Patent ID: 8855193

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: header information production means for producing, regarding each of divisional code streams obtained by dividing a code stream having a structure of a progression order produced by coding image data, header information at a start and an end of the divisional code stream, the header information including a characteristic amount of an image of the image data; and packet production means for converting each of the divisional code streams into a packet using the header information produced by said header information production means, in which the header information produced by the header information production means conforms to a negative acknowledgment oriented reliable multicast (NORM) protocol, and in which the header information conforming to the NORM protocol includes information indicative of (i) whether or not attribute information is provided, and if attribute information is provided the header information conforming to the NORM protocol further includes information indicative of (i) a type of a respective divisional code stream and (ii) a range or a start and end of the respective type.