Method for inducing prediction motion vector and apparatuses using same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9451281-B2
Application number	US-201214344105-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 14, 2012
Priority date	Sep 16, 2011
Publication date	Sep 20, 2016
Grant date	Sep 20, 2016

Abstract

Disclosed are a method for inducing a prediction motion vector and an apparatus using the same. An image decoding method can include: a step of determining the information related to a plurality of spatial candidate prediction motion vectors from peripheral predicted blocks of a predicted target block; and a step of determining the information related to temporal candidate prediction motion vectors on the basis of the information related to the plurality of spatial candidate prediction motion vectors. Accordingly, the present invention can reduce complexity and can enhance coding efficiency when inducing the optimum prediction motion vector.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A video decoding apparatus comprising:
an entropy decoding processor configured to decode information on a prediction motion vector used to perform inter prediction on a prediction target block among candidate prediction motion vectors comprised in a candidate prediction motion vector list; and
a prediction unit to generate the candidate prediction motion vector list by determining information on a plurality of spatial candidate prediction motion vectors from a neighboring prediction block to the prediction target block and determining information on a temporal candidate prediction motion vector based on the information on the plurality of spatial candidate prediction motion vectors, wherein
the information on the spatial candidate prediction motion vector comprises at least one of first spatial candidate prediction motion vector availability information and a first spatial candidate prediction motion vector and at least one of second spatial candidate prediction motion vector availability information and a second spatial candidate prediction motion vectors,
the information on the temporal candidate prediction motion vector comprises at least one of temporal candidate prediction motion vector availability information and the temporal candidate prediction motion vector, and
in response to both the first spatial candidate prediction motion vector and the second spatial candidate prediction motion vector being available and the first spatial candidate prediction motion vector and the second spatial candidate prediction motion vector being different from each other, the prediction processor is configured to determine the temporal candidate prediction motion vector availability information such that the temporal candidate prediction motion vector is unavailable.

2. The video decoding apparatus of claim 1 , wherein,
in response to the first spatial candidate prediction motion vector being available based on the first spatial candidate prediction motion vector availability information, the prediction processor configures the candidate prediction motion vector list to comprise the first spatial candidate prediction motion vector,
in response to the second spatial candidate prediction motion vector being available based on the second spatial candidate prediction motion vector availability information, the prediction processor configures the candidate prediction motion vector list to comprise the second spatial candidate prediction motion vector, and
in response to the temporal candidate prediction motion vector being available based on the temporal candidate prediction motion vector availability information, the prediction processor configures the candidate prediction motion vector list to comprise the temporal candidate prediction motion vector.

3. The video decoding apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the prediction processor reconfigures the candidate prediction motion vector list by removing the second spatial candidate prediction motion vector in response to the first spatial candidate prediction motion vector being the same as the second spatial candidate prediction motion vector.

4. The video decoding apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the prediction processor reconfigures the candidate prediction motion vector list by determining whether a number of candidate prediction motion vectors comprised in the candidate prediction motion vector list is smaller than a maximum number of candidate prediction motion vectors to be comprised in the candidate prediction motion vector list and adding or removing a candidate prediction motion vector based on a determination result.

Assignees

• Lim Sung Chang
• Kim Hui Yong
• Lee Jin Ho
• Choi Jin Soo
• Kim Jin Woong
• Kim Jae Gon
• Lee Sang Yong
• Park Un Ki
• Electronics & Telecommunications Res Inst
• Industry-Univ Coop Found Korea Aerospace Univ

Inventors

• Lim Sung Chang
• Kim Hui Yong
• Lee Jin Ho
• Choi Jin Soo
• Kim Jin Woong
• Kim Jae Gon
• Lee Sang Yong
• Park Un Ki

Classifications

• H04N19/52 Primary

  by predictive encoding · CPC title

• H04N19/513

  Processing of motion vectors · CPC title

• H04N19/593

  involving spatial prediction techniques · CPC title

• H04N19/56 Primary

  Motion estimation with initialisation of the vector search, e.g. estimating a good candidate to initiate a search · CPC title

• H04N19/176

  the region being a block, e.g. a macroblock · CPC title