An image processing apparatus includes a wavelet transform unit which applies
filtering to each of one or more images having a first size into which an original
image is divided, thereby producing wavelet coefficients, a quantization unit which
scans and quantizes the wavelet coefficients to produce quantization coefficients,
and a coding unit which scans and encodes the quantization coefficients, wherein
a number of pixels in one line for the filtering and a number of pixels in one
line scanned for the quantization and the encoding are selectively changed, thereby
encoding an image having a second size relatively small and of frequent use without
division thereof into the one or more images having the first size.