When a prediction is made between fields with different parity, the predicative efficiency of a chrominance vector is improved by adaptively switching the generation of a chrominance motion vector depending on a encoding/decoding field parity (top/bottom) and a reference field parity (top/bottom), and the coding efficiency is improved accordingly. |
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Claims1. A method comprising: - decoding, using a generated chrominance motion vector, an encoded motion picture signal composed of a plurality of fields with an inter-field motion compensating prediction to thereby provide a decoded motion picture signal, said decoding including
- generating the chrominance motion vector from a luminance motion vector according to a calculation method represented by
- the formula:
- description="In-line Formulae" end="lead"MVCy=MVy description="In-line Formulae" end="tail"
- when a reference source field and a reference destination field are both a top field or are both a bottom field,
- the formula:
- description="In-line Formulae" end="lead"MVCy=MVy−2description="In-line Formulae" end="tail"
- when the reference source field is the top field and the reference destination field is the bottom field, and
- the formula:
- description="In-line Formulae" end="lead"MVCy=MVy+2description="In-line Formulae" end="tail"
- when the reference source field is the bottom field and the reference destination field is the top field, wherein
- MVy implies a vertical component of a luminance motion vector indicating a vertical direction movement of a luminance pixel of a field image with vector component values of the luminance motion vector in units of 4, and
- MVCy implies a vertical component of a chrominance motion vector indicating a vertical direction movement of a chrominance pixel of the field image with the vector component values of the chrominance motion vector in units of 8.
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