Patent ID: 8447109

Claim:
A method for the compression of a raster type image material by using segmentation, said method comprising the steps of: dividing a widespread start image material ( 1 ) into segments ( 1 A, 1 B, 1 C, 1 D), such that the segments contain distinct image sections different from each other at least in terms of color qualities thereof; compressing each segment with an image compression algorithm chosen according to internal qualities of the segment, or with a different set of parameters for the image compression algorithm; storing coordinates for each segment portion in a memory; and processing compressed segments (A, B, C, D) and coordinates (XA, ZB, XC, XD) therefor for a compression result (R), wherein the result (R) is processed for a www-page imaging code, and the compressed segments (A, B, C, D) cited thereby are discrete compressed image files.