Image processing apparatus and method for efficiently compressing and encoding still images and motion pictures
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshiyuki Endo
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes an input unit for sequentially inputting image data and a display unit for displaying finder image data in the image data sequentially input from the input unit. The image processing apparatus also includes a processing unit that outputs encoded still-image data and the finder image data, the encoded still-image data being generated by compressing and encoding desired image data in the image data; an output unit for outputting the finder image data to the display unit; and a motion-picture compressing unit for compressing the finder image data into compressed and encoded motion-picture data and for outputting the compressed and encoded motion-picture data.
Claims8
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- an input unit for sequentially inputting image data;
- a display unit for displaying finder image data in the image data sequentially input from the input unit;
- a processing unit that outputs encoded still-image data and the finder image data, the encoded still-image data being generated by compressing and encoding desired image data in the image data;
- an image cutting unit for partly cutting out image data from the finder image data output by said processing unit conforming to a motion-picture format:
- an output unit for outputting the finder image data cut out by said image cutting unit to said display unit;
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- a motion-picture compressing unit for compressing the finder image data cut out by said image cutting unit into compressed and encoded motion-picture data and for outputting the compressed and encoded motion-picture data.
An image processing method comprising the steps of:
- sequentially inputting image data;
- outputting encoded still-image data that is generated by compressing and encoding desired image data in the image data and finder image data in the image data to be displayed on a display unit;
- partly cutting out image data from the outputted finder image data conforming to a motion-picture format:
- outputting the cut out finder image data to the display unit;
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- compressing the cut out finder image data into compressed and encoded motion-picture data and outputting the compressed and encoded motion-picture data.
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