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Image transmission system with patterned data compression

  • US 5,384,643 A
  • Filed: 03/04/1994
  • Issued: 01/24/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/20/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An image storage, retrieval and transmission system comprisingmeans forming an initial digitized image,computer means storing said digitized image,telecommunication means linking said computer means to a remote visual display terminal, said telecommunication means comprising compression means including logic means togenerate a plurality of regions collectively representative of said image, each said region comprising a plurality of two dimensional, non-overlapping, symmetrically disposed supper pixels and tocompare each said region with a plurality of fictitious patterns, each said pattern having a dark region, a light region and a predetermined point of origin, and thereby to determine which of said plurality of fictitious patterns most closely correlates with said region and to generate a compressed digitized representation corresponding to said selected fictitious pattern, andwherein said remote visual display terminal includes means to generate and display an image corresponding to said fictitious pattern.

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