Abstract: A method includes extracting a first vector used to code a specific block belonging to a coded field picture arranged chronologically adjacent to a field picture to be coded and to a block to be coded, generating a second vector by scaling the first vector based on a temporal distance between the field picture and a second picture specified by a reference index and referenced for the block and included in the field picture and a temporal distance between a first picture pointed by the first vector and the coded field picture arranged chronologically adjacent to the field picture, and correcting the second vector based on a parity of the field picture, a parity of the first picture, a parity of the second picture and a parity of the coded field picture and forming the corrected second vector.

Abstract: An encoding apparatus having a direct mode as a prediction mode, when a pixel with opposite parity from a top field to a bottom field, for example, is referred to for obtaining a reference vector in the direct mode, performs correction by adding or subtracting a value corresponding to a half pixel to or from a value of the obtained reference vector. The encoding apparatus, when a pixel with opposite parity is referred to for obtaining a first and a second direct vector by temporally scaling the corrected reference vector, performs correction by adding or subtracting a value corresponding to a half pixel to or from values of the obtained direct vectors.

Abstract: An encoding apparatus having a direct mode as a prediction mode, when a pixel with opposite parity from a top field to a bottom field, for example, is referred to for obtaining a reference vector in the direct mode, performs correction by adding or subtracting a value corresponding to a half pixel to or from a value of the obtained reference vector. The encoding apparatus, when a pixel with opposite parity is referred to for obtaining a first and a second direct vector by temporally scaling the corrected reference vector, performs correction by adding or subtracting a value corresponding to a half pixel to or from values of the obtained direct vectors.

Abstract: An encoding circuit (1) encodes an input image. A thinning-out decision unit (2) determines whether or not a picture needs to be thinned out. A dummy picture storage device (4) stores a dummy picture. A dummy picture is encoded data in which all the blocks refer to the same picture, motion vectors of all the blocks are zero, and none of the blocks has prediction residual information. A reference picture selection unit (5) selects a reference picture from among a plurality of referenceable pictures. A header generating unit (7) generates a header to be added to a dummy picture. In the header, the selected reference picture is assigned to an index specifying a reference picture for the dummy picture.

Abstract: An encoding apparatus having a direct mode as a prediction mode, when a pixel with opposite parity from a top field to a bottom field, for example, is referred to for obtaining a reference vector in the direct mode, performs correction by adding or subtracting a value corresponding to a half pixel to or from a value of the obtained reference vector. The encoding apparatus, when a pixel with opposite parity is referred to for obtaining a first and a second direct vector by temporally scaling the corrected reference vector, performs correction by adding or subtracting a value corresponding to a half pixel to or from values of the obtained direct vectors.

Abstract: The apparatus includes: orthogonal transforming means for orthogonally transforming an input video signal for each element block, quantizing means for quantizing each obtained transformation coefficient using a quantization parameter; coding means for coding the quantization parameter; decoded picture generating means for generating a reference picture signal for a motion compensation prediction from the quantized results of the quantizing means; filtering means for filtering the obtained reference picture signal at a strength corresponding to the quantization parameter when a non-zero effective transformation coefficient is present with respect to the element block; and controlling means for controlling at least anyone of transformation coefficients to be not zero, when all of the transformation coefficients are zero.

Abstract: This is an encoding device for compressing/encoding an input video signal. The encoding device comprises a reduction/conversion unit for converting the format of either a luminance component or a chrominance component according to the characteristic of the input video signal and an encoding unit for compressing/encoding the video signal whose format is converted by the reduction/conversion unit to generate encoded data.

Abstract: A moving image reencoding device, includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, decoding encoded moving image data that is encoded by a first encoding method that enables switching for a frame encoding mode in which encoding is performed on the basis of a frame or a field encoding mode in which encoding is performed on the basis of a field, in a block unit that is obtained by dividing a picture, and acquiring importance degree information related to an importance degree of an encoding mode that is switched in the block unit, when decoding the encoded moving image data; acquiring an encoding parameter that is set as a second encoding method, the second encoding method enabling switching for the frame encoding mode or the field encoding mode in a picture unit, or statistical information.

Abstract: A moving image decoding method for decoding encoded data of an image partitioned into a plurality of blocks includes determining a predicted motion vector corresponding to a motion vector of a block to be decoded by using motion vector information, the motion vector information including a motion vector of an already-decoded block and reference destination information designating a reference destination of the motion vector of the already-decoded block; controlling a decoding process of the motion vector of the block to be decoded using the predicted motion vector depending on whether the reference destination information designating the reference destination of the motion vector designates an inter-view reference image; and decoding the motion vector of the block to be decoded with the controlled decoding process.

Abstract: An encoding apparatus having a direct mode as a prediction mode, when a pixel with opposite parity from a top field to a bottom field, for example, is referred to for obtaining a reference vector in the direct mode, performs correction by adding or subtracting a value corresponding to a half pixel to or from a value of the obtained reference vector. The encoding apparatus, when a pixel with opposite parity is referred to for obtaining a first and a second direct vector by temporally scaling the corrected reference vector, performs correction by adding or subtracting a value corresponding to a half pixel to or from values of the obtained direct vectors.

Abstract: A device for encoding a picture included in moving picture data, through motion compensation, the device includes, a storage unit for storing a motion vector for motion compensation, the motion vector determined for each of a plurality of encoded pictures, a picture interval comparator for reading from the storage unit a first motion vector as a standard candidate vector, a co-located vector decider for calculating a co-located vector by setting the standard candidate vector to be the co-located vector of the first block, a direct motion vector calculator for calculating a first direct motion vector and a second direct motion vector with respect to the first block by dividing the co-located vector, a prediction image generator for generating a first motion compensation image, and an encoder for encoding an error signal representing a difference between the prediction image and a corresponding pixel on the first block.

Abstract: A method includes extracting a first vector used to code a specific block belonging to a coded field picture arranged chronologically adjacent to a field picture to be coded and to a block to be coded, generating a second vector by scaling the first vector based on a temporal distance between the field picture and a second picture specified by a reference index and referenced for the block and included in the field picture and a temporal distance between a first picture pointed by the first vector and the coded field picture arranged chronologically adjacent to the field picture, and correcting the second vector based on a parity of the field picture, a parity of the first picture, a parity of the second picture and a parity of the coded field picture and forming the corrected second vector.

Abstract: A video transcoder includes: a decoding unit which decodes coded video data in which each of blocks in a frame included in the coded video data has been coded for each first unit of coding by switching a frame coding mode and a field coding mode; a coding mode determination unit which determines a coding mode to be applied among the frame coding mode and the field coding mode, based on a first statistical value regarding the frame coded blocks and a second statistical value regarding the field coded blocks for each second unit of coding larger than the first unit of coding; and a re-coding unit which re-codes a block which belongs to a first frame and is coded with reference to a second frame, in the coding mode which is determined to be applied.

Abstract: A video encoder that encodes each of a plurality of blocks obtained by dividing an input image, includes: a definition unit configured to define a valid area which is allowed to be used as reference in a reference image in interframe coding; a detection unit configured to detect a reference area in the reference image for a target block; a predicted image generation unit configured to generate a predicted image by outputting an image of the reference area for the reference area belonging to the valid area and outputting a complementary image for the reference area not belonging to the valid area; and a coding unit configured to encode the input image using the predicted image, wherein valid area information indicating the valid area is transmitted to a video decoder, for each group of a plurality of blocks.

Abstract: A moving picture editing apparatus includes a picture extracting unit that extracts pictures of a predetermined range including a picture subsequent to a coupling point from encoded data to be coupled; an adjustment-information generating unit that generates adjustment information for adjusting values of information to be continuous from/to inside to/from outside the predetermined range upon decoding, from among information included in headers of the pictures of the predetermined range extracted by the picture extracting unit; and a re-encoding unit that adds the adjustment information generated by the adjustment-information generating unit to the headers of the pictures of the predetermined range extracted by the picture extracting unit, and re-encodes the pictures of the predetermined range.

Abstract: A video decoding device includes a decoder configured to decode a plurality of separate partial areas of each of pictures included in encoded video data and a motion vector indicating a positional relationship between each of the partial areas and a partial area of a different picture referenced in order to encode the partial area; an error detector configured to detect, as an error area, a partial area that is unable to be decoded by the decoder from among the plurality of partial areas; a referenced area determiner configured to determine a referenced area of a third picture that has already been decoded, the referenced area corresponding to the error area; a concealment unit configured to conceal the error area using data included in the referenced area; and an image integrator configured to reproduce the first picture.

Abstract: A video decoding method of decoding coded data of a multi-view video, the method includes, determining, in a case where a decoding target block is coded in a temporal direct-mode, whether or not a block at a same position of a picture that becomes a reference of the temporal direct-mode with respect to the decoding target block has a disparity vector referring to a block of another view point. The method also includes calculating, in a case where the block at the same position has the disparity vector, a motion vector of the decoding target block by using a motion vector belonging to the block of another view point to which the disparity vector refers; and decoding the decoding target block by using the calculated motion vector.

Abstract: The present invention provides a video coding method which includes, as one of a plurality of coding modes, a direct mode generating a piece of motion information of each of Macro Blocks, which are obtained by dividing a first picture, by predicting from motion information of a coded Macro Block of other plurality of second pictures, including: a first step for selecting the direct mode as the coding mode by using a variable selection criterion; and a second step for coding the Macro Blocks based on the selected coding mode.

Abstract: An moving picture decoding device includes a receiver that receives data that has been coded according to multi-view coding of pictures that are included in a moving picture and provided for a plurality of views; a first decoder that decodes coded data that is included in the data coded according to the multi-view coding and provided for a first view; and a second decoder that decodes coded data that is included in the data coded according to the multi-view coding and provided for a second view A detector detects a region of the data that cannot be decoded and is among a plurality of regions to be decoded by the first decoder. A concealing unit conceals the predetermined region detected by the detector using decoded data.

Abstract: A device for encoding a picture included in moving picture data, through motion compensation, the device includes, a storage unit for storing a motion vector for motion compensation, the motion vector determined for each of a plurality of encoded pictures, a picture interval comparator for reading from the storage unit a first motion vector as a standard candidate vector, a co-located vector decider for calculating a co-located vector by setting the standard candidate vector to be the co-located vector of the first block, a direct motion vector calculator for calculating a first direct motion vector and a second direct motion vector with respect to the first block by dividing the co-located vector, a prediction image generator for generating a first motion compensation image, and an encoder for encoding an error signal representing a difference between the prediction image and a corresponding pixel on the first block.