US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding and decoding" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,571, issued on Sept. 23, 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) and Alireza Aminlou (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a method, an apparatus and a computer program product for video encoding and decoding. In accordance with an embodiment the method comprises obtaining coded data of a sub-picture, the sub-picture belonging to a picture, and the sub-picture belonging to a sub-picture sequence and determining whether to use the sub-picture as a source for a man...