US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Compression and decompression of sub-primitive presence indications for use in a rendering system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,606, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Compression and decompression of sub-primitive presence indications for use in a rendering system" was invented by Alper Ozkan (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Simon Fenney (St Albans, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a compression unit are provided for compressing, into a block of compressed data, a block of sub-primitive presence indications for use in a rendering system. The block of sub-primitive presence indications is subdivided into a plurality of parent regions, each of the parent regions being subdi...