ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,139, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SHENZHEN TCL DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Image compression method and apparatus, and intelligent terminal and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Jie Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Daxue Xia (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an image compression method and apparatus, and an intelligent terminal and a computer-readable storage medium. The method comprises: obtaining a target image, and determining reference pixel points corresponding to target pixel points; determining pixel difference values of the target pixel points and the reference pixe...