Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
InventorsRyuichi Kanoh, Tadamasa Toma, Kiyofumi Abe, Takahiro Nishi
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Abstract
An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry in operation: determines whether the shape of a current chroma block to be split satisfies a first condition; generates one or more second candidates for a block partitioning method by eliminating one or more predetermined candidates from a plurality of first candidates for a block partitioning method when the current chroma block satisfies the first condition; selects a block partitioning method from among the one or more second candidates; and splits the current chroma block according to the block partitioning method selected.
Claims1
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a bitstream, the bitstream including an encoded signal and syntax information according to which a decoder performs a method comprising:
- parsing, from the bitstream generated by encoding an image, block partitioning information relating to a block partitioning method according to which a current chroma block to be split in the image is split;
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- splitting the current chroma block based on the block partitioning information parsed, wherein
- when a shape of the current chroma block satisfies a first condition, the block partitioning information is generated by (i) generating one or more second candidates for a block partitioning method by eliminating one or more predetermined candidates from a plurality of first candidates for a block partitioning method and (ii) selecting a block partitioning method from among the one or more second candidates, and
- the plurality of first candidates include at least a ternary splitting in vertical direction and the one or more second candidates exclude the ternary splitting in vertical direction.
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