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US 12,120,337 · App. 18/226,353 · Granted Oct 15, 2024

Moving picture coding method, moving picture decoding method, moving picture coding apparatus, moving picture decoding apparatus, and moving picture coding and decoding apparatus

Inventors: Hisao Sasai (Kanagawa, JP); Takahiro Nishi (Nara, JP); Youji Shibahara (Osaka, JP); Toshiyasu Sugio (Osaka, JP); Kyoko Tanikawa (Osaka, JP); Toru Matsunobu (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
H04N19/50H04N19/13H04N19/157H04N19/176H04N19/196H04N19/436H04N19/61H04N19/70H04N19/85H04N19/91
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Patent No.
US 12,120,337
App. No.
18/226,353
Granted
Oct 15, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A moving picture coding method includes (i) transforming, for each of one or more second processing units included in the first processing unit, a moving picture signal in a spatial domain into a frequency domain coefficient and quantizing the frequency domain coefficient, and (ii) performing arithmetic coding on a luminance CBF flag indicating whether or not a quantized coefficient is included in the second processing unit in which transform and quantization are performed, wherein, in the arithmetic coding, a probability table for use in arithmetic coding is determined according to whether or not the size of the first processing unit is identical to the size of the second processing unit and whether or not the second processing unit has a predetermined maximum size.

Claims (14)

1. An encoding method comprising:

obtaining a luminance CBF flag indicating whether or not a quantized coefficient is included in a transform unit that is included in a coding unit of an image;

selecting a first probability table or a second probability table so that (i) the first probability table is selected when the size of the coding unit is identical to the size of the transform unit and (ii) the second probability table is selected when the size of the coding unit is not identical to the size of the transform unit regardless of the size of the transform unit;

performing arithmetic encoding on the luminance CBF flag using the selected one of the first probability table and the second probability table; and

encoding a picture signal for the coding unit using the quantized coefficient of the transform unit when the luminance CBF flag indicates that the quantized coefficients is included in the transform unit,

wherein when the size of the transform unit is a first size which is smaller than the size of the coding unit, the selecting selects the second probability table, and

wherein when the size of the transform unit is a second size which is smaller than the first size, the selecting selects the second probability table without depending on any surrounding blocks.

2. A decoding method comprising:

obtaining a luminance CBF flag indicating whether or not a quantized coefficient is included in a transform unit that is included in a coding unit of an image;

selecting a first probability table or a second probability table so that (i) the first probability table is selected when the size of the coding unit is identical to the size of the transform unit and (ii) the second probability table is selected when the size of the coding unit is not identical to the size of the transform unit regardless of the size of the transform unit;

performing arithmetic decoding on the luminance CBF flag using the selected one of the first probability table and the second probability table; and

decoding a picture signal for the coding unit using the quantized coefficient of the transform unit when the luminance CBF flag indicates that the quantized coefficients is included in the transform unit,

wherein when the size of the transform unit is a first size which is smaller than the size of the coding unit, the selecting selects the second probability table, and

wherein when the size of the transform unit is a second size which is smaller than the first size, the selecting selects the second probability table without depending on any surrounding blocks.

Continuity (10)
Continuation 17871170 · Jul 22, 2022
Continuation 17027839 · Sep 22, 2020
Continuation 16752857 · Jan 27, 2020
Continuation 16185403 · Nov 9, 2018
Continuation 15481624 · Apr 7, 2017
Continuation 14456152 · Aug 11, 2014
Continuation 13917011 · Jun 13, 2013
Division 13556583 · Jul 24, 2012
Provisional Application 61513141 · Jul 29, 2011
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