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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2009
Toshiyuki Katsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuhiro Igi, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiromasa Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Yukio Yanagihara, Chiba, JP;
Toshiyuki Katsumoto, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuhiro Igi, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiromasa Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Yukio Yanagihara, Chiba, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image encoding device includes a single image pickup unit generating image data by shooting a subject, an image compression unit generating digital image data by encoding the image data, a distance measuring unit measuring a distance to the subject during the shooting, and a multiplexing unit generating multiplexed data based on the digital image data and the measured distance by multiplexing distance data indicating the distance to a subject of each of given pixel blocks of the digital image data onto the digital image data.