Moving image encoding device and moving image encoding method

Abstract

Encoding and decoding are uniformly carried out for a plurality of chroma formats. Based on a control signal for providing a chroma format type of an input moving image signal, in the case of a chroma format of 4:2:0 or 4:2:2, a first intra prediction mode deciding unit and a first intra prediction image generation unit are applied to a luminance component of the input moving image signal, and a second intra prediction mode deciding unit and a second intra prediction image generation unit are applied to a chrominance component. In the case of a chroma format of 4:4:4, the first intra prediction mode deciding unit and the first intra prediction image generation unit are applied to all color components to carry out encoding, and a variable length encoding unit multiplexes the control signal as encoding data to be applied to a moving image sequence unit on a bit stream.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to a digital image signal encoding device, a digital image signal decoding device, a digital image signal encoding method, and a digital image signal decoding method used for an image compression encoding technology or a compressed image data transmission technology.[0003]2. Description of the Related Art[0004]An international standard video encoding system such as MPEG or ITU-TH. 26x (e.g., “Information Technology Coding of Audio-Visual Objects Part 10: Advanced Video Coding”, ISO / IEC 14496-10, 2003: (hereinafter, referred to as Non-Patent Document 1)) has conventionally been premised on use of a standardized input signal format called a 4:2:0 format. The 4:2:0 format is a format where a color moving image signal of RGB or the like is transformed into a luminance component (Y) and two chrominance components (Cb, Cr), and the number of chrominance component samples is reduced to half of lum...

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Benefits of technology

[0006]It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a bit stream generation method for providing compatibility between a bit stream encoded in a Y, Cb, and Cr space as in the case of the conventional 4:2:0 format and a bit stream having no sample ratio distinction between color components such as the 4:4:4 format and obtained by compressing a video signal having freedom in color space definition, and a decoding method.

[0008]Encoding / decoding can be performed for the plurality of different chroma formats such as 4:2:0, 4:2:2, and 4:4:4 in a unified manner by the efficient device configuration, and mutual connectability between the video encoded data can be increased.

Problems solved by technology

The system for performing motion compensation prediction based on inter prediction mode, reference image information, and motion vector information depending only on one component is not necessarily an optimal method in the 4:4:4 format where the color components make equal contributions in representing a structure of an image signal.

As a result, to construct a decoding device capable of decoding compressed video data of a plurality of different formats, a configuration where bit streams for signals of the formats are individually interpreted needs to be employed, thereby making a device configuration inefficient.

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