Patent ID: 7933327

Claim:
A motion picture decoding method for decoding each of a plurality of coded pictures per block by using a quantization matrix, said method comprising: obtaining, from a coded stream, a second quantization matrix other than a default quantization matrix and identification information for identifying the second quantization matrix, and holding the second quantization matrix and the identification information; extracting, from the coded stream, a matrix ID which is added to data generated by coding a current picture and is used for identifying a quantization matrix that has been used to code the current picture; identifying, from the quantization matrices held in said holding, a quantization matrix corresponding to the matrix ID; and decoding the data of the coded current picture using the identified quantization matrix, wherein each picture is made up of a luma component and two chroma components, and in the identifying step, in the case where there is no quantization matrix for chroma components in the quantization matrices identified based on the identification information, a quantization matrix for the luma component is identified as the guantization matrix to be used for two chroma components, and wherein the obtaining step, the holding step. the extracting step, the identifying step, and the decoding step are executed by a processor.