Patent ID: 9596383
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: G06F,H03M,H04N

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising execution, by a processor, of operations including: obtaining, from a memory, (i) a digital image containing one or more color planes, and (ii) an attribute plane, wherein the digital image comprises a plurality of non-overlapping a×b pixel macro-cells, pixels therein respectively associated with color values, and wherein the attribute plane comprises a plurality of non-overlapping a×b attribute macro-cells; applying compression to each of the a×b pixel macro-cells and the a×b attribute macro-cells, wherein applying the compression comprises: storing, in the memory, a compressed representation of the digital image and the attribute plane, including therein an interleaved representation of (i) the 4 attribute-plane output values, and (ii) the 1 to 4 color-plane output values.