Patent ID: 8023604

Claim:
An encoded data transfer device comprising: a code converting section that converts inputted image data to encoded data; a data buffer that stores the encoded data transferred from the code converting section; a stored data amount detecting section that detects a stored data amount of the encoded data stored in the data buffer reaching a predetermined amount; a data transfer section that transfers the encoded data stored in the data buffer to the outside in response to a first detecting result of the stored data amount detecting section; and a transfer data amount detecting section that detects the predetermined amount of the encoded data being transferred from the data transfer section, wherein, upon receipt of each of first synchronizing clocks for transferring the encoded data at the data transfer section, the transfer data amount detecting section counts the number of the first synchronizing clocks and when the number of the first synchronizing clocks reaches a first value, a transfer data amount detecting signal is transmitted to the data buffer, and upon receipt of a second synchronizing clock for outputting the encoded data at the code converting section, the stored data amount detecting section counts second synchronizing clocks and when the second synchronizing clocks reach a second value, a stored data amount detecting signal is transmitted to the data buffer, and wherein, in the data buffer, transfer of the encoded data from the code converting section is inhibited in response to the stored data amount detecting signal which is the first detecting result of the stored data amount detecting section, and transfer of the encoded data from the code converting section is started in response to the transferred data amount detecting signal which is a second detecting result of the transfer data amount detecting section.