ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,224, issued on Aug. 25.
"Compression of coordinate locations of defective pixels on an imaging sensor" was invented by Jerome Chossat (Voiron, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus, a computer-implemented method for encoding a coordinate locations, and an imaging sensor comprising location encoding circuitry are provided. The example apparatus includes location encoding circuitry configured to receive a coordinate location associated with a location in a coordinate system; determine a sequential distance between the coordinate location and a previous coordinate location, wherein the sequential distance indicates ...