We Claim:
[Claim 1]
A moving image decoding device which decodes a bit stream generated by dividing an image of a moving image into a plurality of blocks and by compression-encoding the blocks and obtains the moving image, the moving image decoding device comprising:
a motion-compensated predictor to generate an inter prediction image of one of the blocks by inter prediction processing on the block;
a transformer to generate a decoded prediction difference signal by inverse transforming and inverse quantizing on compressed data of the block on a basis of a compressed parameter indicating transformation block size of the block;
adder to generate the moving image by adding the inter prediction image to the decoded prediction difference signal; and
a variable-length decoder to entropy-decode the bit stream in order to obtain a binary string and obtain the compressed parameter from the binary string,
wherein the variable-length decoder obtains an identifier from bit stream, the identifier specifying a table from a plurality of binarization tables each of which defines a binary string assignment to the compressed parameter, and obtains the compressed parameter by inverse binarizing the binary string in accordance with the specified binarization table. [Claim 2]
A moving image decoding method for decoding a bit stream generated by dividing an image of a moving image into a plurality of blocks and by compression-encoding the blocks and obtains the moving image, the moving image decoding method comprising:
obtaining a binary string by entropy-decoding the bit stream!
obtaining a compressed parameter by inverse binarizing the binary string in accordance with a binarization table which is specified with an identifier from a plurality of binarization tables each of which defines a binary string assignment to the compressed parameter, the identifier being obtained from the bit stream!
generating an inter prediction image of one of the blocks by inter prediction

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generating a decoded prediction difference signal by inverse transforming and inverse quantizing compressed data of the block on a basis of the compressed parameter indicating transformation block size of the block; and
generating the moving image by adding the inter prediction image to the decoded prediction difference signal. [Claim 3]
A moving image encoding device which generates a bit stream by dividing an image of a moving image into a plurality of blocks and by compression-encoding the blocks, the moving image encoding device comprising:
a motion-compensated predictor to generate an inter prediction image of one of the blocks by inter prediction processing on the block;
a transformer to generate compressed data by transforming and quantizing a decoded prediction difference signal on a basis of a compressed parameter indicating transformation block size of the block, the decoded prediction difference signal is generated by subtracting the inter prediction image from the block; and
a variable-length encoder to binarize the compressed parameter to a binary string and entropy-encode the binary string into the bit stream,
wherein the variable-length encoder carries out the binarization according to a binarization table specified with an identifier from a plurality of binarization tables, each of which defines a binary string assignment to the compressed parameter, and encodes the identifier into a bit stream [Claim 4]
A moving image encoding method of generating a bit stream by dividing an image of a moving image into a plurality of blocks and by compression-encoding the blocks, the moving image encoding method comprising:
generating an inter prediction image of one of the blocks by inter prediction processing on the block;
generating compressed data by transforming and quantizing a decoded prediction difference signal on a basis of a compressed parameter indicating transformation block

size of the block, the decoded prediction difference signal is generated by subtracting the inter prediction image from the block;
binarizing the compressed parameter to a binary string in accordance with a binarization table which is specified with an identifier from a plurality of binarization tables each of which defines a binary string assignment to the compressed parameter, the identifier being encoded into the bit stream! and
entropy-encoding the binary string into a bit stream.