Patent ID: 8180165

Claim:
A computer-implemented process to display images of one or more objects on a computer display, comprising: inputting a current screen image; dividing the current screen image and a previous screen image into corresponding blocks; for each set of corresponding blocks, comparing the current screen image to the previous screen to determine the differences in the corresponding blocks; if there are no differences in the corresponding blocks of the previous screen image and the current screen image, flagging a current block to be compressed like a previous block; if there are differences in the corresponding blocks of the previous screen image and the current screen image, determining if the current block is a text block or a pictorial block; if the current block is determined to be a pictorial block, flagging the block to be compressed using a compression scheme for compressing images; if the current block is determined to be a text block, flagging the block to be compressed using a compression scheme for compressing text; and compressing each of the blocks of the current screen image in accordance with flagged type.