US Patent Issued to Apple on June 3 for "Multidimensional quantization techniques for video coding/decoding systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,590, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Multidimensional quantization techniques for video coding/decoding systems" was invented by Alexandros Tourapis (Milpitas, Calif.), Yeping Su (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David Singer (San Francisco) and Hsi-Jung Wu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Video compression and decompression techniques are disclosed that provide improved bandwidth control for video compression and decompression systems. In particular, video coding and decoding techniques quantize input video in multiple dimensions. According to these techniques, pixel residuals may be generated fr...