Patent ID: 7961791

Claim:
A decoding apparatus, comprising: a decoder configured to receive a series of encoded pictures and to decode each of the encoded pictures to produce a series of decoded pictures, each of the encoded pictures being one of an intra-encoded picture and an inter-encoded picture, and each of the decoded pictures being one of a referred picture and a non-referred picture; a blocking noise suppressor configured to suppress blocking noise of each of the decoded pictures; and a controller configured to detect an amount of a load, to run each of the referred decoded pictures through the blocking noise suppressor in a case in which the detected amount of the load is no lower than a first threshold, and to have each of the non-referred decoded pictures bypass the blocking noise suppressor in a case in which the detected amount of the load is no lower than the first threshold, wherein the controller is configured to detect the amount of the load by counting a number of the decoded pictures that have not been transmitted.