US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 27 for "Recursive image compression" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,160, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Recursive image compression" was invented by Jeffrey Kempf (Dallas) and Jonathan Lucas (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a controller configured to: obtain palette keys for an image; and for each of a plurality of sub-blocks of the image, obtain a compressed set of palette keys responsive to gradient analysis and entropy analysis. The system also includes a spatial light modulator coupled to the controller and configured to project an image responsive to the palette keys and the compressed set of palette keys."

The patent was file...