US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 3 for "Method, apparatus and system for encoding and decoding a block of video samples" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,915, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method, apparatus and system for encoding and decoding a block of video samples" was invented by Christopher James Rosewarne (Concord, Australia) and Iftekhar Ahmed (Lane Cove North, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of decoding a plurality of coding units from a bitstream to produce an image frame, the coding units being the result of decompositions of coding tree units, the plurality of coding units forming one or more contiguous portions of the bitstream. The method comprises determining a subdivision level for each portion of the bitstream, each subdivisio...