IP Library Granted Patent US 9,479,777
Granted Patent B2
US 9,479,777 · App. 13/783,435 · Granted Oct 25, 2016

Moving picture coding method, moving picture decoding method, moving picture coding apparatus, moving picture decoding apparatus, and moving picture coding and decoding apparatus

Inventors: Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, JP); Takahiro Nishi (Nara, JP); Youji Shibahara (Osaka, JP); Kyoko Tanikawa (Osaka, JP); Hisao Sasai (Osaka, JP); Toru Matsunobu (Osaka, JP); Kengo Terada (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
H04N19/00696H04N19/52
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Patent No.
US 9,479,777
App. No.
13/783,435
Granted
Oct 25, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A moving picture coding includes: coding a first flag indicating whether or not temporal motion vector prediction is used; when the first flag indicates that the temporal motion vector prediction is used: coding a first parameter for calculating the temporal predictive motion vector; wherein when the first flag indicates that the temporal motion vector prediction is not used, the first parameter is not coded.

Claims (16)

1. A moving picture decoding method for decoding a current block to be decoded included in a current picture to be decoded by inter predictive decoding using a motion vector, the moving picture decoding method comprising:

decoding a first flag indicating whether or not temporal motion vector prediction using a temporal motion vector predictor which is a motion vector of a block included in a decoded picture different from the current picture is used;

assigning one or more reference picture indexes to a reference picture list;

when the first flag indicates that the temporal motion vector prediction is used,

decoding a collocated reference picture index for specifying the decoded picture among a plurality of pictures indicated by the one or more reference picture indexes,

deriving a plurality of first motion vector predictor candidates including (i) a spatial motion vector predictor which is a motion vector of a block adjacent to the current block in the current picture and (ii) the temporal motion vector predictor, the temporal motion vector predictor being calculated based on a motion vector of the coded picture which is specified by the collocated reference picture index, and

decoding a motion vector used for performing inter predictive decoding on the current block using one of the first motion vector predictor candidates; and

when the first flag indicates that the temporal motion vector prediction is not used,

deriving a plurality of second motion vector predictor candidates that do not include the temporal motion vector predictor, the second motion vector candidates including (i) the spatial motion vector predictor and (ii) a replacement vector, as a replacement for the temporal motion vector predictor, which has a value of zero, and

decoding a motion vector used for performing inter predictive decoding on the current block, using one of the second motion vector predictor candidates,

wherein when the first flag indicates that the temporal motion vector prediction is not used, the collocated reference picture index is not decoded.

2. The moving picture decoding method according to claim 1 , the moving picture decoding method being for decoding pictures belonging to a base view and a dependent view in a multi-view video, the moving picture decoding method further comprising generating a disparity vector corresponding to disparity between the base view and the dependent view, wherein in deriving the second motion vector prediction candidates, the disparity vector is included in the second motion vector prediction candidates as the replacement vector.

3. A moving picture decoding apparatus comprising:

a control circuitry; and

a storage accessible to the control circuitry,

wherein the control circuitry executes the moving picture decoding method according to claim 1 .

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 30, 2016
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
To: SUN PATENT TRUST
Reel/Frame 038299/0213 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 27, 2014
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Reel/Frame 033033/0163 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 23, 2014
From: SUGIO, TOSHIYASU; NISHI, TAKAHIRO; SHIBAHARA, YOUJI; TANIKAWA, KYOKO; SASAI, HISAO; MATSUNOBU, TORU; TERADA, KENGO
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 032024/0346 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61607028 · Mar 6, 2012
Related Publication 20130243092A1 · Sep 19, 2013