IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

An image processor having advantages that the delay from the start of the input of image data to the start of the encoding of image data is short, that the memory capacity of a temporary memory means for storing the image data temporarily for the encoding is small, that image data are hardly discarded even if the encoding is stagnant, and that the picture quality is little deteriorated. Since a flag generating unit which generates control information in accordance with the situation of the processing is provided, data is inputted to or outputted from the temporary memory means in units and the storage and encoding of the image data are executed in accordance with the control information.