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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2004
Applicant:
Yukio Kadowaki, Nara, JP;
Inventor:
Yukio Kadowaki, Nara, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image processing apparatus divides data related to an image into bit-planes and performs a coding process on data of each of the bit-planes. The image processing apparatus includes a multi-layer generation part that divides codes obtained by the coding process into a plurality of layers sequentially from the codes corresponding to higher bit-planes such that the amount of the codes of each of the layers is equal to or less than a predetermined value. A code generation part generates coded data in units of the codes divided into the layers by the multi-layer generation part.