Patent ID: 7782961

Claim:
A video compression routine including: examining pixels in selected past and present video frames; for a given said present frame and for a current pixel thereof, making fixed bit length packets that define at least the current pixel, said packets including: (1) pixel-copy packets having at least one packet-type identifier bit and formatted to include a copy code identifying a location in the past and present video frames that is redundant to a current pixel color and a payload identifying an extent of the redundancy; (2) color defining packets having at least one packet-type identifier bit and at least one color identifier bit; (3) delta defining packets having at least one packet-type identifier bit and at least one delta identifier bit; (4) n-color series encoded packets having at least one packet-type identifier bit identifying a consecutive run of pixel colors condition in which the consecutive run of color pixels is comprised only from a set of n number of unique colors, the at least one packet-type identifier bit followed by a payload of a consecutive series of color identifiers in which (1) the color identifiers correspond respectively to the set of n number of unique colors, (2) the consecutive series is identical in length to the consecutive run of pixel colors, and (3) the color identifiers are ordered in the consecutive series to correspond to an order of the consecutive run of pixel colors.