摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To protect the copyright of an image content, and to promote the sales of the image content by allowing a user to view an image with high quality. <P>SOLUTION: In an image encoder 100, encoding parts 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 encode animation data. A quality information adding part 18 adds a prescribed setting value to the encoded animation data in order to perform display while changing the quality with the passage of time. The setting value can be the one for reducing at least one of the resolution, image quality, and frame rate of the animation step by step. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |