Patent attributes
A system and method provide compressing an input color image using selected color samples of the input image. The image compression method comprises accessing the input color image and generating a grayscale image and color channel images from the input image. The method compresses the grayscale image and segments the color channel images into multiple image segments. For each color channel of the input image, the method selects a number of color samples for each image segment and compresses the selected color samples. From the compressed grayscale image and selected color samples, the method generates a compressed input color image.