IP Library Granted Patent US 10,390,011
Granted Patent B2
US 10,390,011 · App. 15/996,293 · Granted Aug 20, 2019

Moving image encoding device and moving image decoding device based on adaptive switching among transformation block sizes

Inventors: Yoshimi Moriya (Tokyo, JP); Shunichi Sekiguchi (Tokyo, JP); Kazuo Sugimoto (Tokyo, JP); Kohtaro Asai (Tokyo, JP); Tokumichi Murakami (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
H04N19/107H04N19/109H04N19/13H04N19/176H04N19/46H04N19/567H04N19/91H04N19/119H04N19/122H04N19/146H04N19/157H04N19/523
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Patent No.
US 10,390,011
App. No.
15/996,293
Granted
Aug 20, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

An encoding controlling unit 3 selects one transformation block size which provides an optimal degree of encoding efficiency from a set of transformation block sizes which are determined in accordance with an encoding mode 7 , and includes the transformation block size selected thereby in optimal compression parameters 20 a to notify the transformation block size to a transformation/quantization unit 19 , and the transformation/quantization unit 19 divides an optimal prediction differential signal 13 a into blocks having the transformation block size included in the optimal compression parameters 20 a , and carries out a transformation and quantization process on each of the blocks to generate compressed data 21.

Claims (26)

1. A moving image decoding device which decodes a bit stream generated by dividing an image of a moving image into a plurality of blocks and by compression-encoding the blocks and obtains the moving image, the moving image decoding device comprising:

a motion-compensated predictor to generate an inter prediction image of one of the blocks by inter prediction processing on the block;

a transformer to generate a decoded prediction difference signal by inverse transforming and inverse quantizing on compressed data of the block on a basis of a compressed parameter indicating transformation block size of the block;

adder to generate the moving image by adding the inter prediction image to the decoded prediction difference signal; and

a variable-length decoder to entropy-decode the bit stream in order to obtain a binary string and obtain the compressed parameter from the binary string,

wherein the variable-length decoder obtains an identifier from bit stream, the identifier specifying a table from a plurality of binarization tables each of which defines a binary string assignment to the compressed parameter, and obtains the compressed parameter by inverse binarizing the binary string in accordance with the specified binarization table.

2. A moving image decoding method for decoding a bit stream generated by dividing an image of a moving image into a plurality of blocks and by compression-encoding the blocks and obtains the moving image, the moving image decoding method comprising:

obtaining a binary string by entropy-decoding the bit stream;

obtaining a compressed parameter by inverse binarizing the binary string in accordance with a binarization table which is specified with an identifier from a plurality of binarization tables each of which defines a binary string assignment to the compressed parameter, the identifier being obtained from the bit stream;

generating an inter prediction image of one of the blocks by inter prediction processing on the block;

generating a decoded prediction difference signal by inverse transforming and inverse quantizing compressed data of the block on a basis of the compressed parameter indicating transformation block size of the block; and

generating the moving image by adding the inter prediction image to the decoded prediction difference signal.

3. A moving image encoding device which generates a bit stream by dividing an image of a moving image into a plurality of blocks and by compression-encoding the blocks, the moving image encoding device comprising:

a motion-compensated predictor to generate an inter prediction image of one of the blocks by inter prediction processing on the block;

a transformer to generate compressed data by transforming and quantizing a decoded prediction difference signal on a basis of a compressed parameter indicating transformation block size of the block, the decoded prediction difference signal is generated by subtracting the inter prediction image from the block; and

a variable-length encoder to binarize the compressed parameter to a binary string and entropy-encode the binary string into the bit stream,

wherein the variable-length encoder carries out the binarization according to a binarization table specified with an identifier from a plurality of binarization tables, each of which defines a binary string assignment to the compressed parameter, and encodes the identifier into the bit stream.

4. A moving image encoding method of generating a bit stream by dividing an image of a moving image into a plurality of blocks and by compression-encoding the blocks, the moving image encoding method comprising:

generating an inter prediction image of one of the blocks by inter prediction processing on the block;

generating compressed data by transforming and quantizing a decoded prediction difference signal on a basis of a compressed parameter indicating transformation block size of the block, the decoded prediction difference signal is generated by subtracting the inter prediction image from the block;

binarizing the compressed parameter to a binary string in accordance with a binarization table which is specified with an identifier from a plurality of binarization tables each of which defines a binary string assignment to the compressed parameter, the identifier being encoded into the bit stream; and

entropy-encoding the binary string into a bit stream.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a bit stream which is generated by dividing an image of a moving image into a plurality of blocks and by compression-encoding the blocks, the bit stream comprising;

compressed data generated by transforming and quantizing a decoded prediction difference signal on a basis of a compressed parameter indicating transformation block size of the block, the decoded prediction difference signal is generated by subtracting the inter prediction image from the block;

an identifier specifying one of a plurality of binarization tables each of which defines a binary string assignment to the compressed parameter; and

a binary string encoded with entropy-encoding, the binary string being obtained by binarizing the compressed parameter in accordance with the binarization table specified by the identifier.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 28, 2020
From: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
To: XYLENE HOLDING S.A.
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2010-090534 · Apr 9, 2010 · national
Continuity (4)
Continuation 15920105 · Mar 13, 2018
Division 15443431 · Feb 27, 2017
Continuation 13639134
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