US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Saturday, March 24:
Colorado Inventors Develop Plasma Measuring Wafer Probe
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Gregory A. Roche, Leonard J. Mahoney and Daniel C. Carter, all from Fort Collins, Colo., and Steven J. Roberts of Severance, Colo., have developed an apparatus for obtaining measurements in a plasma processing system. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventors Develop CD80 Specific Antibodies
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Darrell R. Anderson of Escondido, Calif., Nabil Hanna of Sante Fe, Calif., and Peter Brams of San Diego, have developed a method for identification and use of monoclonal antibodies which are specific to B7.1 antigens (CD80). An abstract of the invention, ...
German, British Inventors Develop Price Indication Label
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Mitsutaka Hanyu of Bad Soden, Germany, Ryota Suzuki of Colchester Essex, Great Britain, have developed a price indication label with a price indication region. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a price ...
French Inventors Develop Erythema Treatment Method
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Marie-Madeleine Cals-Grierson of Meudon, France, and Pascale Pelletier of Antony, France, have developed a plant extract of the Olea europaea species as nitric oxide (NO)-synthase inhibitor and uses. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
Swiss Inventor Develops Elevator Installation Support Means Checking Method
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Martin Lustenberger of Villars sur Glane, Switzerland, has developed a method and an equipment for checking a support device such as used in an elevator installation. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method and equipment detects ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Storing Image Data Compression System
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Geoffry A. Westphal of Park Ridge, Ill., and Mike McHugh of Grayslake, Ill., have developed a system and a method for compressing and storing image data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system and method creates for each of a ...
German Inventors Develop Self Service Bank Terminal
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Gu Baitz and Hartmut Kamin, both of Berlin, and Joachim Burchart of Schlangen, Germany, have developed a terminal for processing forms, in particular betting slips. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self service bank terminal is ...
Georgia Inventors Develop Anti-Chrondrosarcoma Compound
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Shu-Ping Yang and Stephen Quirk, both of Alpharetta, Ga., have developed anti-chrondrosarcoma compounds. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides inhibitors of chondrosarcoma cell growth that are useful as anti-cancer and ...
New York Inventors Develop Indicia Reading Electro-Optical Reader
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Joel Kahn of Rockville Centre, N.Y., Mehul M. Patel of Fort Salonga, N.Y., Robert May of Sayville, N.Y., and Edward Barkan of Miller Place, N.Y., have developed point-of-transaction workstation for electro-optical reading one-dimensional indicia, including image ...
Michigan, Pennsylvania Inventors Develop Alzheimer's Disease Treatment Method
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Alan P. Hudson and Judith A. Whittum-Hudson, both of Novi, Mich., Brian J. Balin of Paoli, Pa., and J. Todd Abrams of Merion, Pa., have developed a method of treating Alzheimer's disease. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention ...
Illinois Inventors Develop Visual Activities Simulation Technique
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Edward Q. Yavitz of Rockford, Ill., has developed a visual simulation technique for facilitate visual activities, such as reading and movement of a subject through surroundings, and sight-impaired persons. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
California Inventors Develop Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Carl A. Woods of Aptos, Calif., James P. Garcia of Santa Clara, Calif., and John M. de Larios of Palo Alto, Calif., have developed a method of processing an edge of a substrate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Substrate
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Harumitsu Fujita of Hamamatsu, Japan, has developed a semiconductor substrate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor substrate is partitioned along scribing lines so as to form a plurality of IC regions encompassed by seal ...
South Korean Inventors Develop Plasma Display Panel Front Filter
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Kyung Ku Kim, Hong Rae Cha and Byung Gil Ryu, all from Seoul, South Korea, Young Sung Kim of Yongin-si, South Korea, and Myeong Soo Chang of Woowang-si, South Korea, have developed a front panel for improving durability of a plasma display panel. According to ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Guide Wire Containment Apparatus
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Stephen J. Joyce and Thomas Izdebski, both of Phoenix, and John C. Opie of Scottsdale, Ariz., have developed a guide wire containment and dispensing apparatus. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is a medical guide wire ...
California Inventors Develop Integrated Circuitry Stacking Method
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Glen E Roeters of Huntington Beach, Calif., and Andrew C. Ross of Ramona, Calif., have developed a stacking system and a method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "chip stack comprising a flex circuit including a ...
Virginia Inventors Develop Vision Enhancement System Mounting Mechanism
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Charles D. Willey and Blair R. Dobbie, both of Roanoke, Va., and Steven A. Brillhart of Bedford, Va., have developed a mounting assembly for a vision enhancement device and an associated vision enhancement display. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Memory Card
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Jeffrey Alan Miks, Curtis Michael Zwenger and Stephen Gregory Shermer, all from Chandler, Ariz., Brenda Concepcion Gogue of Gilbert, Ariz., and Maximilien Jouchin d'Estries of Mesa, Ariz., have developed a memory card that comprises a leadframe with a die pad, and an ...
Minnesota Inventors Develop Advanced Coating Apparatus
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Ralph A. Chappa of Prior Lake, Minn., and Mark F. Carlson of St. Louis Park, Minn., have developed a coating apparatus for coating a rollable device including a device rotator having a pair of rollers and spray nozzle. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Vermont Inventors Develop Damascene Copper Wiring Image Sensor
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- James W. Adkisson of Jericho, Vt., Jeffrey P. Gambino of Westford, Vt., Mark D. Jaffe of Shelburne, Vt., Robert K. Leidy of Burlington, Vt., and Anthony K. Stamper of Williston, Vt., have developed a damascene copper wiring image sensor. According to the U.S ....
Israeli Inventor Develops Digital Image Processing Method
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Ron P. Maurer of Haifa, Israel, have developed a method of processing a digital image. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing of a pixel of a digital image includes sharpening a digital image, while boldening dark features in the ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Semiconductor Device
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Koji Yamaguchi of Suwa, Japan, has developed a semiconductor device, method for manufacturing the same, circuit substrate and electronic device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides highly reliable semiconductor ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Intermediate Chip Module
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Kuniyasu Matsui of Hotaka-machi, Japan, has developed an intermediate chip module, a semiconductor device, a circuit board, and an electronic device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediate chip for electrically connecting ...
South Carolina, Washington Inventors Develop Achromatic Images Display Resolution Improvement Method
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Rajesh Reddy K. Kovvuri of Clemson, S.C., and and Scott J.Daly of Kalama, Wash., have developed methods and systems for improving display resolution in achromatic images that uses sub-pixel sampling and visual error filtering. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Sub-Micron Size Particles Visualization Method
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Ming Cheng and Weinong Chen, both of Tucson, Ariz., have developed a method of sub-diffraction limit resolution in microscopy. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for visualizing sub-micron size particles employs a ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Character Region Detecting Unit
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Kenichiro Sakai, Hirotaka Chiba, Tsugio Noda and Hiroyuki Takakura, all from Kanagawa, Japan, have developed a character region detecting unit which detects respective character regions in a plurality of document images which are partitioned and ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Leadless Semiconductor Package
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Chao-Ming Tseng of Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, has developed a leadless semiconductor package that comprises a leadless lead-frame, a chip, a silver paste and a plurality of electrically conductive wires. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S ....
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Multi-Layer Field Effect Transistor Array
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Michael R Duggan. of Quincy, Mass., and Nazario Lopes of South Easton, Mass., have developed a multi-layer field effect transistor (FET) array and a method of fabricating. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power array includes a ...
Italian Inventor Develops Products Transferring Apparatus
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Guiseppe Monti of Pianoro, Italy, has developed an apparatus for transferring products from a first conveying line to a second conveying line, in particular for feeding a boxing machine. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an apparatus ...
Swiss, Austrian Inventors Develop Diamond Coating Substrates Method
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- David Franz of Sevelen, Switzerland, and Johann Karner of Feldkirch, Austria, have developed a method for diamond coating substrates. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for diamond coating of ...
North Carolina Inventor Develops Images Visual Display Enhancement Method
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 --Artur Sowa of Durham, N.C., has developed a method of enhancement of the visual display of images and other visual data records. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital image input, possibly being either pre-compressed or decompressed, ...
Indian Inventors Develop 2-Fluoro-Pyrrolo[2,1-C][1,4]Benzodiazepine Dimer
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Ahmed Kamal, Peram Surakattula Murali Mohan Reddy and Depatla Rajashekhar Reddy, all from Hyderabad, India, have developed novel 2-fluoro-pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzodiazepine dimers useful as antitumour agents and to a process for the preparation thereof, the U.S ....
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Memory Card Structure
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Cheng-Kang Yu and Hui-Chuan Chuang, both of Tainan County, Taiwan, Cheng-Hsien Kuo of Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, and Ming-Jhy Jiang of Taipei, Taiwan, have developed a memory card structure that comprises a substrate, a plurality of memory chips, some molding compound and ...
Idaho Inventors Develop Semiconductor Structure
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Salman Akram of Boise, Idaho, and Jerry Michael Brooks of Caldwell, Idaho, have developed a semiconductor structure that includes flip chips or other semiconductor devices that are mounted on printed circuit boards. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Magnetoelectric Transducer
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Toshiaki Fukunaka and Atsushi Yamamoto, both of Nobeoka, Japan, have developed a magnetoelectric transducer and its manufacturing method. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ultrathin magnetoelectric transducer and its manufacturing method ...
Indiana Inventors Develop Disc Cartridge Storage Case
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Jose Pascual Garcia Jr. and Michael John Brown, both of Terre Haute, Ind., have developed a disc cartridge storage case having presentation stand. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disc cartridge storage case has a clam-shell type ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Semiconductor Package
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Jung-Pin Huang, Chin-Huang Chang and Chung-Lun Liu, all from Taichung Hsien, Taiwan, have developed a semiconductor package with stacked chips and a method for fabricating the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The semiconductor ...
Canadian Inventors Develop Nucleic Acids Delivery Method
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Angela M. I. Lam, Lorne R. Palmer and Pieter R. Cullis, all from Vancouver, Canada, have developed a nucleic acid-lipid particle composition for introducing a nucleic acid into a cell. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present ...
Taiwanese Inventors Develop Polymer Removing Method
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Chi-Hsin Lo and Fei-Yun Chen of Hsinchu, Taiwan, have developed a method for polymer residue removal following metal etching. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for removing polymer containing residues from ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Array Microscope Illumination System
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Artur G. Olszak and Chen Liang, both of Tucson, Ariz., have developed an epi-illumination system for an array microscope. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For Kohler illumination, illumination light sources are placed, actually or ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Epsilon-Caprolactam Production Method
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Keisuke Sugita, Masaru Kitamura and Masahiro Hoshino, all from Niihama, Japan, have developed a method for producing epsilon-caprolactam. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for producing epsilon-caprolactam ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Surface-Mount Diode Package Supporting Frame
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Jiahn-Chang Wu of Hsinchu, Taiwan, has developed a supporting frame that is used to solidly bridge to the two metallic contacts of a surface mount diode chip. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Any bending or twisting stress between the two ...
Massachusetts Inventors Develop Micro-Particles Manipulation System
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Rajesh Menon and Dario Gil, both of Cambridge, Mass., George Barbastathis of Boston, and Henry I. Smith of Sudbury, Mass., have developed a system and a method for manipulating micro-particles using electromagnetic fields. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Singapore Inventors Develop Lead Frame
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Heng Wan Hong, Tian Siang Yip, Joo Hong Tan, Choon Muah Lee and Liang Kng Ian Koh, all from Singapore, have developed a lead frame. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lead frame has a first portion adapted to have a semiconductor device ...
Kansas Inventors Develop Nitride Microlens
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Hongxing Jiang, Tom N. Oder and Jingyu Lin, all from Manhattan, Kan., have developed microlenses and microlens arrays made from Group III-nitride material, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office announced. The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,193,784 ...
California, North Carolina Inventors Develop Quantized Transform Coefficients Coding Apparatus
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Wen-hsiung Chen of Sunnyvale, Calif., Fang Wu of San Jose, Calif., and Gregory D. Pelton of Raleigh, N.C., have developed a method and an apparatus to encode a series of quantized coefficients of a transform of a block of image data. According to the U.S ....
Laughing Rabbit Wins Contract Valued At Up To $125,000
Mar 24, 2007 ... FORT WORTH, Texas, March 24 -- The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded a contract valued at up to $125,000 to Laughing Rabbit Inc., Blachly, Ore., for law enforcement, security, marine craft, fire/rescue and special purpose clothing. The contract was awarded by GSA's Federal ...
Soil & Environmental Testing Services Wins Contract Valued At Up To $125,000
Mar 24, 2007 ... FORT WORTH, Texas, March 24 -- The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded a contract valued at up to $125,000 to Soil & Environmental Testing Services Inc., Atlanta, for instruments and laboratory equipment. The contract was awarded by GSA's Federal Supply Service, Fort ...
California Inventors Develop Clog-Resistant Gas Delivery System
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Won Bang of Santa Clara, Calif., Yen-Kun Wang of Fremont, Calif., Steve Ghanayem of Los Altos, Calif., have developed an apparatus for processing a semiconductor substrate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing gases reactive with ...
German Inventors Develop Radiation-Emitting Component Conductor Frame
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Karlheinz Arndt and Gunter Waitl, both of Regensburg, Germany, and Georg Bogner of Lappersdorf, Germany, have developed a conductor frame and housing for a radiation-emitting component. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention ...
Austrian Inventors Develop Radiolabelled Phenylethyl Imidazole Carboxylic Acid Ester Derivative
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Ilse Zolle and Friedrich Hammerschmidt, both of Vienna, Austria, have developed radiolabelled phenylethyl imidazole carboxylic acid ester derivatives. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Halogenated carboxylic ester derivatives of ...
Minnesota, California Inventors Develop High-Density Miniaturized Array
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Kurt J. Halverson of Lake Elmo, Minn., Jerald K. Rasmussen of Stillwater, Minn., and Sanjay L. Patil of Aliso Viejo, Calif., have developed high-density, miniaturized arrays including high surface areas. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Optical Filter
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Yoshiki Shinta and and Ken Kawamata, both of Tokyo, Yorio Wada of Hanno, Japan, and Nobuyoshi Toyohara of Sagamihara, Japan, have developed an optical filter formed by a substrate and a thin film that is formed on the substrate. An abstract of the invention, ...
New York, California, Rhode Island Inventors Develop Magnetic Materials Damping Increasing Method
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Snorri T. Ingvarsson of White Plains, N.Y., Roger H. Koch of Amawalk, N.Y., Stuart S. Parkin of San Jose, Calif., and Gang Xiao of Barrington, R.I., have developed a method for increasing damping of a magnetic material within a magnetic device. According to ...
Massachusetts, New York, California Inventors Develop Sleeping Disorder Treatment Method
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Dale M. Edgar of Wayland, Mass., Jefferson Leighton of Brookline, Mass., David G. Hangauer of East Amherst, N.Y., Harry Emmanuel J. M. Mignot of Palo Alto, Calif., have developed a method of treating a sleep disorder in a subject. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Wisconsin Inventor Develops Multiple Images Contrast Matching Method
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Gopal B. Avinash of New Berlin, Wis., has developed a method for contrast matching of multiple images of the same object or scene to a common reference image. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The imaging system includes an image forming ...
German Inventors Develop Stereomicroscopy system
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Michael Haisch of Aalen, Germany, and Ludwin Monz of Mainz, Germany, have developed a stereomicroscopy method for generating at least a pair of representations of an object for observation by a first user and a second user. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
California Inventors Develop Image Conversion Data Generation System
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Yilliang Bao of Redondo Beach, Calif., Maged Bishay of Costa Mesa, Calif., and Joshua I. Pine of Seal Beach, Calif., have developed a system for generating image conversion data. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system includes a ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Optical Substrate
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Mitsuhiro Nishida of Kodaira, Japan, has developed an optical substrate that prevents an interference spot and is applied to various displays such as word processors, computers, and televisions. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Projection Screen
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Masanori Umeya of Tokyo-To, Japan, has developed a projection screen for displaying an image by reflecting imaging light that is projected from an observation side. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "projection ...
French Inventors Develop Cork Organic Compounds Extraction Method
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Guy Lumia of Pont St. Esput, France, Christian Perre of Pierrelatte, France, and Jean-Marie Aracil of Taurinya, France, have developed a method for treating and extracting cork organic compounds, with a dense fluid under pressure. According to the U.S. Patent ...
Illinois Inventor Develops Plastic Leadframe
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Stephen R. Shiffer of Pearl City, Ill., has developed a plastic leadframe and a compliant fastener. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Packaging assembly method and systems include the use of a plastic substrate and one or more compliant ...
Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors Develop Astronomical Images Processing System
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Matt BenDaniel of Medford, Mass., and Michael Paolucci of Washington, Conn., have developed an automated system and a method for processing of astronomical images. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention encompasses "near-real-time ...
California, Massachusetts Inventors Develop Chromatic Dispersion Production Optical Apparatus
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Simon Xiaofan Cao of Fremont, Calif., and Masataka Shirasaki of Winchester, Mass., have developed an optical apparatus which uses a virtually imaged phased array to produce chromatic dispersion. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Image Processing Apparatus
Mar 24, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- Naoki Ito and Tadayoshi Nakayama, both of Tokyo, Ken-ichi Ohta and Shinichi Kato, both of Kanagawa, Japan, and Hidefumi Osawa of Saitama, Japan, have developed an image processing apparatus and a method which compresses image data of each region using a selected ...