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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 30, 1999
Parthasarathy Sriram, San Jose, CA (US);
Subramania Sudharsanan, Union City, CA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A lossless compression mechanism for compressing and restoring data elements such as text, text formatting, video, audio, speech, and 2D and 3D graphical information. Each data element is compressed using a data structure having a bin number field and an offset field. The bin number field is associated to a bin having a range of values which includes the data element value. The offset field is computed from a minimum bin value, wherein the minimum bin value is associated to the bin and is stored in a bin lookup table. The bin number field is encoded using a unary code, and the offset is encoded using a binary code.