ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,544, issued on June 24, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"User-guided variable-rate image compression" was invented by Suryateja Bv (Hyderabad, India), Sharmila Reddy Nangi (Hyderabad, India), Rushil Gupta (Chandigarh, India), Rajat Jaiswal (Gorakhpur, India), Nikhil Kapoor (Ludhiana, India) and Kuldeep Kulkarni (Ilkal, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for user-guided variable-rate compression. A method of user-guided variable-rate compression includes receiving a request to compress an image, the request including the image, a corresponding importance data, and a target bitrate, providing ...