PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DIGITAL PICTURE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an encoding method for reproducing an image of high picture quality by permitting a user to select picture quality and data quantity in multiple stages and adding data to compression data which can be decoded. SOLUTION: An original image is divided at every object area having prescribed correlation and the hierarchy structure of the object area is decided 62. The object area is plane-approximated 63 with more than one polygonal plane so that a luminance value and the errors of colors become within prescribed thresholds. A primary difference image is obtained 64 by obtaining a difference between the original image and the image which is plane- approximated. An nth order (n>=1) difference image is encoded, compressed 65 and the image which is plane-approximated and the encoded nth other difference image are stored 66. The (n+1)th order difference image is obtained 67 from a difference between the image obtained by expanding the compressed nth order difference image with the nth order difference image.