ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,307, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dolby Video Compression LLC (San Francisco).
"Inter-plane prediction" was invented by Martin Winken (Berlin), Heiner Kirchhoffer (Berlin), Heiko Schwarz (Panketal, Germany), Detlev Marpe (Berlin) and Thomas Wiegand (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A better rate distortion ratio is achieved by making interrelationships between coding parameters of different planes available for exploitation for the aim of redundancy reduction despite the additional overhead resulting from the need to signal the inter-plane prediction information to the decoder. In particular, the decision to use inter plan...