ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,433, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Image data decompression" was invented by Xile Yang (Rickmansworth, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing lossy compression on a block of image data in accordance with a multi-level difference table determines an origin value for the block of image data, and determines a level within the multi-level difference table for the block of image data, by determining a maximum difference between the determined origin value and any one of image element values in the block of image data and selecting from the multi...