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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019

Filed:

May. 23, 2017
Applicants:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Nobuyoshi Miyahara, Tokyo, JP;

Yuji Ando, Kanagawa, JP;

Ryohei Okada, Tokyo, JP;

Osamu Ota, Tokyo, JP;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/167 (2014.01); H04N 19/172 (2014.01); H04N 19/107 (2014.01); H04N 19/137 (2014.01); H04N 19/179 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/167 (2014.11); H04N 19/107 (2014.11); H04N 19/137 (2014.11); H04N 19/172 (2014.11); H04N 19/179 (2014.11);
Abstract

There is provided an encoding apparatus, including an intra-block determination section which determines that a prediction mode of a block is a forced intra-prediction mode, by a frequency based on a priority of each block of an image to be encoded, an encoding section which encodes the block, to which the prediction mode has been determined to be an intra-prediction mode by the intra-block determination section, with the intra-prediction mode, and a transmission section which transmits an encoded result of the image to be encoded obtained by the encoding section, and the prediction mode of the image.


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