US Patent Issued to Korea Institute of Science and Technology on March 18 for "Method of transmitting image data having hybrid resolution and method of generating hybrid-resolution image using the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,170, issued on March 18, was assigned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of transmitting image data having hybrid resolution and method of generating hybrid-resolution image using the same" was invented by Jae Wan Shim (Seoul, South Korea) and Heon Phil Ha (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method of transmitting image data having a hybrid resolution and a method of generating a hybrid-resolution image. A main region of an original image is transmitted as a high-resolution image and the remaining regions are transmitted as a low-resolution background image. Acco...