US Patent Issued to KAKADU R & D on April 8 for "Method and apparatus for complexity control in high throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) encoding" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,534, issued on April 8, was assigned to KAKADU R & D PTY LTD (Redfern, Australia).

"Method and apparatus for complexity control in high throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) encoding" was invented by David Scott Taubman (Surry Hills, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for management of encoding complexity for image and video encoding, for example for algorithms belonging to the JPEG 2000 family of standards, where the encoding process targets a given compressed size (i.e. a total coded length) for the image or for each frame of a video sequence. A set of methods for complexity constrained encoding of HTJ2K code-streams, involvin...