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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yuya Omori, Musashino, JP;
Takayuki Onishi, Musashino, JP;
Hiroe Iwasaki, Musashino, JP;
Atsushi Shimizu, Musashino, JP;
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A coding device executes coding having divided an image into blocks, and includes: a candidate obtainment unit that obtains a plurality of provisional motion vector candidates in a coding target block; an evaluation information obtainment unit that obtains a correspondence vector that is a vector having a same direction and a same magnitude as a direction and a magnitude of the obtained provisional motion vector candidates, and evaluation information of a search center indicated by the correspondence vector in a coded block; and a selection unit that, on the basis of the evaluation information, selects, from the plurality of provisional motion vector candidates, a number of motion vector candidates that is lower than the number of the plurality of provisional motion vector candidates.