US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on June 24 for "Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding and decoding" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,994, issued on June 24, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding and decoding" was invented by Jani Lainema (Tampere, Finland) and Ramin Ghaznavi Youvalari (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: determining a first sample in an input color space (500); determining a component of the input color space that the first sample represents (502); determining a pre-quantizer based on the determined component (504); quantizing the first sample using the determined pre-quantizer (506); and encoding the first sample value with video or ima...