Patent ID: 9325988
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: H03M,H04L,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A decoding device that decodes a coded picture signal comprising a header stream and a frame stream, the header stream including header information which is common information of a whole picture signal corresponding to slice data comprising a plurality of macroblocks, and the frame stream including frame information which is the picture signal itself corresponding to the slice data comprising the plurality of macroblocks, said decoding device comprising: a demultiplexer configured to receive the coded picture signal and to demultiplex the coded picture signal into the header stream and the frame stream; a header information decoding unit configured to receive the header stream and to perform a decoding process on the header information using a plurality of non-arithmetic decoding methods; and a frame information decoding unit configured to receive the frame stream and to perform a decoding process on the frame information using only a single decoding method of an arithmetic decoding method so as to output all decoded macroblocks of the slice data, wherein the header information decoding unit includes wherein the header information decoding unit is configured to decode the header information corresponding to a fixed length code, using one of a plurality of fixed length decoding methods according to the syntax structure signal, when the fixed length decoding method is selected by the selecting unit, and the header information decoding unit is configured to decode the header information corresponding to a variable length code, using one of a plurality of variable length decoding methods according to the syntax structure signal, when the variable length decoding method is selected by the selecting unit.