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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2019
Apparatus and method of adaptive block filtering of target slice based on filter control information
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an image processing apparatus including: area determination unit configured to determine whether or not an area of a control block functioning as control unit for filtering of an image includes a processing-target slice area of a plurality of slices formed in a frame of an encoded image; control information creation unit configured to create filter control information representing whether or not the filtering is performed for the area of the control block including a processing-target slice for each area of the control block including the processing-target slice when the area determination unit determines that the area of the control block includes the area of the processing-target slice; and filter unit configured to perform filtering for the image based on the filter control information created by the control information creation unit.