US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 8 for "Individualized image compression" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,295, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Individualized image compression" was invented by Benjamin Eliot Lundell (Seattle) and Jacob Elliott Hadnett-Hunter (Ely, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are disclosed relating to an approach for individualized image compression. In one example, an individual contrast sensitivity function (CSF) of a user is received from a remote computing system. A distance measurement indicating a distance between the user and a display of the remote computing system is received from the remote computing system. An image frame is gene...