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PURPOSE: An intra-encoding and intra-decoding method and a device thereof are provided to use a super macro block based intra-encoding method and a device which is not used in existing intra-encoding. CONSTITUTION: An intra-encoding and intra-decoding device includes an intra-prediction unit (930) which determines to divide a first block into four second blocks, and performs intra-prediction for the first block or the four second blocks based on the determination; a transcoding unit (950) which performs transcoding for a differential block generated based on an intra-prediction result; a quantizer (960) which quantizes the output of the transcoding unit; and an entropy encoder (970) which produces bitstream by performing entropy encoding for the output of the quantizer. [Reference numerals] (910) Motion prediction unit; (920) Motion compensation unit; (930) Intra-prediction unit; (950) Transcoding unit; (960) Quantizer; (970) Entropy encoder; (AA) Super macro block or m macro blocks; (BB) Reference block; (CC) Bit stream
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PURPOSE: The present invention is to provide an image encoding method and apparatus capable of improving efficiency of encoding/decoding of image, an image decoding method and apparatus, an intra prediction method and apparatus, an intra prediction mode encoding method and apparatus and an intra prediction mode decoding method and apparatus. CONSTITUTION: An image encoding apparatus comprises, a prediction part which determines an intra prediction mode for a unit to be encoded, derives peripheral prediction mode information from a left peripheral prediction mode and an upper peripheral prediction mode and encodes the intra prediction mode for the unit to be encoded by using the derived peripheral prediction information, wherein the left peripheral prediction mode is an intra prediction mode of a left peripheral unit adjacent to the left of the unit to be encoded, the upper peripheral prediction mode is an intra prediction mode of an upper peripheral unit adjacent to the upper side of the unit to be encoded, and the peripheral prediction mode information comprises a mode number of the left peripheral prediction mode and a mode number of the upper peripheral prediction mode. [Reference numerals] (S1310) Peripheral prediction mode information estimation; (S1320) Intra prediction mode decoding using the peripheral prediction mode information
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PURPOSE: An image encoding method and a computer-readable recording medium are provided to use a super macro block for an intra-encoding process, thereby improving an encoding performance. CONSTITUTION: An image encoding device includes a motion predictor (910), a motion compensator (920), an intra-predictor (930), a coupler (940), a conversion encoder (950), a quantizer (960), and an entropy encoder (970). The intra-predictor receives a super macro block with a size of 16nx16n (n is a natural number over two), and implements intra-prediction on the super macro block. The coupler obtains a difference between a predicted block generated by the intra-predictor and the super macro block, and then generates a differential block. [Reference numerals] (910) Motion predictor; (920) Motion compensator; (930) Intra-predictor; (950) Conversion encoder; (960) Quantizer; (970) Entropy encoder; (AA) Super macro block or m macro blocks; (BB) Reference block; (CC) Bit stream
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PURPOSE: An encoding/decoding device and a method thereof for predicting an arbitrary motion vector are provided to consider a motion vector of a neighboring vector and a previous motion vector by scaling vector information of a motion vector of a neighboring vector and a previous motion vector. CONSTITUTION: When predicting an arbitrary motion vector in a current block within an image, the prediction is performed by using vector information of a motion vector corresponding to a neighboring vector and vector information of a previous motion vector of a current vector(S10). A differential determination unit determines differential information with respect to a motion vector of the current block based on the motion vector predicted by a motion vector prediction unit and an actual motion vector of the current block(S20). [Reference numerals] (AA) Start; (BB) Finish; (S10) Current vector; (S20) Current block
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PURPOSE: An encoding/decoding device and a method thereof for predicting an arbitrary motion vector are provided to consider a motion vector of a neighboring vector and a previous motion vector by scaling vector information of a motion vector of a neighboring vector and a previous motion vector. CONSTITUTION: When predicting an arbitrary motion vector in a current block within an image, the prediction is performed by using one or more vector information of a motion vector corresponding to a neighboring vector and vector information of a previous motion vector of a current vector(S10). The motion vector of the current block is calculated by adding a predicted motion vector based on differential information of the current block(S20). [Reference numerals] (AA) Start; (BB) Finish; (S10) Current vector; (S20) Current block
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PURPOSE: An encoding and decoding method using adaptive bit depth reduction and a device thereof are provided to prevent an image from being encoded at an excessive bit depth by adaptively selecting and performing bit depth reduction by macro block unit. CONSTITUTION: An encoding device includes a bit depth control unit(110), a bit depth reducing unit(120), a bit depth quantization unit(130), and a bit depth increasing unit(140). When the bit depth control unit determines the bit depth reduction of an input signal, the bit depth reducing unit reduces a bit depth of the input signal. The bit depth reducing unit shifts the bit depth as much as a selected value to reduce the bit depth or reduces the bit depth by using a mapping table. [Reference numerals] (110) Bit depth control unit; (120) Bit depth reducing unit; (130) Bit depth quantization unit; (140) Bit depth increasing unit; (AA) Input video signal; (BB) Infra-frame prediction; (CC) Motion correction; (DD) Motion estimation; (EE) Conversion; (FF) De-blocking filter; (GG) Entropy encoding
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PURPOSE: A coding method and device are provided to determine coding removal, thereby efficiently reducing calculation complexity. CONSTITUTION: A coding device collects at least one of coding information of a reference unit or coding information of an upper unit(510). The coding device determines removal of a prediction coding process for a current coding unit or a current prediction unit and performs prediction coding(520). [Reference numerals] (510) Collect coding information of a reference unit or an upper unit; (520) Determine the omission of a coding process for a coding unit or a prediction unit by using the collected coding information and perform a prediction coding process; (AA) Start; (BB) End
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PURPOSE: A device for synchronizing an image by adding synchronization information to a sub data space of a video signal and a method thereof are provided to synchronize images corresponding to the video signal by adding the synchronization information to the sub data space. CONSTITUTION: A synchronization information adding device(100) includes a synchronization information generating unit(210) and a synchronization information adding unit(220). The synchronization information generating unit generates synchronization information including a time code based on play time of a video frame or reception time of a video signal. The synchronization information adding unit adds the synchronization information to a sub data space of the video signal. [Reference numerals] (100) Synchronization information adding device; (210) Synchronization information generating unit; (220) Synchronization information adding unit;
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PURPOSE: An adaptive image encoding device and a method thereof are provided to improve the performance of image compression by adaptively selecting an encoding parameter. CONSTITUTION: An adaptive image encoding device determines a reference block for encoding a current block(S110). The adaptive image encoding device determines an encoding parameter of the reference block(S120). The adaptive image encoding device determines a characteristic of the reference block(S130). The adaptive image encoding device adaptively encodes the current block by using the encoding parameter(S140). [Reference numerals] (AA) Start; (BB) End; (S110) Determining a reference block; (S120) Determining a encoding parameter of the reference block; (S130) Determining a feature of the reference block; (S140) Encoding an encoding target block
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PURPOSE: An entropy encoding/decoding method is provided to increase the compression efficiency of an image and to efficiency of entropy encoding. CONSTITUTION: An encoding unit scans a coefficient of a residual signal in a low frequency component order. The entropy encoding unit arranges the scanned coefficient(S510). The entropy encoding unit performs Last_coeff encoding of the aligned coefficients(S520). The entropy encoding unit performs explicit run/level mode encoding(S550). The encoding unit performs implicit level mode encoding(S560). [Reference numerals] (AA) Yes; (BB) No; (S510) Scanning; (S520) Encoding Last_coeff; (S530) Determining the number of explicit; (S540) The number of encoding