Patent ID: 9648337
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A video image encoding device comprising: a group configuration determination unit configured to determine a group to which each of a plurality of blocks belongs, the plurality of blocks being obtained by dividing each picture included in video image data; a group information addition unit configured to add, to an output stream, group information expressing the group to which each of the plurality of blocks belongs; a group output time calculation unit configured to calculate an output time for each of the groups; a group output delay determination unit configured to determine output delay for each of the groups; a group output delay information addition unit configured to add, to the output stream, an output delay time from a decode time of each of the groups; an encode amount control unit configured to control an encode amount so that data used for outputting all of the blocks included in one of the groups arrives at a decoding buffer of a decoding device and decoding is completed by the output time expressed by the output delay time; and an encoding process unit configured to perform encoding based on control information of the encode amount control unit.