Patent ID: 6833866
Filing Date: 2004-12-21
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An image recording device, which records image data on a record medium, comprising:first encoding means adapted to hierarchically encode, using a hierarchical encoding method, the image data to be recorded; second encoding means adapted to encode the image data to be recorded using a second encoding method which is different from the hierarchical encoding method; and record means adapted to record the image data encoded by either said first encoding means or said second encoding means on said record medium, wherein if the image data was encoded by the first encoding means, said record means (i) records a portion of the image data, in association with a corresponding cluster of a predetermined unit of the record medium, (ii) fixes any recorded portions as a file and (iii) repeats the acts of recording and fixing, and wherein if the image data was encoded by the second encoding means, then said record means records all of the encoded image data and then fixes the recorded encoded image data as a file.