transformation matrix by α, such that all coefficients are integers, and divide the operation result by α2.
While the invention has been described in terms of what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention needs not to be limited to the above embodiments. On the contrary, it is intended to cover various modifications and similar arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims which are to be accorded with the broadest interpretation so as to encompass all such modifications and similar structures.
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