US Patent 11636625 Image compression and decompression

Embodiments include methods for image compression and decompression. A sending computing device may determine a type of packing used for a chunk of image data, generate metadata describing the type of packing used for the chunk of image data, pack the chunk of image data according to the determined type of packing, and send the packed chunk of image data and the metadata to a second computing device. A receiving computing device may decode the metadata describing the type of packing used for the chunk of image data, determine the type of packing used for the chunk of image data based on the decoded metadata, and unpack the chunk of image data according to the determined type of packing used for the chunk of image data.