Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080219348 | DATA EMBEDDING APPARATUS, DATA EXTRACTING APPARATUS, DATA EMBEDDING METHOD, AND DATA EXTRACTING METHOD - A data embedding apparatus including: a selecting unit for selecting, based upon the second data, a prediction system of calculating a prediction value with respect to data to be processed within the first data; a predicting unit for calculating the prediction value of the data to be processed by the prediction system selected by the selecting unit; a difference calculating unit for calculating a prediction error of the data to be processed by employing the prediction value; and a prediction error calculating unit for outputting the coded data, in which the predicting unit includes: a 0-embedding time predicting unit for performing prediction when a bit value of the second data is “0”; a 1-embedding time predicting unit for performing prediction when the bit value of the second data is “1”; and an embedding end time predicting unit for performing prediction when embedding of the second data is accomplished. | 09-11-2008 |
20090003441 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - An encoding device includes a color component separating unit for separating an input bit stream for the respective color components, a block dividing unit for dividing an input color component signal into blocks to generate a signal of an encoding unit area, a predicted image generating unit for generating a predicted image for the signal, a determining unit for determining a prediction mode used for encoding according to a prediction efficiency of the predicted image, a prediction error encoding unit for encoding a difference between the predicted image corresponding to the prediction mode determined by the determining unit and the input color component signal, and an encoding unit for variable length-coding the prediction mode, an output from the prediction error encoding unit, and a color component identification flag indicating the color component to which the input bit stream belongs as a result of the color component separation. | 01-01-2009 |
20090003448 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - An encoding device includes a color component separating unit for separating an input bit stream for the respective color components, a block dividing unit for dividing an input color component signal into blocks to generate a signal of an encoding unit area, a predicted image generating unit for generating a predicted image for the signal, a determining unit for determining a prediction mode used for encoding according to a prediction efficiency of the predicted image, a prediction error encoding unit for encoding a difference between the predicted image corresponding to the prediction mode determined by the determining unit and the input color component signal, and an encoding unit for variable length-coding the prediction mode, an output from the prediction error encoding unit, and a color component identification flag indicating the color component to which the input bit stream belongs as a result of the color component separation. | 01-01-2009 |
20090003449 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - An encoding device includes a color component separating unit for separating an input bit stream for the respective color components, a block dividing unit for dividing an input color component signal into blocks to generate a signal of an encoding unit area, a predicted image generating unit for generating a predicted image for the signal, a determining unit for determining a prediction mode used for encoding according to a prediction efficiency of the predicted image, a prediction error encoding unit for encoding a difference between the predicted image corresponding to the prediction mode determined by the determining unit and the input color component signal, and an encoding unit for variable length-coding the prediction mode, an output from the prediction error encoding unit, and a color component identification flag indicating the color component to which the input bit stream belongs as a result of the color component separation. | 01-01-2009 |
20090003716 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - An encoding device includes a color component separating unit for separating an input bit stream for the respective color components, a block dividing unit for dividing an input color component signal into blocks to generate a signal of an encoding unit area, a predicted image generating unit for generating a predicted image for the signal, a determining unit for determining a prediction mode used for encoding according to a prediction efficiency of the predicted image, a prediction error encoding unit for encoding a difference between the predicted image corresponding to the prediction mode determined by the determining unit and the input color component signal, and an encoding unit for variable length-coding the prediction mode, an output from the prediction error encoding unit, and a color component identification flag indicating the color component to which the input bit stream belongs as a result of the color component separation. | 01-01-2009 |
20090003717 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - An encoding device includes a color component separating unit for separating an input bit stream for the respective color components, a block dividing unit for dividing an input color component signal into blocks to generate a signal of an encoding unit area, a predicted image generating unit for generating a predicted image for the signal, a determining unit for determining a prediction mode used for encoding according to a prediction efficiency of the predicted image, a prediction error encoding unit for encoding a difference between the predicted image corresponding to the prediction mode determined by the determining unit and the input color component signal, and an encoding unit for variable length-coding the prediction mode, an output from the prediction error encoding unit, and a color component identification flag indicating the color component to which the input bit stream belongs as a result of the color component separation. | 01-01-2009 |
20090028427 | IMAGE DECODING DEVICE AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - There are provided an encoding device, a decoding device, an encoding method, and a decoding method that enhance optimality in a case of encoding moving image signals having no sample ratio distinction between color components such as a 4:4:4 format. In a case of conducting compression encoding by inputting digital moving image signals of the 4:4:4 format, there are prepared a first encoding process of encoding three color component signals of the input moving image signals in a common encoding mode, and a second encoding process of encoding the three color component signals of the input moving image signals in respective independent encoding modes. The encoding process is executed by selecting any one of the first encoding process and the second encoding process, and the compression data contains an identification signal for specifying which process is selected. | 01-29-2009 |
20090110067 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - An encoding device includes a color component separating unit for separating an input bit stream for the respective color components, a block dividing unit for dividing an input color component signal into blocks to generate a signal of an encoding unit area, a predicted image generating unit for generating a predicted image for the signal, a determining unit for determining a prediction mode used for encoding according to a prediction efficiency of the predicted image, a prediction error encoding unit for encoding a difference between the predicted image corresponding to the prediction mode determined by the determining unit and the input color component signal, and an encoding unit for variable length-coding the prediction mode, an output from the prediction error encoding unit, and a color component identification flag indicating the color component to which the input bit stream belongs as a result of the color component separation. | 04-30-2009 |
20100232691 | IMAGE CODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE CODING METHOD, AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - Provided is a method and the like for efficiently compressing information by removing signal correlations more effectively according to local characteristics of a 4:4:4 format video signal to be coded. An image coding device includes: a signal analysis unit for obtaining, for a signal of each of the plurality of color components belonging to the first region, an average in a unit of a second region obtained by dividing the first region, and obtaining an average separated signal corresponding to the second region; an average signal coding unit for applying, independently for the each of the plurality of color components, prediction coding to an average signal formed of the average obtained in the unit of the second region obtained by dividing the first region; and an average separated signal coding unit for transforming the average separated signals of the plurality of color components, which are obtained in the unit of the second region obtained by dividing the first region, by switching among a plurality of inter-color-component transform methods provided, and coding the transformed average separated signals independently of the average signal coding unit, in which the average separated signal coding unit outputs information indicating selected inter-color-component transform methods to the bit stream as a part of coded data. | 09-16-2010 |
20110032991 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, IMAGE DECODING DEVICE, IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD - To provide a method of efficiently compressing information by performing improved removal of signal correlations according to statistical and local properties of a video signal in a 4:4:4 format which is to be encoded, an image encoding device for dividing each picture of a digital video signal into predetermined unit regions, and carrying out, for each of the predetermined unit regions, compression encoding using a motion compensation prediction includes: a prediction unit for searching for a motion vector based on virtual-pixel-accuracy specification information for specifying an upper limit of an accuracy of a pixel position indicated by the motion vector, and generating, based on the motion vector that is searched for, a motion-compensation predicted image; and an encoding unit for multiplexing the virtual-pixel-accuracy specification information with a bit stream, and multiplexing, based on a magnitude of the motion vector that is searched for and a magnitude of a motion vector used for prediction of the motion vector that is searched for, motion vector data to be encoded with the bit stream. | 02-10-2011 |
20110211641 | IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE AND IMAGE DECODING DEVICE - The image encoding device of the present invention includes a direct vector determination unit | 09-01-2011 |