Patent ID: 11863763
Assignee: GE VIDEO COMPRESSION, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium for storing data associated with a video, comprising:
a data stream stored in the non-transitory computer-readable medium, the data stream comprising encoded information of a reference block of a texture picture of the video and encoded information of a block in a depth map of the video, wherein the block in the depth map corresponds to the reference block of the texture picture, wherein the block in the depth map is decoded using a plurality of operations including:
determining a texture threshold based on sample values of a reference block of a texture picture,
determining a partitioning of the reference block of the text picture based on the texture threshold;
transferring the partitioning of the reference block of the text picture onto a block of a depth map to obtain a contour partition of the block of the depth map such that the block of the depth map is segmented into two portions; and
reconstructing the block of the depth map by decoding the two portions associated with the contour partition of the block in the depth map.