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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2006
Applicants:
Keiichi Chono, Tokyo, JP;
Yuzo Senda, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiro Miyamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
When entropy-encoding a converted quantized amount obtained by converting an image into a frequency region and quantizing it, if the output code bit quantity of the entropy encoding exceeds a predetermined amount, an image obtained by rebuilding the converted quantized value is outputted from an image encoding device. This guarantees an encoding delay caused by re-encoding to be a constant time without increasing the circuit size of the encoding device and provides an image encoding device of a subjectively high quality.