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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Toshiaki Kitsuki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348420 ; 348403 ; 358433 ;
Abstract
An LSI device for encoding an image includes a dot sequential access unit for sequentially storing in an external storage image data arranged in a dot sequential manner, a block data output device for outputting block data from the storage, the block data including the pixel data of a predetermined number of lines and a predetermined number of columns, and a vertical decimating unit for conducting a vertical decimating operation for the block data. The LSI device employs only one memory to achieve the decimating operation and the blocking operation. As a result, the number of pins of the device and the size thereof can be decreased.