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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2008
Applicants:
Daisuke Genda, Saitama, JP;
Hideki Morita, Hino, JP;
Inventors:
Daisuke Genda, Saitama, JP;
Hideki Morita, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/38 (2006.01); G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a compression method of quantizing and compressing image data of an image, the method comprises the steps of: determining a method of quantization for each pixel; quantizing the image data in pixel unit according to the determined quantization method; storing the quantized image data in a same region of a memory in spite of the quantization method; and storing discrimination data for discriminating the quantization method used for quantizing the image data by corresponding to the quantized image data in the memory.