Hitachi, Ltd.

Shinya Imanishi

Toru Tanaka

Tetsuo Nakano

Toyota Honda

Masayoshi Kuroda

Yuichi Michikawa

Koichi Takamoto

Teiji Okamoto

Tetsuo Shinagawa

Seiji Tanaka

Yumiko Watanabe

Image data compression method and apparatus which improves image quality in a scene where image greatly changes and reduces the image data, and image transmission system and monitoring system using the method and apparatus. The image data compression apparatus which compresses input image data and outputs compressed image data comprises a detection unit which detects a motion or change of each scene, a determination unit which determines the detected motion amount or change amount, a switch circuit which controls a frame rate in accordance with the results of determination, and a compression encoding unit which compression-encodes the image data. The apparatus performs control such that an image having small motion amount and small change amount with respect to a predetermined image is not compression-encoded, so that the frame rate in a scene where the motion or change is large is higher than that in a scene where the motion and change are small.

Image data compression or expansion method and apparatus, and image transmission system and monitoring system using the method and device

An image data expansion apparatus including a decoder for decoding compressed image data at a frame rate controlled to be lower in a scene where the change is small than that in a scene where the change is large; an expander for expanding the compressed image data decoded by the decoder, the input image data being reproduced such that the frame rate is lower in a scene where the change between images is small than the frame rate in a scene where the change between images is large; and an image interpolator for generating an interpolation image from the input predetermined compressed image data in accordance with the information on the frame rate outputted with the compression image data. The reproduced input image data is interpolated with an interpolation image generated by interpolation processing by the image interpolator, and the interpolated image data is outputted.

A facsimile system with the body thereof usable as a subunit of a cordless telephone is disclosed. A parent unit is connected to the telephone line. A facsimile subunit is connected by radio to the parent unit. A telephone subunit is also connected by radio to the parent unit. A circuit included in the parent unit detects a signal indicating that the other party is in facsimile transmission mode. When a call signal is detected from the telephone line, the parent unit connects the line. When a CNG signal is detected, on the other hand, the parent unit connects the facsimile subunit by radio. In the case where a CNG signal is not detected, the parent unit starts the ring-up tone on the telephone subunit. An AGC circuit and a voice mute circuit are included in the parent unit.

Cordless subunit facsimile system

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Yokohama, Japan

Shinya Imanishi