IP Library Granted Patent US 11,575,906
Granted Patent B2
US 11,575,906 · App. 17/083,441 · Granted Feb 7, 2023

Image coding device, image decoding device, image coding method, and image decoding method

Inventors: Shunichi Sekiguchi (Tokyo, JP); Kazuo Sugimoto (Tokyo, JP); Hiroharu Sakate (Tokyo, JP); Tokumichi Murakami (Tokyo, JP); Akira Minezawa (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
H04N19/154H04N19/117H04N19/14H04N19/159H04N19/176H04N19/186H04N19/593H04N19/61H04N19/82H04N19/865H04N19/46
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Patent No.
US 11,575,906
App. No.
17/083,441
Granted
Feb 7, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

When removing a block distortion occurring in a local decoded image, a loop filtering part 11 of an image coding device carries out a filtering process on each of signal components (a luminance signal component and color difference signal components) after setting the intensity of a filter for removing the block distortion for each of the signal components according to a coding mode (an intra coding mode or an inter coding mode) selected by a coding controlling part 1.

Claims (21)

1. An image encoding device that carries out a block based coding process on each of coding blocks of an inputted image, each of the coding blocks being a unit for coding process, the image encoding device comprising:

a distortion remover to carry out a filtering process on a decoded image obtained by adding a prediction image to a difference image which is a difference between the inputted image of a coding block and the prediction image, and to remove a block distortion at a boundary between adjacent transform blocks of the decoded image, the transform block being for transforming the difference image; and

a data encoder to encode a compressed data of the difference image and an offset,

wherein the distortion remover derives a value of a parameter specifying filtering strength as a default value for the offset according to a set of conditions including whether a coding mode corresponding to at least one of the adjacent transform blocks to which the filtering process is to be applied is intra prediction mode, wherein the offset is added to the value of the parameter in a process of selecting from different filtering processes.

2. An image encoding method that carries out a block based coding process on each of coding blocks of an inputted image, each of the coding blocks being a unit for coding process, the image encoding method comprising:

carrying out a filtering process on a decoded image obtained by adding a prediction image to a difference image which is a difference between the inputted image of a coding block and the prediction image, and removing a block distortion at a boundary between adjacent transform blocks of the decoded image, the transform block being for transforming the difference image; and

encoding a compressed data of the difference image and an offset,

wherein the filtering process derives a value of a parameter specifying filtering strength as a default value for the offset according to a set of conditions including whether a coding mode corresponding to at least one of the adjacent transform blocks to which the filtering process is to be applied is intra prediction mode, wherein the offset is added to the value of the parameter in a process of selecting from different filtering processes.

3. An image decoding device that carries out a decoding process on a coded data obtained by performing a block based coding process on an image, the image decoding device comprising:

a coded data decoder to decode the coded data to acquire compressed data of a difference image associated with each of coding blocks and an offset; and

a distortion remover to carry out a filtering process on a decoded image obtained by adding a prediction image to the difference image, and to remove a block distortion at a boundary between adjacent transform blocks of the decoded image, the transform block being for transforming the difference image,

wherein the distortion remover derives a value of a parameter specifying filtering strength as a default value for the offset according to a set of conditions including whether a coding mode corresponding to at least one of the adjacent transform blocks to which the filtering process is to be applied is intra prediction mode, wherein the offset is added to the value of the parameter in a process of selecting from different filtering processes.

4. An image decoding method that carries out a decoding process on a coded data obtained by performing a block based coding process on an image, the image decoding method comprising:

decoding the coded data to acquire compressed data of a difference image associated with each of coding blocks and an offset; and

carrying out a filtering process on a decoded image obtained by adding a prediction image to the difference image, and removing a block distortion at a boundary between adjacent transform blocks of the decoded image, the transform block being for transforming the difference image,

wherein the filtering process derives a value of a parameter specifying filtering strength as a default value for the offset according to a set of conditions including whether a coding mode corresponding to at least one of the adjacent transform blocks to which the filtering process is to be applied is intra prediction mode, wherein the offset is added to the value of the parameter in a process of selecting from different filtering processes.

5. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising coded data for each of a plurality of coding blocks, the coded data including:

compressed data of a difference image; and

an offset,

wherein the compressed data of the coded data, when read by a processor, enables the processor to carry out a filtering process on a decoded image obtained by adding a prediction image to the difference image, and to remove a block distortion at a boundary between adjacent transform blocks of the decoded image, the transform block being for transforming the difference image, and

wherein the compressed data enables the processor to derive a value of a parameter specifying filtering strength as a default value for the offset according to a set of conditions including whether a coding mode corresponding to at least one of the adjacent transform blocks to which the filtering process is to be applied is intra prediction mode, wherein the offset is added to the value of the parameter in a process of selecting from different filtering processes.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2011-145612 · Jun 30, 2011 · national
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