Patent ID: 7158683
Filing Date: 2007-01-02
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing device for compressing image data using conversion to spatial frequency components, comprising: a dividing section that divides the image data into a plurality of pixel blocks and computes spatial frequency components of each pixel block; a segmenting section that computes an intensity of predetermined high frequency components from information of the spatial frequency components and segments the image data into a first plane formed by including a pixel block having an intensity which is less than a predetermined threshold value and into a second plane formed by including a pixel block having an intensity which is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold value; a JPEG compression section that executes JPEG compression for image data of the first plane by applying quantization and entropy coding using the information of the spatial frequency components; and a run length compression section that executes run length compression of image data of the second plane.