US Patent Issued to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL on Aug. 19 for "Management of aspect ratio in hierarchical coding schemes" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,652, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to V-NOVA INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (London).

"Management of aspect ratio in hierarchical coding schemes" was invented by Daniele Sparano (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of signalling a signal adjustment when encoding an input signal using a hierarchical coding scheme to manage a display aspect ratio. The hierarchical coding scheme comprises encoding a downsampled version of the input signal using a first encoding method to produce a first encoded signal. When the downsampling operation of the hierarchical coding scheme is a non-square downsampling operation, the method signals an adjustm...