IP Library Granted Patent US 12,231,670
Granted Patent B2
US 12,231,670 · App. 18/510,069 · Granted Feb 18, 2025

Method for encoding/decoding using division information

Inventors: Joo Hee Moon (Seoul, KR); Dong Jae Won (Goyang-si, KR); Jae Min Ha (Incheon, KR); Sung Won Lim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF SEJONG UNIVERSITY
H04N19/44H04N19/105H04N19/119H04N19/176
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Patent No.
US 12,231,670
App. No.
18/510,069
Granted
Feb 18, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method and an apparatus for encoding/decoding an image according to the present invention may determine a reference area that is a pre-reconstructed area spatially adjacent to a current block on the basis of reference information for specifying the position of a reference area used for predicting a current block and may predict the current block on the basis of the reference area.

Claims (29)

1. A method for decoding video data, with a decoding apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving, first division information indicating whether to divide a current block into a plurality of sub-blocks from a bitstream, the first division information being related to sub-block-based intra prediction;

dividing, in response to the first division information indicating that the current block is divided into the plurality of sub-blocks, the current block into the plurality of sub-blocks; and

obtaining, based on an intra prediction mode of the current block, a prediction block of the current block by performing the sub-block-based intra prediction in units of the sub-blocks,

wherein, based on second division information signaled from the bitstream, the current block is divided into the plurality of sub-blocks in only one of a vertical direction or a horizontal direction,

wherein a number of the plurality of sub-blocks resulting from dividing the current block is adaptively determined based on whether a size of the current block is less than a threshold size pre-defined in a decoding apparatus,

wherein, in response to the size of the current block being less than the threshold size, the number of the sub-blocks is determined equal to 2,

wherein, in response to the size of the current block being greater than or equal to the threshold size, the number of the sub-blocks is determined equal to 4, and

wherein the threshold size is defined as 8×8.

2. A method for encoding video data, with an encoding apparatus, the method comprising:

dividing a current block into a plurality of sub-blocks;

obtaining, based on an intra prediction mode of the current block, a prediction block of the current block by performing sub-block-based intra prediction in units of the sub-blocks; and

encoding first division information indicating whether to divide the current block into the plurality of sub-blocks into a bitstream, the first division information being related to the sub-block-based intra prediction,

wherein the current block is divided into the plurality of sub-blocks in only one of a vertical direction or a horizontal direction,

wherein, based on a division direction of the current block, second division information is encoded into the bitstream,

wherein a number of the plurality of sub-blocks resulting from dividing the current block is adaptively determined based on whether a size of the current block is less than a threshold size pre-defined in a encoding apparatus,

wherein, in response to the size of the current block being less than the threshold size, the number of the sub-blocks is determined equal to 2,

wherein, in response to the size of the current block being greater than or equal to the threshold size, the number of the sub-blocks is determined equal to 4, and

wherein the threshold size is defined as 8×8.

3. A method of transmitting a bitstream generated by an encoding method, the encoding method comprising:

dividing a current block into a plurality of sub-blocks;

obtaining, based on an intra prediction mode of the current block, a prediction block of the current block by performing sub-block-based intra prediction in units of the sub-blocks; and

encoding first division information indicating whether to divide the current block into the plurality of sub-blocks into the bitstream, the first division information being related to the sub-block-based intra prediction,

wherein the current block is divided into the plurality of sub-blocks in only one of a vertical direction or a horizontal direction,

wherein, based on a division direction of the current block, second division information is encoded into the bitstream,

wherein a number of the plurality of sub-blocks resulting from dividing the current block is adaptively determined based on whether a size of the current block is less than a threshold size pre-defined in an encoding apparatus,

wherein, in response to the size of the current block being less than the threshold size, the number of the sub-blocks is determined equal to 2,

wherein, in response to the size of the current block being greater than or equal to the threshold size, the number of the sub-blocks is determined equal to 4, and

wherein the threshold size is defined as 8×8.

Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2018-0036296 · Mar 29, 2018 · national
KR 10-2018-0036297 · Mar 29, 2018 · national
Continuity (3)
Division 17984399 · Nov 10, 2022
Division 17043121
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