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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:
Jul. 05, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2001
Applicants:
Shawmin Lei, Camas, WA (US);
Renjit Tom Thomas, Vancouver, WA (US);
Uoc Nguyen, Long Beach, CA (US);
Chingwei Chang, Vancouver, WA (US);
Inventors:
Shawmin Lei, Camas, WA (US);
Renjit Tom Thomas, Vancouver, WA (US);
Uoc Nguyen, Long Beach, CA (US);
Chingwei Chang, Vancouver, WA (US);
Assignee:
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K009/38 ; G06K009/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of decompressing image data, includes reception of a VQ encoded image. The received image is decoded. Output image color space processing is performed in combination with the decoding as one process. Output image color space processing may include color transformation, half-toning or both. The resulting output image has been both decoded and transformed in color space.