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Granted Patent B2
US 11,889,078 · App. 17/833,540 · Granted Jan 30, 2024

Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method

Inventors: Chong Soon Lim (Singapore, SG); Hai Wei Sun (Singapore, SG); Sughosh Pavan Shashidhar (Singapore, SG); Han Boon Teo (Singapore, SG); Ru Ling Liao (Singapore, SG); Takahiro Nishi (Nara, JP); Tadamasa Toma (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
H04N19/119H04N19/157H04N19/159H04N19/176H04N19/196H04N19/463H04N19/96
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Patent No.
US 11,889,078
App. No.
17/833,540
Granted
Jan 30, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image encoder/decoder includes circuitry and a memory coupled to the circuitry. When a geometry of a block of a picture satisfies a first condition, the circuitry splits the block of the picture into sub blocks having a first set of geometries. When the geometry of the block does not satisfy the first condition, the circuitry splits the block of the picture into sub blocks having a second set of geometries, the second set of geometries being different from the first set of geometries. The circuitry encodes/decodes the sub blocks of the block.

Claims (8)

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a bitstream,

the bitstream including syntax information according to which a computer performs a decoding process including:

in response to a determined number of sub blocks of a block being set to four, splits the block into four sub blocks, wherein,

in response to a size of the block satisfying a block-size condition, splits the block into four sub blocks along a single direction, wherein the splitting includes,

splitting the block along a vertical direction into four 8×8 sub blocks in response to the width of the block being larger than the height of the block and the size of the block being 32×8; and

splitting the block along a horizontal direction into four 8×8 sub blocks in response to the height of the block being larger than the width of the block and the size of the block being 8×32; and

in response to the size of the block not satisfying the block-size condition, splits the block into four sub blocks along the vertical and horizontal directions, wherein the splitting includes splitting the block along the vertical and horizontal directions into four 16×16 sub blocks in response to the width of the block being equal to the height of the block and the size of the block being 32×32; and

decoding the sub blocks of the block.

Continuity (4)
Continuation 16417517 · May 20, 2019
Continuation PCTJP2017041422 · Nov 17, 2017
Provisional Application 62424782 · Nov 21, 2016
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