Patent ID: 8422553

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a processor including a selecting unit configured to select whether or not to encode image data to be transmitted based on whether a transmission-allowed bit rate of the transmission line is greater than a bit rate of the image data; a filtering unit configured to perform, when encoding of the image data is selected, a process of decomposing the image data in increments of a frequency band and to generate sub-bands including coefficient data in increments of the frequency band, in increments of a line block including image data equivalent to a number of lines needed to generate coefficient data equivalent to one line of sub-bands of at least lowest frequency components; a reordering unit configured to reorder the coefficient data, which has been generated by the filtering unit in order from high frequency components to low frequency components, in order from low frequency components to high frequency components; an encoding configured to encode the coefficient data reordered by the reordering unit; and a sending unit configured to send encoded data generated by encoding the coefficient data using the encoding unit to another information processing apparatus via a transmission line.