US 7,486,734 B2
Decoding and coding method of moving image signal, and decoding and coding apparatus of moving image signal using the same
Yutaka Machida, Yokohama (Japan)
Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Mar. 30, 1998, as Appl. No. 9/50,808.
Claims priority of application No. 9-094478 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 1997.
Prior Publication US 2001/0055338 A1, Dec. 27, 2001
Int. Cl. H04N 7/12 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 375—240.25  [375/240.01; 375/240.12; 375/240.16] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of decoding block N+1 in frame N+1 of successive frames of a predictively coded image signal, said method comprising the steps of:
a) evaluating block N of frame N and block N-M of frame N-M of said signal, wherein blocks N-M, N and N+1 are in corresponding locations of frames N-M, N and N+1, respectively, M=>1;
b) identifying an error in one of block N and block N-M;
c) using the other of block N and block N-M to decode block N+1 based on steps a) and b).