Patent ID: 7409095
Filing Date: 2008-08-05
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus for reproducing a moving image from encoded data thereof, comprising: a decoding unit to decode the encoded data; and a control unit to control the decoding by the decoding unit, wherein with respect to encoded data of a moving image having scalability, the control unit monitors a degree of progress of entropy decoding of a frame of the moving image by the decoding unit, the control unit causing the decoding unit to reproduce an image of the frame if the degree of progress of the entropy decoding of the frame has reached a reference within a predetermined period of time and inhibiting the decoding unit from reproducing the image of the frame if the degree of progress of the entropy decoding of the frame is prevented from reaching the reference within the predetermined period of time, and the reference for the degree of progress of the entropy decoding comprises a ratio of an amount of code of the frame, where the code has been entropy decoded to a total amount of code of the frame.