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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:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Uoc H. Nguyen, Long Beach, CA (US);
Kien T. Nguyen, Torrance, CA (US);
Abraham E. Claproth, Culver City, CA (US);
Sang-chul Kang, Irvine, CA (US);
Chia-hao Lee, Hacienda Heights, CA (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 ; G06K 9/46 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 ; G06K 9/46 ;
Abstract
A compression process of dividing each word to be compressed into least and most significant bits, and applying a different compression ratio to each. If the compression processes are lossy, both parts of the output can also be losslessly compressed before being output. Hierarchical vector quantization can be issued for either lossy compressor.