Apparatus, method and computer program product for transcoding a coded moving picture sequence

摘要

An apparatus (100) for transcoding a coded moving picture sequence according to the present invention comprises a rate controller (110) for adapting the scaling factor to perform the rate control over the coded moving picture sequence signal having a desired target bit rate. The rate controller (110) of the apparatus has: a remaining bit computing unit (101) for computing: a remaining number of inputting bits Rin(n) for each of the pictures pic(n) in the first coded moving picture sequence signal b1 on the basis of the number of real inputting bits Sin(n) of the current picture pic(n) and the estimated number of inputting bits; and a remaining number of outputting bits Rout(n) for each of the pictures pic(n) in the second coded moving picture sequence signal b2 on the basis of the number of real outputting bits Sout(n) of the current picture pic(n) and the estimated number of outputting bits; a target ratio computing unit (103) for computing, for each of the pictures pic(n), a target ratio ioRatio(n) of the remaining number of outputting bits Rout(n) to the remaining number of inputting bits of the picture Rin(n); and a scaling factor computing unit (105, 107) for computing the scaling factor (Q2(j), QM) on the basis of the target ratio ioRatio(n) to control the target bit rate of the second coded moving picture sequence signal b2. <IMAGE>