IP Library Granted Patent US 11,849,145
Granted Patent B2
US 11,849,145 · App. 17/471,734 · Granted Dec 19, 2023

Image encoding device, image decoding device and program

Inventors: Shunsuke Iwamura (Tokyo, JP); Atsuro Ichigaya (Tokyo, JP); Shimpei Nemoto (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI
H04N19/593H04N19/105H04N19/11H04N19/119H04N19/13H04N19/176H04N19/61
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,849,145
App. No.
17/471,734
Granted
Dec 19, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image encoding device 1 that encodes an encoding target block obtained by dividing an image, the image encoding device including: an intra predictor 172 configured to predict the encoding target block through intra prediction to generate a prediction block; and a transformer 121 configured to perform orthogonal transform processing on a prediction residual representing an error of the prediction block with respect to the encoding target block. The intra predictor includes: a weighted controller 172 c configured to control the weighted combining processing dependent on positions of prediction pixels within the prediction block based on a type of transform to be applied in the orthogonal transform processing in the transformer; and a corrector 172 b configured to correct the prediction pixels by performing the weighted combining processing on reference pixels adjacent to the encoding target block and the prediction pixels.

Claims (11)

1. An image decoding device that decodes a decoding target block obtained by dividing and encoding an image, the image decoding device comprising:

an entropy decoder configured to decode a control flag that is entropy encoded on an encoding side as control information of transform processing;

an inverse transform controller configured to control inverse transform processing to be performed on a transform coefficient corresponding to the decoding target block based on the control flag;

an inverse transformer configured to perform inverse transform processing on the transform coefficient corresponding to the decoding target block based on control by the inverse transform controller; and

an intra predictor configured to predict the decoding target block through intra prediction to generate a prediction block, wherein

the intra predictor includes:

a combining processing controller configured to control weighted combining processing dependent on positions of prediction pixels within the prediction block based on the control flag; and

a corrector configured to correct the prediction pixels by performing the weighted combining processing on reference pixels adjacent to the decoding target block and the prediction pixels,

the weighted combining processing is a processing of correcting prediction pixels within the prediction block by weighting a reference pixel on an upper side of the prediction block, a reference pixel on a left side of the prediction block, and a reference pixel on an upper left side of the prediction block, at specific ratios depending on coordinates of the prediction pixels, and

in a case where a type of transform applied to the inverse transform processing is a predetermined type including a basis that impulse response is monotonically increasing, the combining processing controller is configured to increase a weight for a reference pixel adjacent to the decoding target block, compared to a case where the type is not the predetermined type.

2. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the program causes a computer to function as the image decoding device according to claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 10, 2021
From: IWAMURA, SHUNSUKE; ICHIGAYA, ATSURO; NEMOTO, SHIMPEI
To: NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI
Reel/Frame 057445/0812 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-043965 · Mar 11, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2020010326 · Mar 10, 2020
Related Publication 20210409764A1 · Dec 30, 2021
Cited By (1)
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