Patent attributes
A device and a method for encoding/decoding are disclosed. The encoding apparatus includes: an encoding unit configured to encode data and generate encoded data; a decoder description generation unit configured to generate a decoder description that describes functional units (FUs) constituting a decoder for decoding the encoded data and the connection relation of the FUs; an FU list generation unit configured to generate and output an FU list for FUs constituting a decoder for decoding the encoded data; and a packetizing unit configured to be inputted with the encoded data, to be inputted with a decoder description, an FU list and FUs corresponding to the inputted encoded data, and to packetize and output said decoder description, FU list and FUs.
