ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,397, issued on April 22, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Lossy compression of video content into a graph representation" was invented by Dotan Di Castro (Haifa, Israel) and Eitan Kosman (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for lossily compressing a sequence of video frames into a representation, wherein each video frame comprises pixels that carry color values. The method includes: segmenting each video frame into superpixels, wherein these superpixels are groups of pixels that share at least one predetermined common property; assigning, to each superpixel in each video frame, at least one at...