Apparatus for decoding an image

An apparatus for decoding an image, comprising:

• an entropy decoding unit configured to restore an intra prediction mode index, motion information and a quantization coefficient sequence;
• an inverse scanning unit configured to generate a quantized transform block by inversely scanning the quantized coefficient sequence in the unit of sub-block when a size of the quantized transform block is larger than a predetermined size;
• an inverse quantization unit configured to generate a quantization step size predictor, restore a quantization step size by adding the quantization step size predictor and a remaining quantization step size, and generate a transform block by inversely quantizing the quantized transform block using the quantization step size;
• an inverse transform unit configured to restore a residual block by inversely transforming the transform block;
• an intra prediction unit configured to restore an intra prediction mode of the current block based on the intra prediction mode index and generate a prediction block of the current block according to the intra prediction mode when the current block is coded in intra prediction mode;
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• an adding unit configured to generate an original block by adding the prediction block and the residual block,
• wherein, the inverse scanning unit restores a plurality of sub-blocks by applying a scan pattern determined according to the intra prediction mode of the current block on the quantization coefficient sequence, and restores the quantized transform block by applying a scan pattern determined according to the intra prediction mode of the current block on the plurality of sub-blocks, wherein the scan pattern for restoring the plurality of sub-blocks from the quantization coefficient sequence is the same as the scan pattern for restoring the quantized transform block from the plurality of sub-blocks,
• wherein, when a quantization step size of a left coding block of a current coding block and a quantization step size of an above coding block of the current coding block are unavailable, the inverse quantization unit determines a quantization step size of a previous coding block according to scan order as the quantization step size predictor of the current coding block.