US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 11 for "Representing color indices by use of constant partitions" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,713, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Representing color indices by use of constant partitions" was invented by Arild Fuldseth (Snaroya, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are a variety of palette mode encoding and decoding techniques that can achieve further compression benefits. The techniques can be generalized to use arbitrary block partitions instead of rows, for instance columns of identical indices, or quadrants of identical indices."

The patent was filed on March 29, 2022, under Application No. 17/706,831.

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