Patent ID: 8571336

Claim:
An image processor comprising: an encoder and a decoder, the encoder including: a frequency transform unit performing frequency transform; a pre-filter optionally performing prefiltering on a region which overlaps with plural unit regions for processing by the frequency transform unit before frequency transform is performed; and a color conversion unit being arranged in a stage preceding the pre-filter and converting a pixel signal of a first color space inputted from outside into a pixel signal of a second color space including a luminance signal and plural chrominance signals, and the decoder including: a frequency inverse transform unit performing frequency inverse transform; a post-filter optionally performing postfiltering on a region which overlaps with plural unit regions for processing by the frequency inverse transform unit after frequency inverse transform is performed; and a color inverse conversion unit being arranged in a stage subsequent to the post-filter and inversely converting a pixel signal of the second color space into a pixel signal of the first color space, wherein the pre-filter performs prefiltering only on one or a subset of plural specific signals with noise among the luminance signal and the chrominance signals, and the post-filter does not perform postfiltering on the specific signals.