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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2002
Won-sik Cheong, Daejon, KR;
Kyuheon Kim, Daejon, KR;
Yoon-jin Lee, Jeollabuk-Do, KR;
Jinwoong Kim, Daejon, KR;
Chieteuk Ahn, Daejon, KR;
Gwang-hoon Park, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Won-Sik Cheong, Daejon, KR;
Kyuheon Kim, Daejon, KR;
Yoon-Jin Lee, Jeollabuk-Do, KR;
Jinwoong Kim, Daejon, KR;
Chieteuk Ahn, Daejon, KR;
Gwang-Hoon Park, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Abstract
Provided are intelligent water ring scan apparatus and method thereof, image encoding/decoding apparatus using the water ring scanning and method thereof, and a computer-readable recording medium for recording a program that implements the methods. The apparatus or method of this research selectively improves the image quality of a particular image part that needs to be encoded with priority by transmitting the image data of the particular image part suitably for a human visual system so as to provide a visually improved image. The encoding apparatus of this research differentiates the amount of image data depending on the significance of a certain image part to process the image in various qualities suitably for the human visual system. The methods of this research can be applied to an image encoding/decoding process.