US Patent Issued to Intel on March 17 for "Lossy compression technology for small image tiles" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,610, issued on March 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Lossy compression technology for small image tiles" was invented by Sreenivas Kothandaraman (Sammamish, Wash.), Abhishek R. Appu (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Prosun Chatterjee (Bangalore, India) and Mohamed Farook (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and apparatuses provide for encoder technology that conducts a spatial transformation on tiles in a block of an image, wherein the spatial transformation is conducted on a per tile basis and results in a first sub-band data and second sub-band data, predicts residual data from the fir...