Determining a target number of bits for each region within an image

摘要

An apparatus and a method for encoding moving images as well as a recording medium containing an encoding program, in particular an image encoding technology to provide a high efficiency encoding by determining a target number of bits for each region in an image to be encoded. When a picture contains a number of regions of different image types, the target number of encoding bits is determined in relation to the picture information in each region. An encoding section provided for each regions of the picture performs encoding according to the target number of encoding bits determined by the target number of bits determining section. Apparatus and method for encoding a plurality of image sequences wherein a target number of bits is determined for each sequence is also described.