Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Verarbeitung von Bilddaten

摘要

Image processing apparatus is described in which a source stream of data captured by a particular source (2, 6, 16, 10) is passed through a data splitter (20) where it is split using one splitting technique into a plurality of split streams of data. These split streams of data each contain only part of the information within the source stream of data. The split streams of data are separately manipulated by a post production unit (24) prior to being passed through a data combiner (28) where they are recombined to form an output stream of data. The source stream of data and the output stream of data are of a higher resolution than the individual split streams of data. The post production unit includes at least one reformatter (96, 100) for reformatting the data stream to use a different splitting technique matched to the manipulation being performed in the post production unit. <IMAGE>