US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 18 for "Runtime reconfigurable compression format conversion with bit-plane granularity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,152, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Runtime reconfigurable compression format conversion with bit-plane granularity" was invented by Jong Hoon Shin (San Jose, Calif.), Ardavan Pedram (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Joseph Hassoun (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A runtime bit-plane data-format optimizer for a processing element includes a sparsity-detector and a compression-converter. The sparsity-detector selects a bit-plane compression-conversion format during a runtime of the processing element using a performance model that is based on a first sparsity pattern of first b...