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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 09, 1999
Hooman Honary, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Conexant Systems, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);
Abstract
A continuous-tone facsimile mechanism supports a transmission rate control mode to control the transmission rate of a continuous-tone image (e.g., a color image) based on the data rate between the transmitter and receiver. The transmission rate is controlled by scaling the original quantization values based on the data rate producing scaled quantization values which are then used to compress the image. The scaled quantization values are transmitted along with the compressed continuous-tone image. Via a rate control mode, a continuous-tone facsimile device with this transmission rate control technique can allow a user to specify whether the transmission rate control is activated or deactivated.