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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1994
Narihiro Matoba, Kamakura, JP;
Masaru Ohnishi, Kamakura, JP;
Masaaki Tanioka, Itami, JP;
Yukio Kodama, Itami, JP;
Yoshifumi Imanaka, Itami, JP;
Hiroaki Furuta, Itami, JP;
Eisaku Tomita, Itami, JP;
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A line buffer device temporarily stores a predetermined area of original image data which are divided into small blocks, each having a small area, so as to encode the image data for each block into data having a fixed length by a compression processor. The line buffer device is composed of a first-stage line buffer group and a second-stage line buffer group. The number of line buffers in the first-stage line buffer group is smaller by one than the number of lines constituting one block and the number of line buffers in the second-stage line buffer group is the same as the number of lines constituting one block. Encoding processing time is shortened and the circuit structure is simplified.