The invention is suitable for the technical field of terminals, and particularly relates to an image coding method, an image decoding method, terminal equipment and a readable storage medium. According to the method and the device, when the high-resolution image is displayed on the low-resolution terminal equipment, only part of image data and differential data need to be transmitted or acquired, so that the transmission duration of the image data is effectively shortened, the image transmission speed is improved, or the acquisition duration of the image data is effectively shortened, and the image acquisition speed is improved. Moreover, the terminal equipment only needs to decode part of the image data and the differential data to obtain the target image meeting the display requirement of the terminal equipment, so that the operation complexity of the terminal equipment during image processing is effectively reduced, the processing power consumption of the terminal equipment is reduced, the image processing efficiency is improved, the image presentation speed is improved, and the user experience is improved. And user experience is improved.