US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on March 18 for "Low-power fast-response machine learning variable image compression" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,655, issued on March 18, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Low-power fast-response machine learning variable image compression" was invented by Quang Le (San Jose, Calif.), Rajeev Nagabhirava (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kuok San Ho (Redwood City, Calif.), Daniel Bai (Freemont, Calif.) and Xiaoyong Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing devices, such as mobile computing devices, have access to one or more image sensors that can capture images and video with multiple subjects. Some of these subjects may vary in priority for various tasks. It may be desired to increase or decrease...