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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2006
Applicants:
Huipin Zhang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Guy Cote, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Huipin Zhang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Guy Cote, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for encoding an image is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps, of (A) generating a quantization matrix as a function of at least four parameters, (B) optimizing the parameters to maximize a quality metric for encoding the image and (C) encoding the image with the quantization matrix as optimized.