US Patent Issued to OP Solutions on May 27 for "Methods, systems and encoded bitstream for combined lossless and lossy coding" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,833, issued on May 27, was assigned to OP Solutions LLC (Amherst, Mass.).

"Methods, systems and encoded bitstream for combined lossless and lossy coding" was invented by Hari Kalva (Boca Raton, Fla.), Borivoje Furht (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Velibor Adzic (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder includes circuitry configured to receive an input video, select a current frame identify a first sub-picture of the current frame to be encoded using a lossless encoding protocol, and encode the current frame, wherein encoding the current frame includes encoding the first sub-picture using the lossless encoding protocol. An en...