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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2001
Christos Chrysafis, Mountain View, CA (US);
Amir Said, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method, system and program product for compressing a compound image, comprising forming compound image data into a plurality of blocks; obtaining classifying data that designate one from a plurality of classes for each of a plurality of said blocks, based on predominate compression properties of the block; for each of a plurality of said blocks, obtaining transformed data therefor from either a lossy or a lossless transform selected based on the classifying data for the block; and forwarding that transformed data to one entropy encoder. In one embodiment, obtaining transformed data comprises obtaining transformed data from at least one of a lossy transform, a first lossless transform, or a second lossless transform, based on the classifying data for the transform.