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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2004
Hiroshi Kajiwara, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroki Kishi, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Kajiwara, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroki Kishi, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To reduce the computation cost of rate/distortion optimization in image compression, the rate/distortion gradient of a frame of interest is classified to m categories. A category information creating unit acquires a threshold λ for a preceding frame as a predictive value λ' for the frame of interest that is to be coded, and further finely segments a category in which the predictive value λ′ is included. A code amount is then calculated for each of n categories that include the predictive value λ′. A code sequence forming unit selects a category having a target rate, and searches for a threshold between an upper and a lower limit value of the category. A value (S) at the end of the processing is selected as the threshold λ, and a code sequence is formed by using the threshold λ.