Patent ID: 7380015

Claim:
A real-time picture information compression-transmission apparatus for compression transmitting picture information in a real-time manner, comprising: input means for receiving said picture information; an encoder encoding frames of said picture information from the input means on a preset cycle in a real-time manner and outputting real-time-encoded data corresponding to respective frames of said picture information; storage means for storing said real-time-encoded data corresponding to the respective frames of said picture information output from the encoder, the encoder writing the real-time-encoded data corresponding to the respective frames into the storage means; division means for receiving the real-time encoded data corresponding to respective frames from the storage means and sequentially dividing said real-time-encoded data corresponding to the respective frames into packets; and transmission timing control and transmission means for controlling transmission timing to sequentially transmit the packets corresponding to the respective frames to a network, wherein packets corresponding to respective frames are transmitted sequentially to the network during an entire period between when said encoder ends writing real-time encoded data corresponding to a frame to the storage means and when said encoder begins writing real-time encoded data corresponding to a next frame to the storage means, and for transmitting the packets to the network according to a connection-less type protocol.