US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 9 for "Exploiting redundant bit combinations in a compressed representation of an image" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,749, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Exploiting redundant bit combinations in a compressed representation of an image" was invented by Tomas Akenine-Moller (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Block compression schemes used for image compression are susceptible to generating image blocks having redundant bit sets (i.e. a redundant bit combination), where one of the bit sets in the block is not meaningfully different from the other bit set in the block. As a result, one of the bit sets will be meaningless to a decompression scheme used to decompress the image and thus will not contribut...