Title:
IMAGE CODER AND IMAGE DECODER
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2001333429
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
To provide an image coder by which a receiver side can display a moving picture without a sense of incongruity when a moving picture including a face picture of a person is coded and transmitted at a low frame rate.
The image coder is provided with face state discrimination means (101, 102, 103, 104) that analyze an inputted image to discriminate a state of the face of a person in the moving picture, a coding control means (105) that controls coding of the inputted image on the basis of a result of discrimination by the face state discrimination means, and an image coding means (106) that codes the inputted image in response to a control signal outputted from the coding control means.
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Inventors:
TSUDA KENJIRO
SOGO YOSHIARI
KOBAYASHI DAISUKE
MASUNO TAKASHI
SOGO YOSHIARI
KOBAYASHI DAISUKE
MASUNO TAKASHI
Application Number:
JP2000153440A
Publication Date:
November 30, 2001
Filing Date:
May 24, 2000
Export Citation:
Assignee:
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC IND CO LTD
International Classes:
G06T1/00; G06T7/20; H04N7/24; H04N19/00; H04N19/132; H04N19/134; H04N19/137; H04N19/167; H04N19/20; H04N19/70; (IPC1-7): H04N7/24; G06T1/00; G06T7/20
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kenichi Hayase
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