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A technique for compressing digital video data provides improved compression over conventional block compression techniques. In this technique, image data is broken down into cells and iteratively compressed. The cells are compressed using compression formats that are most appropriate for the contents of the cells. A determination is first made whether a cell is substantially identical to a succeeding cell in a previous frame. If the cell is substantially identical to the cell in the previous frame, the cell is encoded in compressed form as a duplicate of the previous cell. Moreover, solid-color compression approaches, two-color compression approaches and eight-color compression approaches may be integrated into the compression technique.
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