US Patent Issued to Beken on July 14 for "Texture compression method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,516, issued on July 14, was assigned to Beken Corp. (Shanghai).

"Texture compression method" was invented by Lulai Chen (Shanghai), Siwei Ye (Shanghai) and Weifeng Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system and method for effectively compressing an image with low bandwidth and memory requirements while retaining a high quality. The method includes obtaining a block of an image including a plurality of pixels, obtaining a preliminary color map, iteratively updating the preliminary color map to generate an updated color map, generating indexes for the plurality of pixels, wherein each of the ...