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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 21, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shinichi Kikuchi, Yokohama, JP;
Tetsuya Kitamura, Kamae, JP;
Hideki Mimura, Yokohama, JP;
Kazuhiko Taira, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382232 ;
Abstract
A bit train of a plurality of continuous pixels is compressed according to a new run-length compression scheme. In this run-length compression scheme, the run information of one unit compression includes run-length information indicating the continuous number of the same pixel data blocks, or the number of pixels followed, and pixel data having a two-bit configuration for discriminating three or more colors of the pixels.