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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2019
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 (2006.01); H04N 19/58 (2014.01); H04N 19/60 (2014.01); H04N 19/105 (2014.01); H04N 19/50 (2014.01); H04N 19/503 (2014.01); H04N 19/159 (2014.01); H04N 19/176 (2014.01); H04N 19/172 (2014.01); H04N 19/134 (2014.01); H04N 19/61 (2014.01); H04N 19/593 (2014.01); H04N 19/107 (2014.01); H04N 19/137 (2014.01); H04N 19/44 (2014.01); H04N 19/523 (2014.01); H04N 19/573 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/58 (2014.11); H04N 19/105 (2014.11); H04N 19/107 (2014.11); H04N 19/134 (2014.11); H04N 19/137 (2014.11); H04N 19/159 (2014.11); H04N 19/172 (2014.11); H04N 19/176 (2014.11); H04N 19/44 (2014.11); H04N 19/50 (2014.11); H04N 19/503 (2014.11); H04N 19/523 (2014.11); H04N 19/573 (2014.11); H04N 19/593 (2014.11); H04N 19/60 (2014.11); H04N 19/61 (2014.11);
Abstract
A moving picture coding apparatus includes a counter unit which counts the number of pictures following an intra coded picture; and a motion estimation unit which compares respectively only reference pictures which are the intra coded picture or the following pictures, selected from among a reference picture Ref, a reference picture Refand a reference picture Refstored in memories, with a picture signal, and determines the reference picture whose inter picture differential value is smallest.