Patent ID: 7035337
Filing Date: 2006-04-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A stream processing apparatus for processing a stream compressed and encoded with a variable length code in a predetermined unit, comprising: error detecting means for detecting an error flag that has been set corresponding to a position of an error when the error is contained in the stream; and end information adding means for adding information representing an end of the variable length code, based on the error flag, to the position corresponding to the error flag in a string of the variable length code containing the error flag; wherein when the error flag is set at a position corresponding to temporally later variable length code strings of a chrominance difference component of the variable length code strings of a pair of chrominance difference components, the end information adding means adds the information representing the end to the variable length code strings of the chrominance difference component which are paired with said variable length code strings of said chrominance difference component of the temporally later.