Patent ID: 6798360
Filing Date: 2004-09-28
Classification: H03M

Abstract:
A method for compressing a continuous data flow comprising the steps of:a) receiving a nth data subset of the continuous data flow, the nth data subset comprising a plurality of data vectors indicative of a nth portion of an image of an object; b) selecting for each data vector of the nth data subset a codevector from a nâˆ’1th codebook that approximates the respective data vector, the nâˆ’1th codebook comprising codevectors for encoding at least a portion of the data vectors of the nâˆ’1th data subset; c) determining a fidelity for the approximation of each data vector of the nth data subset; and, d) when the fidelity for the approximation of a data vector of the nth data subset is above a predetermined threshold performing the step of encoding the data vector based on the selected codevector.