Patent Document ID: 9635212
Application ID: 14502629
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system, comprising: an image sensor configured to output an image having a plurality of regions, wherein the regions include a first region and a second region; a memory; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to each of the image sensor and the memory, the memory storing instructions that when executed by the at least one processor cause the system to: obtain metadata associated with the image, wherein the metadata comprises at least one image characteristic that corresponds to image noise in each region of the image; determine a compression metric representative of an amount of image noise associated with each region of the image based on each region's corresponding at least one image characteristic; determine a compression ratio for each region based on each region's corresponding compression metric, wherein the compression ratio for each region increases as the amount of image noise indicated by the compression metric for each region increases, and wherein the compression ratio of the first region is different from the compression ratio of the second region; compress the regions in accordance with each region's corresponding compression ratio to generate a compressed image; and store the compressed image in the memory.