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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2008
Filed:
May. 30, 2002
Masaaki Kojima, Tokyo, JP;
Masaaki Kojima, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A video recording/reproducing apparatus combined with a camera adapted to control a target information amount according to the nature and properties of an animated image to be photographed, and a recording control method for the same are provided. A target information amount control microcomputer () controls an encoding and compressing apparatus () by a target bit rate to carry out predetermined compressive encoding on the animated image data from a filter computing unit () so as to create an encoded bit stream. The filter computing unit () is given a filter coefficient to convert the animated image data into data of a resolution that is suited for encoding.