ENCODING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

Pictures can be encoded such that no display wait occurs on a decoding side. Pictures are re-encoded such that their encoding order is changed. As a result, picture B 3 is detected as picture Na+1 (Fig. 11A) that is decoded later than picture I 1 (picture Nd) by two pictures. Thus, picture P 3 (picture Na+2) (a picture displayed later than picture I 1 by two pictures) is contained in picture sequence {I 1 , P 2 , B 3 }. As shown in Fig. 11C and Fig. 11D, picture B 3 is decoded at a time corresponding to its displaying time. Thus, picture B 3 can be displayed at its displaying time.