Image processing apparatus

• US 8,150,179 B2
• Filed: 03/28/2008
• Issued: 04/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Yano, Takanori
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Phuoc
• Application Number:
  US12/078,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20080247655A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,467 Days
• Field of Search: 382/232, 382/233, 382/240, 382/248
• US Class Current: 382/233
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/41 Bandwidth or redundancy reduction by scanning H04N1/17 ; methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/63 using sub-band based transform, e.g. wavelets

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes an encoder, a decoder, and a display unit. The encoder performs scalable encoding to encode input image data to obtain code data to be stored in a storage unit. The decoder decodes the code data stored in the storage unit to obtain decoded image data. The display unit displays an image based on the decoded image data, and receives an instruction to output the image. The image is output in response to the instruction. The decoder decodes only subcode data which is part of the code data.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an reading unit that reads original data to obtain image data;

an encoder that encodes the image data to obtain code data;

a storage unit that stores therein the code data;

a decoder that decodes subcode data to obtain decoded image data, the subcode data being a portion of the code data corresponding to one of a thumbnail image and a preview image of the image data;

a display unit that displays an image based on the decoded image data, and receives an instruction to output the image, the image being one of the thumbnail image and the preview image; and

an output unit that outputs the image in response to the instruction.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the code data includes a plurality of objects, and the decoder decodes only code data of part of the objects.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the decoder decodes only part of the code data of part of the objects.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the code data is in JPM format.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the subcode data is progressively decoded and reproduced.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a calculating unit that calculates an address of the subcode data to specify a range where the subcode data is stored in the storage unit, wherein

the decoder decodes only the subcode data based on the address of the subcode data.

7. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit that receives code data obtained by encoding image data;

a storage unit that stores therein the code data;

a decoder that decodes subcode data selected from the code data stored in the storage unit to obtain decoded image data, the subcode data being a portion of the code data corresponding to one of a thumbnail image and a preview image of the image data;

a display unit that displays an image based on the decoded image data, and receives an instruction to output the image, the image being one of the thumbnail image and the preview image; and

an output unit that outputs the image in response to the instruction.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

the code data includes a plurality of objects, and

the decoder decodes only code data of part of the objects.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the decoder decodes only part of the code data of part of the objects.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the code data is in JPM format.

11. The image processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the subcode data is progressively decoded and reproduced.

12. The image processing apparatus according to claim 7, further comprising a calculating unit that calculates an address of the subcode data to specify a range where the subcode data is stored in the storage unit, wherein

the decoder decodes only the subcode data based on the address of the subcode data.

13. An image processing method for displaying an image using a server and a client device, the client device having a display unit of an operation panel, the operation panel including a first storing unit that stores code data, the method including:

receiving, by the client device, a start instruction from the server in response to a document being read by a scanner, the document including image data;

receiving, by the client device, code data corresponding to the image data of the document from the server;

storing, by the client device, the code data in the storing unit;

selecting, by the client device, subcode data from the code data stored in the first storage unit in response to a display instruction for displaying a thumbnail image, the subcode data being a subset of the code data corresponding to the thumbnail image to be displayed;

decoding, by the client device, the thumbnail image based on the selected subcode data; and

displaying, by the client device, the thumbnail image on the operation panel.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving, by the server, a preview display instruction from a user of the operation panel, the preview display instruction indicating an instruction to create a preview image for the displayed thumbnail image;

transmitting, by the server, the preview display instruction to the client device;

selecting, by the client device, subcode data required for creating the preview image from the code data stored in the first storage unit, the subcode data being a subset of the code data corresponding to the preview image to be displayed;

decoding, by the client device, the preview image based on the subcode data required for creating the preview image; and

displaying, by the client device, the preview image on the operation panel.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

storing, by the server, the preview image in a second storage unit;

modifying, by the server, the preview image in the second storage unit based on an instruction from a user, the modifying step including scaling a resolution of the preview image.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

calculating, by the client device, an address of the subcode data to specify a range where the subcode data is stored in the first storage unit, the decoding step decodes only the subcode data based on the address of the subcode data.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the code data is in JPM format.