Image analysis – Image compression or coding
Reexamination Certificate
2008-02-28
2011-10-25
Couso, Jose (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Image compression or coding
Reexamination Certificate
active
08045810
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for reducing the number of mathematical operations required in the JPEG decoding process without substantially impacting the quality of the image displayed is disclosed. Embodiments provide an efficient JPEG decoding process for the purposes of displaying an image on a display smaller than the source image, for example, the screen of a handheld device. According to one aspect of the invention, this is accomplished by reducing the amount of processing required for dequantization and inverse DCT (IDCT) by effectively reducing the size of the image in the quantized, DCT domain prior to dequantization and IDCT. This can be done, for example, by discarding unnecessary DCT index rows and columns prior to dequantization and IDCT. In one embodiment, columns from the right, and rows from the bottom are discarded such that only the top left portion of the block of quantized, and DCT coefficients are processed.
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Lamb Brian
Wu Guixing
Yang En-Hui
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Couso Jose
Kinsman Leslie A.
Research In Motion Limited
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