Patent ID: 8013910
Filing Date: 2011-09-06
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus for taking an image by making use of a solid-state imaging sensor, said imaging apparatus comprising: a compression section configured to compress image data, which is generated by said solid-state imaging sensor as a result of an imaging process, by dividing said image data into blocks each composed of a fixed number of same color component pixels adjacent to each other and taking each of said blocks as a unit of compression; a memory used for temporarily storing compressed image data produced by said compression section; a decompression section configured to decompress said compressed image data read out from said memory; and a signal processing section configured to carry out an image-quality correction process on decompressed image data produced by said decompression section, wherein each of said blocks is split in advance into two quantization-subject areas each composed of one or more pixels adjacent to each other, a plurality of block types are defined in advance for each of said blocks, said block types defined for any individual one of said blocks are distinguished from each other by the position of the inter-area boundary between said two quantization-subject areas in said individual block, and said compression section has