IP Library Granted Patent US 12,634,446
Granted Patent B2
US 12,634,446 · App. 18/964,168 · Granted May 19, 2026

Image encoding device, image decoding device, and program thereof

Inventors: Shunsuke Iwamura (Tokyo, JP); Atsuro Ichigaya (Tokyo, JP); Shinichi Sakaida (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI
H04N19/105H04N19/117H04N19/12H04N19/124H04N19/147H04N19/176H04N19/45H04N19/46H04N19/593H04N19/619H04N19/625
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Patent No.
US 12,634,446
App. No.
18/964,168
Granted
May 19, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image encoding device for block-dividing and encoding an original image of a frame unit constituting a moving image is disclosed that includes a predictor circuitry configured to generate a predicted image, a weighted average processor configured to generate a block of a new predicted image, a prediction residual signal generator circuitry configured to calculate an error of each prediction signal of the block of the predicted image and to generate a prediction residual signal, a sub-block divider circuitry configured to divide the prediction residual signal configured to divide the predict residual signal, and a transformation selection applier circuitry configured to selectively apply a plurality of types of transformation processes for a divided sub-block of the prediction residual signal.

Claims (15)

1 . An image decoding device for decoding a signal encoded by block-dividing a frame constituting a moving image, the image decoding device comprising:

a predictor circuitry configured to generate a predicted image of block unit including a prediction signal by a predetermined prediction that performs a signal prediction for each pixel signal of an original image of the block unit;

a corrector circuitry configured to

acquire a control identification signal indicating a type of transformation process selected by an encoding side,

control, based on the control identification signal, an execution and a non-execution of a modifying process on a prediction signal of a block of the predicted image, and

generate a block of a new predicted image by performing the modifying process by using a decoded neighboring signal neighboring to the block of the predicted image when executing the modifying process;

an inverse quantizer circuitry configured to reconstruct a transformation coefficient signal by performing a corresponding inverse quantization process on a transformation coefficient quantized by a predetermined quantization process as a signal encoded by block-dividing a frame constituting the moving image; and

an inverse transformer circuitry configured to reconstruct a prediction residual signal of the block unit by controlling an inverse transformation process determined based on the control identification signal with respect to the reconstructed transformation coefficient signal.

2 . An image decoding method for decoding a signal encoded by block-dividing a frame constituting a moving image, the image decoding method comprising:

generating a predicted image of block unit including a prediction signal by a predetermined prediction that performs a signal prediction for each pixel signal of an original image of the block unit;

acquiring a control identification signal indicating a type of transformation process selected by an encoding side;

controlling, based on the control identification signal, an execution and a non-execution of a modifying process on a prediction signal of a block of the predicted image;

generating a block of a new predicted image by performing the modifying process by using a decoded neighboring signal neighboring to the block of the predicted image when executing the modifying process;

reconstructing a transformation coefficient signal by performing a corresponding inverse quantization process on a transformation coefficient quantized by a predetermined quantization process as a signal encoded by block-dividing a frame constituting the moving image; and

reconstructing a prediction residual signal of the block unit by controlling an inverse transformation process determined based on the control identification signal with respect to the reconstructed transformation coefficient signal.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 29, 2024
From: IWAMURA, SHUNSUKE; ICHIGAYA, ATSURO; SAKAIDA, SHINICHI
To: NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI
Reel/Frame 069435/0711 →
Priority Claims (3)
JP 2015-163257 · Aug 20, 2015 · national
JP 2015-163259 · Aug 20, 2015 · national
JP 2015-163260 · Aug 20, 2015 · national
Continuity (5)
Continuation 18489457 · Oct 18, 2023
Continuation 16860421 · Apr 28, 2020
Continuation 15899130 · Feb 19, 2018
Continuation PCTJP2016074293 · Aug 19, 2016
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