A method and system takes advantage of both lossy and lossless compression techniques to increase processing speed and efficiency, and to decrease required image storage space. In the system and method, the input image data is divided into pixel blocks. Segmentation tags are used to determine if pixel...http://www.google.fr/patents/US6198850?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US6198850 - System and method for segmentation dependent lossy and lossless compression for higher quality
System and method for segmentation dependent lossy and lossless compression ...