Sun Patent Trust

Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America

Tagivan Ii LLC

Velos Media, LLC

Panasonic Corporation

Velos Media International Limited

Kyoko Tanikawa

Hisao Sasai

Youji Shibahara

Toshiyasu Sugio

Toru Matsunobu

Takahiro Nishi

Kengo Terada

Chong Soon Lim

Viktor Wahadaniah

Hai Wei Sun

Sue Mon Thet Naing

Daisaku Komiya

Kyaw Kyaw Win

Tadamasa Toma

Virginie Drugeon

Sue Mon Naing

Jin Li

Haiwei Sun

Sheng Mei Shen

Pongsak Lasang

Steffen Wittmann

Vikto Wahadaniah

Sugio Toshiyasu,

Toru Matsunobo

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 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.

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

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 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

A moving picture coding apparatus includes an intra-inter prediction unit which calculates a second motion vector by performing a scaling process on a first motion vector of a temporally neighboring corresponding block, when selectively adding, to a list, a motion vector of each of one or more corresponding blocks each of which is either a block included in a current picture to be coded and spatially neighboring a current block to be coded or a block included in a picture other than the current picture and temporally neighboring the current block, determines whether the second motion vector has a magnitude that is within a predetermined magnitude or not within the predetermined magnitude, and adds the second motion vector to the list when the intra-inter prediction unit determines that the second motion vector has a magnitude that is within the predetermined magnitude range.

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

A moving picture coding method includes: making a determination as to whether or not to code all blocks in a current picture in the skip mode; setting, based on a result of the determination, a first flag indicating whether or not a temporally neighboring block is to be referenced, a value of a parameter for determining a total number of merging candidates, and a second flag for each block included in the current picture, the second flag indicating whether or not the block is to be coded in the skip mode; calculating, as a merging candidate, a neighboring block usable for merging; and coding an index which indicates a merging candidate to be used for coding of the current block and attaching the coded index to a bitstream.

Video coding method, video decoding method, video coding apparatus and video decoding apparatus

A method of performing motion vector prediction for a current block in a picture is provided which includes: deriving a candidate for a motion vector predictor to code a current motion vector of the current block, from a first motion vector of a first block that is spatially adjacent or temporally adjacent to the current block; adding the derived candidate to a list of candidates; and deriving at least one motion vector predictor based on a selected candidate from the list of candidates, wherein the deriving of the candidate includes determining whether to derive the candidate from the first motion vector, based on a type of a current reference picture and a type of a first reference picture, the current reference picture being referred to from the current block using the current motion vector, the first reference picture being referred to from the first block using the first motion vector.

Method of performing motion vector prediction, and apparatus thereof

An image coding method includes: performing context arithmetic coding to consecutively code (i) first information indicating whether or not to perform sample adaptive offset (SAO) processing for a first region of an image and (ii) second information indicating whether or not to use, in the SAO processing for the first region, information on SAO processing for a region other than the first region, the context arithmetic coding being arithmetic coding using a variable probability, the SAO processing being offset processing on a pixel value; and performing bypass arithmetic coding to code other information which is information on the SAO processing for the first region and different from the first information or the second information, after the first information and the second information are coded, the bypass arithmetic coding being arithmetic coding using a fixed probability.

Arithmetic coding for information related to sample adaptive offset processing

An image coding method includes coding a motion vector difference indicating a difference between the motion vector and a predicted motion vector, wherein the coding includes: coding a first portion that is a part of a first component which is one of a horizontal component and a vertical component of the motion vector difference; coding a second portion that is a part of a second component which is different from the first component and is the other one of the horizontal component and the vertical component; coding a third portion that is a part of the first component and is different from the first portion; coding a fourth portion that is a part of the second component and is different from the second portion; and generating a code string which includes the first portion, the second portion, the third portion, and the fourth portion in the stated order.

An image decoding method includes: dividing a current block into sub-blocks; deriving, for each sub-block, one or more prediction information candidates; obtaining an index; and decoding the current block using the prediction information candidate selected by the index. The deriving includes: determining whether a neighboring block neighboring each sub-block is included in the current block, and when not included in the current block, determining the neighboring block to be a reference block available to the sub-block, and when included in the current block, determining the neighboring block not to be the reference block; and deriving a prediction information candidate of the sub-block from prediction information of the reference block; and when the number of prediction information candidates is smaller than a predetermined number, generating one or more new candidates without using the prediction information of the reference block till the number of prediction information candidates reaches the predetermined number.

Image decoding method

A moving picture encoding method for increasing coding efficiency includes: determining whether or not to apply orthogonal transformation, to calculate a value of an orthogonal transform skip flag; performing the orthogonal transformation on a prediction residual according to the value of the orthogonal transform skip flag, to calculate at least one orthogonal transform coefficient; performing quantization on at least the one orthogonal transform coefficient, to calculate at least one quantized coefficient; performing variable-length encoding on the orthogonal transform skip flag; and changing a scan order for at least the one quantized coefficient according to the value of the orthogonal transform skip flag, and performing variable-length encoding on at least the one quantized coefficient in the scan order after the change.

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

The image decoding method includes: determining a context for use in a current block to be processed, from among a plurality of contexts; and performing arithmetic decoding on a bit sequence corresponding to the current block, using the determined context, wherein in the determining: the context is determined under a condition that control parameters of neighboring blocks of the current block are used, when the signal type is a first type, the neighboring blocks being a left block and an upper block of the current block; and the context is determined under a condition that the control parameter of the upper block is not used, when the signal type is a second type, and the second type is one of 'ref_idx_l0' and “ref_idx_l1”.

Coding method and coding apparatus

An image coding method includes: deriving a candidate for a motion vector of a current block from a co-located motion vector; adding the candidate to a list; selecting the motion vector of the current block from the list; and coding the current block, wherein the deriving includes: deriving the candidate by a first derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of a current reference picture and a co-located reference picture is a long-term reference picture; and deriving the candidate by a second derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of the current reference picture and the co-located reference picture is a short-term reference picture.

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