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Abstract
An image coding apparatus comprises:
a) first means for fixing or limiting quantity of code produced by compressively coding a given image data, independent of the image; and
b) second means for conducting valiable length compression of which quantity of code produced varies according to the image; and
selection means for selecting the first and second means.
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- 1. Field of the Invention
- The present invention relates to an image encoding apparatus for compression encoding of image signal and an image recording apparatus for recording image signal.
- 2. Related Background Art
- Conventional image recording apparatus, for example still video camera, is based for example on analog signal recording on floppy disks or recording of digital image data, compressed by fixed length encoding, in semiconductor memory cards. The fixed length encoding means a compression encoding in such a manner that the amount of compressed codes of an image frame becomes equal to a predetermined value.
- Such conventional image signal recording methods can guarantee the number of images recordable per recording medium, because the capacity thereof required for recording image data of an image frame is predetermined.
- However, for example in a digital still video camera employing image data compression with a fixed length encoding method, the rate of compression can empirically be only increased to the order of 8 bit/pixel, including the luminance and the color information, in order to guarantee the quality of compressed image for various image data, for example those involving fine patterns. Thus the fixed length encoding cannot achieve a sufficiently high compression rate. On the other hand, a variable length encoding method can achieve efficient compression while guaranteeing sufficient image quality. The variable length encoding generates codes of variable length depending on the image, and empirically provides an encoding rate of 2-4 bit/pixel, including the luminance and color information and guaranteeing the image quality. In this case, however, it is not possible to guarantee the total number of images recordable per recording medium, because the total amount of codes varies according to the image. Also if the capacity of the recording medium is limited, the image may not be recordable on the recording medium.
- Consequently, such variable length encoding method, if employed in a recording apparatus, results in a significant inconvenience as the user is unable to recognize, in advance, the number of images still recordable on the recording medium.
- As explained in the foregoing, a system employing fixed length encoding has been unable to guarantee the image quality, while a system employing variable length encoding has been unable to guarantee the number of recordable images. Thus either system has been inconvenient for the user.
- In consideration of the foregoing an object of the present invention is to provide an image encoding method or apparatus, or an image recording method or apparatus, capable of individually or collectively resolving the drawbacks mentioned above.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide an image recording apparatus capable of presetting the stable recording conditions prior to the actual recording operation.
- Still another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus allowing the operator to know, prior to a recording operation, whether such recording operation is possible or not.
- Still another object of the present invention is to provide an image recording apparatus employing a variable length encoding method and still convenient for use.
- The above-mentioned objects can be attained, according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, by an apparatus provided with first means for effecting variable length encoding on signals obtained by photoelectric conversion of an object image thereby generating variable length code data; recording means for recording said variable length code data on a medium; and second means for converting said object image to generate a value corresponding to the amount of said variable length code data, prior to the recording by said recording means.
- Still another object of the present invention is to provide an image encoding method or apparatus which is convenient for use and still allows efficient use of the recording capacity of the recording medium.
- Still another object of the present invention is to provide a novel image recording apparatus having image taking capability.
- Still other objects of the present invention, and the advantages thereof, will become fully apparent from the following description of the embodiments thereof, to be taken in conjunction with the attached drawings.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention;
- FIG. 2 is a timing chart showing the function of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1;
- FIG. 3 is a flow chart of the control sequence of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1;
- FIGS. 4 and 5 are flow charts showing details of parts of the flow chart shown in FIG. 3;
- FIGS.6-1 and 6-2 are flow charts of the control sequence of another embodiment of the present invention; and
- FIGS. 7A and 7B are charts for explaining the embodiment corresponding to FIG. 6.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. Other parts of the camera not directly related to the present invention, such as the diaphragm and the shutter, are naturally provided but not shown. An optical image of an object, formed by a
lens 1, is converted into an electrical image signal by animage pickup device 2, such as a charge-coupled device (CCD), positioned behind said lens. Saiddevice 2 effects accumulation of charges corresponding to the optical image of the object and readout of image signal, in response to control signals given by a control unit 7. The obtained image signal is converted into a digital signal by an A/D converter 3. Between theimage pickup device 2 and the A/D converter 3, there are provided means for regulating the image signal such as gamma correction, formation and separation of color signals, white balance process etc. though such means are not illustrated. - The digital image signal is stored in an image memory4.
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compression encoding circuit 5 effects compression encoding on the image data read from the image memory 4 and sends the obtained codes to arecording unit 6. The control unit 7 is so constructed as to control the recording and reproducing for example with MS-DOS commands through therecording unit 6. The compression is conducted by a variable length encoding or a fixed length encoding, for example by DCT conversion of the image as will be explained later, followed by entropy encoding. - Also there is provided a function of counting the amount of compressed codes without the supply thereof to the
recording unit 6. For this purpose there is provided acounting circuit 16 for counting the amount of compressed encoded data prior to the supply thereof to therecording unit 6. - The
recording unit 6 is provided with a recording medium such as a semiconductor memory or a tape-shaped medium, is capable of information exchange with the control unit, of recording or reading of arbitrary digital data at an arbitrary physical address of the recording medium, and of counting the empty capacity of said recording medium. - The control unit7 controls the entire apparatus by controlling the units 2-6, and is also capable of controlling the image data files in the recording medium, through the recording unit.
- More specifically the control unit7 correlates the file information with the physical addresses on the recording medium, as in a disk operating system employed in a computer system, and is therefore capable of controlling the mode of recording of files (compressed image data) on the recording medium, and also the empty capacity thereof. If the compressed codes have to be stored in divided plural parts with a limited recording unit each, the control unit 7 causes the
recording unit 6 to record the compressed codes by designating the physical address on the medium and the data length for each recording unit. When an image file is recorded in plural positions on the recording medium, the control unit 7 also records information indicating said positions, on the recording medium. - A man-machine interface (MMIF)8 includes an
operation member 9 for actuating switches SW1, SW2 for shutter releasing and other switches to be explained later, and displaydevices 10 including a display in the view finder, an external LCD display, a buzzer etc. - In an actual phototaking operation, the number of recordable images is displayed as will be explained in the following, with reference to a flow chart shown in FIG. 3.
- (1) At first the control unit7 sends commands DIR, CHK, DSK to the
recording unit 6 to release the empty capacity therefrom (S1). When a shutter release button is depressed by a half stroke (switch SW1 on) for a phototaking operation, the control unit effects focusing by driving thelens 1, then activates the diaphragm and the shutter thereby exposing the image pickup device (S5), fetches the image information in the memory (S7), and effects compression encoding (S9). The control unit causes thecounting circuit 16 to count the amount of codes of the image data, also causes the recording unit to count the empty capacity, and calculates, from thus obtained data, the number of frames that can be recorded (S11). Said number is obtained for example by dividing the empty capacity with the amount of codes of image data. Thus calculated value is informed to the user by adisplay device 10 provided in the view finder (S13). The display is continued while the switch SW1 is closed (S15, S17). When the shutter releasing button is depressed deeper for the phototaking operation, the sequence branches from the step S17 to steps S19, S21 and S23 to effect similar operations as those in the steps S5, S7 and S9, thereby fetching anew an image to be actually recorded. - (2) When a continuous phototaking mode is not selected, the sequence branches from a step S25 to the step S3. On the other hand, when said mode is selected, the empty capacity of the recording medium will decrease with the phototaking operations, and the amount of codes of image data per frame may also vary. Thus, after the recording of the first frame in said mode, the empty capacity and the amount of image codes to be recorded next are counted after the recording of each frame (S23), and the decreasing number of recordable images is continuously displayed in the view finder (S29).
- Thus, in the present embodiment, if the continuous recording mode is selected and while the switch SW2 is kept closed, the images are fetched in the memory, encoded and stored in succession. In this operation, the number of recordable images is calculated from the amount of codes of the image recorded immediately before and the empty capacity of the recording medium, and the decreased number of recordable images is displayed, in the present embodiment, in succession in the view finder. However such display need not necessarily be made in the view finder.
- The details of the steps S21, S23 in FIG. 3 are shown in FIG. 4.
- The sequence shown in FIG. 4 is conducted after the step S23 in FIG. 3, namely storage of the image data in the memory 4.
- Referring to FIG. 4, the image signal stored in the memory4 is read and compression encoded in the
encoding circuit 5, and thus compression encoded data are counting circuit 16 (S41). Then the amount of the compressed codes is compared with the empty capacity of the recording medium in the recording unit 6 (S43), and, if there is an enough empty capacity, agate 18 is so controlled as to read the image signal again from the memory 4, to effect the compression encoding and to send the data to therecording unit 6 for recording. - In this case the control unit7 instructs the image memory to effect the readout of the image data, the
compression encoding circuit 5 to release the compressed codes, therecording unit 6 to record the compressed codes, and thegate 18 to open the gate. It also designates the physical address and the data length on the medium for each recording unit to therecording unit 6 thereby recording the compressed codes. Unless a recording command is given by the control unit 7, therecording unit 6 does not request the data output from thecompression encoding circuit 5, so that the function of saidcircuit 5 and the image memory 4 is interrupted. Thus the control unit 7 can achieve the recording operation through the control of the functions of thecompression encoding circuit 5 and the image memory 4, by designating the physical address and the data length on the recording medium for each recording unit according to the filing format, to the recording unit. - The recording operation is completed when all the compressed codes are recorded.
- FIG. 2 shows the communication protocol between the control unit7 and the
recording unit 6. - In FIG. 2, there are shown a data output request signal D-Req from the
recording unit 6 to the control unit 7, a signal D-Ack supplied from the control unit 7 to therecording unit 6 and indicating that the data from thecompression encoding circuit 5 to therecording unit 6 are effective; and 8-bit parallel output data D0-D7 supplied from thecompression encoding circuit 5 to therecording unit 6. - FIG. 2 shows the output of data of one byte each, through the exchange of signals D-Req and D-Ack between the control unit7 and the
recording unit 6. - Referring to FIG. 2, the data receiver (namely recording unit6) shifts the signal D-Req from the high level state to the low level state, thereby requesting the data transmitter (namely encoding circuit 5) to release the data. Detecting the low level state of said signal D-Req, the data transmitter release the data on the data bus (D0-D7), and shifts the signal D-Ack from the high to the low level state when the values of said data are fixed.
- The data receiver fetches the signals on the data bus when the signal D-Ack is shifted to the low level state, and returns the signal D-Req to the high level state. The data transmitter terminates the data output to the data bus when the signal D-Req is shifted to the high level state, and returns the signal D-Ack to the high level state.
- The data transfer is thus conducted by matching the function of the transmitter and the receiver through the above-explained hand-shake communications of the signals Req and Ack. Consequently the
compression encoding circuit 5 need not generate the compressed codes with a fixed transfer rate, and the eventual variation in the code length depending on the image does not cause any inconvenience. - Now referring to FIG. 4 again, if the sequence proceeds from the step S43 to a step S47, the control unit causes the
display unit 10 of the man-machine interface 8 to display that the recording operation is not possible because of an insufficient empty capacity of the recording medium, thereby requesting the user to select either one of the following three options: - (1) to interrupt the recording operation;
- (2) to exchange the recording medium; and
- (3) to erase one of the image files in the currently mounted recording medium.
- For this purpose the control unit7 executes the steps S49, S51 and S53.
- If the option (1) is selected by the user, all the functions are interrupted from the step S49.
- If the option (2) is selected by the user, namely if the
recording unit 6 detects the replacement of the recording medium and informs the control unit 7 of that effect, the sequence returns to the step S43. - If the option (3) is selected by the user, the control unit7 displays the number of recorded images on the display unit 10 (S55), and requests the user to enter the sequential number of the image to be erased. In response to the entry by the user of the number of the image to be erased with the operation switches (S57), the control unit 7 erases the corresponding image file (S59) and the sequence returns to the step S43.
- The replacement of the recording medium may be mechanically detected by the recording unit as disclosed in the Japanese Laid-open Patent Sho 61-182669. The control unit7 can make access to the information on the presence of such replacement through the
recording unit 6. - The above-explained control shown in FIG. 4 can ensure image recording to the user, even with a compression method with codes of variable length, thereby proving a system of improved convenience of use and still capable of guaranteeing the image quality.
- Now reference is made to FIG. 5 for explaining the method of displaying the number of recordable images, executed in the steps S11, S13 in FIG. 3.
- The control unit7 releases a command for detecting the empty capacity, thereby causing the
recording unit 6 to count the empty capacity of the recording medium (S61), and calculates the number of images recordable on the recording medium, from said empty capacity and the pre-stored representative value of the compression rate of the variable length encoding method (S63). - As an example, a variable length encoding method disclosed in the Japanese Laid-open Patent Sho 63-124680 provides a code length of 2 bit/pixel in average or 4.5 bit/pixel at longest. Thus a step S65 displays, on the
display unit 10, a standard number of recordable images calculated from the average code length of 2 bit/pixel, and a minimum guaranteed number of recordable images calculated from 4.5 bit/pixel. Naturally it is possible to display only either of said numbers. Thedisplay device 10 is composed for example of a liquid crystal display (LCD) or light-emitting diodes (LED), and can provide display in the upper part of the apparatus and/or in the view finder. - The above-explained embodiment provides a digital image recording apparatus employing variable length encoding, provided with means for counting the empty capacity of the recording medium and capable of storing the representative amount of compressed codes in variable length encoding, thereby calculating the number of images recordable on the recording medium from said calculated empty capacity and said representative amount, and further provided with means for displaying the calculated number of recordable images, thereby displaying a standard number and/or a minimum guaranteed number of images recordable on said recording medium.
- Also in the above-explained embodiment, the empty capacity of the recording medium is detected not only in the step S1 in FIG. 3 but also in the steps S11, S13 of which details are shown in FIG. 5. Thus said empty capacity can be confirmed not only when the switch SW1 is closed but also in a continuous recording operation.
- Also the present embodiment can improve the convenience of use and still can guarantee the image quality even with a variable length encoding method, since the amount of recorded images or the number of images recordable on the recording medium can be guaranteed and informed to the user.
- Also in the present embodiment, the amount of encoded data is calculated, prior to the recording operation by the
recording unit 6, by actual variable length encoding of the image signal which is obtained by photoelectric conversion of the object image and stored in the memory 4, but the present invention is not limited to such embodiment and said amount of encoded data may be obtained without actual variable length encoding. Therefore the prediction of data amount from a simplified encoding is also included in the present invention. - Also in the present embodiment the data to be stored in the recording medium are in advance stored in the memory4, and a signal indicating the amount of encoded data obtained by variable length encoding of the data stored in said memory 4 is generated by actual variable length encoding of the image signal obtained by photoelectric conversion of the object image and stored in said memory 4. However the present invention is not limited to such embodiment, and the amount of encoded data may be obtained without the actual variable length encoding. Therefore, a prediction of the data amount for example by a simplified encoding is also included in the present invention.
- Also the control unit7 for executing the sequence shown in FIG. 4 controls said memory 4 according to the comparison of thus generated signal and said data amount.
- As explained in the foregoing, the present embodiment controls means for storing in advance the information to be stored in the recording medium, according to the comparison of the empty capacity of said recording medium and the amount of encoded data to be recorded, and can therefore continue the storage of said information in said storage means, if necessary.
- Also the present embodiment allows to know in advance the number of recordable images.
- Also as explained in the foregoing, the present embodiment generates a value corresponding to the amount of variable length data by conversion of the object image prior to the recording operation by the recording unit, so that certain measures can be taken in advance if the recording operation is impossible due to an excessively large amount of encoded data.
- For obtaining fixed length codes and variable length codes in the present embodiment, there is already known an adaptive compression transformation (ADCT) method employing a dispersed cosine transformation (DCT) disclosed in “ISO/JTC1/SC2/WG8/N800”. Such ADCT method can control the compression rate by an encoding parameter F. As shown in FIG. 7, the compression bit rate is a monotonously decreasing function of the parameter F. In FIG. 7, (a) and (b) show the relationship between the bit rate and F in different images. As will be understood from these charts, said relationship varies depending on the image but is always decreasing monotonously. It is therefore possible to obtained a desired bit rate through several trials with regulation of the parameter F.
- In the present embodiment, the
compression encoding circuit 5 can select variable length encoding or fixed length encoding, according to the aforementioned encoding method. More specifically, the variable length encoding is conducted with the encoding parameter F is fixed, and the fixed length encoding is conducted when the parameter F is varied to obtain a target code amount. - Also the control unit7 can know such selection through the man-
machine interface 8. - When the user selects a recorded image number preferential mode and depresses the shutter release button in said interface, the control unit7 controls the
image pickup device 2, the A/D converter 3 and the image memory 4, thereby storing the digital data of the object image in said image memory 4. - Then the control unit7 sets the parameter F of the
compression encoding circuit 5, and causes saidcircuit 5 to compress the image data in the image memory and to count the compressed codes. In this stage saidcircuit 5 does not send the compressed codes to the recording unit but merely counts the amount of encoded data. This operation is repeated several times with different values of the parameter F, until a desired amount of encoded data is obtained. - When a value of F providing a desired amount of encoded data is obtained, the control unit7 provides the
compression encoding circuit 5 with said value, and instructs therecording unit 6 to release the compressed codes, thereby re-starting the compressing operation. Then the control unit 7 instructs therecording unit 6 to record the compressed codes. Through the above-explained operations, the compressed codes, with a fixed length for an image frame, are recorded by the recording unit. - In an image quality preferential mode, the control unit selects a sufficiently small value for the parameter F to be set in the
encoding circuit 5, in order to avoid deterioration of the image quality. Thus the value of F is fixed, and the initial operation of determining the value F in the recorded image number preferential mode is not conducted in this case. Then the control unit causes the compression encoding circuit to compress the image data in the image memory for supply to therecording unit 6, and causes saidrecording unit 6 to record thus obtained compressed codes. - In the present embodiment, when the encoding method is switched between the fixed length encoding and the variable length encoding, the number of recordable images and the continuous recording speed are also varied accordingly. More specifically, in the fixed length encoding, the number of recordable images can be exactly calculated by dividing the empty capacity of the recording medium with the amount of codes, since the latter is fixed. However, said number cannot be exactly determined in the variable length encoding. Also the variable length encoding, involving repeated process of plural times, required a longer time before recording than in the fixed length encoding, so that the selectable continuous recording speed becomes lower. These facts influence the displays on the camera and the setting of the continuous recording speed.
- In the present embodiment, the control unit7 in the variable length encoding mode determines the number of recordable images by dividing the empty capacity of the recording medium with the standard or maximum code amount and displays said number. In the fixed length encoding mode, it decreases the upper limit of the selectable continuous recording speed.
- FIG. 6 is a flow chart for the above-explained procedures. At first, when the power supply is turned on (S1), for example the fixed length encoding mode is selected, and the minimum continuous recording speed is selected (S3).
- The change of the fixed/variable length encoding mode is conducted by the user at a terminal S. Also if an instruction is given for varying the continuous recording speed, a corresponding procedure is conducted.
- In case of such change, the sequence proceeds to a step S5. In case of the fixed length mode, the empty capacity of the recording medium is divided with the code amount, and the obtained number of recordable images is displayed, and the continuous recording speed is selected at the upper limit selectable in the fixed length mode (S7). In case of the variable length mode, said empty capacity is divided with the standard or maximum code amount and the obtained number of recordable image displayed (S9). Also the continuous recording speed is selected at the upper limit selectable in the variable length encoding mode (S11).
- Then in a step S20, if the current set value of the continuous recording speed exceeds the selectable range of the continuous recording speed, said value is set at the upper limit of said selectable range (S22). Then the continuous recording speed is displayed (S24) and the sequence returns to the terminal S.
- Also if an instruction is given to vary the continuous recording speed at S2, a step S30 discriminates whether the user has instructed to increase the continuous recording speed by a unit by depressing an operation button, and, if instructe, the sequence proceeds to a step S33 to increase the currently set value of said speed by a unit. Then thus increased speed is compared with the selectable range of the recording speed (S35), and if the former exceeds said range, the continuous recording speed is reset to the minimum speed (S37). Then the set value of the continuous recording speed is displayed (S39) and the sequence returns to S.
- As explained in the foregoing, the present embodiment improves the convenience of use, by the presence of means for allowing the user to select the fixed length encoding mode or the variable length encoding mode, thereby giving preference to the image quality or to the number of recordable images.
- Also in the fixed length encoding mode of the present embodiment, there can be selected a high continuous recording speed, because the time required for the encoding operation is fixed.
- Also the compression encoding can be securely conducted because the upper limit of the continuous recording speed is automatically modified according to whether the compression encoding is conducted with a fixed length or a variable length.
- The variable length compression encoding in the present embodiment may be conducted in other various encoding methods. For example there may be employed an entropy encoding on the DCT encoded data. There may be employed any encoding method as long as fixed length compression encoding and variable length compression encoding can be switched, so that both encodings need not be conducted by a same method.
- In the present embodiment the
recording unit 6 is composed of a data memory device controlled by an MS-DOS system, but there may also be employed other media, such as a semiconductor memory or a tape-shaped medium. - If the recording medium is composed of a floppy disk of vertical recording type, a capacity of 5 M Bytes can be sufficiently provided with a diameter of 2 inches. In such case the present embodiment can guarantee the recording of 55 television field images at standard or 22 images at minimum.
- In the present embodiment, the control unit7 sends the commands DIR, CHK, DKS to the
recording unit 6 for obtaining the information on the empty capacity of the memory means, but the control unit 7 directly detect the unrecorded area of the memory means, namely an unrecorded area for example on a tape. - Though the foregoing embodiment has been limited to so-called still video apparatus for recording still images on a recording medium, the present invention is not limited to such embodiment and is likewise applicable to a facsimile apparatus, an electronic image file or the like.
Claims (28)
1. An image coding apparatus comprising:
a) first means for fixing or limiting quantity of code produced by compressively coding a given image data, independent of the image; and
b) second means for conducting variable length compression of which quantity of code produced varies according to the image; and
selection means for selecting the first and second means.
2. An image coding apparatus according to , wherein
claim 1
both of said first and second means compress the image data of image data for one frame.
3. An image coding apparatus according to , wherein
claim 1
said image data is multi-value image data.
4. An image coding apparatus according to , wherein
claim 1
said image data is binary image data.
5. An image coding apparatus according to , wherein
claim 1
said first means performs DCT transformation coding.
6. An image coding apparatus according to , wherein
claim 1
said selection means selects one of said first and second means, according to an operator's instruction.
7. An image coding apparatus according to , further comprising generation means for generating the image data.
claim 1
8. An image coding apparatus according to , wherein
claim 7
said generation means is one for transforming a symmetrical image into the image data.
9. An image coding apparatus according to , wherein
claim 1
said selection means selects said first means when the operator's instruction is given.
10. An image recording apparatus comprising:
a) first means for transforming a symmetrical image into an image signal, and performing variable length coding to produce a variable length coded data;
b) recording means for recording the variable length coded data on a medium; and
c) second means for transforming the symmetrical image to produce a value according to a quantity of the valiable length coded data, prior to the recording by said recording means.
11. An image recording apparatus according to , wherein
claim 10
said first means comprises
generation means for photoelectrically converting the symmetrical image to produce the image signal; and
transforming means for transforming the image signal produced by said generation means into a variable length code.
12. An image recording apparatus according to , wherein
claim 10
said medium is a semiconductor memory.
13. An image recording apparatus according to , wherein
claim 10
said medium is a disk memory.
14. An image recording apparatus according to , further comprising control means for controlling said apparatus according to a value relating to a quantity of the variable length coded data produced by said second means.
claim 10
15. An image recording apparatus according to , wherein
claim 14
said controlling means controls said recording means based on a value according to the quantity of data.
16. An image recording apparatus according to , further comprising generation means for generating an information indicating data quantity capable of being recorded in the medium, and third means for generating data of number of frames capable of being recorded in said medium, based on a value relating to quantity of data capable of being recorded in said medium and to the coding data.
claim 10
17. An image recording apparatus for variable length coding comprising:
first means for generating an information relating to capacity of recording of a memory means; and
second means for generating an information concerned with number of frames capable of being recorded in said memory means based on the information from said generation means and on a representative value of code quantity-subjected to variable length coding.
18. An image recording apparatus according to , further comprising a display means for displaying according to the information generated by said second means.
claim 17
19. An image recording apparatus according to , wherein
claim 18
said display means display, a number of frames capable of being recorded.
20. An image recording apparatus according to , further comprising third means for generating an image data to be subjected to the variable length coding.
claim 17
21. An image recording apparatus according to , wherein
claim 20
said third means is means for photoelectrically converting the symmetrical image.
22. An image recording apparatus according to , wherein
claim 21
said representative value is a standard for variable length coding.
23. A recording apparatus comprising:
a) generation means for generating an information concerned with a capacity of recording of a recording means;
b) maintaining means for provisionally maintaining data to be stored in the memory means;
c) generation means for generating signal indicating data quantity in case of a variable length coding of data maintained in said maintaining means; and
d) control means for controlling said maintaining means based on a comparison between the information generated by said generation means and said data quantity.
24. A recording apparatus according to , wherein
claim 23
said control means make said maintaining means continuously maintain the data to be stored in said maintaining means when the data quantity is greater than the capacity of storing.
25. A recording apparatus according to , wherein
claim 23
said image data is an image data.
26. A recording apparatus according to , wherein
claim 25
said image data is a multi-value image data.
27. A recording apparatus further comprising:
an image data generation means for generating said image data.
28. A recording apparatus according to , wherein.
claim 27
said image data generation means generates data photoelectrically converted from the symmetrical image.
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