Video compression with feedback update of parameters used in complexity estimation for rate control

摘要

A video data compression apparatus (1) with which compressed video data (VOUT) of suitable amounts of data can be produced and in addition the time required for processing is short. An encoder control unit (12) performs a preprocessing for compression and coding and, at the same time, produces a flatness and an intra AC as parameters indicating the difficulty of the pattern of pictures to be compressed to I pictures. A motion detector (14) calculates a predictive error amount (ME residual) of the motion prediction. An FIFO memory (160) delays each picture of the input video data.
A host computer (20) approximates a real difficulty data D j indicating the difficulty of the pattern of each picture by the ME residual, flatness, and intra AC and further calculates the target amount of data T j of the compressed video data from the approximated real difficulty data D j . The encoder (18) performs the compression and coding so that the amount of data of the compressed video data becomes substantially the target amount of data T j .