Image information encoding/decoding device

Claim 1

An image information encoding/decoding device for carrying out two-dimensional encoding and decoding processings, comprising: (a) an image data buffer memory for receiving an image data in an encoding operation and outputting an image data in a decoding operation; (b) an image/run-length converting circuit for converting the image data received by said image data buffer to a run-length data in the encoding operation, and converting a run-length data to the image data in the decoding operation; (c) two run-length buffers each for storing one line portion of the run-length data, arranged such that while a run-length data of an encoding line or a decoding line is stored in one of said run-length buffers, a run-length data of a reference line is stored in the other; (d) an encoding/decoding line shift-point address generating circuit for generating encoding line shift-point addresses by sequentially adding the run-length data of the encoding line in the encoding operation, and generating decoding line shift-point addresses by sequentially adding decoded run-length data in the decoding operation; (e) a reference line shift-point address generating circuit for generating reference line shift-point addresses by sequentially adding the run-length data of the reference line; (f) pipeline-connected a 2 , a 1 and a 0 registers for sequentially storing the encoding line shift-point addresses or the decoding line shift-point addresses that are generated in said encoding/decoding line shift-point address generating circuit; (g) pipeline-connected b 2 , b 1 and b 0 registers for sequentially storing the reference line shift-point addresses that are generated in said reference line shift-point address generating circuit; (h) a mode/run-length detecting logic circuit for detecting a current operation mode based on the encoding line shift-point addresses and the reference line shift-point addresses and outputting a mode data in the encoding operation, and generating the run-length data based on an input mode data in the decoding operation; (i) a control circuit for switching a control mode and data paths between the encoding and decoding operations, and controlling the encoding operation or the decoding operation; and (j) a code word assigning/detecting circuit for assigning and outputting a code word that corresponds to the mode data in the encoding operation, and converting a received code word to the mode data in the decoding operation.