| 摘要 |
The invention presents a scalable solution to encode the whole 12-bit raw video once to generate one bitstream that contains an H.264/AVC compatible base layer and a scalable enhancement layer. If a color bit depth scalable decoder is available at the client end, both the base layer and the enhancement layer sub-bitstreams will be decoded to obtain the 12-bit video and it can be viewed on a high quality display that supports more than eight bit; otherwise only the base layer sub-bitstream is decoded using an H.264/AVC decoder and the decoded 8-bit video can be viewed on a conventional 8-bit display. The enhancement layer contains a residual based on a prediction from the base layer, which is either based on bit-shift or based on an advanced bit depth prediction is utilized, wherein the advanced bit depth prediction method is a Smoothed Histogram method or a Localized Polynomial Approximation method. |
