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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2011
Applicant:
Mitsuru Owada, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Mitsuru Owada, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/48 (2006.01); H04N 11/02 (2006.01); H04N 11/04 (2006.01); H04N 7/12 (2006.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a decoding method of decoding encoded image data which has been hierarchically encoded in advance, a size of an image to be outputted is determined, and then the encoded image data is decoded up to a layer of hierarchy which is at least one layer more than a minimum number of layer/layers of hierarchy necessary to acquire an image of the determined size.