Patents Assigned to Venture Wave Inc.
  • Compressing and restoring method of image data
    Publication number: 20080056588
    Abstract: A method for compressing/restoring image data free from degradation of image quality caused by compression/decompression, a method for compressing image data at high compression ratio, and its restoring method are disclosed. In the image data compressing method, image elements contained in a digital image read from a sheet of paper are extracted, each of the extracted image elements is subjected to data compression by a compression method of corresponding to the type of the image element, and the compressed image element data are stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: VENTURE WAVE INC.
    Inventor: Shouichi Kojima
  • Compressing and restoring method of image data based on dot areas and positions
    Patent number: 7280699
    Abstract: A method for compressing/restoring image data free from degradation of image quality caused by compression/decompression, a method for compressing image data at high compression ratio, and its restoring method are disclosed. In the image data compressing method, image elements contained in a digital image read from a sheet of paper are extracted (S02), each of the extracted image elements (51-53) is subjected to data compression by a compression method corresponding to the type of the image element (S03-S05), and the compressed image element data (54-56) are stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Venture Wave Inc.
    Inventor: Shouichi Kojima