Image analysis – Image compression or coding – Adaptive coding
Patent
1996-12-30
1999-07-27
Chang, Jon
Image analysis
Image compression or coding
Adaptive coding
382251, 382250, 348390, 386 52, 386109, G06K 938
Patent
active
059303980
ABSTRACT:
The invention provides techniques for changing the quantization used in multiple generations of selected complexity of data quantization such that the errors incurred in subsequent generations are substantially the same as the error incurred in a generation given the same complexity of data. To this end, in a preferred embodiment, quantizing factors are selected from a preselected finite non-degenerative set of quantizing factors provided in the form of arrays of a periodic series of individual quantizer values, wherein a special numerical relationship is maintained between corresponding quantizer values in successive arrays. A different quantizing factor may be selected for each generation of compression/decompression as required by changing data complexity as when performing a layering process during the generations. In another embodiment, an over-quantizing factor is chosen large enough to compress the data to a greater extent than that required in the first generation, such that sufficient compression still is provided in subsequent generations even though the same quantizing factor is used while the complexity of the data is being changed. Adjunct features include the determination of an unknown quantizing factor applied in a previous generation, and a dither rounding process to compensate for an increase in noise due to changing a quantizing factor in the embodiment which uses the over-quantizing factor.
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Almeida George B.
Ampex Corporation
Chang Jon
LaBarre James A.
Mesaros John G.
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