ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,368, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to AXIS AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Encoding device and a method for encoding an image frame including selective restriction of offset compression values" was invented by Viktor Edpalm (Lund, Sweden), Alexander Toresson (Lund, Sweden) and Johan Palmaeus (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding device and a method for encoding an image frame comprising a plurality of pixel blocks are provided. A respective offset compression value is set for each of the plurality of pixel blocks based on an interest level associated with the pixel block, wherein each offset compression value defines an offs...