ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,608, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Dolby Video Compression LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Multi-view coding with efficient residual handling" was invented by Heiko Schwarz (Panketal, Germany), Thomas Wiegand (Berlin) and Martin Winken (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gain in multi-view coding is achieved as follows: the residual signal involved with coding a dependent view of the multi-view signal is predicted from a reference residual signal of the current picture of the reference view using block-granular disparity-compensated prediction, i.e. using disparity compensated prediction with a disparity defined at, and varying wi...