ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,029, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Video compression using region of interest of moving objects" was invented by Pramod Sreenivasa (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Raj Kumar Akella (Bengaluru, India), Ali Rahimi (Berkeley, Calif.) and Maciej Adam Jakuc (Everett, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and processes for compressing image data, such as video data, based on detection of region of interests (ROIs) in the image data. Image data may be analyzed to determine moving objects and stationary objects (e.g., background) depicted in the image data. To compress the image data, the st...