A method and apparatus for performing compression and/or decompression is described. In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a system having a buffer, a wavelet transform unit, and a coder. The wavelet transform unit has an input coupled to the buffer to perform a wavelet transform on pixels...http://www.google.com/patents/US7227999?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7227999 - Printing system application using J2K
