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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:
May. 16, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
358467 ; 358426 ; 358432 ; 358433 ; 358447 ; 358539 ; 358540 ; 358455 ; 382232 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to an image processing apparatus having the function to encode or decode image data and discloses a technique in which an optimum encoding method is selected in accordance with the characteristics of an image and a high efficient encoding with little deterioration in image is executed.