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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:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2001
Applicants:
Johan Villé, Boechout, BE;
Koen Van Hulle, Rumst, BE;
Inventors:
Johan Villé, Boechout, BE;
Koen Van Hulle, Rumst, BE;
Assignee:
Xeikon International N.V., Lier, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); H04N 1/413 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Two-dimensional blocks of line-work image data are subjected to: fractal reordering; run length encoding of the pixel values of the fractal re-ordered data, index encoding of the run length encoded pixel values; and entropy encoding of the index encoded pixel values and run lengths. This lossless, but in case of applying a quantisation step, lossy image data compression and decompression method is particularly suitable for handling image data in a printer environment, and more particularly for handling image data comprising line work data or both raster images and line work data.