ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,937, issued on May 13, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Image data compression" was invented by Paul Higginbottom (Sydney), Mark Jackson Pulver (Sydney) and Seyed Ahamed (Sydney).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and compression unit for compressing a block of image data to satisfy a target level of compression, wherein the block of image data comprises a plurality of image element values, each image element value comprising one or more data values relating to a respective channel. For each of the channels: (i) an origin value for the channel for the block is determined, (ii) differe...