US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Jan. 20 for "Information compression system and information compression method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,811, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Information compression system and information compression method" was invented by Hiroaki Akutsu (Tokyo), Katsuto Sato (Tokyo) and Takahiro Naruko (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an information compression system that is capable of achieving higher compression efficiency. A data acquisition section acquires data. A generation section (segmentation section and integration section) determines each object depicted by the data and a sense of each object, and according to results of the determination, generates compression target data by ...