Patent ID: 7876360

Claim:
An image data transfer processor comprising: an image data processing unit for converting an image signal into an image data; a multi-codec unit for converting the image data into a transfer data; a communication unit for receiving a transfer request from an external terminal device and transmitting the transfer data to the terminal device; a time-sharing management unit for controlling to drive the image data processing unit and the multi-codec unit in a time-sharing manner in accordance with the transfer request; and a transfer data selecting unit for selecting the transfer data corresponding to the transfer request from the transfer data generated by the image data processing unit and the multi-codec unit which are controlled to drive in the time-sharing manner by the time-sharing management unit, and transmitting the selected transfer data to the communication unit, wherein the time-sharing management unit controls the multi-codec unit in the time-sharing manner under such a condition as S·T≧S 0 ·t 0 +S 1 ·t 1 + . . . +S n-1 ·t n-1 , provided that a largest size of the image data is S, a maximum frame rate is T when the largest size of the image data is S, the sizes of n number of image data are S 0 , S 1 , . . . S n-1 , and the frame rates of the respective image data are t 0 , t 1 , . . . t n-1 .