| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090060359 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING AND COMPENSATING SPATIOTEMPORAL MOTION OF IMAGE - A method of estimating and compensating for motion in image decoding are provided. The method involves determining a reference block of a reference frame indicated by a motion vector of a current block of a current frame being decoded, and generating a spatiotemporal estimation block of the current block by using the current frame and the reference frame, when some pixels of the reference block are outside the reference frame. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090103620 | VIDEO ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND VIDEO DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - Provided are a video encoding method and apparatus and a video decoding method and apparatus in which a processing order for predetermined-size blocks included in a macroblock is defined in order to efficiently use spatial correlation in an image. After a macroblock is divided into first blocks of a predetermined size and motion compensation is performed on each of the first blocks, a second-block processing order for sequentially processing second blocks included in a current first block is determined in order to process a residue between a motion compensation value of the current first block and the current first block in units of the second blocks having a smaller size than that of the current first block. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090220005 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING AND DECODING IMAGE BY USING MULTIPLE REFERENCE-BASED MOTION PREDICTION - Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding an image by using motion prediction and a method and apparatus for decoding an image by using motion prediction. The method of encoding an image by using motion prediction, the method includes: determining at least one candidate predictor set including at least one candidate predictor within a candidate predictor range away from a location of a current predictor in a reference frame; determining a reference predictor based on a distortion rate of hypothesis predictors determined according to the at least one candidate predictor of each of the at least one candidate predictor set; performing motion prediction with regard to a current frame by using a reference block corresponding to the reference predictor and a current block; and encoding image data including the current frame based on a result of the motion prediction. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20110038412 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO IN CONSIDERATION OF SCANNING ORDER OF CODING UNITS HAVING HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO IN CONSIDERATION OF SCANNING ORDER OF CODING UNITS HAVING HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE - A method and apparatus for decoding a video and a method and apparatus for encoding a video are provided. The method for decoding the video includes: receiving and parsing a bitstream of an encoded video; extracting, from the bitstream, encoded image data of a current picture of the encoded video assigned to a maximum coding unit, and information about a coded depth and an encoding mode according to the maximum coding unit; and decoding the encoded image data for the maximum coding unit based on the information about the coded depth and the encoding mode for the maximum coding unit, in consideration of a raster scanning order for the maximum coding unit and a zigzag scanning order for coding units of the maximum coding unit according to depths. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110038413 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO - Disclosed is a method of encoding a video, the method including: splitting a current picture into at least one maximum coding unit; determining a coded depth to output a final encoding result according to at least one split region obtained by splitting a region of the maximum coding unit according to depths, by encoding the at least one split region, based on a depth that deepens in proportion to the number of times the region of the maximum coding unit is split; and outputting image data constituting the final encoding result according to the at least one split region, and encoding information about the coded depth and a prediction mode, according to the at least one maximum coding unit. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110038415 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO - Disclosed are a method and a apparatus for encoding a video, and a method and apparatus for decoding a video, in which neighboring pixels used to perform intra prediction on a current block to be encoded are filtered and intra prediction is performed by using the filtered neighboring pixels. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110038422 | VIDEO ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND VIDEO DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS, BASED ON HIERARCHICAL CODED BLOCK PATTERN INFORMATION - A method and apparatus for decoding video and a method and apparatus for encoding video are provided. The method for decoding video includes: receiving and parsing a bitstream of encoded video; extracting, from the bitstream, encoded image data of a current picture assigned to a maximum coding unit of the current picture, information regarding a coded depth of the maximum coding unit, information regarding an encoding mode, and coding unit pattern information indicating whether texture information of the maximum coding units has been encoded; and decoding the encoded image data for the maximum coding unit, based on the information regarding the coded depth of the maximum coding unit, the information regarding the encoding mode, and the coding unit pattern information. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110096826 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO ACCORDING TO INDIVIDUAL PARSING OR DECODING IN DATA UNIT LEVEL, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO FOR INDIVIDUAL PARSING OR DECODING IN DATA UNIT LEVEL - A video decoding method including: extracting, from a bitstream of an encoded video, at least one of information indicating independent parsing of a data unit and information indicating independent decoding of a data unit; extracting encoded video data and information about a coded depth and an encoding mode according to maximum coding units by parsing the bitstream based on the information indicating independent parsing of the data unit; and decoding at least one coding unit according to a coded depth of each maximum coding unit of the encoded video data, based on the information indicating independent decoding in the data unit and the information about the coded depth and the encoding mode according to maximum coding units. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110096829 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING VIDEO AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING VIDEO, BASED ON HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE OF CODING UNIT - An apparatus and method for encoding video data and an apparatus and method for decoding video data are provided. The encoding method includes: splitting a current picture into at least one maximum coding unit; determining a coded depth to output an encoding result by encoding at least one split region of the at least one maximum coding unit according to operating mode of coding tool, respectively, based on a relationship among a depth of at least one coding unit of the at least one maximum coding unit, a coding tool, and an operating mode, wherein the at least one split region is generated by hierarchically splitting the at least one maximum coding unit according to depths; and outputting a bitstream including encoded video data of the coded depth, information regarding a coded depth of at least one maximum coding unit, information regarding an encoding mode, and information regarding the relationship. | 04-28-2011 |