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

The technology relates to an encoding device, an encoding method, a decoding device, a decoding method, and a program enabling encoding with favorable transmission efficiency with a controlled running disparity.There are provided: a calculation section dividing inputted data into N bits to calculate a first running disparity of a data string of the N bits; a determination section determining whether the data string of the N bits is inverted based on the first running disparity calculated by the calculation section and a second running disparity calculated at a time point before the first running disparity; and an addition section inverting or non-inverting the data string of the N bits based on a result of the determination by the determination section to add a flag indicating the result of the determination by the determination section for outputting. The technology is applicable to a device communicating in an SLVS-EC specification.