ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,614, issued on July 22, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Random accessible image data compression" was invented by Xile Yang (Rickmansworth, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compression units for compressing a block of image data, the block of image data comprising a plurality of image element values, the image element values being divisible into at least a first value and a second value such that the block of image data comprises a two-dimensional block of first values, the method comprising: compressing a first data set comprising all or a portion of the two-dime...