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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014

Filed:

Jan. 17, 2013
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jeffrey E. Frederiksen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Michael Frank, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/30 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01); G06T 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 9/67 (2006.01); H04N 19/146 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2013.01); H04N 19/00169 (2013.01); G06T 9/007 (2013.01); G06F 2212/401 (2013.01); H04N 9/67 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an embodiment, a compression unit is provided which may perform compression of images with low latency and relatively little hardware. Similarly, a decompression unit may be provided which may decompress the images with low latency and hardware. In an embodiment, the transmission of compressed coefficients may be performed using less than two passes through the list of coefficients. During the first pass, the most significant coefficients may be transmitted and other significance groups may be identified as linked lists. The linked lists may then be traverse to send the other significance groups. In an embodiment, a color space conversion may be made to permit filtering of fewer color components than might be possible in the source color space.


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