Patent ID: 8948257
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image encoding method of encoding image data, and outputting encoded image data, comprising: a step of generating difference data between a predicted image for an image to be encoded and the image to be encoded; a step of encoding the difference data and generating the encoded image data, and outputting the generated encoded image data; a step of decoding the encoded image data, and generating a local decoded image; a step of generating the predicted image by using the local decoded image; and a step of outputting, using a predicted image generating part of an image decoding apparatus, one of an in-screen or between-screen predicted image, and an interpolation predicted image generated by executing move searching between the local decoded images as the predicted image based on a skip mode that includes information associated with the image to be encoded, the skip mode being a process in which previous information of a frame is copied and in which data of a pixel block is not compressed, wherein the step of outputting comprises: