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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. 08, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1998
Allan B. Hollinger, Toronto, CA;
Shen-en Qian, Montréal, CA;
Daniel J. Williams, Vancouver, CA;
Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, CA;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of viewing and processing hyper-spectral image data compressed using a VQ algorithm. According to the invention the data is compressed using a codebook of codevectors including binary spectral vectors, which allows processing of the compressed data and viewing of data within a datacube without expanding the compressed data into the complete datacube. In order to view an image derived from a datacube, for each pixel within the image a location within the datacube is selected, an index value from the index map at that location is retrieved, and a spectral value from a spectral vector within the codebook is retrieved for said pixel, the spectral vector identified by the retrieved index. A single spectral vector is easily viewed by displaying a spectral vector from the codebook.