ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,752, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).

"Image processing" was invented by Ivan Makeev (London), Balazs Keszthelyi (London), Stergios Poularakis (London), Michele Sanna (London) and Robert Ettinger (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "First compressed data is decoded to obtain a representation of an image at a first level of quality which is output for display. In response to a predetermined trigger event, second compressed data is decoded to obtain reconstruction data, and the reconstruction data is used to reconstruct a representation of part of the image at a second, higher level of quality u...