Sony Corporation

Sony Group Corporation

Takaaki Fuchie

Kyohei Koyabu

Shojiro Shibata

Kashu Takahashi

Yuya Horiuchi

Hiromi Yoshinari

Masaki Hirose

Atsuo Yada

Takeshi Shibata

Yoshinobu Kure

Kenji Uehara

An information processing device () includes a data classification unit () and a target transmission rate setting unit (). The data classification unit () classifies a plurality of pieces of data transmitted via a network () into one or more groups based on a sharing state of a communication resource between the data. The target transmission rate setting unit () sets, for each group, a target transmission rate of each data belonging to the group based on a setting reference of the target transmission rate defined for each group.

Information processing device, information processing system, and information processing method for data classification

An image processing device is described. The circuitry of the image processing device obtains an image that is generated on a basis of an incident light and a transfer function related to a conversion between the incident light and the image, and determines a cost function for prediction mode selection according to the transfer function. The cost function calculates a cost value based on a first parameter corresponding to a prediction residual code amount and a second parameter corresponding to a prediction mode code amount. The cost function is determined in a manner in favor of increasing the prediction residual code amount or decreasing the prediction mode code amount as a dynamic range of the transfer function increases. The circuitry determines a prediction mode for coding a coding unit of the image according to the determined cost function, and encodes the coding unit according to the determined prediction mode.

Image processing device, image processing method, and program for determining a cost function for mode selection

[Object] To prevent an inappropriate processing parameter from being used in a case in which an image that may be expressed by various expression methods is handled. [Solution] Provided is an image processing device including: a control unit that decides a processing parameter for image processing performed on an image on the basis of at least one of a transfer function related to conversion between light and an image signal that is applied to the image or a color range that is applied to the image; and a processing unit that executes the image processing using the processing parameter that is decided by the control unit.

Image processing device, method, and program deciding a processing parameter

An image processing apparatus includes: a quantization parameter determination section which determines a reference quantization parameter; a back search section which detects a detected quantization parameter for each coding unit; a coding section which codes the input image for each coding unit; a feedback control section which confirms the generated code quantity of the input image, and if it is predicted that the generated code quantity for each image unit exceeds the target code quantity for each image unit, increases the determined reference quantization parameter; and a coding control section which performs control such that, during dubbing, the coding section uses the reference quantization parameter when the back search detection is not successful and selectively uses the reference quantization parameter or the detected quantization parameter in accordance with a determination result of a need for code quantity suppression when the back search detection is successful.

Image processing apparatus, method, and medium with feedback control and quantization search

An image encoding device includes: a first encoding unit for calculating a generated code amount when encoding image data using a fixed quantizing parameter, and block distinction regarding whether a macro block is a block for performing temporal prediction or block for performing spatial prediction regarding a picture for predicting a temporal direction; a code amount control unit for setting the offset amount of a quantizing parameter so as to have great code amount to be assigned to a picture including many images to be referenced according to a percentage between the block for temporal prediction, and the block for spatial prediction based on the results of the block distinction, and determining a quantizing parameter based on the generated code amount calculated at the first encoding unit; and a second encoding unit for encoding the image data using the offset quantizing parameter for realizing a target generated code amount.

Image encoding device and image encoding method

An image encoding device includes: a first encoding unit for encoding image data using a fixed-quantizing parameter to calculate a generated code amount; a second encoding unit for encoding the image data using multiple different quantizing parameters for each of the quantizing parameters as the image data of an intra picture to calculate a generated code amount; a code amount control unit for determining a quantizing parameter by predicting a quantizing parameter for realizing a target generated code amount, and a generated code amount when employing this quantizing parameter based on the generated code amount calculated at the first encoding unit, and correcting this predicted generated code amount according to the generated code amount calculated at the second encoding unit so as to realize the target generated code amount; and a third encoding unit for encoding the image data using the quantizing parameter determined at the code amount control unit.

The present invention can suppress the generated code quantity for each image increment so as not to exceeding the target code quantity without having a usage quantizing factor deviate greatly in a sure manner. An image encoding device () determines a basic quantization parameter (QP) serving as a basic quantizing factor to be predicted in the case that the main encoding generated code comes near the target code quantity at the time of encoding an input image (). The image encoding device () encodes the input image () for each feedback control increment by executing quantization using an adapted quantization parameter (QPt) based on an average quantization parameter BaseQP serving as a usage quantizing factor determined based on at least the basic quantization parameter (QP). The image encoding device () confirms the generated code quantity of the encoded input image () for each feedback control increment, and in the case of predicting that the generated code quantity for each image increment will exceed the target code quantity, increases the value of the adapted quantization parameter (QPt) by increasing the average quantization parameter BaseQP.

Image processing device and image processing method with feedback control

An image coding apparatus includes a first coding unit that discretely selects quantization parameters of a first range to perform calculation of generated code amounts corresponding to the selected quantization parameters, a second coding unit that performs calculation of generated code amounts corresponding to quantization parameters of a second range, a code amount control unit that decides deciding a temporary quantization parameter corresponding to a target code amount by calculating generated code amounts through an interpolation process for quantization parameters not selected by the first coding unit, and by comparing the generated code amounts corresponding to the selected quantization parameters and the generated code amounts calculated through the interpolation process with the target code amount, and decides an optimal quantization parameter corresponding to the target code amount by comparing the generated code amounts calculated by the second coding unit with the target code amount.

Image coding apparatus and image coding method

An image processing device includes: a holder configured to hold a reference picture necessary for decoding of an access unit as a processing subject in decoding of a stream composed of access units including a header; an analyzer configured to analyze the stream to thereby detect the header for each of the access units; and a generator configured to, if a header indicating change of deletion order of pictures is detected as the header detected by the analyzer, delete a picture included in an access unit corresponding to the header in the deletion order indicated by the header and generate hold information indicating a reference picture to be held by the holder.

Image processing device, image processing method, information processing device, and information processing method

An image processing device includes: a plurality of encoding units that encode image data; a shared memory that stores reference image data which is used for encoding performed by each of the plurality of encoding units; and a control unit that secures an encoding unit from the plurality of encoding units, which is made to encode an intra-frame prediction encoded image and a forward prediction encoded image by priority, and that makes an encoding unit, which is not used to encode the intra-frame prediction encoded image or the forward prediction encoded image, encode a bidirectional prediction encoded image, using reference image data stored in the shared memory during a period where the secured encoding unit does not perform the encoding.

Image processing device and image processing method

An image coding apparatus for coding image data. The image coding apparatus includes: a first coding mechanism predicting a quantization parameter and a quantization matrix to be used for calculating a target amount of code for the image data by coding the image data; a second coding mechanism correcting the quantization parameter predicted by the first coding means from an error between an amount of generated code produced by coding using the quantization parameter and the quantization matrix predicted by the first coding mechanism and the target amount of code; and a third coding mechanism coding the image data using the quantization parameter corrected by the second coding mechanism.

Image coding apparatus and image coding method to generate a targeted amount of code

An image encoding device includes: a first encoding unit for calculating a generated code amount by encoding image data for each GOP (Group of Picture); a code amount control unit for setting quantization information for realizing a target generated code amount based on the generated code amount; a quantization information distinguishing unit for calculating a DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) coefficient, and distinguishing quantization information that minimizes the summation for each picture of remainders when performing division of the DCT coefficient, as quantization information used for performing the last encoding; a picture-type setting unit for setting a picture type to the image data for each GOP, and when this set picture type differs from the picture type of the distinguished quantization information, matching the picture types by controlling the settings of the subsequent picture types; and a second encoding unit for encoding the image data based on the set picture type.

The present invention enables a circuit configuration to be simplified. An image encoding device () receives an input image () that is line-scanned in units of MBs as scan blocks, each constituted by a plurality of 4&#xd7;4 blocks, while being scanned in units of 4&#xd7;4 blocks as encoding blocks, each constituted by a plurality of pixels. The image encoding device () selects a VLC (variable length) table corresponding to a table selection index nC, which is an average value of the numbers nB and nA of nonzero coefficients as encoding values on which variable-length encoding is performed in upper-adjoining and left-adjoining 4&#xd7;4 blocks of a 4&#xd7;4 block as an encoding target in quantization coefficients as encoding target data based on the input image (). At this time, in a case where the 4&#xd7;4 block as an encoding target is at an upper end of an MB, the image encoding device () equates the number nB of nonzero coefficients of the upper-adjoining 4&#xd7;4 block with the number nA of nonzero coefficients of the left-adjoining 4&#xd7;4 block. The image encoding device () performs variable-length encoding on the number of nonzero coefficients of a 4&#xd7;4 block as an encoding target in quantization coefficients using the selected VLC table.

Image processing device and image processing method for reducing the circuit scale

The present invention can suppress the decline in video quality during encoding. The present invention generates, for each of the nine intra image prediction modes preset according to the AVC standard, a difference image data item containing a difference value from pixels surrounding a process-target pixel. Then, an encoding device () ranks the intra image prediction modes depending on the sum of absolute difference (SAD), which is the sum of differences that is based on the sum of absolute values of each process-target pixel of the difference image data item and a preference order of offset[n] preset for the intra image prediction mode.

An information processing apparatus controlling processing for splicing first and second compressed image data at an editing point includes acquiring means for acquiring the code amounts of the first compressed image data near the start point and the second compressed image data near the end point of a first range around the editing point; analyzing means for analyzing, in accordance with the code amounts, a first locus of virtual buffer occupancies when the virtual buffer occupancy at the start point is minimum and a second locus of virtual buffer occupancies when the virtual buffer occupancy of a picture next to the end point is maximum; and determining means for determining, in accordance with the first locus and the second locus, an upper limit and a lower limit of the virtual buffer occupancy at the start point and the end point, respectively, when the first range is re-encoded.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Takaaki Fuchie