ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,023, issued on April 14, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Method for performing image decompression with limited hardware resource, associated image processing circuit and associated electronic device" was invented by Chang-Shing Lin (HsinChu, Taiwan), Feihu Wang (Suzhou City, China), Yifan Zhang (Suzhou City, China) and Hao Wang (Suzhou City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing image decompression with limited hardware resource, associated image processing circuit and electronic device are provided. The method may include: utilizing an inverse quantization circuit to perform i...