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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:
Oct. 22, 1991
Filed:
Jan. 19, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steven O Miller, Vancouver, WA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382 56 ; 382 55 ;
Abstract
The invented graphics images data compression method includes software which selectively compresses data on a raster-row-by-raster-row basis or on a byte-group-by-byte-group basis. The raster-row-by-raster-row basis compares bytes within adjacent raster rows and thereby detects repetitions between the rows. When data is compared on a raster-row-by-raster-row basis, the invented method records any differences as relative offset and replacement bytes. The byte-group-by-byte-group basis compares different byte groups within a single raster row, and thereby detects repetitions within the row itself.