US Patent Issued to British Broadcasting on July 22 for "Method of signaling in a video codec" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,850, issued on July 22, was assigned to British Broadcasting Corp. (London).

"Method of signaling in a video codec" was invented by Saverio Blasi (London), Andre Seixas Dias (London) and Gosala Kulupana (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Encoding of video data in a video codec involves a transform of residuals. This can be composed of a primary transform and a secondary transform. The selection of the secondary transform is effected by considering the characteristics of a block to be encoded. The selection of secondary transform can be signaled to the decoder, or inferred therein."

The patent was filed on April 21, 2020, under A...