Abstract:
Trace information showing a fact that an illegal output request has been issued from any one of data processing apparatuses is managed. Under an output environment such that an output apparatus is shared from a plurality of data processing apparatuses, when it is detected that a kind of data received by a CPU is specific data such that an output is legally limited, information to identify a transfer source side of the specific data or the received data is preserved and managed in an RAM or the like.
Abstract:
This invention re-encodes encoded data (e.g., PackBits encoded data), which is expressed by a data format of a runlength code part indicating the runlength of the same data and a data part indicating the data, and a runlength code part indicating the runlength of a different data stream and a data part indicating the different data stream, to the same data format without decoding that encoded data, thereby improving a compression ratio. To this end, upon reception of data encoded by a PackBits encoding process, a data division unit separates that data into information indicating the runlength of data, and a data part, and outputs them as num and data. A data processing unit masks a predetermined bit in accordance with an instruction from a monitor unit, and outputs that result to a data combining unit. The data combining unit and a data output unit reconstruct and output data in the PackBits format in accordance with the masked data part and num data.
Abstract:
When one viewing condition parameter is applied to all pixels, a visual effect between a single color and a background expressed on a rasterized image cannot be reflected on a color matching result. To prevent this, when color matching using a human color appearance model is to be performed, the distance between an image and a viewer and the resolution of the image are input. On the basis of the input distance and resolution, a stimulus region, adjacent region, and background region based on a plurality of field angles (e.g., 2°, 4°, and 10°) for a pixel of interest on the image are defined, thereby determining a viewing condition parameter and performing color matching.
Abstract:
In order to estimate a character size of a subject copy in a facsimile system, the number of white runs is detected with respect to each of run length detected. Subsequently, an average white run length is determined. Thereafter, the character size is estimated by referring to data indicating a relationship between an average white run length and a character size.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a bit-map compressing method and a bit-map compressing device. The bit-map data compressing method includes a main scanning step for scanning bit-map data in a main scanning direction; a first region separating step for separating a region including black pixels and a region including no black pixels in line unit; a secondary scanning step for scanning in a secondary direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction; a second region separating step for separating a region including black pixels and a region including no black pixels, in column unit; and an encoding step for encoding as an element each region obtained in the first region separating step and the second region separating step. Bit-map can be transferred by effectively performing data compression on simple algorithm, without using special hardware.
Abstract:
A picture encoding apparatus and the method in which the quantization step width of the lower hierarchy data having a resolution higher than that of the upper hierarchy data is determined for each predetermined block of respective hierarchy data based on the quantization step width determined by the upper hierarchy data having a low resolution, so that the additional code indicating the characteristics of quantizer can be omitted thereby the compression efficiency can be improved and the deterioration of picture quality can be reduced when picture data is hierarchical-encoded.
Abstract:
An image coding method includes the steps of producing a complexity normalizing signal for respective macro blocks based on a complexity in a space domain with regard to an input image, producing a zero coefficient sum by performing a discrete cosine transform operation on the input image and counting the discrete cosine transform coefficients from -1 to +1, producing a zero coefficient normalizing value for respective macro blocks in accordance with the zero coefficient sum; producing a transient weight signal for respective macro blocks in accordance with the zero coefficient sum and a predetermined compression ratio, and summing the complexity normalizing signal, the zero coefficient normalizing value and the transient weight signal so as to produce the scale factor. The quantization step size of the discrete cosine transform coefficients is controlled in a macro block in accordance with the scale factor. Thus, image frames having various complexities can be encoded at a constant bit rate with no deterioration of the image.
Abstract:
A pixel data encoder for use in a facsimile apparatus features a first in first out memory for storing one-dimensional binary pixel data sequences in synchronism with a data acquisition clock; a run length determiner coupled to receive the one-dimensional binary pixel data sequences stored in the first in first out memory, the run length determiner calculating a run length for each of the one-dimensinal binary pixel data sequences received; and an encoding section which issues a one-bit address signal for indicating raw data will be issued and N-bit raw data in the event that the run length is less than a predetermined run length N, the encoding section issuing an address code and a remainder code in the event that the run length exceeds N, the address code consisting of consecutive binary level "1"s with a bit length (M-2) and a binary level "0", and the remainder code consisting of a binary sequence representing the run length wherein the most significant bit of the binary sequence is omitted, M representing a total number of binary digits of the run length.
Abstract:
An apparatus for expanding variable-length codes includes a decoder responsive to compressed data, into which quantized data is compressed on the basis of coding table data, for expanding the compressed data on the basis of decoding table data for variable-length codes to produce symbol data. The apparatus further includes a storage in which the decoding table data for variable-length codes is rewritably stored and a table schemer for generating the decoding table data, from the coding table data, to store the decoding table data thus generated into the storage. The decoder is adapted to consult with the decoding table data stored in the storage to expand the compressed data. The apparatus may be provided with an encoder responsive to the quantized data for compressing the quantized data on the basis of the coding table data to produce compressed data associated with the quantized data.
Abstract:
A two stage data formatter is described for converting variable bit length code words into fixed bit length code words. The second formatting stage 12 splits the words into complete fixed length code words and returns any remainder bits to the first formatting stage 10. The first formatting stage 10 preprocesses the following data words by concatenating any remainder bits with the following variable bit length code word and updating its corresponding bit length code word. These preprocessed data words are then passed to the second formatting stage 12.