IP Library Granted Patent US 8,036,272
Granted Patent B2
US 8,036,272 · App. 11/931,978 · Granted Oct 11, 2011

Moving picture encoding method and decoding method

Assignee: Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,036,272
App. No.
11/931,978
Granted
Oct 11, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

A moving picture decoding method, which generates a predicted image using information on motion vectors and information on reference images, the moving picture decoding method having multiple prediction modes including a mode without motion vector decoding, including: a step of selecting a frame(s) to be referenced to in the prediction of each prediction direction in the prediction mode from among multiple candidate reference frames; and a step of selecting motion vector information used in the prediction mode, wherein at the step of selecting motion vector information when (all) candidate blocks adjacent to a current block are located outside of the screen, a zero vector is selected; and moving picture decoding is performed by generating the predicted image using the information on the selected reference frame and the information on the selected motion vectors in the prediction mode.

Claims (6)

1. A moving picture decoding method, carried out by a computing system, including a prediction mode, comprising:

in a prediction mode in which prediction mode motion vector information of a current block in a current frame has not been transmitted from an encoding side:

selecting, from among multiple candidate reference frames, a frame(s) to be referenced to in the prediction mode; and

determining motion vector information to be used in the prediction mode, wherein

in the determining of the motion vector information, in a case when all of predetermined candidate blocks within a current frame adjacent to a current block are located outside of the screen, a zero vector is set as a motion vector for the current block; and

performing prediction processing using the selected reference frame and the zero vector.

Assignments (6)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 3, 2021
From: MAXELL HOLDINGS, LTD.
To: MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058666/0407 →
MERGER Recorded Nov 29, 2021
From: MAXELL, LTD.
To: MAXELL HOLDINGS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058255/0579 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 25, 2018
From: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
To: MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 045142/0208 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 8, 2014
From: HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.; HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO, LTD.
To: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 033694/0745 →
CORRECTED ASSIGNMENT, IN THE ORIGINAL COVER SHEET THE ASSIGNOR'S NAME IS MISSPELLED REEL 024199 FRAME: 0452. Recorded Jun 29, 2010
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 024648/0214 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 7, 2010
From: HITACFHI, LTD.
To: HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 024199/0452 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2002-205001 · Jul 15, 2002 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 10506428
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