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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2019
Applicant:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Shiori Sugimoto, Musashino, JP;
Seishi Takamura, Musashino, JP;
Takayuki Kurozumi, Musashino, JP;
Hideaki Kimata, Musashino, JP;
Assignee:
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/82 (2014.01); H04N 19/61 (2014.01); H04N 19/91 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/91 (2014.11); H04N 19/61 (2014.11);
Abstract
An image coding method includes: an image acquisition step of acquiring a coding-target image; a feature map generation step of generating a feature map, based on the image; a contraction function generation step of performing fractal compression of the feature map and generating a contraction function; and an entropy encoding step of performing entropy encoding of the contraction function.