Dpcm codec with higher reconstruction quality on important gray levels

Abstract

A method of compressing a frame in an image compression and storage system includes mapping an original sample to a mapped sample based on a bit depth of the original sample and a maximum allowed error, to ensure low reconstruction error for a high priority sample value, determining a residue of the mapped sample based on a mapped previous reconstructed sample, applying a modulo addition to the residue to generate a biased residue, quantizing the biased residue based on the maximum allowed error to generate a quantized biased residue, and encoding a value corresponding to the quantized biased residue to generate an encoded value.