Abstract: An image encoding method causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes: calculating, from an encoding throughput for image data to be encoded that is obtained based on a parameter regarding an encoding throughput, and a maximum throughput of an image encoding apparatus, an available throughput that occurs in a process of encoding the image data to be encoded; allocating, in accordance with the calculated available throughput, a function of enhancing precision of encoding to the image data to be encoded; and encoding, by using the allocated function, the image data to be encoded.

Abstract: The video encoder includes: a refresh boundary determination unit which determines a position of a boundary in a second picture to be encoded based on a position of a boundary between a refreshed region and an unrefreshed region in a first picture which have been encoded and a refresh update size; and a restriction block identification unit which identifies, as a first restriction target sub-block which does not utilize a prediction vector, a first sub-block being a unit of motion compensation which is included in a refreshed region of the second picture and is possible to select a motion vector of a sub-block in the unrefreshed region of the first picture as a prediction vector of the motion vector, based on the positions of the boundaries of the first and the second pictures.

Abstract: An encoding method includes encoding moving image; determining whether an information amount of the encoded moving image data in units of a picture satisfies a threshold to control a virtual buffer obtained by virtually modeling a reception buffer of a decoding device that is a transmission destination of the encoded moving image data; and setting, by dividing a picture included in the encoded moving image data, a decoding time for each divided picture to cause the decoding device to decode each divided picture when the determining determines the information amount of the encoded moving image does not satisfy the threshold to control the virtual buffer.

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: A coding apparatus is for performing a deblocking filter process by dividing input moving image data into frames, and coding the moving image data by dividing the frames into macroblock lines and by shifting and changing, for each frame, a refresh area in which an amount of coding information allocated to a specific macroblock line is larger than that of another macroblock line. The coding apparatus includes a determining unit that determines that a refresh area in a current frame as well as a macroblock line in the current frame corresponding to a macroblock line that will become a refresh area in a frame being subsequently subjected to the coding process becomes a next refresh area. The coding apparatus includes a coding unit that codes the refresh area and the next refresh area by allocating a larger amount of coding information than an amount allocated to the other macroblock line.

Abstract: Provided are a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin composition excellent in terms of dispersion property, moldability, rigidity, and reinforcing property and a process for producing the resin composition. This fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin composition comprises (a) a polyolefin, (b) a rubbery polymer, (c) spherical silica having a water content of 1,000 ppm or less, (d) ultrafine fibers of a thermoplastic polymer having amide groups in the main chain, and (e) a silane coupling agent, wherein the ingredient (d) has been dispersed as ultrafine fibers having an average diameter of 1 [mu]m or less in a matrix comprising the ingredients (a), (b), and (c), and the ingredients (a), (b), (c), and (d) have been chemically bonded through the ingredient (e).

Abstract: An encoding method includes encoding moving image; determining whether an information amount of the encoded moving image data in units of a picture satisfies a threshold to control a virtual buffer obtained by virtually modeling a reception buffer of a decoding device that is a transmission destination of the encoded moving image data; and setting, by dividing a picture included in the encoded moving image data, a decoding time for each divided picture to cause the decoding device to decode each divided picture when the determining determines the information amount of the encoded moving image does not satisfy the threshold to control the virtual buffer.

Abstract: An encoding apparatus encodes a picture by inserting an intra-refresh area into a portion of the picture periodically based on an intra-refresh period. An encoding-status monitoring unit monitors an encoding status of the picture. A refresh-area control unit changes at least one of the intra-refresh area and the intra-refresh period based on the encoding status monitored by the encoding-status monitoring unit.

Abstract: An image encoding apparatus configured to perform sub-band encoding, the apparatus includes: a plurality of encoding units configured to encode an image signal separated into a plurality of sections; a plurality of storage units configured to hold data encoded by the encoding units; and a control unit configured to determine capacities of encoded data of the section of the separated image signal on the basis of statistical information capacities of the section of the separated image signal and data capacities after encoding by the encoding units.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a moving picture coding device coding picture frames each having any one of a plurality of picture types, includes a pre-processing unit sequentially outputting, as a coding target frame, each of the picture frames sequentially inputted, a coding unit coding the sequentially outputted coding target frame by a predictive coding method corresponding to a picture type of the coding target frame on the basis of a coding scheme corresponding to the coding target frame, a control unit controlling, when detecting a frame interval at which the coding target frame is not outputted from the pre-processing unit, the coding unit to code a predetermined picture frame, and modifying unit acquiring coded information from coded data coded under control of the control unit, and modifying the coding scheme corresponding to the coding target frame from the coded information.

Abstract: A coding apparatus is for performing a deblocking filter process by dividing input moving image data into frames, and coding the moving image data by dividing the frames into macroblock lines and by shifting and changing, for each frame, a refresh area in which an amount of coding information allocated to a specific macroblock line is larger than that of another macroblock line. The coding apparatus includes a determining unit that determines that a refresh area in a current frame as well as a macroblock line in the current frame corresponding to a macroblock line that will become a refresh area in a frame being subsequently subjected to the coding process becomes a next refresh area. The coding apparatus includes a coding unit that codes the refresh area and the next refresh area by allocating a larger amount of coding information than an amount allocated to the other macroblock line.

Abstract: A transcoding device includes a decoding unit that decodes both motion vectors of macroblocks and images from encoded images in a first encoding format; a first decoded image storing unit that stores therein the decoded motion vectors of macroblocks and the decoded images; a vector searching unit that searches for motion vectors of macroblocks in a second encoding format by using the decoded images stored in the first decoded image storing unit as reference images and by using the decoded motion vectors stored in the first decoded image storing unit; and a motion compensating unit that reads, from the first decoded image storing unit, areas in the decoded images, which are indicated by the motion vectors for which the vector searching unit has searched, and performs motion compensation by using the areas in the decoded images and the motion vectors for which the vector searching unit has searched.

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 encodes a picture by inserting an intra-refresh area into a portion of the picture periodically based on an intra-refresh period. An encoding-status monitoring unit monitors an encoding status of the picture. A refresh-area control unit changes at least one of the intra-refresh area and the intra-refresh period based on the encoding status monitored by the encoding-status monitoring unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a moving picture coding device coding picture frames each having any one of a plurality of picture types, includes a pre-processing unit sequentially outputting, as a coding target frame, each of the picture frames sequentially inputted, a coding unit coding the sequentially outputted coding target frame by a predictive coding method corresponding to a picture type of the coding target frame on the basis of a coding scheme corresponding to the coding target frame, a control unit controlling, when detecting a frame interval at which the coding target frame is not outputted from the pre-processing unit, the coding unit to code a predetermined picture frame, and modifying unit acquiring coded information from coded data coded under control of the control unit, and modifying the coding scheme corresponding to the coding target frame from the coded information.