Patent ID: 8750633

Claim:
A method for processing approximated progressive images, the method comprising: receiving, by an image processor, an encoding of a first sub-image for a first image, the first image partitioned into a plurality of non-overlapping image cells, each cell comprising one or more pixels, the cells forming a grid comprising horizontal rows of image cells and vertical columns of image cells, and the first image having been separated into a plurality of sub-images, each sub-image comprising image cells of two or more non-adjacent horizontal rows and two or more non-adjacent vertical columns, wherein the first sub-image is in the plurality of sub-images; decoding, by the image processor, the encoding of the first sub-image; receiving, by the image processor, an encoding of a second sub-image for the first image, wherein the second sub-image is in the plurality of sub-images; decoding, by the image processor, the encoding of the second sub-image; and generating, by the image processor, an approximation of the first image by interlacing the first sub-image and the second sub-image, interpolating pixels not included in the first sub-image and the second sub-image, and using the interpolated pixels in generating the approximation of the first image.