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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2007
Shunichi Sekiguchi, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Shuichi Yamagishi, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Yoshimi Moriya, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Yoshihisa Yamada, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Kohtaro Asai, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Tokumichi Murakami, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Yuichi Idehara, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Shunichi Sekiguchi, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Shuichi Yamagishi, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Yoshimi Moriya, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Yoshihisa Yamada, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Kohtaro Asai, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Tokumichi Murakami, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Yuichi Idehara, Chiyoda-ku, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An encoding device includes a color component separating unit for separating an input bit stream for the respective color components, a block dividing unit for dividing an input color component signal into blocks to generate a signal of an encoding unit area, a predicted image generating unit for generating a predicted image for the signal, a determining unit for determining a prediction mode used for encoding according to a prediction efficiency of the predicted image, a prediction error encoding unit for encoding a difference between the predicted image corresponding to the prediction mode determined by the determining unit and the input color component signal, and an encoding unit for variable length-coding the prediction mode, an output from the prediction error encoding unit, and a color component identification flag indicating the color component to which the input bit stream belongs as a result of the color component separation.