ENCODER OPTIMISATION IN STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO DELIVERY SYSTEMS Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC H04N19/00 H04N13/00 

FIELD: physics, computer engineering.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to video encoding and more specifically to encoding stereoscopic video and video with multiple images. Disclosed is control of a feature of an encoding process for regions of an image pattern representing more than one image for encoding with the encoding process when the regions include an amount of disparity in the represented images that results in cross-contamination between the represented images if encoded with the feature. The control may be, for example, any of turning the encoding feature off, using the encoding feature less often than when encoding an image pattern representing a single image, negatively biasing the encoding feature, and enabling the encoding feature for regions determined to have zero or near zero disparity and disabling the feature for all other regions.

EFFECT: efficient encoding for video with multiple images (with multiple views or 3D video, multiple views of the same scene, multiple unrelated views) and providing compatibility thereof with standard video codecs (eg codecs compatible with monoscopic video).

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