ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,075, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method, apparatus and system for encoding and decoding a block of video samples using constraints in a general constraint's information syntax to control a syntax in sequence parameter set" was invented by Christopher James Rosewarne (Concord, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Decoding an image frame from a bitstream, the image frame being divided into a plurality of coding tree units. The method comprises decoding a maximum transform block size constraint and or a maximum coding tree unit (CTU) size constraint from the bitstream; and decoding a maximum enabled trans...