Facsimile and static presentation processing – Facsimile – Recording apparatus
Patent
1979-06-18
1981-04-07
Ng, Jin F.
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Facsimile
Recording apparatus
358260, 358133, 364515, H04N 100, G01T 129
Patent
active
042610184
ABSTRACT:
An image composed of binary black and white picture elements (pixels) is progressively transmitted over a narrow-band channel after binary values of all pixels have been formatted into a hierarchical structure of subdivisions of successive halvings from the entire image down to cells of pixels of uniform size and shape. Each formatted value is encoded in accordance with whether the pairs of values from which it is derived are both black, both white or mixed. Transmission of the hierarchical values involves sending the primary value representing an overall midgray mixed value, and following with successively split image values so that the entire image is reconstructed at a remote receiver in progressively finer detail down to cell size. Final resolution, when needed, results from decoding a variable length code for the permutational patterns of pixels within cells in accordance with their probabilities of occurrence. Areas once deemed monotone are complete and are subsequently skipped by both transmitter and receiver.
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Handbook, H. Hamsher, "Facsimile," Comm. Systems Eng. Handbook,"1967, pp. 2-67.
S. Tamimoto et al., "A Hierarchical Data Structure for Picture Processing," Comp. Graphics and Image Proc.
Bell Telephone Laboratories Incorporated
Coles Edward L.
Kearns Joseph P.
Ng Jin F.
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