| CPC H04N 19/124 (2014.11) [H03M 7/3071 (2013.01); H03M 7/4018 (2013.01); H03M 7/6088 (2013.01); H04N 19/176 (2014.11); H04N 19/184 (2014.11); H04N 19/50 (2014.11); H04N 19/61 (2014.11); H04N 19/70 (2014.11); H04N 19/91 (2014.11)] | 5 Claims |

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1. A video encoding apparatus, comprising:
circuitry configured to:
set a difference quantization parameter as a difference between a quantization parameter of a current coding unit and a predicted quantization parameter of the current coding unit;
separate the difference quantization parameter into an absolute value of the difference quantization parameter and a sign indicating whether the difference quantization parameter is positive or negative;
sequentially encode the absolute value and the sign, wherein
the absolute value of the difference quantization parameter is mapped to a binary string using unary codes; and
generate bitstream as syntax in which the absolute value and the sign are written in order, wherein
an order of coding is, first, the binary string of the absolute value and, then, the sign.
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