Patent ID: 8903186
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: G06K,G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for transcoding an image into one or more of a plurality of image formats, the method comprising: receiving, by a transcoding module executed by a processer of a computer system, the image to be transcoded; analyzing, by the transcoding module, content of the received image using compression distortion analysis, wherein the compression distortion analysis includes analysis of distortion between a received version of the received image and a processed version of the received image, the processed version resulting from a compression and subsequent decompression of the received image; based on the content analysis, determining an image type associated with the received image, the image type being one of at least a synthetic image type or a natural image type; determining a transcoding process to apply to the received image based, at least in part, on the determination of the image type associated with the received image; and transcoding the received image into one or more of the plurality of image formats using the determined transcoding process.