IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND STILL IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE

摘要

Output signals of a predetermined number of pixels composed of a plurality of color components intermixed are rearranged into a set of unit blocks, each composed of output signal components of the same color, then the thus rearranged image signals are encoded into fixed-length codes for each unit block, then the image signals thus encoded into fixed-length codes are stored in a coded image memory, then the image signals stored therein are read out and decoded into fixed-length form for each unit block, and the decoded image signals are reversely rearranged to restore the original signals, which are stored in a frame memory.