IP Library Granted Patent US 9,277,229
Granted Patent B2
US 9,277,229 · App. 14/682,298 · Granted Mar 1, 2016

Image decoding method, image coding method, image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, and image coding and decoding apparatus

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Patent No.
US 9,277,229
App. No.
14/682,298
Granted
Mar 1, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image decoding method for decoding a bitstream including a coded signal resulting from coding tiles and slices into which an image is partitioned, the method including decoding the coded signal, wherein each of the slices is either a normal slice having, in a header, information used for an other slice or a dependent slice which is decoded using information included in a slice header of another slice, and when the normal slice starts from a position other than a beginning of a first tile, a second tile coded next to the first tile does not start from the dependent slice.

Claims (12)

1. An image coding method for coding tiles and slices into which an image is partitioned, to generate a bitstream, the method comprising:

partitioning the image into the tiles and the slices; and

coding the tiles and slices resulting from the partitioning,

wherein each of the slices is either a normal slice having, in a header, information used for an other slice or a dependent slice which is decoded using information included in a slice header of another slice,

in the partitioning, when the normal slice starts from a position other than a beginning of a first tile, the image is partitioned into the tiles and the slices to prevent a second tile coded next to the first tile from starting from the dependent slice, and

when a slice at a beginning of a third tile is the dependent slice, the dependent slice includes the whole third tile.

2. An image coding apparatus which codes tiles and slices into which an image is partitioned, to generate a bitstream, the apparatus including a processor, the processor executing operations comprising:

partitioning the image into the tiles and the slices; and

coding the tiles and slices resulting from the partitioning,

wherein each of the slices is either a normal slice having, in a header, information used for an other slice or a dependent slice which is decoded using information included in a slice header of another slice,

in the partitioning, when the normal slice starts from a position other than a beginning of a first tile, the image is partitioned into the tiles and the slices to prevent a second tile coded next to the first tile from starting from the dependent slice, and

when a slice at a beginning of a third tile is the dependent slice, the dependent slice includes the whole third tile.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 30, 2016
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
To: SUN PATENT TRUST
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