摘要 |
PURPOSE:To usefully use the storage capacity of a storage medium without causing an increase of a variance of a picture quality of a restored image, and moreover, to additionally store the image even after it is finished to store the image of the number of pieces prescribed in the beginning, in the store method for image data. CONSTITUTION:First of all, an original image is divided into plural hierarchies and encoded 1, the data quantity of new code data obtained thereby, and the remaining capacity of a code data store means 3 are calculated, and by comparing them, whether the capacity in which the new code data can be stored is left or not is decided 4. In the case it is decided 5 that the remaining capacity is insufficient, an operator instructs 6 code data to be annulled, and this instructed code data is annuled. By repeating these processings, the new code data is stored at the time point when the capacity in which the new code data can be stored is secured. |