Patent ID: 6549663
Filing Date: 2003-04-15
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
An image processing apparatus comprising:an overwriting unit that overwrites a partial image data of an image data; a partial image data storing unit that stores the output partial image data from the overwriting unit; a process prediction unit that predicts whether further overwriting is performed upon the partial image data; a completion judgment unit that sends the partial image data to a coding unit if the overwriting processing is complete, and to a data storing unit otherwise, the coding unit performing a predetermined image data compression coding upon the partial image data; a data storing unit that stores either the partial image data output from the completion judgment unit or the code data output from the coding unit; and an output switching unit that sends the data stored in the data storing unit to the overwriting processing unit if it is a partial image data, and to a decoding unit if it is a code data, the decoding unit decoding the code data by an inverse process of the coding.