US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on Feb. 10 for "Compression method and associated electronic device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,111, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Compression method and associated electronic device" was invented by Tsung-Hsuan Li (HsinChu, Taiwan), Wan-Ju Tang (HsinChu, Taiwan) and Shih-Tse Chen (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a compression method, wherein the compression method includes the steps of: setting a quantization function; setting a plurality of scaling ratios; receiving image data; for a block of a frame of the image data, using a conversion matrix to convert data of the block to generate a plurality of converted data; determining a...