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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2012
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kazushi Sato, Chiba, JP;
Osamu Sunohara, Tokyo, JP;
Teruhiko Suzuki, Chiba, JP;
Peter Kuhn, Tokyo, JP;
Yoichi Yagasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing method includes decoding encoded image data to generate a decoded image signal including a luma signal and a chroma signal. The method further includes detecting a condition that a reference field has a different parity from a current field and that the number of chroma pixels is vertically different from the number of luma pixels. The method further includes shifting a phase of the chroma signal in the reference field in a vertical minus direction according and a value of a motion vector in a vertical direction under the detected condition so that the reference field will coincide in phase of the chroma signal with a current field. The method also includes performing a motion compensation of the decoded image signal using the reference field.