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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2015
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Nobuo Ueki, Tokyo, JP;
Toshinori Ihara, Tokyo, JP;
Takefumi Nagumo, Kanagawa, JP;
Hironari Sakurai, Kanagawa, JP;
Shuo Lu, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshitaka Morigami, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); H04N 19/30 (2014.01); H04N 19/85 (2014.01); H04N 19/426 (2014.01); G06T 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/30 (2014.11); G06T 9/00 (2013.01); H04N 19/426 (2014.11); H04N 19/85 (2014.11);
Abstract
Provided is an image processing apparatus including: an encoder configured to scalably encode image data; a write unit configured to cause storage via a predetermined bus to store encoded data that is the image data scalably encoded by the encoder; a read unit configured to read a desired layer of the encoded data from the storage via the bus; and a decoder configured to scalably decode the encoded data read from the storage by the read unit.