Patent ID: 7489728

Claim:
A moving image coding apparatus, comprising: blocking means for dividing an image applied in units of frames into a plurality of blocks; selecting means for selectively performing an intra-frame coding for performing coding within a same frame, and an inter-frame prediction coding for performing a coding between frames, for each of the plurality of blocks; display means for displaying the image; and qualitative refresh map creating means for creating a refresh map which sets a shorter refresh period at which the intra-frame coding is performed at a constant frame period for a block corresponding to a predetermined area on a display screen of said display means than for a rest of the plurality of blocks, said selecting means configured to perform the intra-frame coding at the refresh period set in said refresh map, said display means permitting a user whose image is being presented to view the user's own image in order to make adjustments to a location of said user's image on said display means.