Abstract:
An image decoding method includes decoding encoded image data to generate a decoded image signal including a luma signal and a chroma signal. The method further includes scaling, when a reference field has a different parity from a current field for motion compensation and when the decoded image signal is in a format in which the number of chroma pixels is vertically different from the number of luma pixels, a chroma motion vector of the chroma signal according to an accuracy for a luma motion vector of the luma signal so that a reference frame will coincide in phase of the chroma signal with a current frame. The method also includes performing motion compensation of the decoded image signal using the scaled chroma motion vector according to the accuracy of the luma motion vector of the luma signal.
Abstract:
An image processing method includes decoding encoded image data to generate a decoded image signal including a luma signal and a chroma signal. The method further includes detecting a condition that a reference field has a different parity from a current field and that the number of chroma pixels is vertically different from the number of luma pixels. The method further includes shifting a phase of the chroma signal in the reference field in a vertical plus direction according a value of a motion vector in a vertical direction under the detected condition so that the reference field will coincide in phase of the chroma signal with a current field. The method also includes performing a motion compensation of the decoded image signal using the reference field.
Abstract:
An image decoding method includes decoding encoded image data to generate a decoded image signal including a luma signal and a chroma signal. The method further includes scaling, when a reference field is a bottom field while a current field is a top field for motion estimation and when the decoded image signal is in a format in which the number of chroma pixels is vertically different from the number of luma pixels, a chroma motion vector of the chroma signal by mv/2¼, where mv is a vertical component in a luma motion vector of the luma signal. The method also includes performing motion compensation of the decoded image signal using the scaled chroma motion vector.
Abstract:
An image transmitter, comprising: a color difference differential calculating unit configured to calculate color difference differential data relating to a difference between a current predicting value predicted based on a previous image data and current actual image data; a coding unit configured to code the color difference differential data to generate coding data; a multi-valuation unit configured to generate multi-valued data based on the coding data and an occurrence probability of the coding data based on statistical properties of the image data; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the multi-valued data via at least one transmission line.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus is disclosed for digitally compressing video signals. The method and apparatus provides a system which generates values related to the differences between respective pixel locations and an x,y pixel display. The differences generated between proximate pixel locations are used to generate various delta values which are encoded in an asymmetric fashion. The asymmetric coding eliminates artifacts in the displayed image, and the delta encoding is performed in both a horizontal and vertical direction (otherwise known as Two-Dimensional Delta Encoding) and this operation tends to randomly distribute error in the compression process across the visual image so as to approximate noise or grain generally perceived by the viewer in an analog display.
Abstract:
In order to improve coding efficiency, a segmentation circuit performs segmentation of an input picture by clustering referring to distance data calculated from pixel values of the input data, statistic information and a disparity compensated predictive picture, a statistic information calculator calculates an average and dispersion of pixel values of each segment according to pixel values of the input data and segmentation data from the segmentation circuit, a disparity calculator calculates disparity vectors of a horizontal dimension for minimizing error of the disparity compensated picture from pixel values of a reference picture, those of the input picture and the segmentation data, and a disparity compensating predictor generates the disparity compensated predictive picture.
Abstract:
A device for encoding a component color image data having plural, diverse kinds of component data has plural kinds of encoding units including plural kinds of encoding memory tables which correspond to the respective component data and have diverse encoding characteristics. Each encoding unit has component data input thereto in a picture element amount which is encoded by use of one kind of encoding memory table among the plurality of kinds of memory tables and is output. The encoding units are controlled by an encoding controller which selects the encoding memory table for use in accordance with at least one kind of component data corresponding to the input picture element and component data corresponding to picture elements surrounding the input picture element.
Abstract:
In a system in which a digital video signal is transmitted with differential pulse code modulation, a predetermined number of samples alternate in a horizontal line of the digital video signal are grouped, and the center sample of the grouped samples of the digital video signal is transmitted with the original number of bits, while the other samples of a group are differentially modulated with reference to the respective center sample and are transmitted with the center sample as a cluster of samples.
Abstract:
A wide-aspect-ratio HDTV signal having 1600 luminance pixels/32 .mu.S line and 980 lines/frame is data reduced by deleting odd pixels of each line of TV field #1 and even pixels of each line of TV field #2 to produce 800 pixels per line, and is further data compressed by a form of differential-pulse-code modulation. The DPCM organizes the pixels into groups of five, and for each group transmits or records one reference pixel at full N-bits. The pixels to the right and left of the reference pixel are compared therewith to produce difference signals of M bits, where M
Abstract:
A dual mode encoding/decoding technique for use in digital systems wherein transmitted digital words are limited, on average, to an alotted number of bits. The transmitted digital words are coded into first and second modes. The first coding mode utilizes predictive differential coding to provide a precision which can be greater than that obtainable by coding information solely with the allotted number of bits, while the second mode assures at least a minimum precision for the allotted number of bits. The first coding mode is transmitted as long as a preselected precision is provided. If not, the second coding mode is transmitted. In the disclosed embodiment, the dual mode encoding/decoding technique is applied to the transmission of color video signals.