Moving image decoding device, moving image decoding method, and program

• US 8,929,463 B2
• Filed: 12/25/2009
• Issued: 01/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Moriyoshi, Tatsuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Perungavoor, Sath V
• Assistant Examiner(s): LUO, KATE H
• Application Number:
  US13/143,412
• Publication Number:
  US 20110268192A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,838 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 375/240.27
• 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 19/166 concerning the amount of transmission errors, e.g. bit error rate [BER]
• 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 19/58 Motion compensation with long-term prediction, i.e. the reference frame for a current frame not being the temporally closest one H04N19/23 takes precedence
• 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 19/89 involving methods or arrangements for detection of transmission errors at the decoder

Abstract

There are provided an analysis unit that analyzes an input bit stream to output first intermediate data and analysis information, a conversion rule storage unit that stores a conversion rule, according to which an error-detected bit stream included in the analysis information output from the analysis unit or a bit stream including reference information to an image used for a method not supported by a decoding unit is converted into a bit stream decodable by the decoding unit, and a conversion unit that converts the analysis information into second intermediate data according to the conversion rule, as well as the decoding unit that decodes the first intermediate data and the second intermediate data output from the analysis unit and the conversion unit. Thus, even when the decoding unit does not cope with specific information included in the analysis information, the decoding unit is able to stably perform a decoding procedure.

Claims

1. A moving image decoding device comprising:

an analysis unit that analyzes a bit stream so as to output first intermediate data and analysis information, prior to the bit stream being decoded;

a conversion rule storage unit that stores a conversion rule;

a conversion unit that converts within a non-network video layer the analysis information according to the conversion rule so as to output second intermediate data, prior to the bit stream being decoded; and

a decoding unit that decodes the first intermediate data and the second intermediate data output from the analysis unit and the conversion unit so that the bit stream is decoded,

wherein the conversion unit converts the analysis information within an image memory indexing a plurality of entries corresponding to frames of the image memory in that one or more of;

invalid indices of first entries of the entries are overwritten by valid indices of second entries of the entries,

the invalid indices are each overwritten with a predetermined index to a valid image frame;

when the bit stream includes an error, subsequent bit streams to the bit stream are replaced with replacement bit streams of substitute macro blocks from the error position to a slice end or the entire portion of the slice containing the error is replaced with substitute macro blacks.

2. The moving image decoding device according to claim 1, wherein a conversion procedure of the conversion unit precludes direct processing to image signals, including inverse quantization, inverse orthogonal transformation, motion compensation, and intra-frame prediction.

3. The moving image decoding device according to claim 1, wherein the analysis information includes the reference information to an image used for motion compensation, and wherein when the reference information refers to an invalid image, the conversion unit converts the reference information into reference information referring to a valid image.

4. The moving image decoding device according to claim 1, wherein when the analysis information includes low-frequent codes, the conversion unit converts low-frequent codes into high-frequent codes, so that the conversion unit performs conversion on another analysis information related to high-frequent codes.

5. The moving image decoding device according to claim 1, wherein the analysis information includes identification information for identifying frames, wherein the conversion unit calculates a difference between the identification information of a reference frame and another identification information regarding a specific frame preceding to the reference frame, and wherein when the difference is larger than “

1”

, the conversion unit converts the difference to “

1”

.

6. The moving image decoding device according to claim 1, wherein the analysis information includes an error-detected bit stream, and wherein the conversion unit replaces at least a part of the bit stream following an error-detected position with a substitute bit stream which is determined according to the conversion rule.

7. The moving image decoding device of claim 1, wherein entries within the bit stream that have invalid indexes to an image memory are overwritten prior to input to the decoding unit, such that occurrence of unpermitted memory access is prevented even where the decoding unit fails to perform error correction.

8. The moving image decoding device of claim 1, wherein the bit stream has a low frequency of occurrence, and the second intermediate data to which the analysis information is converted has a high frequency of occurrence, such that disordering of images is prevented even where the decoding unit fails to perform error correction.

9. The moving image decoding device of claim 1, wherein upon an error being detected within the bit stream and corrected within the second intermediate data, a subsequent bit stream is replaced, such that potential for the decoding unit to perform erroneous operations is reduced.

10. A moving image decoding method comprising:

prior to a bit stream being decoded, analyzing the bit stream so as to output first intermediate data and analysis information;

prior to the bit stream being decoded, converting the analysis information within a non-network video layer into second intermediate data according to a conversion rule; and

decoding the first intermediate data and the second intermediate data so that the bit stream is decoded,

wherein the analysis information is converted within an image memory indexing a plurality of entries corresponding to frames of the image memory via one or more of;

invalid indices of first entries of the entries are overwritten by valid indices of second entries of the entries,

the invalid indices are each overwritten with a predetermined index to a valid image frame;

when the bit stream includes an error, subsequent bit streams to the bit stream are replaced with replacement bit streams of substitute macro blocks from the error position to a slice end or the entire portion of the slice containing the error is replaced with substitute macro blocks.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program causing a computer to provide an analysis unit that analyzes a bit stream prior to the bit stream being decoded so as to output first intermediate data and analysis information, a storage unit that stores a conversion rule, a conversion unit that converts within a non-network video layer the analysis information into second intermediate data according to the conversion rule prior to the bit stream being decoded, and a decoding unit that decodes the first intermediate data and the second intermediate data output from the analysis unit and the conversion unit so that the bit stream is decoded,

wherein the conversion unit converts the analysis information within an image memory indexing a plurality of entries corresponding to frames of the image memory in that one or more of:

invalid indices of first entries of the entries are overwritten by valid indices of second entries of the entries,

the invalid indices are each overwritten with a predetermined index to a valid image frame;

when the bit stream includes an error, subsequent bit streams to the bit stream are replaced with replacement bit streams of substitute macro blocks from the error position to a slice end or the entire portion of the slice containing the error is replaced with substitute macro blocks.