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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2004
James David Clark, Newport, AU;
James David Clark, Newport, AU;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The method compresses image data into a fixed sized memory. The image is encoded in scans, where the scans are ordered from a perceptually most significant scan to a perceptually least significant scan. The scans also have an attributedetermining whether a scan is active or inactive. The method comprises an encoding, transferring and setting step. The encoding stepencodes active scans of image data into scan bit-stream data. The transferring steptransfers the encoded scan bit-stream data to the fixed size memory. The setting stepsets, if the fixed size memory becomes full, the attribute of a perceptually least significant scan to inactive.