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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 1977
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1974
Thomas Harvey Morrin, II, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In a continuous tone image approximated by a two-dimensional array of gray scale coded points, more than one bit per picture element is required. Compression coding consists firstly of delta coding sequences representative of the successive scan lines of the continuous tone image and secondly applying them to a predictive encoder having a particular transfer function and thirdly run-length encoding the error image. Central to the invention is the observation that delta coded sequences of gray scale pel values along a given scan line having a high expectancy of alternating, i.e. 101010. Also, the gray scale trend in the ith scan line is expected to be the same as the trend of the ith - 1 scan line. Relatedly, gray scale image expansion is achieved by applying the compressed image to a run-length decoder, a predictor stage, and delta decoder.
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