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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 16, 1994
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image storing device for compressing an original image, storing the compressed image, and expanding the stored image while enabling a high speed searching for stored image data is provided. An encoded data classification unit can classify the encoded and compressed data into reduced data output and an unreduced data output. Both the reduced and unreduced data output are stored and a selective reading unit can address this data. The data can be decoded and expanded and an arrangement control unit can arrange a sequence to the data so that the original image is reproduced when operating upon the unreduced data and when operating upon the reduced data, only encoded and compressed corresponding to scanning lines which are subject to reduced output are decoded and expanded after being reduced in a line direction.