US Patent Issued to PROPHESEE on Feb. 24 for "Compression method for events produced by an event-based camera" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,977, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to PROPHESEE (Paris).

"Compression method for events produced by an event-based camera" was invented by Nicolas Martin (Artigues pres Bordeaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method produces a compressed sequence of events stored in a memory, originating from an event-based camera, the sequence comprising a first run-length code representing timestamps of the sequence of events; and subsequent compressed codes including one of: (i) a second run-length code representing first coordinates of the sequence of events, at least one dictionary code representing second coordinates of the sequence...