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US 12,262,052 · App. 18/504,619 · Granted Mar 25, 2025

Image encoding device, image decoding device and program

Inventors: Shunsuke Iwamura (Tokyo, JP); Atsuro Ichigaya (Tokyo, JP); Shimpei Nemoto (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI
H04N19/593H04N19/105H04N19/11H04N19/119H04N19/13H04N19/176H04N19/61
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Patent No.
US 12,262,052
App. No.
18/504,619
Granted
Mar 25, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image encoding device 1 that encodes an encoding target block obtained by dividing an image, the image encoding device including: an intra predictor 172 configured to predict the encoding target block through intra prediction to generate a prediction block; and a transformer 121 configured to perform orthogonal transform processing on a prediction residual representing an error of the prediction block with respect to the encoding target block. The intra predictor includes: a weighted controller 172 c configured to control the weighted combining processing dependent on positions of prediction pixels within the prediction block based on a type of transform to be applied in the orthogonal transform processing in the transformer; and a corrector 172 b configured to correct the prediction pixels by performing the weighted combining processing on reference pixels adjacent to the encoding target block and the prediction pixels.

Claims (13)

1. An image decoding device that decodes a decoding target block obtained by dividing and encoding an image, the image decoding device comprising:

an entropy decoder configured to decode a control flag that is entropy encoded on an encoding side as control information of transform process;

an inverse transform controller configured to control inverse transform process to be performed on a transform coefficient corresponding to the decoding target block based on the control flag; and

an intra predictor configured to predict the decoding target block through intra prediction to generate a prediction block, wherein

the intra predictor includes:

a combining process controller configured to control, based on the control flag, a weight used in a weighted combining process dependent on positions of prediction pixels within the prediction block; and

a corrector configured to correct the prediction pixels by performing the weighted combining process on reference pixels adjacent to the decoding target block and the prediction pixels, wherein

the combining process controller is configured to control the weight based on the control flag indicating that a predetermined type of inverse transform is applied to the transform coefficient.

2. The image decoding device according to claim 1 , wherein

the combining process controller is configured to control weights for the reference pixels adjacent to the decoding target block based on the control flag.

3. The image decoding device according to claim 2 , wherein

in a case where a type of transform applied to the inverse transform process is a predetermined type including a basis that impulse response is monotonically increasing, the combining process controller is configured to increase a weight for a reference pixel adjacent to the decoding target block, compared to a case where the type is not the predetermined type.

4. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the program causes a computer to function as the image decoding device according to claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 8, 2023
From: IWAMURA, SHUNSUKE; ICHIGAYA, ATSURO; NEMOTO, SHIMPEI
To: NIPPON HOSO KYOKAI
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-043965 · Mar 11, 2019 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17471734 · Sep 10, 2021
Continuation PCTJP2020010326 · Mar 10, 2020
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