ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,753, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).
"Adaptive block level bit-depth prediction" was invented by Kalyan Goswami (Reston, Va.), Damian Ruiz Coll (Reston, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Tae Meon Bae (McLean, Va.) and Young-Yoon Lee (McLean, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decoder receives, from a bitstream, a first indication of a first bit depth for a sequence of frames, and a second indication of a second bit depth for a block in a frame of the sequence of frames, a residual block of samples of the second bit depth, and a prediction parameter. The decoder determines a first decoded block of...