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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:
May. 09, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 20, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bruce A Blair, San Clemente, CA (US);
Assignee:
Axcess, Inc., Carrollton, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382239 ; 382194 ;
Abstract
The invention provides a method, and related apparatus, for improved compression of video images by determining optimum compression points using pixel-to-pixel slope comparison techniques and relaxable length limits. The method converts a digitized analog video signal into its piecewise linear equivalent, and then reduces the data stream by preserving only the break points. The linear segments may be as short as one pixel. After a predetermined slope length has been reached, the improved pointing technique combines length-limited points if the slopes of the corresponding linear segments are identical.