US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 10 for "Representation of small images in condensed high efficiency image file-style encapsulation formats" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,771, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Representation of small images in condensed high efficiency image file-style encapsulation formats" was invented by Leo Barnes (Skane, Sweden), Davide Concion (Campbell, Calif.), David W. Singer (San Francisco) and Dimitri Podborski (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a HEIF-based encapsulation technique that is optimized for delivery of small images over communication networks, such as the Internet. In such applications, the coded image content may have a small content payload, the spatial area of the ...