Patent ID: 7756345

Claim:
An image compression data processing method, comprising: dividing compressed image data into a plurality of compressed partial image data and describing the plurality of compressed partial image data in an arbitrary order; describing, in any of the compressed image data and additional data associated with the compressed image data, information about a decoding order of the plurality of compressed partial image data and information about a storage address of each of the plurality of compressed partial image data; decompressing, by a first data processing apparatus, the compressed image data and displays the decompressed image data; storing, by a second data processing apparatus, the compressed image data, wherein the first data processing apparatus and the second data processing apparatus are interconnected through a communications line; reading, by the second data processing apparatus, the plurality of compressed partial image data using the information about the storage address of each of the compressed partial image data in accordance with a decoding order of the plurality of compressed partial image data requested by the first data processing apparatus and sending the plurality of compressed partial image data to the first data processing apparatus; decompressing and displaying, at the first data processing apparatus, each of the plurality of compressed partial image data; and repeating the above steps for all of the plurality of compressed partial image data to display the decompressed image data.