ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,188, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MBDA UK Ltd. (Stevenage, Great Britain).
"Method for image encoding" was invented by Alex Mackin (Filton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for encoding data defining an image is disclosed. The image is segmented into image blocks, each having a uniform block size. A frequency-based transform is applied to each providing transformed image data in which the image data is represented as coefficients defining a linear combination of predetermined basis functions having different spatial frequencies. Each block of transformed image data comprises one coefficient for a zero frequ...