ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,146, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Image data transfer apparatus and image compression method" was invented by Katsushi Otsuka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image contents acquisition section in a compression coding section of a server acquires information associated with contents indicated by a moving image generated by an image generation section. A communication status acquisition section acquires a status of communication with an image processing apparatus corresponding to a data transmission destination. A compression coding processing section adjusts a data size of the...