US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on March 25 for "Method and apparatus of image compression with bit rate control" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,057, issued on March 25, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus of image compression with bit rate control" was invented by Hsu-Jung Tung (HsinChu, Taiwan), Chi-Wang Chai (San Jose, Calif.), Weimin Zeng (San Jose, Calif.) and Yi-Chen Tseng (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for compressing images based on joint photographic experts group (JPEG) standard includes: compressing data of one or more first image blocks with a first compression level to produce compression data of the one or more first image blocks; adjusting the first compression level to obtain a second ...