US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on June 2 for "Image compression using tensor-product B-spline representation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,225, issued on June 2, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Image compression using tensor-product B-spline representation" was invented by Janos Horvath (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Guan-Ming Su (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for image compression/decompression using tensor product B-spline (TPB) representations. According to an example embodiment, an image-compression method includes generating a plurality of TPB models representing an image, including a TPB model for approximating a spatial reshaping function and a plurality of patch-wise TPB models for estimating ...