US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Sept. 30 for "Image data transfer apparatus, image display system, and image compression method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,356, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaze point acquisition section in a compression coding section of a server acquires position information associated with a gaze point of a user in a moving image that is generated by an image forming section and is displayed on a client. An attention degree estimation section estimates an attention degree on the basis of a position of the gaze point, for each of unit regions produced by dividing...