ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,918, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Two-layered image compression for text content" was invented by Di Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Balineedu Adsumilli (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Debargha Mukherjee (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yao-Chung Lin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Coding an image that includes text content and a background is disclosed. Text portions are identified in the image. The text portions are extracted from the image to obtain a background image, where the background image includes holes corresponding to respective areas of the text portions within the image. A filled-in back...