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

Claim 11:
12. An image encoding device for encoding an image, comprising:
a first mode determination engine that, using the image as input, determines a first mode suited to encode the image in accordance with a first processing procedure;
a second mode determination engine that, using the image as input, determines a second mode suited to encode the image in accordance with a second processing procedure, the second processing procedure is implemented by a circuit that is reconfigurable;
a cost calculator that calculates a cost of using the second mode to encode the image;
a mode selector that selects one of the first mode and the second mode as a final mode, the final mode being utilized to encode the image, the mode selector selects the first mode when the cost is higher than a fixed first predetermined value and selects the second mode when the cost is lower than or equal to the fixed first predetermined value;
an encoder that encodes 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.