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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2012
Applicants:
Noam Shaham, Mazkeret Batia, IL;
Gideon Amir, Ness Ziona, IL;
Ram Dagan, Modiin, IL;
Michael Melamed, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Inventors:
Noam Shaham, Mazkeret Batia, IL;
Gideon Amir, Ness Ziona, IL;
Ram Dagan, Modiin, IL;
Michael Melamed, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V., Maastricht, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01); H04N 1/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/644 (2013.01);
Abstract
Color image data is compressed by determining the number of colors within a cell of an input image, each cell comprising an N×M array of pixels; in response to determining that the number of colors is greater than a first predetermined threshold, compress the cell using lossy compression; and in response to determining that the number of colors is less than the first predetermined threshold, reduce the number of colors.