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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:
May. 12, 2026

Filed:

Apr. 06, 2023
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Kazushi Sato, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/32 (2006.01); H04N 19/503 (2014.01); H04N 19/52 (2014.01); H04N 19/593 (2014.01); H04N 19/33 (2014.01); H04N 19/597 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/52 (2014.11); H04N 19/503 (2014.11); H04N 19/593 (2014.11); H04N 19/33 (2014.11); H04N 19/597 (2014.11);
Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of improving processing efficiency with pipeline processing in encoding or decoding of a motion vector. In a motion vector encoding unit, such configuration is adopted that when a spatial prediction motion vector is derived according to AMVP or Merge mode, the use of a motion vector of a PU adjacent to a top right of a PU in question is prohibited. Therefore, the motion vector encoding unit performs encoding processing of a motion vector by using only motion vector information of B, Bwhich are PUs located at Top with respect to the PU in question and A, Awhich are PUs located at Left with respect to the PU in question. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus.


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