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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2015
SK Telecom Co., Ltd., Seoul, KR;
Sunyeon Kim, Seoul, KR;
Jeongyeon Lim, Seongnam-si, KR;
Jaehoon Choi, Seongnam-si, KR;
Gyumin Lee, Seongnam-si, KR;
Joohee Moon, Seoul, KR;
Yunglyul Lee, Seoul, KR;
Haekwang Kim, Seoul, KR;
Byeungwoo Jeon, Seongnam-si, KR;
Jongki Han, Seoul, KR;
Dongwon Kim, Seoul, KR;
SK TELECOM CO., LTD., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus for encoding image information using a tree structure performs a method by: encoding a partition flag indicating whether each node, starting from a node of an uppermost layer of the tree structure, is divided into nodes of a lower layer; encoding image information of a block corresponding to a node which is not further divided; and encoding additional information including first information on a minimum block size and second information on a difference between the minimum block size and a maximum block size, wherein the first and second information are used for identifying the maximum block size corresponding to the node of the uppermost layer.