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| 20110158315 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING USING PREDICTION DIRECTION CONVERSION AND SELECTIVE ENCODING - The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for encoding/decoding videos using prediction direction change and selective encoding. The present disclosure provides a video encoding apparatus that encodes the current block of a video, comprising a rectangle encoder for dividing and then successively encoding the current block at input into rectangular block units to output a rectangularly encoded bitstream; a square encoder for encoding the current block at input in square block units to output a squarely encoded bitstream; and an encoding selector for calculating the encoding costs of the rectangularly encoded bitstream and the squarely encoded bitstream so as to output the bitstream with a minimum encoding cost. According to the present disclosure, the prediction accuracy may be increased when encoding or decoding videos so that video encoding efficiency can be improved. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110170601 | METHOD FOR ENCODING/DECODING MOTION VECTOR AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method for encoding/decoding a motion vector and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The method includes defining a candidate motion vector set with respect to a current motion vector; selecting a predicted motion vector from the candidate motion vector set; determining a predictability of the predicted motion vector in a decoding apparatus; encoding the current motion vector by using a motion vector prediction mode for indicating the predicted motion vector and the predictability, if the predictability is determined positive; and encoding the current motion vector by using a motion vector prediction mode for indicating a default predicted motion vector and an unpredictability, if the predictability is determined negative. According to the disclosure, it becomes unnecessary to directly notify of the predicted motion vector of the current motion vector to the decoding apparatus, and instead a predetermined shared function is provided to inform of or search the predicted motion vector. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110176605 | VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Video encoding and its corresponding decoding are disclosed. The video encoding incorporates: a predictor for predicting a pixel value of each pixel in a current block of the video to generate a predicted pixel value; a subtractor for calculating a difference between an original pixel value of the pixel in the current block and the predicted pixel value of the pixel in the current block to generate a residual signal; a transformer for transforming the residual signal into frequency coefficients; a quantizer for quantizing the transformed frequency coefficients; and an encoder for encoding the quantized frequency coefficients by using one of different variable length coding tables. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110176607 | IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING BLOCK TRANSFORMATION - Video encoding/decoding method and apparatus using a block transformation are disclosed. The apparatus encodes the video through predicting each pixel in a current block of the video by using one or more adjacent pixels, which are encoded prior to encoding the current block and have the closest proximity to the pixels respectively in a predetermined prediction direction, and wherein the current block is sized L×M with L being unequal to M. It has become possible to predict the pixels in the block starting from closest one of the pixels in the prediction direction in order to provide more accurate block predictions and then raise the compression efficiency that leaps to more efficient video encoding/decoding performance. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110176608 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING INTRA PREDICTION MODE, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENCODING/DECODING VIDEO USING SAME - Disclosed are a method and apparatus for determining an intra prediction mode, and for encoding/decoding video using the same. An apparatus for determining an intra prediction mode is provided, the apparatus comprising a calculator to calculate a variation of adjacent pixels to a current block; a threshold setter to set a threshold to evaluate the pixel variation; a comparator to compare between the variation and the threshold; a first prediction mode determination unit to determine a single predetermined prediction mode to be an optimal prediction mode if the variation is below the threshold; and a second prediction mode determination unit to determine a particular prediction mode from a plurality of prediction modes to be the optimal prediction mode through a rate-distortion optimization by performing intra predictions in the plurality of prediction modes if the variation is greater than or equal to the threshold. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110182357 | INTRA PREDICTION METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING SAME - The present disclosure relates to an intra prediction method and apparatus and an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus using the same. The disclosure provides the intra prediction apparatus that predicts the pixel values of respective pixels in a current block by weight-averaging the pixel values of one or more adjacent pixels in neighboring blocks to the current block according to the distances between each pixel in the current block and the adjacent pixel(s). According to the disclosure, the current block to be encoded can be predicted more accurately so that the encoding efficiency is improved by reducing the difference between the original block and the predicted block, and thereby video compression efficiency can be improved. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110182362 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOTION VECTOR ENCODING/DECODING USING A PLURALITY OF MOTION VECTOR ESTIMATIONS, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING USING SAME - The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for motion vector encoding/decoding through estimations of multiple motion vectors, and to a method and an apparatus for video encoding/decoding using the same. The disclosure provides a motion vector encoding apparatus including a motion vector estimator for estimating a plurality of motion vectors with estimating one of the plurality of motion vectors as a motion vector of a current block and estimating the remaining motion vectors by one or more predefined estimation criteria in agreement with a video decoding apparatus; and a motion information encoder for encoding motion information generated by using the plurality of motion vectors. According to the disclosure, estimations are enabled by using more accurate motion vectors while reducing the bit rate for encoding the motion vectors leading to an improvement of the compressing efficiency. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110182523 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE ENCODING/DECODING - A method and an apparatus for image encoding/decoding are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a block decomposer for decomposing a current block into a plurality of sub-blocks; and an intra prediction encoder for performing an intra prediction encoding by referring to already encoded and decoded adjacent pixel information of each sub-block, based on an intra prediction mode equal to an intra prediction mode of the current block, thereby generating a bit stream for the current block. In image encoding and image decoding, when a current block to be encoded or decoded is predicted, the disclosed method and apparatus can improve the accuracy of the prediction, which can provide an image with a satisfactory reproduction quality by improved coding efficiency. | 07-28-2011 |
