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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. 31, 1995
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1994
John W Trueblood, San Diego, CA (US);
Sony Electronics Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for performing color compression uses human factors to weight a distance metric in order to select a set of k presentation colors to represent n colors in an original image, where n>k. This same distance metric is used as part of a process to select an optimal mapping of the original image pixels to the presentation colors. The presentation colors are selected based upon a data clustering scheme in which clusters of colors are selected based upon their respective distance from each color within a given cluster and from colors in other clusters. Colors in different clusters are required to be farther apart than colors in the same clusters. This accounts for colors with high importance in accurately presenting the presentation image but having low overall occurrence in the image file.
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