US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for video encoding and video decoding" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,715, issued on Nov. 25, 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 Jani Lainema (Tampere, Finland), Emre Baris Aksu (Tampere, Finland), Miska Matias Hannuksela (Tampere, Finland), Alireza Zare (Tampere, Finland) and Francesco Cricri (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments relate to method for encoding and decoding, wherein the method for encoding comprises receiving an input block of a video frame for encoding; applying at least a learning-based model (702) for said input block as a process...