| CPC H04N 19/70 (2014.11) [H04N 19/105 (2014.11); H04N 19/136 (2014.11); H04N 19/172 (2014.11); H04N 19/187 (2014.11); H04N 19/188 (2014.11)] | 11 Claims |

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6. An image encoding method performed by an image encoding apparatus, the image encoding method comprising:
determining a first flag specifying whether a network abstraction layer (NAL) hypothetical reference decoder (HRD) parameter is present in a bitstream and a second flag specifying whether a video coding layer (VCL) HRD parameter is present in the bitstream; and
determining a third flag specifying whether a temporal distance between output times of consecutive pictures in the bitstream has a fixed value,
wherein output times of pictures in the bitstream are derived based on at least one of the first flag, the second flag or the third flag,
wherein the pictures in the bitstream are processed based on the derived output times,
wherein, based on the first flag having a second value specifying that the NAL HRD parameter is not present in the bitstream and the second flag having a second value specifying that the VCL HRD parameter is not present in the bitstream, it is constrained that the third flag has a first value specifying that the temporal distance between the output times of the consecutive pictures in the bitstream has the fixed value.
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