Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090067738 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE CODING METHOD - An image coding apparatus for coding image data. The image coding apparatus includes: a first coding mechanism predicting a quantization parameter and a quantization matrix to be used for calculating a target amount of code for the image data by coding the image data; a second coding mechanism correcting the quantization parameter predicted by the first coding means from an error between an amount of generated code produced by coding using the quantization parameter and the quantization matrix predicted by the first coding mechanism and the target amount of code; and a third coding mechanism coding the image data using the quantization parameter corrected by the second coding mechanism. | 03-12-2009 |
20100046621 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention can suppress the decline in video quality during encoding. The present invention generates, for each of the nine intra image prediction modes preset according to the AVC standard, a difference image data item containing a difference value from pixels surrounding a process-target pixel. Then, an encoding device ( | 02-25-2010 |
20100098173 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - To stop the decline of the quality of image associated with encoding. The present invention multiplies a decoding rescaling factor (RFr) possibly used in the decoding process by only a transformation matrix (D), which is scale change, to calculate a rescaling factor (RF), which is a plurality of division factors, and then calculates, for each detection unit, the sum (ΣY) of evaluation values (Y) based on a residue (r) obtained as a result of dividing an element of a DCT coefficient by a plurality of rescaling factors (RF). Moreover, the present invention compares correlations of the sum (ΣY) of the evaluation values (Y) with a plurality of rescaling factors (RF), and detects, based on the rescaling factor (RF) whose sum (ΣY) of the evaluation values (Y) is a minimum value, a quantization factor used in the previous process of encoding the input image data. | 04-22-2010 |
20100135386 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - To predict a target code amount from a code amount calculated on a single quantizer scale. The present invention stores relationship information on a plurality of pieces of quantized data for prediction having different MB generated code amounts on a fixed quantizer scale (QI) as prediction curves, the relationship information indicating a relationship between a plurality of quantizer scales (Q) representing a plurality of quantizer steps and MB generated code amounts. The present invention quantizes image data on a macroblock-by-macroblock basis on the single fixed quantizer scale (QI) out of the predetermined plurality of quantizer scales (Q), thereby generating temporary quantized data, and calculates the MB generated code amount of each macroblock unit of this temporary quantized data. The present invention then selects a piece of quantized data for prediction from the plurality of prediction curves based on the MB generated code amount of the temporary quantized data and the fixed quantizer scale (QI), and predicts the MB generated code amounts for situations when the image data is quantized on quantizer scales (Q) not selected by a quantization selection section, based on the selected piece of quantized data for prediction. | 06-03-2010 |
20100238822 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes: a holder configured to hold a reference picture necessary for decoding of an access unit as a processing subject in decoding of a stream composed of access units including a header; an analyzer configured to analyze the stream to thereby detect the header for each of the access units; and a generator configured to, if a header indicating change of deletion order of pictures is detected as the header detected by the analyzer, delete a picture included in an access unit corresponding to the header in the deletion order indicated by the header and generate hold information indicating a reference picture to be held by the holder. | 09-23-2010 |
20100266047 | IMAGE CODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE CODING METHOD - An image coding apparatus includes a first coding unit that discretely selects quantization parameters of a first range to perform calculation of generated code amounts corresponding to the selected quantization parameters, a second coding unit that performs calculation of generated code amounts corresponding to quantization parameters of a second range, a code amount control unit that decides deciding a temporary quantization parameter corresponding to a target code amount by calculating generated code amounts through an interpolation process for quantization parameters not selected by the first coding unit, and by comparing the generated code amounts corresponding to the selected quantization parameters and the generated code amounts calculated through the interpolation process with the target code amount, and decides an optimal quantization parameter corresponding to the target code amount by comparing the generated code amounts calculated by the second coding unit with the target code amount. | 10-21-2010 |
20110019736 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE AND IMAGE ENCODING METHOD - An image encoding device includes: a first encoding unit for calculating a generated code amount when encoding image data using a fixed quantizing parameter, and block distinction regarding whether a macro block is a block for performing temporal prediction or block for performing spatial prediction regarding a picture for predicting a temporal direction; a code amount control unit for setting the offset amount of a quantizing parameter so as to have great code amount to be assigned to a picture including many images to be referenced according to a percentage between the block for temporal prediction, and the block for spatial prediction based on the results of the block distinction, and determining a quantizing parameter based on the generated code amount calculated at the first encoding unit; and a second encoding unit for encoding the image data using the offset quantizing parameter for realizing a target generated code amount. | 01-27-2011 |
20110019929 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE AND IMAGE ENCODING METHOD - An image encoding device includes: a first encoding unit for encoding image data using a fixed-quantizing parameter to calculate a generated code amount; a second encoding unit for encoding the image data using multiple different quantizing parameters for each of the quantizing parameters as the image data of an intra picture to calculate a generated code amount; a code amount control unit for determining a quantizing parameter by predicting a quantizing parameter for realizing a target generated code amount, and a generated code amount when employing this quantizing parameter based on the generated code amount calculated at the first encoding unit, and correcting this predicted generated code amount according to the generated code amount calculated at the second encoding unit so as to realize the target generated code amount; and a third encoding unit for encoding the image data using the quantizing parameter determined at the code amount control unit. | 01-27-2011 |
20110019930 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE AND IMAGE ENCODING METHOD - An image encoding device includes: a first encoding unit for calculating a generated code amount by encoding image data for each GOP (Group of Picture); a code amount control unit for setting quantization information for realizing a target generated code amount based on the generated code amount; a quantization information distinguishing unit for calculating a DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) coefficient, and distinguishing quantization information that minimizes the summation for each picture of remainders when performing division of the DCT coefficient, as quantization information used for performing the last encoding; a picture-type setting unit for setting a picture type to the image data for each GOP, and when this set picture type differs from the picture type of the distinguished quantization information, matching the picture types by controlling the settings of the subsequent picture types; and a second encoding unit for encoding the image data based on the set picture type. | 01-27-2011 |
20110176606 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention can suppress the generated code quantity for each image increment so as not to exceeding the target code quantity without having a usage quantizing factor deviate greatly in a sure manner. | 07-21-2011 |
20110188769 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention enables a reduction in circuit scale. | 08-04-2011 |
20110200266 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present invention can realize an image processing device and an image processing method that enable a simplified circuit configuration. An image encoding device ( | 08-18-2011 |
20110311152 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes: a plurality of encoding units that encode image data; a shared memory that stores reference image data which is used for encoding performed by each of the plurality of encoding units; and a control unit that secures an encoding unit from the plurality of encoding units, which is made to encode an intra-frame prediction encoded image and a forward prediction encoded image by priority, and that makes an encoding unit, which is not used to encode the intra-frame prediction encoded image or the forward prediction encoded image, encode a bidirectional prediction encoded image, using reference image data stored in the shared memory during a period where the secured encoding unit does not perform the encoding. | 12-22-2011 |
20120057784 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes: an orthogonal transforming section which performs an orthogonal transform for image data to generate a transform coefficient; and a quantization factor detecting section which detects a quantization factor used in a previous encoding process, using the transform coefficient, wherein the quantization factor detecting section independently performs a process of detecting the quantization factor from the transform coefficient generated by orthogonally transforming a luminance component of the image data and a process of detecting the quantization factor from the transform coefficient generated by orthogonally transforming a color difference component of the image data. | 03-08-2012 |
20130322528 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes: a quantization parameter determination section which determines a reference quantization parameter; a back search section which detects a detected quantization parameter for each coding unit; a coding section which codes the input image for each coding unit; a feedback control section which confirms the generated code quantity of the input image, and if it is predicted that the generated code quantity for each image unit exceeds the target code quantity for each image unit, increases the determined reference quantization parameter; and a coding control section which performs control such that, during dubbing, the coding section uses the reference quantization parameter when the back search detection is not successful and selectively uses the reference quantization parameter or the detected quantization parameter in accordance with a determination result of a need for code quantity suppression when the back search detection is successful. | 12-05-2013 |