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Verisign Assigned Patent
[July 06, 2012]

Verisign Assigned Patent


(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 6 -- Verisign, Reston, Va., has been assigned a patent (8,212,893) developed by five co-inventors for a "digital camera device and methodology for distributed processing and wireless transmission of digital images." The co-inventors are Eric O. Bodnar, Santa Cruz, Calif., Shekhar Kirani, Capitola, Calif., Venkat V. Easwar, Cupertino, Calif., Philippe R. Kahn, Scotts Valley, Calif., and Sonia Lee Kahn, Scotts Valley, Calif.



The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A digital imaging system is described that provides techniques for reducing the amount of processing power required by a given digital camera device and for reducing the bandwidth required for transmitting image information to a target platform. The system defers and/or distributes the processing between the digital imager (i.e., digital camera itself) and the target platform that the digital imager will ultimately be connected to. In this manner, the system is able to decrease the actual computation that occurs at the digital imager. Instead, the system only performs a partial computation at the digital imager device and completes the computation somewhere else, such as at a target computing device (e.g., desktop computer) where time and size are not an issue (relative to the imager). By deferring resource-intensive computations, the present invention substantially reduces the processor requirements and concomitant battery requirements for digital cameras. Further, by adopting an image strategy optimized for compression (compressed luminosity record), the present invention decreases the bandwidth requirements for transmitting images, thereby facilitating the wireless transmission of digital camera images." The patent application was filed on May 12, 2008 (12/119,491). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,212,893&OS=8,212,893&RS=8,212,893 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

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