Patent ID: 6351264
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A computer method for painting, shading or recreating a new or an original image using image compressed data comprising the steps of:(a) choosing a computer display screen image map, said computer display screen image map being composed of an equal number of partitions in the X-Y plane of the display screen in such a way that each such partition encloses a specific number of field line parts, said specific number of field line parts being equal throughout each partition and each of said specific number of field line parts having a specific number of pixels said specific number of pixels being the same on each of the field line parts throughout the entire display screen map; (b) generating a field line part image data code by using primary colors of red, green and blue of the display screen raised to the power of the total number of pixels on a field line part of said computer display screen image map, so that the different or unique combinations of how the total number of pixels on a field line part of said computer display screen image map is exactly equal to base three raised to the power of the total number of pixels on the field line part; (c) converting the base three raised to the total number of pixels on the field line part figure to base two or binary notation in order to obtain the total number of digits in base two that each of the base three raised to the power of the total number of pixels on the field line part unique combinations will contain said unique combinations now being noted in binary notation; (d) storing all said unique combinations in binary notation that represent all possible arrangements of the total number of pixels on a field line part based on the three primary colors of red, green and blue, in a suitable storage medium where a microprocessor circuit means of a computer can have easy and fast access to them; (e) using a computer shading or painting or image recreation tool such as a computer painting brush, a keyboard or a computer mouse to shade, paint or recreate an image, and storing the computer code generated as the computer shading, painting or image recreation tool does the painting, shading or recreation, said computer code being stored in a suitable storage medium such as an input register catering to the shading, painting or recreation tool inputs, said computer code being stored on a field line part code by field line part code basis; (f) using a microprocessor of said computer to fetch a copy of the computer codes generated by the shading, painting or recreation tool from the storage medium on a field line part by field line part basis and matching them to said unique combinations in binary notation that represent all possible arrangements of the total number of pixels on the field line part of said computer display screen map, until all the computer codes of the shaded, painted or recreated image are matched; (g) storing said matched field line part image data codes that now represent the painted, shaded or recreated image in a suitable computer data storage medium such as permanent memory for transmission to a computer terminal or for viewing on a display screen of said computer.