MULTI-COLOR IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS AND METHOD, MULTI-COLOR IMAGE DECODING APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

The multi-color image encoding and/or decoding apparatus may contain a color order table which is created by combining a upper two-dimensional color order table having the two-dimensional perimeter pixel data and a one-dimensional color order table for lower color orders which are created by a latest appearance table creation operation to move the color order of the color symbol corresponding to the color pixel data most recently input up to an uppermost line. Moreover, a strip creation and combination device partitions the target image into strips with the horizontal width consisting of a limited number of pixels is provided to successively encode within each strip and to decode in strip shape.