Sun Patent Trust

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Panasonic Corporation

Tagivan II LLC

Velos Media, LLC

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC

Velos Media International Limited

Hisao Sasai

Youji Shibahara

Takahiro Nishi

Toshiyasu Sugio

Kyoko Tanikawa

Toru Matsunobu

Kengo Terada

Chong Soon Lim

Viktor Wahadaniah

Sue Mon Thet Naing

Hai Wei Sun

Satoshi Yoshikawa

Daisaku Komiya

Tadamasa Toma

Satoshi Kondo

Kyaw Kyaw Win

Xuan Jing

Virginie Drugeon

Takeshi Tanaka

Matthias Narroschke

Shinya Kadono Kadono

Thomas Wedi

Jin Li

Noritaka Iguchi

Masayasu Iguchi

Steffen Wittmann

Torsten Palfner

Yui Koashi

Kyoto Tanikawa

Haiwei Sun

Mikihiro Ouchi

Tao Chen

Sheng Mei Shen

Naoto Yumiki

Yoshiichiro Kashiwagi

Pongsak Lasang

Tomokazu Ishikawa

Takako Hori

Yoshinori Matsui

Masayuki Toyama

Aki Yoneda

Yuki Maruyama

Fumio Muramatsu

Tomoaki Itoh

Yoichi Sugino

Martin Schlockermann

Kuniaki Isogai

Yukinaga Seki

Ryuji Muta

Vikto Wahadaniah

Youji Sibahara

Yi Zhao

Toru Matsunobo

Sugio Toshiyasu,

Victor Wahadaniah

Sue Mon Naing

A processor obtains pieces of coded data, which are included in a bitstream and generated by coding tiles, and tile boundary independence information, which indicates whether each boundary between the tiles is a first or second boundary. Image data of a first tile is generated by decoding a first code string included in first coded data with reference to decoding information of a decoded tile when the tile boundary independence information indicates the first boundary, and by decoding the first code string without referring to the decoding information when the tile boundary independence information indicates the second boundary. A bit string is added after the first code string to make a bit length of first coded data a multiple of a predetermined N bits, with N being an integer greater than or equal to 2.

Image coding apparatus for coding tile boundaries

A motion vector calculation method which attains a higher compression rate, includes: a selection step of selecting one of at least one reference motion vector of a reference block; and a calculation step of calculating a motion vector of a current block to be processed, using the one reference motion vector selected in the selection step, and in the selection step, when the reference block has two reference motion vectors, one of the two reference motion vectors is selected based on whether the reference block is located before or after the current block in display time order, and when the reference block has only one reference motion vector, the one reference motion vector is selected.

Motion vector calculation method, picture coding method, picture decoding method, motion vector calculation apparatus, and picture coding and decoding apparatus

A video encoding method using a plurality of reference pictures includes: selecting whether or not a resilient picture referencing scheme is to be used for encoding video; writing a parameter indicating the selection into a header of an encoded video bitstream; and encoding a picture using inter-picture prediction using a result of the selection.

Video encoding method and video decoding method

A current block included in a current picture included in a coded video stream is decoded by determining a reference picture in the coded video stream, the reference picture being included in one of (i) a first reference picture group of the current block and (ii) a second reference picture group of the current block; selecting a reference motion vector of a reference block in the reference picture such that in situation (A) when the reference block has a first reference motion vector and a second reference motion vector that respectively correspond to the first reference picture group and the second reference picture group, (i) the first reference motion vector is selected when the reference picture is included in the second reference picture group and (ii) the second reference motion vector is selected when the reference picture is included in the first reference picture group, in situation (B) when the reference block has only one reference motion vector, the only reference motion vector is selected, and in situation (C) when the reference block has no reference motion vector, a zero reference motion vector is selected; deriving the motion vector of the current block using the selected one reference motion vector; and decoding the current block using the derived motion vector.

An image coding method of hierarchically coding a plurality of pictures to generate a bitstream, includes: coding each of the plurality of pictures, which belongs to any one of a plurality of hierarchical layers, with reference to a picture belonging to a hierarchical layer which is same as or lower than a hierarchical layer to which the picture belongs, and without reference to a picture belonging to a hierarchical layer which is higher than the hierarchical layer to which the picture belongs; and generating the bitstream by coding the coded pictures and time information indicating decoding times of the coded pictures. The time information indicates that the decoding times are set at equal intervals for low-layer pictures which are the plurality of pictures other than highest-layer pictures belonging to a highest layer among the plurality of hierarchical layers.

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

An image coding method includes: adding, to a candidate list, a first adjacent motion vector as a candidate for a predicted motion vector to be used for coding the current motion vector; selecting the predicted motion vector from the candidate list; and coding the current motion vector, wherein in the adding, the first adjacent motion vector indicating a position in a first reference picture included in a first reference picture list is added to the candidate list for the current motion vector indicating a position in a second reference picture included in a second reference picture list.

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

An image coding method includes: determining a maximum number of merging candidates; deriving first merging candidates based on blocks spatially or temporally neighboring a current block; determining whether or not a total number of the first merging candidates is smaller than the maximum number; deriving, by making a combination out of the derived first merging candidates, a second merging candidate for bi-directional prediction when it is determined that the total number of the first merging candidates is smaller than the maximum number; selecting a merging candidate to be used for the coding of the current block from the first merging candidates and the second merging candidate; and coding, using the determined maximum number, an index for identifying the selected merging candidate, and attaching the coded index to the bitstream.

Image decoding method and image decoding apparatus using candidate motion vectors

A method for transmitting a bitstream via a network is provided. The bitstream being generated by: deriving a first candidate having a first motion vector that has been used to code a first block; deriving a second candidate having a second motion vector and a first reference picture index value that identifies a first reference picture corresponding to the second motion vector, with the second motion vector being a first zero vector; deriving a third candidate having a third motion vector and a second reference picture index value that identifies a second reference picture corresponding to the third motion vector, with the third motion vector being a second zero vector. One candidate from a plurality of candidates, including the first, second, and third candidate is selected, and an index identifying the selected one candidate is coded.

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

A moving picture coding apparatus includes a co-located block information determination unit which determines which one of a forward reference block and a backward reference block will be a co-located block and further determines whether only the unidirectional motion vector of the motion vectors of the co-located block is to be stored in a colPic memory; a temporal motion vector predictor calculation unit which derives a candidate motion vector predictor in temporal motion vector predictor mode using the colPic information stored in the colPic memory; and an inter prediction control unit which determines to code a motion vector using a candidate motion vector predictor having least error from the motion vector derived by motion estimation among candidate motion vector predictors.

Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method

A moving picture coding apparatus for coding a current block from among blocks in a picture is provided. A motion vector predictor candidate list, having a fixed size, is generated, with the motion vector predictor candidate list including first and second candidates. The motion vector predictor candidate list is generated by: deriving the first candidate from a first motion vector used to code a first block, with the first block being adjacent to the current block; and deriving the second candidate that has a second motion vector that is a non-zero value vector based on an X-Y axis of a fixed offset value, with the second motion vector not being derived by coding a block adjacent to the current block and the fixed offset value being a non-zero value that is added in a picture header and commonly used for the blocks in the picture.

Derivation method and apparatuses with candidate motion vectors

An image coding method includes: writing, into a sequence parameter set, buffer description defining information for defining a plurality of buffer descriptions; writing, into the sequence parameter set, reference list description defining information for defining a plurality of reference list descriptions corresponding to the buffer descriptions; and writing, into a first header of each processing unit which is included in a coded bitstream, buffer description selecting information for specifying a selected buffer description.

A moving picture coding includes: coding a first flag indicating whether or not temporal motion vector prediction is used; when the first flag indicates that the temporal motion vector prediction is used: coding a first parameter for calculating the temporal predictive motion vector; wherein when the first flag indicates that the temporal motion vector prediction is not used, the first parameter is not coded.

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

A moving picture coding apparatus includes: an inter prediction control unit which determines to code a motion vector using, among candidate predicted motion vectors, a candidate predicted motion vector having the least error with relative to a motion vector derived by motion estimation; a picture type determination unit which generates picture type information; a temporal direction vector calculation unit which derives a candidate predicted motion vector in temporal direct; and a co-located reference direction determination unit which generates, for each picture, a co-located reference direction flag.

Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method using a determination whether or not a reference block has two reference motion vectors that refer forward in display order with respect to a current picture

A moving picture decoding apparatus for decoding a current block of a picture is provided. A motion vector candidate list includes motion vector candidates. Each motion vector candidate includes a value. A second candidate is arranged before a first candidate in the motion vector candidate list. The first candidate is sorted before the second candidate in the motion vector candidate list based on the value of the first candidate and the value of the second candidate. An index identifying a motion vector candidate from the motion vector candidate list is decoded, and the current block is generated using the identified motion vector candidate. The value of the first candidate is higher than the value of the second candidate, and the value is based on a number of times the candidate is selected as a motion vector predictor for neighboring blocks.

Coding method and apparatus with candidate motion vectors

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