Image processing apparatus

• US 5,717,705 A
• Filed: 03/13/1995
• Issued: 02/10/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kaneko, Yushi, Hoshi, Nobuhiro, Shikakura, Akihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Beausoliel, Jr., Robert W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Decady, Albert
• Application Number:
  US08/402,978
• Time in Patent Office: 1,065 Days
• Field of Search: 371/30, 371/31, 358/261.1, 358/427, 358/432, 358/426, 353/133, 348/206, 348/466
• US Class Current: 714/746
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/124 Quantisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/126 Details of normalisation or weighting functions, e.g. normalisation matrices or variable uniform quantisers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/129 Scanning of coding units, e.g. zig-zag scan of transform coefficients or flexible macroblock ordering [FMO]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/13 Adaptive entropy coding, e.g. adaptive variable length coding [AVLC] or context adaptive binary arithmetic coding [CABAC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/146 Data rate or code amount at the encoder output
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/147 according to rate distortion criteria rate-distortion as a criterion for motion estimation H04N19/567
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/15 by monitoring actual compressed data size at the memory before deciding storage at the transmission buffer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/152 by measuring the fullness of the transmission buffer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/166 concerning the amount of transmission errors, e.g. bit error rate [BER]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/172 the region being a picture, frame or field
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/176 the region being a block, e.g. a macroblock
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/18 the unit being a set of transform coefficients
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/182 the unit being a pixel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/46 Embedding additional information in the video signal during the compression process H04N19/517, H04N19/68, H04N19/70 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/60 using transform coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/65 using error resilience
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/70 characterised by syntax aspects related to video coding, e.g. related to compression standards
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/89 involving methods or arrangements for detection of transmission errors at the decoder
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/895 in combination with error concealment
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/91 Entropy coding, e.g. variable length coding [VLC] or arithmetic coding

Abstract

An image processing apparatus comprises a receiving device for receiving encoded image data which is encoded by using orthogonal transform in a predetermined block unit, an error detecting device for detecting a transmission error of the encoded image data, a correcting device for correcting the transmission error in the predetermined block unit, and a decoding device for decoding the encoded image data and outputting image data for reproducing an image. The image processing apparatus satisfactorily controls the amount of compressed data and prevents a deterioration of image quality even if any error occurs on a transmission path, thereby reproducing good image quality.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

receiving means for receiving an encoded orthogonal transform coefficient which is encoded by using a run-length encoding method in units of blocks;

decoding means for decoding the encoded orthogonal transform coefficient;

error detecting means for detecting an error of the encoded orthogonal transform coefficient in the block based on the orthogonal transform coefficient in the block the detected error having a possibility of including a transmission error caused by transmission of the encoded orthogonal transform coefficient through a transmission line; and

correcting means for correcting the detected error detected by said error detecting means.

2. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said error detecting means detects the transmission error by counting the decoded orthogonal transform coefficient.

3. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said correcting means replaces data in a block including the transmission error by DC component.

4. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said correcting means replaces data in a block including the transmission error by data of a previous input picture.

5. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said correcting means corrects data in a block including the transmission error by using data in a surrounding block.

6. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising image forming means for forming an image in accordance with image data outputted from said decoding means.

7. An image processing method comprising the steps of:

receiving an encoded orthogonal transform coefficient which is encoded by using a run-length encoding method in units of blocks;

decoding the encoded orthogonal transform coefficient;

detecting an error of the encoded transform coefficient in a block based on the decoded orthogonal transform coefficient in the block, the detected error having a possibility of including a transmission error caused by transmission of the encoded orthogonal transform coefficient through a transmission line; and

correcting the detected error detected in said detecting step.

8. An image processing apparatus comprising:

input means for inputting image data;

transforming means for performing an orthogonal transform on the image data;

extracting means for extracting a DC component and an AC component from the transformed image data;

adding means for adding data for error detection to at least one of the DC component and the AC component error or an AC component error independently;

encoding means for encoding the DC component and the AC component; and

output means for outputting the encoded DC component and the encoded AC component to the decoder.

9. An image processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said input means is a video camera.

10. An image processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said orthogonal transform is discrete cosine transform.

11. An image processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said adding data is an ECC.

12. An image processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said encoding means encodes the DC component by a DPCM (difference pulse code modulation) method.

13. An image processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said encoding means performs zig-zag scan of the AC component in a predetermined block and encodes the AC component by Huffman encoding.

14. An image processing method comprising the steps of:

input image data;

performing an orthogonal transform on the input image data;

extracting a DC component and an AC component from the transformed image data;

adding data for error detection to at least one of the DC component and the AC component so that a decoder is able to detect a DC component error or an AC component error independently;

encoding the DC component and the AC component; and

outputting the encoded DC component and the encoded AC component to the decoder.

15. An image processing apparatus comprising:

generating means for generating orthogonal transform coefficients corresponding to image data, the orthogonal transform coefficients including a DC component and an AC component;

encoding means for encoding the orthogonal transform coefficients; and

adding means for adding data for error detecting to the orthogonal transform coefficients,

wherein said adding means includes means for extracting the DC component from the orthogonal transform coefficients and means for adding data for error detection to the DC component.

16. An apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the orthogonal transform coefficients are obtained by a discrete cosine transform.

17. An apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the data for error detection in an ECC.

18. An apparatus according to claim 15, wherein said encoding means performs zig-zag scan of the AC component in a predetermined block and encodes the AC component by Huffman encoding.

19. An image processing method comprising:

a generating step of generating orthogonal transform coefficients corresponding to image data, the orthogonal transform coefficients including a DC component and an AC component;

an encoding step of encoding the orthogonal transform coefficients; and

an adding step of adding data for error detection to the orthogonal transform coefficients,

wherein said adding step includes a step of extracting the DC component from the orthogonal transform coefficients and a step of adding data for error detection to the DC component.