MOVING PICTURE DECODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE CODING METHOD, MOVING PICTURE DECODING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE CODING APPARATUS, AND MOVING PICTURE CODING AND DECODING APPARATUS

• US 20120163457A1
• Filed: 12/27/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Lim, Chong Soon, Sasai, Hisao, Nishi, Takahiro, Shibahara, Youji, Sugio, Toshiyasu, WAHADANIAH, Viktor, Naing, Sue Mon Thet, Jing, Xuan
• Application Number:
  US13/337,416
• Publication Number:
  US 20120163457A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/240.13
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/105 Selection of the reference unit for prediction within a chosen coding or prediction mode, e.g. adaptive choice of position and number of pixels used for prediction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/11 among a plurality of spatial predictive coding modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/159 Prediction type, e.g. intra-frame, inter-frame or bidirectional frame prediction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/46 Embedding additional information in the video signal during the compression process H04N19/517, H04N19/68, H04N19/70 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/521 for estimating the reliability of the determined motion vectors or motion vector field, e.g. for smoothing the motion vector field or for correcting motion vectors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/593 involving spatial prediction techniques

Abstract

A moving picture decoding method according to the present invention includes: performing intra prediction on a target block to calculate values of predicted samples of the target block; and calculating reconstructed samples of the target block by adding difference data and the values of the predicted samples of the target block, wherein in the performing of intra prediction, validity of each of reference samples that are located one of immediately above and immediately to the left of the target block is determined, and when the reference samples include both a valid reference sample and an invalid reference sample, the intra prediction is performed using the valid reference sample, and an intra-predicted reference sample is determined as a valid reference sample, and an inter-predicted reference sample is determined as an invalid reference sample.

Claims

1. A moving picture decoding method comprising:

analyzing a coded moving picture bitstream to obtain difference data of a target block among a plurality of blocks of two or more sizes;

performing intra prediction on the target block to calculate values of predicted samples of the target block; and

calculating reconstructed samples of the target block by adding the difference data and the values of the predicted samples,

wherein in said performing of intra prediction,

validity of each of reference samples that are located one of immediately above and immediately to the left of the target block is determined, and when the reference samples include both a valid reference sample and an invalid reference sample, the intra prediction is performed using the valid reference sample, and

an intra-predicted reference sample is determined as a valid reference sample, and an inter-predicted reference sample is determined as an invalid reference sample.

2. The moving picture decoding method according to claim 1,

wherein in said analyzing, the coded moving picture bitstream is further analyzed to determine an intra prediction method, and

said performing of intra prediction further includes:

calculating a complementary sample using one or more valid reference samples including the valid reference sample, the complementary sample being a reference sample at a location of the invalid reference sample; and

calculating the predicted samples of the target block in accordance with the intra prediction method, using the valid reference sample and the complementary sample.

3. The moving picture decoding method according to claim 2,

wherein said calculating of a complementary sample includes:

selecting one of the valid reference samples as a selected sample; and

determining a value of the selected sample as a value of the complementary sample.

4. The moving picture decoding method according to claim 3,

wherein said selecting includes:

identifying, as a start reference sample location, a location of a valid reference sample found first in a search in a direction starting from a location of a bottom-left reference sample and ending at a location of a top-right reference sample among locations of all the reference samples;

determining whether the invalid reference sample is located before or after the start reference sample location in a sample order that is the same as an order of samples in the search;

selecting a sample at the start reference sample location as the selected sample when the invalid reference sample is located before the start sample location; and

selecting, when the invalid reference sample is located after the start sample location, a valid reference sample as the selected sample in accordance with the sample order that is the same as the order of samples in the search, the valid reference sample being located before and closest to a location of the invalid reference sample.

5. The moving picture decoding method according to claim 2,

wherein said calculating of a complementary sample includes:

selecting the valid reference samples as a plurality of selected samples;

calculating a plurality of scaling values by multiplying a value of each of the selected samples by a predetermined scaling factor;

calculating a first sum total value that is a sum total of the scaling values;

calculating a second sum total value that is a sum of the first sum total value and a predetermined offset value; and

calculating a value of the complementary sample by down-shifting the second sum total value by a predetermined shift step value.

6. The moving picture decoding method according to claim 1,

wherein the intra prediction is intra DC prediction.

7. The moving picture decoding method according to claim 6,

wherein said performing of intra prediction includes:

selecting each of one or more valid reference samples including the valid reference sample as a selected sample;

specifying the number of the selected samples;

selecting a scaling factor, an offset value, and a shift step value, using a look-up table, in accordance with the number of the selected samples;

calculating a first sum total value that is a sum total of values of the selected samples;

calculating a scaling value by multiplying the first sum total value by the selected scaling factor;

calculating a second sum total value that is a sum of the selected offset value and the scaling value; and

generating each value of all the predicted samples of the target block by down-shifting the second sum total value by the selected shift step value.

8. The moving picture decoding method according to claim 6,

wherein said performing of intra prediction further includes performing of intra prediction in the case in which a predetermined value is determined as each value of all the predicted samples of the target block.

9. The moving picture decoding method according to claim 1,

wherein in said analyzing, selection information coded in a header of the coded moving picture bitstream is further obtained,

the selection information indicates one of (1) a constrained intra prediction scheme that is the intra prediction and (2) an unconstrained intra prediction scheme for performing intra prediction using all the reference samples without determining the validity of each of the reference samples, and

in said performing of intra prediction, the intra prediction is performed using one of the constrained intra prediction scheme and the unconstrained intra prediction scheme indicated by the selection information.

10. The moving picture decoding method according to claim 1,

wherein in said performing of intra prediction, a reference sample outside a target picture is determined as an invalid reference sample.

11. The moving picture decoding method according to claim 1,

wherein in said performing of intra prediction, a reference sample that is not included in the same unit of picture division as the target block is determined as an invalid reference sample.

12. The moving picture decoding method according to claim 11,

wherein the unit of picture division is a slice.

13. The moving picture decoding method according to claim 11,

wherein the unit of picture division is a lightweight slice.

14. The moving picture decoding method according to claim 11,

wherein the unit of picture division is a tile.

15. The moving picture decoding method according to claim 11,

wherein the unit of picture division is a wavefront parallel processing unit (WPP).

16. A moving picture coding method comprising:

dividing an original picture into a plurality of blocks of two or more sizes;

performing intra prediction on a target block among the blocks to calculate values of predicted samples;

calculating difference data that represents a difference between an original image in the target block and the values of the predicted samples; and

coding the difference data to generate a coded moving picture bitstream,

wherein in said performing of intra prediction,

validity of each of reference samples that are located one of immediately above and immediately to the left of the target block is determined, and when the reference samples include both a valid reference sample and an invalid reference sample, the intra prediction is performed using the valid reference sample, and

an intra-predicted reference sample is determined as a valid reference sample, and an inter-predicted reference sample is determined as an invalid reference sample.

17. A moving picture decoding apparatus comprising:

an analyzing unit configured to analyze a coded moving picture bitstream to obtain difference data of a target block among a plurality of blocks of two or more sizes;

an intra predicting unit configured to perform intra prediction on the target block to calculate values of predicted samples of the target block; and

a reconstructed sample calculating unit configured to calculate reconstructed samples of the target block by adding the difference data and the values of the predicted samples,

wherein said intra predicting unit is configured to

determine validity of each of reference samples that are located one of immediately above and immediately to the left of the target block, and perform, when the reference samples include both a valid reference sample and an invalid reference sample, the intra prediction using the valid reference sample, and

determine an intra-predicted reference sample as a valid reference sample, and determine an inter-predicted reference sample as an invalid reference sample.

18. A moving picture coding apparatus comprising:

a dividing unit configured to divide an original picture into a plurality of blocks of two or more sizes;

an intra predicting unit configured to perform intra prediction on a target block among the blocks to calculate values of predicted samples;

a difference data calculating unit configured to calculate difference data that represents a difference between an original image in the target block and the values of the predicted samples; and

a coding unit configured to code the difference data to generate a coded moving picture bitstream,

wherein said intra predicting unit is configured to

determine validity of each of reference samples that are located one of immediately above and immediately to the left of the target block, and perform, when the reference samples include both a valid reference sample and an invalid reference sample, the intra prediction using the valid reference sample, and

determine an intra-predicted reference sample as a valid reference sample, and determine an inter-predicted reference sample as an invalid reference sample.

19. A moving picture coding and decoding apparatus comprising:

the moving picture coding apparatus according to claim 18, and

a moving picture decoding apparatus comprising;

an analyzing unit configured to analyze a coded moving picture bitstream to obtain difference data of a target block among a plurality of blocks of two or more sizes;

an intra predicting unit configured to perform intra prediction on the target block to calculate values of predicted samples of the target block; and

a reconstructed sample calculating unit configured to calculate reconstructed samples of the target block by adding the difference data and the values of the predicted samples,

wherein said intra predicting unit is configured to

determine validity of each of reference samples that are located one of immediately above and immediately to the left of the target block, and perform, when the reference samples include both a valid reference sample and an invalid reference sample, the intra prediction using the valid reference sample, and

determine an intra-predicted reference sample as a valid reference sample, and determine an inter-predicted reference sample as an invalid reference sample.