Apparatus and method for encoding by data rearrangement

摘要

A data conversion apparatus for converting first data into second data. An input section receives the first data. A conversion section converts the first data into the second data by moving each of the first data to the position of second positional information that is represented by a sequence of numbers that is obtained by reversing the order of a sequence of numbers of first positional information that is an N-ary number (N: a natural number that is greater than or equal to 2) and represents the position of each of the first data. The data conversion apparatus can easily distribute data existing in a temporally or spatially localized region.