摘要 |
A block transform-based digital media codec more efficiently encodes wide dynamic range transform coefficients in two parts: a normalized coefficient and bin address. The normalized coefficient relates to a grouping of coefficient values of the wide dynamic range into bins, whereas the bin address is an index of the coefficient value within a bin. With careful selection of the bin size, the normalized coefficients have a probability distribution more similar to narrow range transform coefficients, which is better suited to variable length entropy coding. The codec uses variable length entropy coding to encode the normalized coefficients in a "core" of the compressed bitstream, and fixed length coding to encode the bin address as a separate optional layer that can be omitted. The codec further adaptively varies the bin size of the grouping based on a backward adaptation process to adjust the normalized coefficients toward a probability distribution well suited for efficient variable length entropy coding. |