IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

Disclosed are an image processing method and an image processing device that allows improved image prediction encoding efficiency. The pixels in every other diagonal line of a first image and of a second image different from the first image are eliminated, resulting in a first thinned-out image and a second thinned-out image, such that the pixels of the two images are arranged in a checkerboard pattern. A horizontal processing unit (31) performs horizontal processing for manipulating the layout of the pixels of the first and second thinned-out images in the horizontal direction; specifically, the horizontal processing unit (31) laterally packs the pixels of the first and second thinned-out images in the horizontal direction. A combining unit (33) generates, as an image for prediction encoding, a combined image combined by adjacently arranging the first and second thinned-out images after horizontal processing. The disclosed method may be applied for prediction encoding of a first and second image such as an L (Left) image and an R (Right) image forming a 3-D image.