ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,671, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Ltd. (London).
"Processing image data" was invented by Matthias Treder (London), Aaron Chadha (London), Ilya Fadeev (London) and Ioannis Andreopoulos (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing image data is provided. Pixel data for a first image is preprocessed to identify a subset of the pixel data corresponding to a region of interest depicting a scene element. The subset of the pixel data is processed at a first encoder to generate a first data structure representative of the region of interest, the first data structure identifying the...