Patent ID: 11968389
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. An image processing method of an image processing device comprising:
controlling, upon dividing a frame into a plurality of slices and encoding performed per slice, a merge candidate of neighboring prediction units which are positioned neighboring a target prediction unit, based on whether the neighboring prediction units belong to a slice to which the target prediction unit belongs;
encoding the target prediction unit based on the merge candidate;
obtaining position information of the neighboring prediction units; and
determining one of the neighboring prediction units does not belong to a slice to which a target prediction unit belongs, based on the obtained position information of the one neighboring prediction unit,
wherein the controlling of the merge candidate of neighboring prediction units includes controlling, based on the determination, such that the one neighboring prediction unit which does not belong to the slice is not available to the merge candidate.