IP Library Granted Patent US 9,628,813
Granted Patent B2
US 9,628,813 · App. 14/842,295 · Granted Apr 18, 2017

Moving picture encoding apparatus, moving picture decoding apparatus, moving picture encoding method, moving picture decoding method, moving picture encoding program, and moving picture decoding program

Inventors: Sadaatsu Kato (Yokosuka, JP); Choong Seng Boon (Yokohama, JP); Satoru Adachi (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
H04N19/51H04N19/109H04N19/137H04N19/172H04N19/513H04N19/52H04N19/56H04N19/573
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Patent No.
US 9,628,813
App. No.
14/842,295
Granted
Apr 18, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

An object of the present invention is to increase efficiency of information compression in coding and decoding. A moving picture encoding apparatus 10 of the present invention has a motion vector predicting part for performing, based on a temporal relation among adjacent reference frame images 703 a, 703 b, 703 c referred to for detecting motion vectors of adjacent blocks adjacent to a coding target block, a target reference frame image 702 referred to for detecting a motion vector of the target block, and a target frame image 701 being the frame image of the coding target, or based on time information thereof, a correction of scaling the motion vectors 751 a, 751 b, 751 c of the adjacent blocks on the basis of the target reference frame image 702 ; and a determination of an optimum predicted motion vector based on the motion vectors of the adjacent blocks; and thereby predicting the optimum predicted motion vector after the correction.

Claims (17)

1. A moving picture decoding apparatus for dividing a frame image as a decoding target in a moving picture signal consisting of a temporal series of frame image signals, into a plurality of target regions, and utilizing difference information between a predicted motion vector and motion vectors for the respective target regions detected with reference to a plurality of frame images different from the frame image as the decoding target, to perform decoding based on motion compensation, the moving picture decoding apparatus comprising:

circuitry configured to

select one predicted motion vector from among motion vectors of adjacent regions adjacent to a target region; and

after selecting the one predicted motion vector, correct a scale of the selected predicted motion vector

based on a temporal relation among

(i) an adjacent reference frame image referred for detecting a motion vector of the adjacent region,

(ii) a target reference frame image used for detection of the motion vector of the target region, and

(iii) a target frame image being the frame image as the decoding target,

wherein at least two of the adjacent regions adjacent to the target region refer respectively to two different reference frame images for detecting the motion vectors of the adjacent regions.

2. A moving picture decoding method of dividing a frame image as a decoding target in a moving picture signal consisting of a temporal series of frame image signals, into a plurality of target regions, and utilizing difference information between a predicted motion vector and motion vectors for the respective target regions detected with reference to a plurality of frame images different from the frame image as the decoding target, to perform decoding based on motion compensation, the moving picture decoding method comprising:

selecting one predicted motion vector from among motion vectors of adjacent regions adjacent to a target region; and

after the selecting the one predicted motion vector, correcting a scale of the selected predicted motion vector

based on a temporal relation among

(i) an adjacent reference frame image referred for detecting a motion vector of the adjacent region,

(ii) a target reference frame image used for detection of the motion vector of the target region, and

(iii) a target frame image being the frame image as the decoding target,

wherein at least two of the adjacent regions adjacent to the target region refer respectively to two different reference frame images for detecting the motion vectors of the adjacent regions.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2003-129333 · May 7, 2003 · national
Continuity (4)
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