Video encoder, video decoder, video encoding method, video decoding method, and video encoding and decoding system

• US 7,110,456 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2002
• Issued: 09/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Nishikawa, Hirofumi, Asai, Kohtaro, Hasegawa, Yuri, Sekiguchi, Shunichi, Isu, Yoshimi, Murakami, Tokumichi, Kuroda, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Vu
• Application Number:
  US10/086,446
• Publication Number:
  US 20020118758A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,660 Days
• Field of Search: 375/240.16, 375/240.17, 375/240.26, 375/240.29, 348/699, 348580-581, 348/583, 382/296, 382/298, 382/289, 382/300, 382/299, 345646-649
• US Class Current: 375/240.16
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/523 with sub-pixel accuracy
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/53 Multi-resolution motion estimation; Hierarchical motion estimation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/537 Motion estimation other than block-based
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/61 in combination with predictive coding

Abstract

A method and a video decoder for decoding an encoded bitstream of video data in a picture encoding and decoding system are disclosed. The video decoder includes a motion compensation unit for calculating a position for a sample image portion using an encoded bitstream of video data having a motion vector and rounding information. The calculated position of a sample image is rounded with the rounding information. The rounding information indicates the accuracy for rounding, and it is decoded from the bitstream. An image reconstruction unit reconstructs a decoded image portion of the video data from the sample image portion.

Claims

1. A video decoder for decoding an encoded bitstream of video data, comprising:

a motion compensation unit for calculating a position for a sample image portion with a motion vector and rounding information in the bitstream, and rounding the calculated position with the rounding information, the rounding information indicating accuracy for rounding and being decoded from the bitstream; and

an image reconstruction unit for reconstructing a decoded image portion of the video data from the sample image portion.

2. The video decoder according to claim 1, wherein the motion compensation unit employs plural motion vectors to transform a reference portion into a transformed image portion as the reference image portion, the reference image portion being decoded from the encoded bitstream.

3. The video decoder according to claim 2, wherein the motion compensation unit magnifies the reference image portion based on the motion parameters to produce the sample image portion.

4. The video decoder according to claim 2, wherein the motion compensation unit rotates the reference image portion based on the motion parameters to produce the sample image portion.

5. The video decoder according to claim 1, wherein the encoded bitstream is formatted by MPEG video format.

6. A video decoding method for decoding a bitstream of video data having motion vectors and rounding information, comprising:

a step for calculating a sample position on a reference image portion with a motion vector, the motion vector being comprised in the bitstream;

a step for rounding the calculated position according to rounding information, the rounding information being extracted from the bitstream;

a step for producing a decoded image from the reference image portion indicated by the calculated position rounded by the step for rounding.

7. The video decoding method according to claim 6, wherein the step for calculating employs plural motion vectors.

8. The video decoding method according to claim 7, wherein the step for calculating calculates the sample position for each pel so that the calculated sample positions are rotated with respected to positions of pels in the decoded image.

9. The video decoding method according to claim 6, wherein the step for calculating calculates the sample position for each pel so that the calculated sample positions are magnified with respect to portions of pels in the decoded image.

10. The video decoding method according to claim 6, wherein the bit stream is formatted as MPEG.