Method for expressing and restoring image data

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A method for expressing image data and for image restoration does not depend on the format of input/output devices, does not suffer from block distortion in the restored image, provides superior scale ability, and can be easily applied to motion pictures. The distribution of a pixel feature, such as luminance or chrominance, in a two dimensional (x,y) image space is expressed by contours, i.e. an isoluminance line or a line of equal color difference, on a curved surface with the feature along a z-axis. When restoring image data, regions between contours of the feature and regions in which peaks or saddles exist, even if the contours do not accompany them, are feature interpolated, and said curved surface is reproduced as a surface of a polyhedron, wherein the contour is a contour of a cross-sectional area of a curved surface that represents an image in x-y-z space in which the two-dimensional image on x-y plane is combined with the feature along the z-axis.

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