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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:
Oct. 28, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2004
Applicant:
Frank Liebenow, Jefferson, SD (US);
Inventor:
Frank Liebenow, Jefferson, SD (US);
Assignee:
Gateway Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/68 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for encoding a series of still images. The first image is captured and stored, then for each subsequent image of the series, that image is captured and compared to the first image or the previous image and difference information between the first or previous image and each subsequent image of the series is stored, resulting in one output file that contains the base image and difference information for each subsequent image, thereby reducing the amount of storage needed to store a series of images.