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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2001
Sunao Tabata, Yokohama, JP;
Naofumi Yamamoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Sunao Tabata, Yokohama, JP;
Naofumi Yamamoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image compression and decompression apparatus includes a identification section, a conversion section, a characteristics correction section, an image compression section, and a decompression section. The identification section identifies given color image information and outputs an identification signal. The conversion section converts color image information to block-based color image information having a specified length. The characteristics correction section corrects block-based color image information with respect to characteristics thereof in units of the blocks based on an identification signal output from the identification section. The image compression section compresses a corrected image in units of blocks and stores the compressed image in a storage area. The decompression section decompresses a compressed image in units of blocks.