Image processing apparatus
First Claim
1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
- input means for inputting image data;
activity detecting means for detecting an activity of the image data input by said input means, the activity corresponding to spatial frequency content of the image data;
filtering means for performing a space filtering process on the image data input by said input means, by controlling filter coefficients in accordance with the activity detected by said activity detecting means; and
encoding means for encoding the image data processed by said filtering means.
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Abstract
The invention provides an image processing apparatus comprising: an activity detecting unit for detecting an activity of input image data, a processing unit for space filter processing the input image data by controlling filter coefficients in accordance with the activity detected by the activity detecting unit, and an encoding unit for encoding the input image data processed by the processing unit. An image processing apparatus comprising, an activity detecting unit for detecting an activity of input image data, and a quantizing unit for quantizing the input image data by controlling a quantization step in accordance with the activity detected by the activity detecting unit is also provided.
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1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
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input means for inputting image data; activity detecting means for detecting an activity of the image data input by said input means, the activity corresponding to spatial frequency content of the image data; filtering means for performing a space filtering process on the image data input by said input means, by controlling filter coefficients in accordance with the activity detected by said activity detecting means; and encoding means for encoding the image data processed by said filtering means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An image processing method comprising:
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an inputting step of inputting image data; an activity detecting step of detecting an activity of the image data input in said inputting step, the activity corresponding to spatial frequency content of the image data; a filtering step of performing a space filtering process on the image input in said inputting step, by controlling filter coefficients in accordance with the activity detected in said activity detecting step; and an encoding step of encoding the image data processed in said filtering step. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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