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US 6,714,685 B2Granted
Image processing system for compressing image data including binary image data and continuous tone image data by a sub-band transform method with a high-compression rate
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsNekka Matsuura, Yukiko Yamazaki, Takahiro Yagishita
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Abstract
An image processing system which compresses an image including both a binary image and a continuous tone image by a sub-band transform method with a high compression rate. A 2×2 pixel matrix block is extracted from image data. A transform factor having a plurality of frequency components is obtained from the 2×2 pixel matrix block data. The transform factor is quantized by a fixed-length quantizing method by deleting a predetermined number of lower order bits of each of the frequency components.
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An image processing system comprising:
- a buffer unit extracting n×m pixel matrix block data from image data, where n and m are integers;
- a binarizing unit transforming the n×m pixel matrix block data into binary data represented by a maximum value and a minimum value;
- differential data calculating unit calculating differential data which is a difference between a value of each pixel in the n×m pixel matrix block data and one of the maximum value and the minimum value of the binary data;
- a sub-band transform unit transforming the differential data by a sub-band transform method so as to obtain a transform factor having a plurality of frequency components;
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- an encoding unit encoding the binary data and the sub-band transform factor so as, to obtain a code representing the image data.
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An image processing method comprising the steps of:
- extracting n×m pixel matrix block data from image data, where n and m are integers;
- transforming the n×m pixel matrix block data into binary data represented by a maximum value and a minimum value;
- calculating differential data which is a difference between a value of each pixel in the n×m pixel matrix block data and one of the maximum value and the minimum value of the binary data;
- transforming the differential data by a sub-band transform method so as to obtain a transform factor having a plurality of frequency components;
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- encoding the binary data and the sub-band-transform factor so as to obtain a code representing the image data.
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