US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Sept. 16 for "Split runlength encoding compression and decompression of multi-planar image data" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,554, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Split runlength encoding compression and decompression of multi-planar image data" was invented by Kenneth Allen Schmidt (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, such as printers, for rendering compressed digital images, include a deserializer and multiple planar SRLE decoders each configured to transform an applied code from a serial input stream into one or more planar pixel values. The deserializer maintains a cursor position for each of the planar SRLE decoders and increments the cursor position of a corresponding one ...