Video decoding device

1. A video decoding device for decoding video data, said device comprising:

an error checking unit for generating an error information according to an error status of said video data; and

a decoding unit, coupled to said error checking unit, for selectively performing an error concealment process and a decoding process for said video data according to said error information;

wherein said decoding unit withholds said error concealment process and said decoding process, if said error status becomes at least one of the followings: losing video object sequence header, losing video object header, losing video object layer header, or that width or height of picture of video object layer header is not multiples of 4 pixels.

2. The video decoding device according to claim 1 , wherein said decoding unit performs said error concealment process and said decoding process, if said error status becomes at least one of the followings: having a variable length code (VLC) not conforming with a VLC table, having more than 64 DCT coefficients, losing resynchronization marker, or video packet header info not conforming with a video object plane.

3. The video decoding device according to claim 1 , wherein said error information comprising:

a valid bit for indicating whether said video data can be decoded;

a video object plane number for indicating a video object plane;

an error macroblock number for indicating a first error macroblock;

a correct macroblock number for indicating a first correct macroblock right after said first error macroblock; and

an error information ending value for indicating the ending of said error information.

4. The video decoding device according to claim 3 , wherein said error information further comprising:

a slice drop value for indicating that a slice is dropped.

5. The video decoding device according to claim 3 , wherein said error concealment process replaces an error data of said video data with a substitute data, according to an encoding format of one encoding layer of said video data and said error information.

6. The video decoding device according to claim 5 , wherein said decoding unit generates said substitute data to replace said error data without referring to other pictures, if said encoding format of said encoding layer of said video data is intra-coding.

7. The video decoding device according to claim 5 , wherein said decoding unit, referring to other pictures, generates said substitute data to replace said error data, if said encoding format of said encoding layer of said video data is inter prediction coding.

8. The video decoding device according to claim 5 , wherein said decoding unit, retaining parts of encoding data of said video data, generates said substitute data to replace said error data without referring to other pictures, if said video data is encoded by error resilience coding and said encoding format of said encoding layer of said video data is intra-coding.

9. The video decoding device according to claim 5 , wherein said decoding unit, retaining parts of encoding data of said video data and referring to other pictures, generates said substitute data to replace said error data, if said video data is encoded by error resilience coding and said encoding format of said encoding layer of said video data is inter prediction coding.

10. A video decoding method for decoding video data, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) generating an error information according to an error status of said video data; and

(b) selectively performing an error concealment process and a decoding process for said video data according to said error information;

wherein said step (b) further comprises withholding said error concealment process and said decoding process, if said error status becomes at least one of the followings: losing video object sequence header, losing video object header, losing video object layer header, or that width or height of picture of video object layer header is not multiples of 4 pixels.

11. The video decoding method according to claim 10 , wherein said step (b) further comprises performing said error concealment process and said decoding process, if said error status becomes at least one of the followings: having a variable length code (VLC) not conforming with a VLC table, having more than 64 DCT coefficients, losing resynchronization marker, or video packet header info not conforming with a video object plane.

12. The video decoding method according to claim 10 , wherein said error concealment process replaces an error data of said video data with a substitute data, according to an encoding format of one encoding layer of said video data and said error information.

13. The video decoding method according to claim 12 , further comprises generating said substitute data to replace said error data without referring to other pictures, if said encoding format of said encoding layer of said video data is intra-coding.

14. The video decoding method according to claim 12 , further comprises generating said substitute data to replace said error data with referring to other pictures, if said encoding format of said encoding layer of said video data is inter prediction coding.

15. The video decoding method according to claim 12 , further comprises retaining parts of encoding data of said video data and generating said substitute data to replace said error data without referring to other pictures, if said video data is encoded by error resilience coding and said encoding format of said encoding layer of said video data is intra-coding.

16. The video decoding method according to claim 12 , further comprises retaining parts of encoding data of said video data and generating said substitute data to replace said error data with referring to other pictures, if said video data is encoded by error resilience coding and said encoding format of said encoding layer of said video data is inter prediction coding.