A method and apparatus are disclosed for symmetrically compressing and decompressing video information in real time by coupling block and wavelet techniques. In the compression pipeline, the image is divided into blocks comprising 2k2k pixels (in the preferred embodiment, k1). The average color of each...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US6526174?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6526174 - Method and apparatus for video compression using block and wavelet techniques
