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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2003
Applicant:
Akio Matsubara, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Akio Matsubara, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes: a block decompression unit that decompresses, block by block, a compressed code formed of a plurality of blocks into which image data is divided, where the compressed code is encoded block by block; and a rendering control unit that causes a code to be decompressed and rendered on a display unit, where the code corresponds to at least one of the blocks which one is renderable in the rendering region of the display unit.