IMAGE PROCESSOR AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus in which a delay from start of image data input to start of coding is small, the capacity of a temporary storage means used for temporarily storing the image data to be coded is small, and the possibility of discarding the image data is low even when coding is delayed and, therefore, the image quality is hardly degraded. Since this apparatus is provided with a flag generator for generating control information according to the processing status, input/output of the image data in/from the temporary storage means is performed for each unit amount, and storage and coding of the image data are executed according to the control information. <IMAGE>