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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2007
Fang-chen Chang, Tainan County, TW;
Fang-Chen Chang, Tainan County, TW;
Himax Technologies Limited, Sinshih Townshiptainan County, TW;
Abstract
An apparatus for compressing an image data with an array of pixels comprising a data length is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a rearranging unit, a transformation operator, a quantizer and a coding operator. The rearranging unit is configured to transform the array to form a rearranged block with a mark value. The transformation operator is configured to obtain transform coefficients of the rearranged block according to a predetermined transformation. The quantizer is configured to quantize the transform coefficients. The coding operator is configured to generate a result data by coding the transform coefficients which is quantized and the mark value according to a predetermined coding method.