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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2000
Takahiro Yagishita, Kanagawa, JP;
Yukiko Yamazaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Nekka Matsuura, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A device for processing images includes a compressing/coding unit which encodes image data including a plurality of color components to produce fixed-length codes, a memory unit which stores therein the codes produced by the compressing/coding unit, a distribution-measurement unit which measures a distribution of the color components concurrently with the encoding of the image data performed by the compressing/coding unit, and a memory-control unit which releases a memory space assigned to part of the codes relating to colors in the memory unit if the distribution-measurement unit detects that the distribution concentrates on a particular color composition, and records data indicative of the particular color composition in the memory unit.