ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,989, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Lossless compression techniques" was invented by Sorin Constantin Cismas (Saratoga, Calif.), Ali Sazegari (Los Altos, Calif.), Christian Thomas Martelock (Bonn, Germany) and Guy Cote (Aptos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compression techniques are described. In an embodiment, a first plane of sensor data is accessed, the first plane of sensor data is divided into a plurality of slices, each sample is encoded in each slice from the plurality of slices, where encoding a sample include computing a median based prediction for the sample, computing an error f...