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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:
Jun. 08, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark Josephsen, Vancouver, WA (US);
Daniel Klave, Camas, WA (US);
Assignee:
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/387 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/387 ;
Abstract
A method for choosing a compression process for a scanned image includes scanning an image, forming a bitmap of the scanned image and selecting at least one portion of the scanned image as a compression test subject. The selected portion is selected by a variety of compression techniques and a score for each technique is assigned. The compression technique with the best score is then used to compress the entire bitmap of the scanned image.