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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2010
Chen-hung Chan, Taoyuan County, TW;
Hong-long Chou, Taipei, TW;
Chen-Hung Chan, Taoyuan County, TW;
Hong-Long Chou, Taipei, TW;
Altek Corporation, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
An image compression method s used for processing a plurality of pixels of an image. The image compression method includes the steps of receiving N successive pixels; obtaining N pixel differences and N map differences corresponding to the N pixels according to values of the N pixels through differential pulse code modulation; calculating to obtain a quantization reference value corresponding to the N pixels according to the N pixel differences; obtaining a quantization parameter corresponding to the N pixels according to the quantization reference value; and encoding the N map differences according to the quantization parameter.