Patent ID: 6879727
Filing Date: 2005-04-12
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: storing means for storing encoded data obtained by executing predetermined sequence transformation and bit-plane-encoding for an input image; recognition means for recognizing a first image quality of the image to be displayed by a predetermined display device; output means for reading out, from said storing means, data necessary to reconstruct an image having a predetermined image quality in the encoded data and outputting the data; decoding means for decoding the output encoded data; and adjustment means for adjusting the image decoded by said decoding means to make an image quality of the image match the first image quality, wherein said recognition means instructs said output means to read out encoded data corresponding to a decoded image having a second image quality in the stored encoded data on the basis of a predetermined condition, and said adjustment means adjusts the image obtained by decoding, by said decoding means, the encoded data output by said output means, to make an image quality of the image to be displayed by said display device match the first image quality.