US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 24 for "Image compression and decompression using controlled quality loss" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,684, issued on March 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Image compression and decompression using controlled quality loss" was invented by Jyrki Alakuijala (Wollerau, Switzerland), Robert Obryk (Zurich), Evgenii Kliuchnikov (Thalwil, Switzerland), Zoltan Szabadka (Wollerau, Switzerland), Jan Wassenberg (Zurich, Switzerland), Minttu Alakuijala (London, Switzerland) and Lode Vandevenne (Ruschlikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The loss of image quality during compression is controlled using a sequence of quality control metrics. The sequence of quality control metrics is selected for quantizing tran...