IP Library Granted Patent US 8,300,694
Granted Patent B2
US 8,300,694 · App. 11/980,512 · Granted Oct 30, 2012

Image encoding method and image decoding method, image encoder and image decoder, and image encoded bit stream and recording medium

Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
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Patent No.
US 8,300,694
App. No.
11/980,512
Granted
Oct 30, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention makes it possible to include, when encoding processing is applied to three color components using a 4:0:0 format, data for one picture in one access unit and makes it possible to set the same time information or the same set encoding modes among the respective color components. In an image encoding system for applying compression processing to an input image signal including a plurality of color components, encoded data obtained by independently subjecting an input image signal of each of the color components to encoding processing and a parameter indicating which color component the encoded data corresponds to are multiplexed with a bit stream. In an image decoding system for inputting a bit stream in which an image signal including a plurality of color components is compressed to perform decoding processing, decoding processing of the encoded data of each of the color components is performed using a parameter indicating which color component the encoded data corresponds to.

Claims (6)

1. An image decoder for decoding a color image signal based on an input of a bit stream generated by compression-encoding a color image in a 4:4:4 format, comprising:

an decoding unit that decodes identification information included in the bit stream, the identification information indicating whether or not signals of respective color components are independently encoded in a 4:0:0 format; and

an access unit that, in a case where the identification information indicates that the signals of respective color components are independently encoded in the 4:0:0 format, recognizes a unit including encoded data of three independent pictures which are encoded in the 4:0:0 format and belong to one of an identical frame and an identical field.

2. An image decoding method for decoding a color image signal based on an input of a bit stream generated by compression-encoding a color image in a 4:4:4 format, comprising:

decoding, by utilizing a decoding unit, an identification information included in the bit stream is decoded, the identification information indicating whether or not signals of respective color components are independently encoded in a 4:0:0 format; and

recognizing, by utilizing an access unit, in a case where the identification information indicates that the signals of respective color components are independently encoded in the 4:0:0 format, a unit including encoded data of three independent pictures which are encoded in the 4:0:0 format and belong to one of an identical frame and an identical field.

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