Video signal encoding method and apparatus employing an adaptive quantization technique

摘要

A method employed in an encoding apparatus allocates bits for each of the pictures and blocks of a video signal based on quantization-dependent and quantization-independent signal thereof. First, the quantization-dependent signal is quantized based on a fixed quantization parameter; and the quantized data and the quantization-independent signal are statistically coded to thereby provided first data and second data. A target amount of encoded bits for each picture and block is then determined based on a target bit rate and the respective amounts of the first and the second data. The amounts of encoded data for the pictures and the blocks are adaptively controlled according to the target amounts of encoded bits by adjustably altering quantization parameters based on the difference between the target amount of the encoded bits and the amount of the encoded data generated.