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Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 07, 2011
Applicants:

Masaki Kitahara, Yokosuka, JP;

Atsushi Shimizu, Yokosuka, JP;

Mayuko Watanabe, Yokosuka, JP;

Inventors:

Masaki Kitahara, Yokosuka, JP;

Atsushi Shimizu, Yokosuka, JP;

Mayuko Watanabe, Yokosuka, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/52 (2014.01); H04N 19/56 (2014.01); H04N 19/513 (2014.01); H04N 19/533 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/521 (2014.11); H04N 19/52 (2014.11); H04N 19/533 (2014.11); H04N 19/56 (2014.11);
Abstract

In a moving picture encoding apparatus, a primary candidate reference motion vector-setting unit sets N primary candidate reference motion vectors. A degree of reliability calculation unit calculates the reliability of each primary candidate reference motion vector, which represents effectiveness in predicting a motion vector of a block to be decoded, using coded or decoded image information. A reference motion vector determination unit selects M (M<N) secondary candidate reference motion vectors in accordance with degree of reliability from among the N primary candidate reference motion vectors. A motion vector prediction unit creates a predictive motion vector of a block to be coded using M secondary candidate reference motion vectors with high reliability.


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