US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for video encoding and video decoding" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,002, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for video encoding and video decoding" was invented by Miska Matias Hannuksela (Tampere, Finland), Emre Baris Aksu (Tampere, Finland) and Kashyap Kammachi Sreedhar (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments relate to a method comprising indicating a video bitstream format wherein one or more image regions are allowed in a picture of a video bitstream (710); indicating at least a first substitute image region (720); indicating mapping information to locate the first substitute image...