Patent ID: 8494050

Claim:
A moving picture coding device which codes a plurality of pictures obtained by capturing an object, said moving picture coding device comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire the pictures; a luminance information acquisition unit configured to acquire luminance information which indicates a luminance level of light in an environment where the object is captured; a picture information acquisition unit configured to acquire picture information from the acquired pictures based on the luminance information, the picture information indicating a bright picture obtained by capturing in a light state in a flicker state of the light in the environment where the object is captured; and a coding unit configured to selectively perform, when prediction coding is performed on the bright picture indicated in the acquired picture information, one of (i) an intra-prediction coding method and (ii) an inter-prediction coding method for generating a predictive picture by referring to a bright picture that is (a) obtained by capturing at a capturing time before a capturing time of the bright picture indicated in the acquired picture information and (b) already coded.