ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,568, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image data encapsulation" was invented by Frederic Maze (Langan, France), Franck Denoual (Saint Domineuc, France), Nael Ouedraogo (Maure de Bretagne, France), Jean Le Feuvre (Cachan, France) and Cyril Concolato (Combs la Ville, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of encapsulating an encoded bitstream representing one or more images, the encapsulated bitstream comprising a data part and a metadata part. The method comprises: providing image item information identifying a portion of the data part representing a sub-image or an image of a single ...