US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 12 for "Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding and decoding" (Turkish, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,027, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding and decoding" was invented by Miska Matias Hannuksela (Tampere, Finland) and Kemal Ugur (Istanbul).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising encoding a bitstream comprising a base layer, a first enhancement layer and a second enhancement layer; encoding an indication of both the base layer and the first enhancement layer used for prediction for the second enhancement layer in the bitstream; encoding, in the bitstream, an indication of a first set of prediction types that is applicable fr...