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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2004
Applicants:
Ignatius B. Tjandrasuwita, Atherton, CA (US);
Lefan Zhong, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ignatius B. Tjandrasuwita, Atherton, CA (US);
Lefan Zhong, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and systems for compressing an image are described. A plurality of transformed and quantized values associated with a block of image data is accessed. The block corresponds to a position within the image. A count of the number of bits encoded during run-length encoding of the block is made. Run-length encoding of the block is concluded should the count reach a limit.