Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Anthony John Arnold

James Philip Andrew

Yu-Ling Chen

David Robert James Monaghan

Dixon De Sheng Deng

Peter William Mitchell Ilbery

Ian Geoffrey Combes

A Hybrid Compressor and method of compressing a tile of pixels within an image are disclosed. An Edge Processor of the Hybrid Compressor analyzes pixel runs of the tile and generates boundary data defining one or more regions comprising pixels of substantially identical color. A Palette Processor of the Hybrid Compressor generates data defining a color value for each region. An Image Processor of the Hybrid Compressor generates a representation of pixels not included in the one or more regions.

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Roseville, Australia

Anthony John Arnold