ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,178, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Parent-child cluster compression" was invented by Jeffrey Kempf (Dallas) and Jonathan Lucas (Frisco, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory and a display. The system also includes a processor coupled to the memory and to the display. The processor is configured to obtain an image and determine a parent cluster of pixels of an image having a centroid. The processor is also configured to split the parent cluster into at least a first child cluster and a second child cluster and assign a pixel of the image to the first child cluster. Addit...