VIDEO CODING METHOD, VIDEO DECODING METHOD, VIDEO CODING APPARATUS AND VIDEO DECODING APPARATUS

Abstract: a moving picture coding method includes: making a determination as to whether or not to code all blocks in a current picture in the skip mode; setting, based on a result of the determination, a first flag indicating whether or not a temporally neighboring block is to be referenced, a value of a parameter for determining a total number of merging candidates, and a second flag for each block included in the current picture, the second flag indicating whether or not the block is to be coded in the skip mode; calculating, as a merging candidate, a neighboring block usable for merging; and coding an index which indicates a merging candidate to be used for coding of the current block and attaching the coded index to a bitstream.

Inventor(s): Toshiyasu SUGIO, Takahiro NISHI, Youji SHIBAHARA, Kyoko TANIKAWA, Hisao SASAI, Toru MATSUNOBU, Kengo TERADA

CPC Classification: H04N19/51 (Motion estimation or motion compensation)

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