Moving picture coding apparatus and moving picture decoding apparatus

摘要

A memory management control for a memory section is provided for use in a motion estimation or a compensation unit using a plurality of reference images. The plurality of reference images is stored in a memory section providing a memory area for each of the reference images. Each of the memory areas being adapted to store video data of one frame including a top field and a bottom field. The storage of video data in the memory section is controlled by a memory control section. A storage enable flag is assigned to each of the memory areas to enable the storage of image data of two successive fields in a single memory area.