Image decoding apparatus

1. An image decoding device, the device comprising:

a processor, and

a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions for the processor, wherein, based on the instructions, the processor performs:

deriving a prediction mode and generating a prediction block with the prediction mode;

generating a prediction block of a current block using the derived prediction mode,

scanning quantized coefficients to generate a quantization block;

inversely quantizing the quantization block using a quantization parameter, wherein the quantization parameter is derived using a received residual quantization parameter;

generating a residual block by inversely-transforming the inversely-quantized quantization block; and

generating a reconstructed block using the prediction block and the residual block,

wherein the quantization parameter is derived by adding a quantization parameter predictor to a received residual quantization parameter, and the quantization parameter predictor is derived using a quantization parameter of a left coding unit of a current coding unit and a quantization parameter of an above coding unit of the current coding unit,

wherein a size of the prediction block is determined based on transform size information,

wherein the prediction mode is reconstructed using a first intra prediction mode group consisting of three intra prediction modes, an intra prediction mode group indicator and a prediction mode index,

wherein the three intra prediction modes of the first intra prediction mode group are determined using intra prediction modes of a left and an above blocks of the current block,

wherein the prediction mode is set as an intra prediction mode indicated by the prediction mode index in the first intra prediction mode group when the intra prediction mode group indicator indicates the first intra prediction mode group, and the prediction mode is set as an intra prediction mode indicated by the prediction mode index in a second intra prediction mode group consisting of remaining intra prediction modes except the three intra prediction modes of the first intra prediction mode group when the intra prediction mode group indicator indicates the second intra prediction mode group, and

wherein, when the intra prediction modes of the left and the above blocks are available and are the same with each other, if both of the intra prediction modes of the left and the above blocks are DC modes, the three intra prediction modes of the first intra prediction mode group are determined as a DC mode, a planar mode and a vertical mode and sorted in order of the planar mode, the DC mode and the vertical mode, and the prediction mode of the current block is determined by comparing the prediction mode index with the three intra prediction modes in the first intra prediction mode group.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the quantization parameter predictor is set as an average value of the quantization parameter of the left coding unit and the quantization parameter of the above coding unit.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein when the intra prediction modes of the left and the above blocks are not equal to each other and are directional intra prediction modes, the three intra prediction modes in the first intra prediction mode group are the intra prediction modes of the left and the above blocks and a planar mode.

4. The device of claim 1 , wherein when the intra prediction modes of the left and the above blocks are not equal to each other and are non-directional intra prediction modes, the three intra prediction modes in the first intra prediction mode group are the intra prediction modes of the left and the above blocks and a vertical mode.

5. The device of claim 4 , wherein the non-directional intra prediction modes are the planar mode and the DC mode, and a mode number 0 is assigned to the planar mode and a mode number 1 is assigned to the DC mode.

6. The device of claim 1 , wherein the prediction mode index is entropy-decoded depending on whether the prediction mode of the current block belongs to the first intra prediction mode group or not.