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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2016
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Stephen R. Dashiell, Pasadena, CA (US);
David E. Rumph, Pasadena, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A system and method adaptively lossy compresses image data by receiving a pixel of image data and meta data indicating a type of object that generated the pixel of image data, the pixel of image data includes a first byte having most significant bits of image data and a second byte having least significant bits of image data; electronically determining if the meta data associated with the pixel of image data is associated with a noisy image or indicates that the pixel of image data was generated by a specific type of object; electronically modifying the pixel of image data, when it is determined that the meta data is associated with the pixel of image data is associated with a noisy image or indicates that the pixel of image data was generated by a specific type of object, by setting a predetermined number of low bits of the pixel of image data to zero.