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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2008
Applicant:
Magnus Ekman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventor:
Magnus Ekman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Oracle America, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for compressing data automatically selects either direct compression of sub-blocks or of compression of transformed sub-blocks to achieve fast and effective data compression. A method and apparatus for decompression automatically performs either direct decompression or decompression and transform operations for respective sub-blocks.