Video coding and decoding apparatus including corresponding nonlinear compression and expansion of a motion compensation error signal

摘要

A video coding apparatus includes a motion compensation circuit for motion-compensating a picture signal in a frame previous to a frame of video signals input for each frame, and generating a motion compensation picture signal, a nonlinear processing circuit for compressing a motion compensation error signal representing an error between each of the input video signal and the motion compensation picture signal at a compression rate which rises as the error increases, and outputting a motion compensation error signal, and a coding circuit for orthogonally transforming the motion compensation error signal output from the nonlinear difference circuit, quantizing the orthogonally-transformed signal, and coding the quantized signal.