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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2000
Tinku Acharya, Tempe, AZ (US);
Ping-Sing Tsai, Gilbert, AZ (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a method of quantizing signal samples of an image during image compression includes the following. A process to transform the signal samples from a first domain to a second domain is applied. During the transform process, signal samples are filter, by first applying scaled filter coefficients to signal samples along the image in a first direction and then applying scaled filter coefficients to signal samples along the image in a second direction, so that at the completion of the transform process of the image, selected regions of the transformed signal samples are quantized by a common value. Many other embodiments in accordance with the invention are also described.