{HEAD ~ A transformation process} is applied by the picture transformation/generator to {TAIL ~ various portions} of the reduced size picture output from the second block generating unit, and a plurality of transform block pictures are output to the similar block search means 
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{ HEAD ~ A transformation process } is applied by the picture transformation / generator to { TAIL ~ various portions } of the reduced size picture output from the second block generating unit , and a plurality of transform block pictures are output to the similar block search means
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