ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,961, issued on June 2, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Processing apparatus" was invented by Kosuke Kinoshita (Tokyo) and Takahiro Kumura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing apparatus includes a compression unit configured to compress data by compressing at least positional information with respect to phase difference data including the positional information, and a removal unit configured to remove a noise component with respect to the data compressed by the compression unit."
The patent was filed on Oct. 19, 2023, under Application No. 18/381,803.
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