US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 18 for "Method, apparatus and system for encoding and decoding a block of video samples" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,128, issued on Nov. 18, 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 coding unit of a coding tree from a coding tree unit of an image frame from a video bitstream, the coding unit having a primary colour channel and at least one secondary colour channel. The method comprises determining a coding unit including the primary colour channel and the at least one secondary colour channel according to deco...