| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent deterioration of an image as much as possible, when data of the number of original pixels originally possessed by an imaging element are converted into data of a smaller number of pixels than that of the original. SOLUTION: An image data reducing apparatus converts first image data, in which elements of a plurality of colors are arrayed within a plane into second image data having the smaller number of elements than the first image data by reducing the number of elements in the longitudinal direction, the lateral direction, or both the longitudinal and lateral directions in the plane. The apparatus is provided with an image processing circuit which performs either one or both of the processing of assigning one element of the first image data to one element of the second image data, and the processing of operating a plurality of elements of the first image data and assigning the elements to one element of the second image data so that the barycenters of each of the elements of the second data may be arrayed at equal intervals in a direction, in which the number of elements is reduced out of the longitudinal direction, the lateral direction, or both the longitudinal and lateral directions. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |
