ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,661, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vectorized interleave of bit planes" was invented by Walter F. Kailey (Frederick, Colo.) and Florin Neagu (Timisoara, Romania).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bit plane converter and associated methods. In an embodiment, the bit plane converter is configured to receive a first bit plane comprising low-order bits for an array of pixels, and a second bit plane comprising higher-order bits for the pixels. The bit plane converter is configured to perform an interleave process on the pixels to generate bit fields for the pixels by processing low nibbles of a low-order word a...