MOVING IMAGE ENCODING METHOD, MOVING IMAGE DECODING METHOD, MOVING IMAGE ENCODING DEVICE, AND MOVING IMAGE DECODING DEVICE

摘要

The moving image encoding method includes encoding macro-blocks included in a landscape picture frame of a moving image having a larger horizontal width in a horizontal direction than a vertical width in a vertical direction by an encoding device. In macro-block encoding, information of the encoded macro-blocks surrounding a macro-block to be encoded is stored in a built-in information storing memory of the encoding device. Further, in the encoding, first a vertical array of macro-blocks at the left end of the horizontal width of the landscape picture frame are encoded sequentially, and the resultant encode information is stored in the information storing memory, and subsequently an adjacent vertical array of the plural macro-blocks located horizontally on the right of the left end of the horizontal width of the landscape picture frame are encoded sequentially.