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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:
Apr. 24, 2001
Filed:
May. 23, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark T. Lavelle, San Mateo, CA (US);
Bradley N. Suggs, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Silitek Corporation, Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/46 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/46 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for compressing a color image by reducing the amount of color information initially acquired. The color information can later be restored by interpolation from other portions of the image where the color information is available. This not only reduces the amount of data that needs to be stored, but improves the scanning time for an image scanner by reducing the amount of time needed to scan the image. In a preferred embodiment, both the scanning time and the amount of data can be cut in half.