Patent ID: 7263230

Claim:
A method of image compression comprising the steps of: analyzing an image in terms of perceptual constructs of the human visual system; searching for patterns among analyzed abstractions of the image; describing the image in terms of the perceptual constructs and the patterns found among them; for a given image that is in a same “class” as the image, re-representing the given image by describing the given image as a collection of parameterized versions of patterns prevalent in that same “class” of image; taking a resulting description outside of the context of abstract patterns; looking for redundancies in the description, then re-representing the description so as to eliminate the redundancies and thereby compress the description; re-representing patterns with smoothly curved borders and an interior fill that can be parameterized and is either largely derivable from other image data or constant, as curve sequences and parameters required to describe the interior of the pattern; and re-representing pattern groups with constant structure that vary only in terms of a spatial parameter as references to the pattern group, and a list of the values for the required parameters, each value being for each subsequent pattern for the group.