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US 12,641,230 · App. 19/301,826 · Granted May 26, 2026

Image encoding method/device, image decoding method/device and recording medium having bitstream stored thereon

Inventors: Joo Hee Moon (Seoul, KR); Dong Jae Won (Goyang-si, KR); Sung Won Lim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: Industry Academy Cooperation Foundation of Sejong University
H04N19/117H04N19/13H04N19/176H04N19/436H04N19/82
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Patent No.
US 12,641,230
App. No.
19/301,826
Granted
May 26, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention provides an image encoding method and an image decoding method. The image decoding method, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: decoding information associated with a clipping range of a current block; and performing sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering on the basis of the information associated with the clipping range, wherein the information associated with the clipping range may include information on the maximum and minimum values of a pixel value included in the current block.

Claims (15)

1 . An image decoding method, comprising:

performing filtering on a luma block in a current picture; and

performing filtering on a chroma block in the current picture,

wherein filtering on the chroma block is performed by clipping pixel values in the chroma block within a minimum and a maximum range;

wherein a maximum normalized luminance value and a minimum normalized luminance value of the current picture are signaled from a bitstream.

2 . An image encoding method, comprising:

performing filtering on a luma block in a current picture; and

performing filtering on a chroma block in the current picture,

wherein filtering on the chroma block is performed by clipping pixel values in the chroma block within a minimum and a maximum range;

wherein a maximum normalized luminance value and a minimum normalized luminance value of the current picture are encoded into a bitstream.

3 . A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a bitstream generated by an image encoding method, the method comprising:

performing filtering on a luma block in a current picture; and

performing filtering on a chroma block in the current picture,

wherein filtering on the chroma block is performed by clipping pixel values in the chroma block within a minimum and a maximum range;

wherein a maximum normalized luminance value and a minimum normalized luminance value of the current picture are encoded into the bitstream.

Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2017-0009631 · Jan 20, 2017 · national
KR 10-2017-0009632 · Jan 20, 2017 · national
Continuity (5)
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Continuation 17857117 · Jul 4, 2022
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