Information processing apparatus and method which selectively controls data encoding by monitoring amount of encoded data
US6266449A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 19, 1996 |
| Grant date | Jul 24, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 19, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T9/00
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The invention provides an information processing apparatus in which data is encoded with a desired compression ratio without producing significant degradation in the quality of the encoded data. The apparatus includes: a monitor for monitoring the amount of encoded image data which has already been generated prior to current image data to be encoded; and an encoder for encoding the current image data to be encoded selectively using either a reversible encoding algorithm or an irreversible encoding algorithm wherein the encoding algorithm is selected depending on the above-described amount of codes.
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