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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2018
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Ohji Nakagami, Tokyo, JP;
Yoichi Yagasaki, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method that can improve encoding efficiency while preventing an increase in load. An extraction circuitof a filtering prediction circuitextracts motion compensation images for generating a prediction image in a high-resolution enhancement layer from reference frames in a low-resolution base layer. A filtering circuitof the filtering prediction circuitperforms filtering, which involves upconversion and which uses analysis in the time direction, on a plurality of motion compensation images in the base layer extracted by the extraction circuitto generate a prediction image in the enhancement layer. The present invention can be applied to, for example, an encoding apparatus and a decoding apparatus.