US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on Oct. 20 for "Image data compression device, image data decompression device, display device, image processing system, image data compression method, and image data decompression method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. RE51,088, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image data compression device, image data decompression device, display device, image processing system, image data compression method, and image data decompression method" was invented by Naoki Suzuki (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compression and decompression module provided in a display device includes: a comparison unit that, when first image data and second image data in which a gradation value of each of a plurality of pixels is expressed in m bits are input, compares gradation values of corresponding pixels of the input first and second imag...