ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,459, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AXIS AB (Lund, Sweden).
"Encoder-optimized text rendering" was invented by Song Yuan (Lund, Sweden), Ludvig Hassbring (Lund, Sweden) and Jessica Nilsson (Lund, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for rendering a text string in a digital raster image suitable for block-wise transform coding, the method comprising: obtaining a partition of an image area into coding blocks for the block-wise transform coding; representing the text string as a plurality of graphical elements from a typeface which are arranged according to a tentative layout in the image area, wherein the tentative layout d...