IP Library Granted Patent US 11,641,479
Granted Patent B2
US 11,641,479 · App. 17/311,302 · Granted May 2, 2023

Video decoding apparatus and video coding apparatus

Inventors: Tianyang Zhou (Sakai, JP); Tomohiro Ikai (Sakai, JP); Eiichi Sasaki (Sakai, JP); Yukinobu Yasugi (Sakai, JP)
Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA; Sharp Corporation
H04N19/44H04N19/119H04N19/176H04N19/186H04N19/96
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Patent No.
US 11,641,479
App. No.
17/311,302
Granted
May 2, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

In conventional cases that different trees are used between luma and chroma and that luma chroma prediction including multiplication in chroma intra prediction is used, there is a problem in that a processing delay caused by the chroma intra prediction is increased in small blocks. In a case that two different trees are used between luma and chroma, in a case of an 8×8 block in a luma size, 0 is derived without decoding qt_split_cu_flag, and in a case of an 8×4/4×8 block in a luma size, 0 is derived without decoding mtt_split_cu_flag. In a case that the size of a target block is smaller than a prescribed size, a chroma intra mode is derived from any one of DC, leftward prediction, and upward prediction.

Claims (10)

1. A video decoding apparatus configured to decode a picture in a unit being obtained by splitting the picture with a split type of at least one of a QT split, a BT split, and a TT split, wherein

the video decoding apparatus

determines whether a split is allowed for the picture with the BT split and the TT split,

decodes, in a case that the video decoding apparatus determines that a horizontal split is allowed and a vertical split is allowed for the picture regarding the BT split or the TT split, a direction flag of an MT split,

for the BT split, determines, in a case that a tree type is a DUAL_TREE_CHROMA and multiplication of a width and a height of a chroma block size is 16 or less, that the split is not allowed with the BT split, and

for the TT split, decodes, only in a case that the tree type is not the DUAL_TREE_CHROMA or the multiplication of the width and the height of the chroma block size is greater than 32, an mtt_split_cu_binary_flag, and determines, in a case that the tree type is the DUAL_TREE_CHROMA and the multiplication of the width and the height of the chroma block size is 32 or less, that the split is not allowed with the TT split.

2. The video decoding apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

in a case that the video decoding apparatus determines that the horizontal split is allowed for the picture regarding the BT split and the TT split and the direction flag of the MT split is 0, or in a case that the video decoding apparatus determines that the vertical split is allowed for the picture regarding the BT split and the TT split and the direction flag of the MT split is 1, the video decoding apparatus decodes the mtt_split_cu_binary_flag.

3. The video decoding apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the video decoding apparatus determines whether the tree type is a DUAL tree in which two different trees are used for luma and chroma, or a SINGLE tree in which a common tree is used for luma and chroma.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 12, 2023
From: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA; SHARP CORPORATION
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 063374/0217 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 15, 2023
From: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA; FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA; SHARP CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 062389/0715 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 14, 2021
From: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA; FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
Reel/Frame 057787/0017 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 4, 2021
From: ZHOU, TIANYANG; IKAI, TOMOHIRO; SASAKI, EIICHI; YASUGI, YUKINOBU
To: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 056446/0734 →