Image processing apparatus
AssigneeMinolta Co., Ltd.
InventorsShoji Imaizumi, Junji Nishigaki, Kenichi Morita
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Abstract
In a system for variable-length coding, when image data of a plurality of documents are compressed and stored in a compression memory, the image data is divided into a plurality of areas. Then, attributes are discriminated for each area, and the result of the attribute discrimination is written to an attribute memory. Attribute counters count the numbers of the discriminated attributes. A variable-length compression section compresses the code data with a compression method in response to the attribute data written to the attribute memory, and the compressed data is written to a compression memory.
Claims6
An image coding method comprising the steps of:
- recognizing an attribute of image data in an entire page;
- recognizing an attribute of image data for each block of the image data in the entire page;
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- processing the image data by encoding the image data according to the attribute for each block when the attribute of the entire page is a first attribute, and processing the image data without the encoding when the attribute of the entire page is a second attribute different from the first one.
An image coding apparatus comprising:
- a circuit for recognizing an attribute of image data in an entire page;
- a circuit for recognizing an attribute of image data for each block of the image data in the entire page;
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- a process or for processing the image data by encoding the image data according to the attribute for each block when the attribute of the entire page is a first attribute, and processing the image data without the encoding when the attribute of the entire page is a second attribute different from the first one.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.