Image decoding method and image decoding apparatus for sample adaptive offset information

• US 10,063,862 B2
• Filed: 01/28/2016
• Issued: 08/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
• Original Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
• Inventors: Matsunobu, Toru, Nishi, Takahiro, Shibahara, Youji, Sasai, Hisao, Tanikawa, Kyoko, Sugio, Toshiyasu, Terada, Kengo
• Primary Examiner(s): SUH, JOSEPH JINWOO
• Application Number:
  US15/008,738
• Publication Number:
  US 20160142718A1
• Time in Patent Office: 943 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/117 Filters, e.g. for pre-processing or post-processing sub-band filter banks H04N19/635
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/13 Adaptive entropy coding, e.g. adaptive variable length coding [AVLC] or context adaptive binary arithmetic coding [CABAC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/136 Incoming video signal characteristics or properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/167 Position within a video image, e.g. region of interest [ROI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/17 the unit being an image region, e.g. an object
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/176 the region being a block, e.g. a macroblock
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/44 Decoders specially adapted therefor, e.g. video decoders which are asymmetric with respect to the encoder
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/61 in combination with predictive coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/70 characterised by syntax aspects related to video coding, e.g. related to compression standards
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/82 involving filtering within a prediction loop

Abstract

An image coding method includes performing: context arithmetic coding to consecutively code (i) first information indicating whether or not to perform SAO processing for a first region and (ii) second information indicating whether or not to use, in the SAO processing for the first region, information on SAO processing for a region except the first region; and bypass arithmetic coding to code other information after the first and second information are coded. The other information includes third information indicating whether the SAO processing is edge or band offset processing. In the performing of context arithmetic coding, an initial bit value in a bit string of a parameter indicating a type of the SAO processing is coded as the first information. In the performing of bypass arithmetic coding, a value of a next bit following the initial bit in the bit string of the parameter is coded as the third information.

Claims

1. An image coding method for sample adaptive offset (SAO) information comprising:

performing coding to consecutively code (i) first information indicating whether or not to use, in the SAO processing for a first block of an image, information on the SAO processing for a second block which is different from the first block, (ii) a first bit of second information indicating whether or not to perform the SAO processing for the first block, and (iii) a second bit of the second information indicating whether the SAO processing for the first block is (a) edge offset processing performed according to an edge or (b) band offset processing performed according to a pixel value,

wherein the first information and the second information are included in SAO information related to the SAO processing for the first block,

wherein the performing coding includes switching, while coding the SAO information related to the SAO processing for the first block, between (i) context arithmetic coding using variable probabilities and (ii) bypass arithmetic coding using a fixed probability,

wherein (i) the first information and the first bit of the second information are coded by the context arithmetic coding and (ii) after the first information and the first bit of the second information are coded by the context arithmetic coding, the second bit of the second information is coded by the bypass arithmetic coding,

wherein the first bit of the second information is coded by the context arithmetic coding after the first information is coded by the context arithmetic coding,

wherein the performing coding includes coding other information, the other information is (i) information on the SAO processing for the first block, (ii) different from the first information and the second information, and (iii) coded by the bypass arithmetic coding, the other information including third information indicating an absolute value of an offset value, and

wherein when the SAO processing for the first block is the band offset processing, the other information includes (i) fourth information indicating whether the offset value is positive or negative and (ii) fifth information indicating a scope of application of the offset value.