ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,083, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Image data transfer apparatus and image compression" was invented by Katsushi Otsuka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attention degree estimation section in a compression coding section of a server estimates an attention degree on the basis of contents indicated by a moving image generated by an image forming section, for each of unit regions produced by dividing a frame plane. A compression coding processing section compression-codes the moving image at a compression rate varied in the frame plane according to a distribution of the attent...