Abstract:
Described herein are methods and devices that employ parallel compression of image data using a lossless compressor and a quantization compressor. As described, the lossless compressor generates a variable length compressed bit stream and the quantization compressor generates a fixed length compressed bit stream. The fixed length bit stream is always equal in size to a size requirement of an output memory block. The variable length bit stream may be stored in the output memory block unless it exceeds the memory requirement in size, in which case the fixed length bit stream may be stored to the output memory block.
Abstract:
Described herein are methods and devices that employ parallel compression of image data using a lossless compressor and a quantization compressor. As described, the lossless compressor generates a variable length compressed bit stream and the quantization compressor generates a fixed length compressed bit stream. The fixed length bit stream is always equal in size to a size requirement of an output memory block. The variable length bit stream may be stored in the output memory block unless it exceeds the memory requirement in size, in which case the fixed length bit stream may be stored to the output memory block.
Abstract:
Rescaling or reconstructing of a digital image may be accomplished by directional interpolation, so that interpolation is done in the direction perpendicular to the gradient—the direction in which the change in pixel values is the smallest. Each pixel is generated by interpolation in the output image as a weighted average of nearby pixels, in which the weighting is done in the direction of the gradient. The interpolation is accomplished with an adaptive filter that has an elliptical frequency response determined by the direction of the gradient. The filter uses filter coefficients that are a function of the direction. Rather than storing coefficients for each of several directions, three filter coefficients are stored—one set for non-directional filter, one for one direction such as 45 degrees, and another for another direction such as 135 degrees. A blending of the filter coefficients is used.