DECODING APPARATUS AND DECODING METHOD

摘要

A decoding apparatus for realizing a decoding processing with no occurrence of unnecessary delay in a switching between a digital high vision broadcast and a multi-view broadcast, comprising an image frame storing part (34) for storing, by the unit of HD storage area, HD image frames as decoded by a decoding part (33) and for storing m SD image frames by the unit of SD storage area; a storage area reserving part (host CPU)(14) for reserving, based on HD storage area information and SD storage area information of a management table, the HD storage area when HD image stream data is inputted, and for reserving, based on the HD storage area information SD storage area information, the SD storage area when m SD image stream data are inputted; and an image frame writing part (15) for writing the HD image frame in the reserved HD storage area and for writing the m SD image frames in the reserved SD storage area.