MOVING PICTURE ENCODER

摘要

An encoder comprising a television camera (12) which images an object and generates corresponding signals; plural microphones (11L and 11R) which are apart from each other to collect sound waves of voice of the object imaged by the television camera and output voice signals; presuming circuit (13) which presumes the position of the sound source based on the voice signals obtained from the microphones; and an encoding circuit which encodes the image signals in an image area of a given extent whose center is in the position of the sound source presumed by the presuming circuit by assigning them codes of an amount slightly greater than those assigned to image signals in the other imaging areas so that the resolution of the image of the image area of the given extent may be higher than that of the other areas.