摘要 |
<p>THE INVENTION RELATES TO AN ENCODER (L) FOR FORMING AN ENCODED PICTURE STREAM.THE PICTURES ARE DEFINED AS REFERENCE PICTURES OR NON-REFERENCE PICTURES, AND INFORMATION RELATING TO DECODING ORDER AND OUTPUT ORDER OF A PICTURE IS DEFINED FOR PICTURES OF THE PICTURE STREAM. THE ENCODER IS ARRANGED TO FORM TO THE BITSTREAM AN INDICATION OF SUCH A NUMBER OF PICTURES ARRANGED TO BE BUFFERED IN DECODING ORDER THAT IS SUFFICIENT TO RECOVER THE OUTPUT ORDER OF PICTURES. THE INVENTION ALSO RELATES TO A SIGNAL, HYPOTHETICAL ENCODER, DECODER (2), HYPOTHETICAL DECODER (5), ELECTRONIC DEVICE (8), SYSTEM, SOFTWARE PROGRAM AND A STORAGE MEDIUM.(FIG. 5)</p> |