Facsimile and static presentation processing – Facsimile – Recording apparatus
Patent
1993-09-20
1995-04-18
Coles, Sr., Edward L.
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Facsimile
Recording apparatus
358433, 358452, 358453, H04N 1411
Patent
active
054083281
ABSTRACT:
In an image compression system using a typical image compression scheme, a pointer array is provided to point to each of the many MCUs in a compressed image file. From all the blocks of an image, a subset of the blocks is selected as a virtual image. The virtual image is edited, and each edited block is compressed into an edited block. The edited block is compressed into an edited MCU and placed in an edited block region, and the pointer to the original MCU is changed to point to the new MCU. In this way, the pointer array can be modified to perform an Undo operation. An edge table is provided to hold values where each value, when combined with the differential value for a block on the edge of the virtual image, provides an absolute value for the block without reference to blocks beyond the edge of the virtual image. The entries in the edge table are determined from the compressed MCUs without the blocks being fully decompressed. More than one edge table can be provided. In an image editor, a virtual image is decompressed from a compressed image, the virtual image is processed, and recompressed. The recompressed, edited blocks are then placed in an edited block memory. In an alternate embodiment, values to be combined with a differential value are held in an offset table for all the selectable blocks.
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Blonstein Steven M.
Boliek Martin P.
Miller Robert F.
Albert Philip H.
Coles Sr. Edward L.
Ning John
Ricoh Corporation, California Research Center
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