ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,780, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Multi-plane image compression" was invented by Scott Janus (Loomis, Calif.), Jill Boyce (Portland, Ore.), Atul Divekar (Folsom, Calif.), Jason Tanner (Folsom, Calif.), Sumit Bhatia (Folsom, Calif.) and Penne Y. Lee (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement multi-plane image (MPI) compression are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein include an interface to access an input multiplane image stack corresponding to a source camera viewpoint, t...