ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,043, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MK Systems USA Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Systems and methods for scalable hybrid video encoding" was invented by Michael Ropert (Rennes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and methods for encoding video data are provided. Video data is encoded to generate an encoded data structure that includes, for a given pixel block: a plurality of data layers, each associated with one of a plurality of quality levels and each including data defining: a plurality of transform coefficients encoded for the associated quality level; and a quantization step size for the given pixel block and ...