US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding and decoding" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,702, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: determining a number of units that are to be assigned to partitions and are initialized as unassigned; indicating or inferring a number of explicitly sized partitions to be assigned; indicating sizes for the explicitly sized partitions and accordingly marking unassigned units as assigned to partitions in a pre-defined scan order; indicating a count of units; repetitively assigning...