US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on July 15 for "Pixel block encoder capable of jointly encoding pixel channels" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,596, issued on July 15, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Pixel block encoder capable of jointly encoding pixel channels" was invented by Sudhir Satpathy (Redmond, Wash.), Zhi Zhou (Issaquah, Wash.) and Richard Lawrence Greene (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a system includes a buffer configured to store a plurality of pixel blocks of an image, a first processor unit configured to receive a pixel block of the of the plurality of pixel blocks and select whether to separately encode or jointly encode pixel components of the pixel block by computing eigenvalues for th...