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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:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2005
Applicants:
Takashi Ishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masaki Higurashi, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Takashi Ishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masaki Higurashi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/46 (2006.01); H04N 1/413 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image compressing method includes: separating image data obtained from an image pickup device into each primary color component; obtaining difference data between each piece of image data of color components of colors other than a reference color in the image data separated into each primary color component, and the image data of the color component of the reference color; encoding the difference data to obtain a variable-length code; and encoding the image data of the color component of the reference color to obtain a predicted code.