Limited color display for compressed video

Many display devices now allow a number of colors, called color palette, to be displayed simultaneously. Besides, images and videos in most world wide web (WWW) databases are in compressed formats. Therefore, it becomes an important issue to retrieve a suitable color palette from compressed domain in order to have fast and faithful color reproduction for these devices. In this paper, the color palette design methods for compressed videos are presented. The proposed approaches use the reduced image rather than the whole image for the color palette design to avoid the heavy computation in video decompression. Experimental results show that output image quality of proposed methods is acceptable, to human eyes. In addition, empirical results show that the proposed shifting window scheme can reduce the main problem of displaying quantized image sequences and screen flicker