摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image encoding apparatus which hardly generates noise during switching of scenes as decoding results. <P>SOLUTION: The size of an inter encoding amount predictive value, which is a predictive value for the amount of encoding when a field to be encoded is inter predicted, is compared to the size of an intra encoding amount predictive value, which is a predictive value for the amount of encoding when the field to be encoded is intra predicted (S401). When it is decided from this relationship that the inter encoding amount predictive value has become relatively larger than the intra encoding amount predictive value (S401, YES), the reference image is switched from the same type of field to the referable field that is temporally closest to the field to be encoded (S402). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT |