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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2009
Hiroki Kishi, Funabashi, JP;
Hiroki Kishi, Funabashi, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
This invention enables the suppression of block noise even at an intermediate resolution equal to or lower than the original resolution and further increases the number of directly decodable resolutions for higher convenience. For this purpose, a memory stores original image data photographed by an image sensing unit. A resizing unit generates resized image data by reducing the numbers of horizontal and vertical pixels of the original image data stored in the memory to ½ and stores the image data in the memory again. An image compression unit encodes the original image data and the resized image data by HD Photo®. A CPU puts the two encoded data into one file and stores it in a nonvolatile memory card connected to an output unit.