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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:
Aug. 19, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 05, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Katsuaki Komatsu, Hino, JP;
Yuji Tamura, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ; G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382245 ; 358426 ; 358470 ; 358475 ; 358448 ; 358427 ; 358429 ; 358456 ; 341-51 ; 348409 ;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus for compressing and decompressing image data. The apparatus includes: a composition circuit for composing composed data, having a predetermined bit width, from the given image data which correspond to spatially continuous pixels of an image; a compression circuit for compressing the composed data with Lempel-Ziv algorithm so as to obtain compressed data; a memory for storing the compressed data therein; and a controller for controlling the composition circuit and the compression circuit.