Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Shikino High-tech Co., Ltd.

Shinji Kitamura

Yasuharu Tanaka

Taichi Nagata

Toshihiko Kusakabe

Kiyofumi Abe

Takashi Hashimoto

Hideyuki Ohgose

Kentaro Takakura

Tatsuro Juri

Mayu Ogawa

Yuki Maruyama

Takahiro Yamamoto

Yoshihisa Shimazu

Yoshimitsu Sasaki

Koji Arimura

Kenjiro Tsuda

Kazuyuki Inokuma

Yukinaga Seki

Kunihiro Imamura

Tatsuhiko Murata

Kenji Hirano

Masao Ozawa

Mitsuya Nakahara

Megumi Sakai

An encoder which encodes a picture includes processing circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the processing circuitry: splits the picture into a plurality of slice segments; encodes a plurality of blocks included in each of the plurality of slice segments; reconstructs the plurality of blocks encoded; adds, for each of the plurality of slice segments, control information to a header area of the slice segment, the control information being for controlling application of a filter to the slice segment; and applies, for each of the plurality of slice segments, the filter to a block which has been reconstructed in the slice segment, according to the control information of the slice segment.

Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method

Provided is an image encoding method which inhibits deterioration in processing performance for encoding while improving transmission efficiency. The image encoding method is for generating a bitstream by encoding a picture, and includes: sequentially encoding blocks included in the picture; deriving an encoding amount of a slice segment each time one of the blocks is encoded as a current block, the slice segment including the current block; determining whether the encoding amount derived is at least a threshold; and setting end information indicating an end of the slice segment in a position in the bitstream when the encoding amount is determined to be at least the threshold, the position corresponding to the current block encoded.

Image encoding method, transmission method, and image encoder

In an image encoding device, a predicted pixel generator generates a predicted value for pixel data based on at least one of pixels adjacent to a pixel to be compressed. A quantization processor quantizes a difference value between the pixel data and the generated predicted value to a quantized value having a smaller number of bits than that of the pixel data to compress the pixel data to the quantized value. In a quantization width determiner, an edge determiner determines whether or not there are both a flat portion and an edge portion, based on a characteristic of the difference value in the group, and an edge pixel determiner determines whether each of pixels included in the group is a pixel in an edge portion or a pixel in a flat portion, based on the difference value, whereby a quantization width used in the quantization processor is determined.

Image encoding method, image decoding method, image encoding device and image decoding device

The image encoding apparatus which encodes, on a per block basis, a current picture included in a moving picture includes: an encoder which outputs a first encoded stream including, in the following arrangement order, (i) slice data obtained by encoding a slice included in the current picture and including a plurality of block lines and (ii) a slice header including information indicating a code amount of each of the plurality of block lines; and an exchanger which exchanges arrangement positions of the slice data and the slice header in the first encoded stream.

Moving picture encoding apparatus and moving picture encoding method

A moving picture encoding apparatus encodes a moving picture having an interlaced structure, and includes: a storage which stores fields as reference pictures; and an encoder which encodes a current field as a B-picture, using a first reference picture list which includes only one field in a same parity as the current field, and a second reference picture list which includes only one field in an opposite parity to the current field.

Moving picture encoding apparatus and moving picture encoding method for encoding a moving picture having an interlaced structure

A moving image encoding device that divides a moving image signal into a plurality of macroblocks and encodes a difference between each of the macroblocks into which the moving image signal is divided and a motion compensated prediction image includes a prediction processing section configured to perform prediction processing on a plurality of moving image signals, and a control section configured to instruct, when prediction processing for a first moving image signal and prediction processing for a second moving image signal whose frame rate is smaller than a frame rate of the first moving image signal are simultaneously performed, the prediction processing section to reduce an arithmetic amount regarding prediction processing only for the first moving image signal.

Moving image encoding method and moving image encoding device

A image reproducing device decodes a moving picture stream having been subjected to inter-picture prediction encoding with a reference image memory accessed. A decoding processor performs variable length decoding of the moving picture stream on a picture-by-picture basis, and outputs an encoding parameter. A traffic analyzer estimates traffic to the reference image memory on the picture-by-picture basis based on the output encoding parameters. A reference image compression controller determines a compression mode in storing a reference image in the reference image memory based on the estimated traffic.

Image reproducing method, image reproducing device, image reproducing program, imaging system, and reproducing system

The image coding method according to the present invention includes the following steps. At a histogram calculation step, a histogram of pixel values included in a block image is calculated. At a plane region detection step, a size of a plane region included in the block image is detected. At an orthogonal transformation size selection step, (i) a first processing size is selected as a processing size of orthogonal transformation for the block image when the histogram is bimodal and the size of the plane region is equal to or greater than the first threshold value, and (ii) a second processing size greater than the first processing size is selected as the processing size, when that the histogram is not bimodal or the size of the plane region is smaller than the first threshold value.

Image coding method, image coding apparatus, and imaging system

An image coding method includes: a predictive pixel generation step of generating a predictive value from at least one surrounding pixel located near a compression target pixel; a code conversion step of code-converting the pixel data to generate a Gray code; and quantizing bit change information (exclusive OR) between the generated Gray code and a Gray code of the predictive value to a quantization value, to compress the pixel data. This prevents significant image quality degradation, so that high image quality can be achieved.

Image coding method and decoding method, image coding apparatus and decoding apparatus, camera, and imaging device

An image combining and encoding method includes steps of combining a current image and a previous image at a predetermined composition ratio on a per block basis, and generating a composite image, and sequentially encoding moving pictures of the composite image generated in the combining step. A reference image generated in the encoding step is used as the previous image in the combining step.

Image combining and encoding method, image combining and encoding device, and imaging system

A picture coding apparatus includes a static area information calculating unit that calculates static area information indicating a size of a static area of which motion is smaller than a predetermined value for each of fields included in an interlaced picture, a reference field selecting unit that selects, as a reference field to be used to predict a field to be coded, one of a field having of the same parity as a field to be coded and a field having the opposite parity of the field to be coded, among fields previously coded, based on the static area information of the fields previously coded, and a coding unit that codes the field to be coded by using the reference field selected by the reference field selecting unit.

Picture coding apparatus, picture coding method and video camera

A motion detection device includes a current image memory, a reference image memory, a reference image memory control section, and a motion detection section. When the motion detection section detects a motion vector for a first current macroblock image, the reference image memory control section determines a motion estimation range by using a surrounding motion vector being a motion vector detected for a current macroblock image present around the first current macroblock.

Motion detection device, MOS (metal-oxide semiconductor) integrated circuit, and video system

Coding processing performed by an image coding device () includes: processing (S) of performing coding by leaving surplus bit(s), when the digit number B of binary data of the difference value between (a) a value of a to-be-coded pixel and (b) a prediction value is smaller than the predetermined bit number M; and processing (S) of performing coding by using the surplus bit(s), when the digit number B is greater than M and there are the surplus bit(s). Pieces of coded data each having a predetermined coding amount are generated, by performing processing for each of consecutive T pixels so as to perform the coding processing for each of U pixels among the consecutive T pixels (S).

Image coding device, digital still camera, digital camcorder, imaging device, and image coding method

A motion vector estimator includes an object data input and sorting unit and a reference data input and sorting unit for sorting packed input picture data to separate first picture data used for estimating the motion vector from second picture data that is not used for estimating the motion vector and pack the picture data again respectively, an object data storing unit and a reference data storing unit for storing the repacked first picture data and the second picture data, and a motion vector calculating unit for reading the first picture data from the object data storing unit and the reference data storing unit to perform a calculation for estimating the motion vector.

Motion vector estimating method and motion picture processor

An image data transfer method including the steps of: (a) reading pixel data of a two-dimensional image stored in a first image storage and having a plurality of pixels, the position of each of the pixels being represented by coordinates of first and second directions, the pixel data being read by scanning data transfer units of the pixel data in the second direction where each of the data transfer units is formed by data of a predetermined number of pixels consecutive in the first direction; (b) writing the data transfer units read at step (a) in a temporary data storage where data is stored at a position designated by a combination of first and second addresses, the data transfer units being written in burst mode in a region of the temporary data storage in which the first addresses are consecutive while the second address is fixed; and (c) reading the data transfer units written in the temporary data storage from the region in which the first addresses are consecutive while the second address is fixed in burst mode and writing the read data transfer units in a second image storage.

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Shinji Kitamura