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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
May. 12, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Makoto Takayama, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 ;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus, which performs an orthogonal transformation on an image signal and which compresses the image signal, includes a control unit for controlling a range of the image signal based on a coefficient of a DC component of an output of the orthogonal transformation before the orthogonal transformation.