Inter prediction method and apparatus for same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9819963-B2
Application number	US-201214131734-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 12, 2012
Priority date	Jul 12, 2011
Publication date	Nov 14, 2017
Grant date	Nov 14, 2017

Abstract

According to the present invention, an image encoding apparatus comprises: a motion prediction unit which derives motion information on a current block in the form of the motion information including L0 motion information and L1 motion information; a motion compensation unit which performs a motion compensation for the current block on the basis of at least one of the L0 motion information and L1 motion information so as to generate a prediction block corresponding to the current block; and a restoration block generating unit which generates a restoration block corresponding to the current block based on the prediction block. According to the present invention, image encoding efficiency can be improved.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An image decoding apparatus comprising:
a motion estimator generating a merge candidate list relating to a current block, determining a merge candidate for the current block based on the merge candidate list and a merge candidate index, and deriving motion information of the current block from motion information of the determined merge candidate, wherein the merge candidate list includes a plurality of merge candidates including a temporal merge candidate, and wherein the merge candidate index selects one of the merge candidates in the merge candidate list;
a motion compensator generating a prediction block corresponding to the current block based on the derived motion information; and
a reconstructed block generator generating a reconstructed block corresponding to the current block based on the prediction block,
wherein motion information of the temporal merge candidate includes a motion vector and a reference picture index,
wherein the motion vector of the temporal merge candidate is derived from a motion vector of a collocated block within a collocated picture, and the reference picture index of the temporal merge candidate is set equal to 0 regardless of the motion information of a reconstructed neighboring block adjacent to the current block,
wherein the collocated picture is a reference picture having the collocated block among reference pictures included in a reference picture list, wherein an encoding mode of the current block is a merge mode, and
wherein the collocated block is determined to be either a first block including a right-bottom position of the current block or a second block including a center position of the current block.

2. The image decoding apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the collocated block is determined by scanning the first block and the second block in a predetermined order.

3. The image decoding apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the scanning is performed in sequence of the first block and the second block.

Assignees

• Kim Hui Yong
• Park Gwang Hoon
• Kim Kyung Yong
• Kim Sang Min
• Lim Sung Chang
• Lee Jin Ho
• Choi Jin Soo
• Kim Jin Woong
• Electronics & Telecommunications Res Inst
• Univ-Industry Cooperation Group Of Kyung Hee Univ

Inventors

• Kim Hui Yong
• Park Gwang Hoon
• Kim Kyung Yong
• Kim Sang Min
• Lim Sung Chang
• Lee Jin Ho
• Choi Jin Soo
• Kim Jin Woong

Classifications

• H04N19/52

  by predictive encoding · CPC title

• H04N19/109

  among a plurality of temporal predictive coding modes · CPC title

• H04N19/577 Primary

  Motion compensation with bidirectional frame interpolation, i.e. using B-pictures · CPC title

• H04N19/503

  involving temporal prediction (adaptive coding with adaptive selection between spatial and temporal predictive coding H04N19/107; adaptive coding with adaptive selection among a plurality of temporal predictive coding modes H04N19/109) · CPC title

• H04N19/61

  in combination with predictive coding · CPC title