ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,613, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).
"Displacement quantization syntax" was invented by Danillo Graziosi (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Ali Tabatabai (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Quantization-related parameters are removed from the lifting transform parameters structure and have an independent structure referred to as quantization parameters that will contain the quantization-related information. The modified implementation has no performance difference from a reference implementation, and the modified implementation now can address displacement quan...