ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,832, issued on March 4, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Video compression based on spatial-temporal features" was invented by Maciej Sebastian Pedzisz (Southampton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for video compression. The present implementations more specifically relate to video compression techniques that account for spatial-temporal changes in pixel values. In some aspects, an encoder may determine a change importance factor (CIF) for each image tile of a current image to be encoded. The encoder may calculate the CIF for an image tile of the c...