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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. 08, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 28, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382260 ; 382232 ; 382248 ; 358426 ; 358432 ; 348398 ; 348403 ;
Abstract
The improved image compression method and system optimizes a wavelet transform compression technique by further compressing the transformed data by an edge operation before encoding by a conventional technique.