Patent ID: 11882269
Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An image encoding method for encoding an image, comprising:
using the image as input, determining a first mode suited to encode the image in accordance with a first processing procedure;
using the image as input, determining a second mode suited to encode the image in accordance with a second processing procedure, the second processing procedure being implemented by a circuit that is reconfigurable;
calculating a cost of using the second mode to encode the image,
selecting one of the first mode and the second mode as a final mode, the final mode being utilized to encode the image, the first mode is selected when the cost is higher than a fixed first predetermined value, and the second mode is selected when the cost is lower than or equal to the fixed first predetermined value;
encoding the image using the final mode to generate an encoded bit stream to be decoded in a decoder device,
wherein the encoding of the image includes at least one of orthogonal transformation, quantization, or entropy coding, the encoding of the image being processing to output a bit stream.