IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND IMAGE DECODING METHOD

摘要

An image encoding method for encoding a plurality of image signals and generating encoded signals for each image. In this image encoding method, a switching picture capable of switching the plurality of encoded signals and a picture capable of referencing the switching picture and after are only a group of pictures of the same time in the aforementioned encoded signals. Mores specifically, when picture numbers are discontinuous before and after an S picture, processing is performed not to handle it as an error.