Image coding apparatus and method in which a loop filter performs a filtering process on each image block of an image

摘要

An image coding apparatus includes an image characteristic determination unit configured to divide input image data into image blocks each including a plurality of pixels, and to determine a characteristic of each image block, a loop filter configured to perform a filtering process on each image block in a locally decoded image associated with the input image, and a control unit configured to control a property of the loop filter to perform a filtering process on image regions into which the image blocks are sorted according to characteristics of the image blocks determined by the image characteristic determination unit.