ENCODING DEVICE, ENCODING METHOD, DECODING DEVICE, DECODING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

The present technology relates to an encoding device, an encoding method, a decoding device, a decoding method, and a program that enable encoding with high transmission efficiency by controlling a running disparity.The encoding device includes a scrambling unit that scrambles an input data string, a calculation unit that calculates a first running disparity of the data string scrambled by the scrambling unit, a determination unit that determines whether or not to invert the data string scrambled by the scrambling unit on the basis of the first running disparity calculated by the calculation unit and a second running disparity calculated at a time point before the first running disparity, and an addition unit that inverts or non-inverts the data string scrambled by the scrambling unit on the basis of a determination result by the determination unit, adds a flag indicating the determination result, and outputs the data string. The present technology can be applied to devices that perform SLVS-EC standard communication.