Two step color shrinking algorithm for encoding of graphics

The emphasis of many algorithms that have been proposed for the compression of binary images has been the efficient coding of local redundancy in data. We propose that increased compression may be achieved by a decomposition of the compression problem into two steps. The goal of the first step is to extract the global redundancy in an image. This is achieved by a color shrinking algorithm, The goal of the second step is to code the resulting localized data.