摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To highly precisely generate a predicted image and to generate encoded data with a high compression ratio even if an occlusion section and a non-occlusion section coexist in an encoded block.SOLUTION: A mask image generation section 101 generates mask data that shows to which of an occlusion section and a non-occlusion section each pixel of image data of a target view point belongs by using distance image data. A parallax vector retrieval section 103 refers to the mask data and determines whether a noticed block is a mixed block where the occlusion section and the non-occlusion section coexist or not. When the block is determined to be the mixed block, noticed block image data is separated into the occlusion region and the non-occlusion region by referring to identification data, and obtains a predicted vector corresponding to each region. A parallax compensation prediction section 104 extracts predicted image data from the individual vectors and integrates data to generate the predicted image data for predicting and encoding the noticed block.</p> |