Motion picture error concealment using simplified motion compensation

• US 5,737,022 A
• Filed: 06/07/1995
• Issued: 04/07/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ueno, Hideyuki, Yamaguchi, Noboru
• Primary Examiner(s): Tung, Bryan S.
• Application Number:
  US08/488,051
• Time in Patent Office: 1,035 Days
• Field of Search: 348/416, 348/415, 348/409, 348/402, 348/401, 348/400, 348/420, 348/390, 348/384, 348/845.1, 382/238, 382/236, 382/233, 382/232
• US Class Current: 375/240.15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/102 characterised by the element, parameter or selection affected or controlled by the adaptive coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/137 Motion inside a coding unit, e.g. average field, frame or block difference
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/142 Detection of scene cut or scene change
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/172 the region being a picture, frame or field
• 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 19/46 Embedding additional information in the video signal during the compression process H04N19/517, H04N19/68, H04N19/70 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/61 in combination with predictive coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/87 involving scene cut or scene change detection in combination with video compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/895 in combination with error concealment

Abstract

A motion picture image transmission apparatus constructing a motion picture image transmission system for coding and decoding a motion picture signal in the block unit includes an output section for detecting an error of received coded data and outputting a detection signal, an identifying section for identifying a non-decodable block based on the detection signal, a prediction section for subjecting values of pixels near the non-decodable block to motion compensation prediction according to the respective motion vectors and motion compensation methods of a plurality of decodable blocks near the block, a calculating section for calculating motion compensation prediction error values of the results of prediction, a selecting section for selecting a motion vector applied to the non-decodable block from the plurality of motion vectors or the like based on the error value, and a correcting section for correcting a decodable block by motion compensation by use of the selected motion vector or the like.

Claims

1. A motion picture receiving apparatus for receiving information obtained by coding a motion picture signal in the block unit by use of the motion compensation and for decoding the received data in the block unit, comprising:

error detection means for detecting an error of the coded data received and outputting an error detection signal;

identifying means for identifying a block being made non-decodable by the error;

a motion compensation memory for storing data of an identification result of the identifying means and a motion compensation method, and having means for simplifying data of the motion compensation method, and means for storing the motion compensation method simplified by said simplifying means;

a generating section for generating data of the motion compensation method applied to the block being identified to be non-decodable, said generating section comprising means for generating data of the motion compensation method applied to the block being identified to be non-decodable from data of the motion compensation method simplified by said simplifying means by said identifying means from data of a plurality of decodable blocks lying near the block identified to be non-decodable; and

correction means for correcting the block identified to be non-decodable by said identifying means by said motion compensation method by use of data of said motion compensation method generated by said generating section, said correction means comprising means for correcting the block identified to be non-decodable by said identifying means by the motion compensation by use of data of the simplified compensation method generated by said generating section.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said data of the motion compensation method is motion vector data.

3. A motion picture receiving apparatus for receiving data obtained by coding a motion picture signal in the block unit by use of motion compensation and for decoding the received data in the block unit, comprising:

decoding means for decoding received data which is made non-decodable detecting an error of the coded data, and outputting an error detection signal;

identifying means for identifying a block being made non-decodable by the error;

a motion compensation memory for storing data of an identification result of the identifying means and a motion compensation method, and having means for simplifying data of the motion compensation method, and means for storing the motion compensation method simplified by said simplifying means,

a generating section for generating data of the motion compensation method applied to the block being identified to be non-decodable by said identifying means from data of a plurality of decodable blocks lying near the block identified to be non-decodable, said generating section comprising means for generating information of the motion compensation method applied to the block being identified to be non-decodable from data of the motion compensation method simplified by said simplifying means; and

correction means for correcting the block identified to be non-decodable by said identifying means by said motion compensation method by use of data of said motion compensation method generated by said generating section, said correction means comprising means for correcting the block identified to be non-decodable by said identifying means by the motion compensation by use of data of the simplified compensation by use of data of the simplified compensation method generated by said generating section.

4. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said motion compensation method is data of the motion vector data.