Patent ID: 8098941

Claim:
An apparatus for compressing image data from an imager, comprising: a plurality of core encoders for receiving a respective plurality of streams of data in parallel from the imager and for compressing the received data; a plurality of output buffers for respectively receiving the compressed data from each of the plurality of core encoders; a recombination circuit for recombining the compressed data, wherein each of the plurality of streams of data comprises one of luminance values and chrominance values, wherein the luminance values comprise a first set of luminance values and a second set of luminance values, and wherein the chrominance values comprise blue chrominance values and red chrominance values; a plurality of differential encoders for respectively receiving an output of the plurality of output buffers and for outputting differentially encoded data to a respective plurality of pre-recombination buffers; and at least one Huffman table coupled to the plurality of differential encoders, wherein the plurality of pre-recombination buffers outputs to the recombination circuit.