Patent ID: 8599935

Claim:
A moving image decoding method of decoding a compression-coded moving image stream, the method comprising: performing deblocking filtering to reduce block distortion on each decoded frame; detecting magnitude of an intra-unit processing load that includes a processing load required for decoding; setting a judgment threshold value, from a plurality of judgment threshold values, to judge whether or not to perform the deblocking filtering, the setting of the judgment threshold value comprising comparing each of the judgment threshold values with a processing parameter which is based on a strength parameter that indicates a filtering strength at a boundary between adjacent blocks of a plurality of blocks constituting each frame, the strength parameter depending on the detected magnitude of the intra-unit processing load so that the deblocking filtering is performed only at the boundary having a higher processing parameter as the intra-unit processing load becomes higher, and the processing parameter being obtained by linearly adding the strength parameter; judging whether or not the processing parameter is greater than the set judgment threshold value; and omitting execution of the deblocking filtering when the processing parameter is judged to be smaller than the set judgment threshold value.