Patent ID: 6442297
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A storage apparatus for storing a first image corresponding to a low layer and having a plurality of pixels and a second image corresponding to a high layer and having a plurality of pixels, in which a pixel of the second image is formed from N pixels of the first image, and in which the pixels of the first image are inputted one by one in a predetermined order, said apparatus comprising:a low layer storage device for storing the first image corresponding to the low layer; a high layer storage device for storing the second image corresponding to the high layer; a controller for controlling read and write operations with respect to said low layer and high layer storage devices, said controller reading out the first image stored in said low layer storage device as a unit group of Nâˆ’1 pixels; and a pixel generator for generating one pixel of the second image by using the N pixels of the first image which include the Nâˆ’1 pixels of the first image read out from said low layer storage device and one input pixel of the first image.