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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Zhiliang Julian Chen, Plano, TX (US);
Steven Derrick Clynes, Allen, TX (US);
Xiaochuan Guo, Gainesville, FL (US);
Anli Liu, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/14 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/14 ;
Abstract
The pixels of an image sensor array can be readout ( ) in m×n blocks (m, n) that are compatible with the operation of a desired image compression algorithm ( ), thereby reducing the amount of memory required by the image compression algorithm.