Abstract: When dice are rolled inside the box, the images of the eyes on the lower face of the dice are captured. The CPU determines the eye number based upon the determination condition of at least one of the feature, the number, and the location state of the eyes in a predetermined area in the image-captured face according to the image information by the image-capturing section, as well as the programs stored in the ROM. The determined eye number is displayed on the display section through the display control section or the voice synthesized by the audio processing section is outputted from the speaker.

Abstract: In an image decoding method, a DC image, corresponding to each block mean value per B pixel from encoding data with respect to the HVQ system, is reproduced. A part of the DC image is made a DC nest. Image data of a target block is reproduced by synthesizing, to the DC value of target block, one or more basis vectors selected from DC nests based on the encoding data. The method is improved by setting the lowest n (n?log2 B) bits of the DC pixels in each sample to 0, and down-sampling the selected block from the DC nest and calculating the block mean value using the samples.

Abstract: The kind of plural dice within a screen in the box is determined based upon an image obtained by shooting one face of the dice rolled and a player for each dice is identified from the kind of the dice. The eye number of the plurality of the dice in one kind of the dice is determined based upon the determination condition of at least one of the feature, the number, and the location state of the points in a predetermined area in the image-shooting image. The determined eye numbers are displayed on a display, outputted in audio synthesis, or reflected in a game content. When the eye number determination is not made, the processing for the re-determination is performed.

Abstract: When dice are rolled inside the box, eyes described on the lower face of the dice are shot. The CPU determines the eye number based upon the determination condition of at least one of the feature, the number, and the location state of the eyes in a predetermined area in the image-shooting face according to the image information by the image-shooting section, as well as the programs stored in the ROM. The determined eye number is displayed on the display section through the display control section or the voice synthesized by the audio processing section is outputted from the speaker.

Abstract: The invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method, apparatus thereof and a recording medium in which a program therefor is recorded, whereby the encoding/decoding can be obtained with high image quality at high speed. In an image encoding method which comprises producing a DC image composed of each block mean value by dividing an image data per B pixel into a block, making a part of said DC image a DC nest, and where the differential vector <dj> which is obtained by separating the DC value DCJ from the pixel block <Rj> to be encoded is over an allowable value Z, calculating one or more orthogonal basis (&agr;k <Vk>), to which the differential vector is approximated, by the adaptive orthogonal transform (AOT) using the DC nest, each of the lowest n (n=log2 B) bits of base extraction blocks <Ui> which are down-sampled from the DC nest is set to 0.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for coding a moving image, capable of obtaining high image quality and high rate of data compression, are provided. The method compares a pixel block of current image to be coded and a pixel block of preceding image within a predetermined region of preceding frame, one after another. The method seeks a specific preceding-image pixel block minimizing matching error. If the matching error relative to the specific preceding-image pixel block exceeds an acceptable value, than the method obtains one or more of orthogonal base systems for approximating AC component vector in the current-image pixel block by inter-frame adaptive orthogonal transformation having, as nest thereof, preceding image data within a predetermined region including the specific preceding-image pixel block. The method thereby codes the moving image data.

Abstract: The invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method, apparatus thereof and a recording medium in which a program therefor is recorded, whereby the encoding/decoding can be obtained with high image quality at high speed. In an image encoding method which comprises producing a DC image composed of each block mean value by dividing an image data per B pixel into a block, making a part of said DC image a DC nest, and where the differential vector <dj> which is obtained by separating the DC value DCJ from the pixel block <Rj> to be encoded is over an allowable value Z, calculating one or more orthogonal basis (&agr;k<Vk>), to which the differential vector is approximated, by the adaptive orthogonal transform (AOT) using the DC nest, each of the lowest n (n=log2 B) bits of base extraction blocks <Ui> which are down-sampled from the DC nest is set to 0.

Abstract: The invention relates to an image coding/decoding method and to a recording medium on which a program for this method has been recorded, and the object thereof is to raise the compression rate of image data while the image data is maintained at a high quality. In FIG. 1(A), image data is divided into a plurality of pixel blocks, a DC image comprising mean values of respective ones of the blocks is generated, a corresponding block mean value is separated from each pixel block and a residual vector is obtained for every block. In a case where the magnitude of the residual vector is equal to or greater than an allowable value, orthogonal bases for approximating the residual vector by an adaptive orthogonal transformation that employs a nest of the DC image is obtained and coded. In FIG.

Abstract: The invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method, apparatus thereof and a recording medium in which a program therefor is recorded, whereby the encoding/decoding can be obtained with high image quality at high speed. In an image encoding method which comprises producing a DC image composed of each block mean value by dividing an image data per B pixel into a block, making a part of said DC image a DC nest, and where the differential vector <dj> which is obtained by separating the DC value DCT from the pixel block <Rj> to be encoded is over an allowable value Z, calculating one or more orthogonal basis (&agr;k<Vk>), to which the differential vector is approximated, by the adaptive orthogonal transform (AOT) using the DC nest, each of the lowest n (n=log2 B) bits of base extraction blocks <Ui> which are down-sampled from the DC nest is set to 0.

Abstract: A high performance computer includes a CPU, a video display unit, a control unit, an image data extension unit, a video encoder unit responsive to the outputs of the video display unit, the controller unit and the image data extension unit, and a sound data output unit, for processing a variety of image data together with a variety of sound data at high speed. Three types of image data sequence processes can be carried out in the computer. These are an external block sequence, an external dot sequence, and an internal dot sequence.

Abstract: Block distortion standards are obtained by considering the non-linearity of the visual sensation on stimulus, the non-linearity of illumination brightness versus voltage in an image display apparatus, the measurement of errors of lightness which is sensed on brightness stimulus by human beings, the discrimination threshold characteristic on lightness of the visual sensation, and brightness ruggedness. The brightness ruggedness is made proximate by brightness dispersion, so that a calculation cost is lowered.