ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,426, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KAKADU R & D PTY LTD (Glebe, Australia).
"Enhanced method and apparatus for image compression" was invented by David Scott Taubman (Glebe, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method of image compression and decompression involving a variable-to-variable coding scheme, for example as used or of similar nature to a HT Cleanup encoding algorithm, as described in ISO/IEC 15444-15:2019. The method involves a lookup table that the encoder addresses using a potentially modified version of the EMB pattern, a potentially modified version of the significance pattern, and any additiona...