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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 26, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Balas K Natarajan, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382298 ; 382235 ;
Abstract
An efficient method and apparatus that operates directly upon compressed blocks of image data to transform them into compressed blocks of scaled image data. Decompression of the compressed blocks of scaled image data yields blocks of scaled image data, which are then used to display a scaled down version of an original image. The present invention is more computationally efficient than a previously known scaling method, which required that compressed blocks of image data be uncompressed prior to any scaling operations.