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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2015
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Kenichi Kawauchi, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an image compression apparatus including a dividing unit that divides a bit width pixel value set in advance that indicates compressed image information into an invalid bit region and a valid bit region other than the invalid bit region that are replaced with a fixed value determined in advance, an image information conversion unit that makes a value of the valid bit region be a value of a bit corresponding to the pixel value and makes a value of the invalid bit region be the fixed value determined in advance and converts the compressed image information to conversion image information, and a compression unit that compresses the conversion image information.