Patent ID: 8396116
Filing Date: 2013-03-12
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A coding method for coding a picture included in a moving picture by using a quantization matrix, said coding method comprising: generating a matrix ID identifying a quantization matrix different from a default quantization matrix; coding the quantization matrix identified by the matrix ID, in association with the matrix ID; coding a current picture using the quantization matrix to generate data of the coded current picture; and adding the matrix ID identifying the quantization matrix used in said coding of the current picture, to the data of the coded current picture, wherein the picture is made up of a luma component, a first chroma component and a second chroma component, and wherein said coding of the current picture, when neither of the quantization matrix for the first chroma component and the quantization matrix for the second chroma component is coded in said coding of the quantization matrix identified by the matrix ID, the first chroma component and the second chroma component of the current picture are coded using the quantization matrix for the luma component, instead of the default quantization matrix, as the quantization matrix for the first chroma component and the second chroma component of the current picture, wherein a processor is configured to execute the generating step, coding steps and adding step.