Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image encoding apparatus, method and imaging apparatus
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Application No.: US15423679Application Date: 2017-02-03
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Publication No.: US10051276B2Publication Date: 2018-08-14
- Inventor: Kazuya Ino
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
- Priority: JP2016-022216 20160208
- Main IPC: G06K9/36
- IPC: G06K9/36 ; H04N19/186 ; H04N19/136 ; H04N19/167 ; H04N19/182 ; H04N19/44 ; H04N19/593 ; H04N5/378

Abstract:
The present invention can generate lines whose spatial correlation is high from a Bayer array imaging element, and can raise the coding efficiency of a captured image thereby. A read out controller reads two lines of pixel data from the Bayer array imaging element, generates two new lines by sorting, in accordance with a rule set in advance, pixel data included in the two lines that are read out, and outputs the result; a first encoder that inputs and encodes one of the two new lines obtained by the read out controller; and a second encoder that inputs and encodes the other of the two new lines obtained by the read out controller. Then, the read out controller generates a line configured by pixels of a single color component as at least one of the two new lines.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170230674A1 IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS, METHOD AND IMAGING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-08-10
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