Patent ID: 7900021

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for storing taken image data and for reading the stored image data sequentially, block image data by block image data, each block image data including image data of a plurality of lines to sequentially effect image processing on each of the read out block image data, said image processing apparatus comprising: a storage means for storing said image data corresponding to one frame and storing sequence codes that indicate processing procedures of a series of image processing for the image data corresponding to one frame; an image processing section for effecting said series of image processing on each block image data read out from said storage means; and a sequencer for controlling an operation sequence of said image processing section so as to effect, in repetition, said series of image processing on each said block image data based on the sequence codes read out from said storage means; wherein said sequence codes comprise data coding all sequence instructions corresponding to said series of image processing on the image data corresponding to one frame and are transferred collectively from a CPU to said storage means, said storage means being configured to store said sequence codes in order of execution before starting the series of image processing on said image data, and wherein the CPU, after the collective transferring of the sequence codes to the storage means, causes the sequencer to be started with effecting an initial setting of the image processing section and a register setting of the parameters necessary for the processing of a first block image data of the image data.