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Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2024

Filed:

Aug. 23, 2021
Applicant:

Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc., Osaka, JP;

Inventor:

Kenneth A. Schmidt, Redondo Beach, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/41 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); G06T 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/41 (2013.01); G06T 3/40 (2013.01); G06T 9/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

An example embodiment may involve obtaining an input pixel map of a digital image containing an array of a×b pixel macro-cells; classifying each of the a×b pixel macro-cells as P class cells for substantially lossless compression or Q class cells for lossy compression; creating a first intermediate pixel map representing: the P class cells as is, and the Q class cells with all zero values; creating a second intermediate pixel map representing: the P class cells with all zero values, and the Q class cells as is; encoding the first intermediate pixel map into a first output stream by using substantially lossless compression; and encoding the second intermediate pixel map into a second output stream by: downsampling the P class cells and the Q class cells therein, and serializing representations the downsampled cells.


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