Patent ID: 9584701
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of encoding a digitized image, comprising: a. selecting a subset of image pixels of an image cell of a first digitized image, wherein said subset of image pixels contains a plurality of image pixels; b. selecting a color component to be encoded; c. encoding said plurality of image pixels of said image cell so as to generate a corresponding color component corresponding to the selected color component for each encoded image pixel of a plurality of encoded image pixels of a corresponding encoded image cell, wherein said plurality of encoded image pixels are in one-to-one correspondence with said plurality of image pixels of said image cell, a bit length of each image pixel of said plurality of image pixels of said color component of said image cell exceeds a bit length of each said encoded image pixel of said corresponding color component of said corresponding encoded image cell, said corresponding encoded image cell can be subsequently decoded so as to generate a corresponding decoded image cell containing a plurality of decoded image pixels in one-to-one correspondence with said plurality of image pixels of said image cell, and when said corresponding encoded image cell is subsequently decoded: