ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,715, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Data codec method and apparatus" was invented by Alexander Smith (London) and Michael Adam Kavallierou (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data encoding method includes identifying within an image at least a foveal zone and a peripheral zone, the foveal zone of the image being estimated to coincide with the fovea of a user's eye when viewed by the user, encoding for transmission the different zones of the image at different qualities, the encoding quality for the foveal zone being higher than for the peripheral zone, and transmitting the encode...