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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. 09, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
David Kuo, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Flashpoint Technology, Inc., Peterborough, NH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 ;
Abstract
Method and system aspects for reducing memory storage requirements during decompression of tiled image data are described. Included in a method aspect, and system for achieving same, are identification of a number of tiles in each row of an image, and decompression of a bitstream of compressed image data from the number of tiles in parallel to fill a band buffer with a minimum number of lines needed for processing a scan line of the image.