METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE RECOVERY OF COMPRESSION CONSTANTS IN THE ENCODED DOMAIN

The system and method of the present invention provides an innovative technique for recovering lost or damaged (lost/damaged) compression constants in the encoded domain. In one embodiment, a lost/damaged compression constant is recovered by determining at least one candidate compression constant, adjusting encoded data to a common scale, scoring the candidate compression constant using the adjusted encoded data and selecting the candidate compression constant with the best score as the recovered compression constant.