Image compressing apparatus and image compressing method

• US 20050063599A1
• Filed: 08/06/2004
• Published: 03/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Sato, Yutaka
• Application Number:
  US10/913,775
• Publication Number:
  US 20050063599A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/232
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/132 Sampling, masking or truncation of coding units, e.g. adaptive resampling, frame skipping, frame interpolation or high-frequency transform coefficient masking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/149 by estimating the code amount by means of a model, e.g. mathematical model or statistical model
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/184 the unit being bits, e.g. of the compressed video stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/40 using video transcoding, i.e. partial or full decoding of a coded input stream followed by re-encoding of the decoded output stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/42 characterised by implementation details or hardware specially adapted for video compression or decompression, e.g. dedicated software implementation H04N19/635 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/647 using significance based coding, e.g. Embedded Zerotrees of Wavelets [EZW] or Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees [SPIHT]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/70 characterised by syntax aspects related to video coding, e.g. related to compression standards

Abstract

From given code data, a first total data amount of codes is calculated for each processing unit. A second total data amount of codes is calculated for each processing unit from the first data amount of codes for each processing unit, which second data amount is a data amount obtained when image data obtained from decoding the code data is again compressed and coded at a higher compression rate. A re-compressed code data is obtained from updating the additional information to information for the re-compressed state, and reading the data of codes for each processing unit from a memory for the second total data amount in a predetermined manner.

Claims

1. An image compressing apparatus having code data input thereto, which code data comprises data of codes and additional information, said data of codes being created from compressing, for each processing unit at a predetermined first compression rate, coefficient data obtained from analyzing image data with respect to frequency, said additional information being data necessary for decoding the data of codes, comprising:

a memory storing at least the data of codes of the code data;

a code amount calculating part calculating, from the code data, a first total data amount of codes for each processing unit;

a code amount control part obtaining a second total data amount of codes for each processing unit from the first data amount of codes for each processing unit calculated by said code amount calculating part, which second data amount is a data amount obtained if image data obtained from decoding the code data is again compressed and coded at a predetermined second compression rate higher than said predetermined first compression rate; and

a code creation part creating recompressed code data by updating the additional information to information for the recompressed state, and reading out the data of codes for each processing unit from said memory for the second total data amount in a predetermined manner.

2. The image compressing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said predetermined manner of reading out the data of codes for each processing unit from said memory performed by said code creation part is to read in an order such that data of codes, which are those concerning more significant bit data of the coefficient data if they are decoded, are read out earlier.

3. The image compressing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, having the code data input thereto, which code data is obtained from coding according to JPEG2000, and comprises the data of codes and the additional information, said additional information comprising code information indicating the number of zero bit planes for each processing unit, and said data of codes comprising MQ codes, wherein:

said memory stores the code information and the data of MQ codes for each processing unit; and

said code amount control part obtains the second total data amount of MQ codes for each processing unit to be obtained if the image data obtained from decoding the code data is compressed at the second predetermined compression rate, from a total data amount of MQ codes for each processing unit obtained from performing entropy decoding processing according to JPEG2000 on the code data and a data amount of MQ codes for respective coding passes.

4. The image comprising apparatus as claimed in claim 3, comprising:

a coding part compressing and coding the image data according to JPEG2000 and creating the code data comprising the additional information and the data of MQ codes; and

a decoding part decoding the code data having a configuration comprising the additional data and the data of MQ codes, into image data.

5. An image compressing method having code data input thereto, which code data comprises data of codes and additional information, said data of codes being created from compressing, for each processing unit at a predetermined first compression rate, coefficient data obtained from analyzing image data with respect to frequency, said additional information being data necessary for decoding the data of codes, and creating code data obtained from compressing at a different compression rate, comprising the steps of:

a) storing at least the data of codes of the code data in a memory;

b) calculating, from the code data, a first total data amount of codes for each processing unit;

c) obtaining a second total data amount of codes for each processing unit from the first data amount of codes for each processing unit calculated in said step b), which second data amount is a data amount obtained if image data obtained from decoding the code data is again compressed and coded at a predetermined second compression rate higher than said predetermined first compression rate; and

d) creating recompressed code data by updating the additional information to information for the recompressed state, and reading out the data of codes for each processing unit from said memory for the second total data amount in a predetermined manner.