US Patent Issued to NEC on Aug. 11 for "Encoding and decoding images using differentiable JPEG compression" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,072, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Encoding and decoding images using differentiable JPEG compression" was invented by Biplob Debnath (Princeton, N.J.), Deep Patel (Franklin Park, N.J.), Srimat Chakradhar (Manalapan, N.J.) and Christoph Reich (Hessen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for encoding and decoding images using differentiable JPEG compression, including converting images from RGB color space to YCbCr color space to obtain a luminance and chrominance channels, and applying chroma subsampling to the chrominance channels to reduce resolution. The YCbCr image is d...