US Patent Issued to Imagination Technologies on May 20 for "Image data decompression using difference values between data values and origin values for image data channels" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,724, issued on May 20, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).

"Image data decompression using difference values between data values and origin values for image data channels" 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 decompression method determines image element values from compressed data representing a block of image element values relating to a respective one or more channels. For each of the channels, an indication of a first number of bits representing difference values between the data values and an or...